MurielHorseflesh t1_ixm9lp8 wrote on November 24, 2022 at 2:55 PM

Weeds when they changed it from being a fun show about a single mom supplementing her income by selling weed to turning her into a drug kingpin dealing with cartels and having affairs with FBI agents. The scene that killed it was having the FBI agent this woman was now having an affair with murdered. It was seemingly only done as to have some kind of dialing up of the drama. Breaking Bad was getting very popular just as this show was starting out so I think maybe the show runners were forced or just decided to emulate the ‘constant expansion’ angle to a drug operation tv show.

The end of season 2 I think was the moment

billythepub t1_ixmljs8 wrote on November 24, 2022 at 4:24 PM

I think breaking bad was one of the few shows that maintained its quality from beginning to end and never declined. I also think the popularity didn't come to much later than season 2,it was more like like in the last season around 2013 that it became really popular.