a blade of kindness

But if you are going to talk about the actual quality, like how good something is, Breaking Bad consistently uses cliff-hangers, cheap shock, repetition, retcon, abrupt character shifts, and heavy-handed monologues to tell a relatively simple tale about a not-so-great guy getting worse and taking others with him.

The Wire is meanwhile reinventing how TV stories are told by basing each season on a pillar of society and exploiting a particular genre each season to tell a particular story. Each particular story illuminates how social and political institutions create the fundamental inequalities that feed poverty, racism, classicism and bigotry. Then each story proceeds to weave into each subsequent story to explore how these institutions are foundational to not only love and joy, violence and grief, loss and fear but also to the most mundane, funny shit you will ever experience.