Breaking Bad and the 99%

Sometime back I wrote a post entitled “Breaking Bad, The Dramatic Cauldron and why no other country bu the USA could have made this show”

Aside from exploring how utterly superb the show is I noted that the  deftly constructed dramatic pressures of the breaking Bad storyworld are pressures that in the Western world ONLY  exist in the USA. 

And this image saids it all.

It would be dramatically impossible to set Breaking Bad pretty much anywhere else in the Western World because only in America it seems is the absence of a socialised health system celebrated as a virtue of national values… But perhaps its a fair trade swapping universal health care for bloody great TV drama…?