Click to play If this were a Tuesday night like others recently, after the kids are in bed, and I have most of the week's teaching already under my belt—a strange expression little attended to—I might have abandoned work for the evening, opened a can of beer, and settled down to an episode of Breaking Bad . I understand that the fifth series aired and completed in the US about three years ago, but Netflix came late to Japan—in fact, it still isn't available, officially—so it is only in the last couple of months that what critics call the 'best tv drama series ever made' came to my attention. Not that I needed a critic, much less than army of them, to tell me I was witnessing an historic phenomenon—in all my life I have never seen an American-produced series like this. Breaking Bad is, in the truest sense, an awesome piece of theatre. There are no two-dimensional roles, and every adult character is as believable, and weirdly attractive, as they are fatally flawed
Random and considered thoughts