• Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        It’s immediately known as a US show because the main character has to lives in a country where someone who didn’t have a fabulously wealthy CEO as a friend as a plot point may resort to crime to pay for health care.

        • SeekTheDeletion [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          Yeah my point is I don’t think Vince Gilligan was trying to make any kind of political statement with the healthcare costs. It was just a plot vehicle for him to examine the individual resentful and proud psyche of Walter White, beaten down by years of self-perceived humiliation. If healthcare was free in the US then he would have contrived another plot vehicle to do this