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2008 · Story Circle
Breaking Bad — Pilot
A chemistry teacher is told he will die, cooks meth in the desert, and cannot go back to being small.
Harmon’s circle at episode scale. Walt wants control and money; he finds them; he pays with the man who folded laundry. The change is a moral disaster, which the circle allows.
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Walt: beige, breakfast, a car that won’t start, a son, a job that uses one percent of him.
A person in a zone of comfort — or a zone they mistake for comfort. Establish who “you” is in a way an audience can inhabit.