Not unsurprisingly, the concepts of faith, fatherhood, and finding your own path are recurring themes in Paul’ s best work. There’ s meth-addled Jesse Pinkman trying to resist the gravity of partner-in-crime / surrogate father Walter White in Breaking Bad; and more recently skeptical cult-family patriarch Eddie Lane in Hulu’ s The Path.
Breaking Bad is, of course, widely regarded as among the best television shows ever. Rolling Stone ranks it # 3 on its list of the 100 greatest of all time, just ahead of fellow AMC trailblazer Mad Men. As disturbing as it is addictive, Breaking Bad became an almost perfect metaphor for the nihilistic rage of disentitled middle-aged, white males struggling with the Great Recession and its aftermath. Whatever sucked you into Breaking Bad’ s presciently dystopian world, there’ s a good chance you stuck around because you actually cared about Jesse Pinkman’ s fate. In his own weird
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