Can you apply it to The Sopranos or The Wire? Maybe you can shoehorn it into those two shows. But they don't follow that structure as much or as obviously as Breaking Bad does.
Again, clever writing. But extremely predictable. 3 Episodes into every season and you know how it's going to end.
are you kidding? You can apply formula to the sopranos even more, especially since the sopranos had a new antagonist for tony from his own organization every season (Jr s1, Richie s2, jackie s3, Ralphie s3/4), a trope even the producers adknowledged when they subverted it with Feech.
-Tony and Carmela fight, almost break up, get back together
-Melfi and Tony talk about something, Tony uses her advice in his mob life in a creative way
-Threats to Tony Build up, then get taken out in an unconventional way near the end
The Wire:
-They set up
-Case starts out underfunded and no one gives a fukk about it
- Case suddenly becomes more important, detail has resources to get the bad guys
-They almost got everyone
-Rawls/Mayor/Burrell fukks them over, they make arrests but not enough to really take care of shyt
- they set up
- new bad guy shows up
- they almost get caught by friends and family
- they almost lose everything
- they almost quit
- they avoid the close calls, beat the bad guy
- repeat it the next season
New bad guy shows up? Only bad guy they beat after Tuco was Gus, which took 2 and a half seasons to take care of. Outside of Hank, I don't see where you getting the almost get caught shyt. Skyler finds out first ep season 3, everybody else doesn't even suspect Walt.
Walt and Jesses relationship is volatile so they break up the team, early on Walt thought about quitting a lot because he wasn't in deep like later. Its not like its some "welp its episode six I guess this is the one where Walt and jesse quit"
or The Wire
. Not as good as Dawsons Creek
. Its dope for what it is tho, but overrated nonetheless
I bet this nikka has that theme song on his playlist
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