Breaking Bad
Walter White, a chemistry teacher, partners with a former student to begin producing and selling crystal meth to pay for his cancer medical expenses and provide for his family in the future. Macbeth loves this show and the main character because he feeds off the power that Walter White gains as rises higher in rank in the drug organization. It comforts him throughout the show that White also was willing to kill to better his own situation.
Though once Macbeth reached the end of the series, it frightened him that White lost everything he had worked so hard for.
Although most people would not find comfort in this violent story of a girl who was murdered and raped by her neighbor, Macbeth is relieved with the family members of the young girl who feel as if they can still see and hear her, even after her death. He knows that his seeing Banquo was real, and was previously worried that he was crazy. But because of this film, he now knows that many other people can see ghosts. Though, the movie also made him uneasy when he discovered that Susie Salmon, the murdered teen, could not move on to heaven before her death was avenged with her family finding peace. Macbeth feared that Banquo will want his death avenged in order for him to go away and not be able to see him again.
A defense attorney and a small group of her students, work together on cases that involve questionable tactics in order to get the criminal acquitted. By the end of the series they become bound together through covering up a murder. Macbeth gained a lot of information from this show on how to get away with the murders he committed, like King Duncan and Banquo. He did this through the show's explanation of how a person can stretch the truth. Macbeth utilizes this skill often with double speak, equivocations, and paradoxes. Macbeth also connects with the main character and how she rationalizes her actions because they protect herself.
Macbeth is very intrigued by American Horror Story, he especially enjoys Season 1: Murder House and Season 3: Coven. With the ghostly apparitions only seen by those living in the house in Season 1 and all the issues caused by witches using their various powers, he can definitively relate with the characters. When no one else saw the apparitions you claim you saw, not even your own wife, it can get to your head, but Macbeth is justified in Season 1, where there is an entire family who sees ghosts as living people. He can truly connect with the theme of appearance versus reality throughout the season. Are the ghosts really there? During the second season, the wickedness of some witches are revealed, as they will do anything to get what they want. He learns more about their powers, which he enjoyed because they intrigue him so much in how they can predict the future, but he wonders if they are using their powers to control him.
The series Reign depicts the journey of that of Mary Queen of Scots and her rise to power. In one's rise to power there is bound to be struggles which are painful for the protagonist, though, in that one moment where the coronation is occurring and power has been obtained, there is no drama. Though the rest of the series makes him question whether it is really Lady Macbeth that is making his decisions....hmmmmm.
Wow, I would never have thought of The Lovely Bones as something Macbeth would enjoy watching, but you know what, you are SO right. I also really liked the inclusion of AHS - to be honest I think he would also like the newest season (Hotel) because of all of the sophisticated murder.
ReplyDeleteI really like the shows you chose as recommendations from Macbeth! A lot of these hadn't even crossed my mind when doing it (because I did Macbeth as well) but I though the connections and reasoning behind each of your choices were well thought out.
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ReplyDeleteYour choices were so clear and concise to me. My personal favorite was how you dealt with The Lovely Bones. I have not watched it, but I liked how you mentioned that he would feel comfort in the death of a love one because they're not really gone. Good job bud