3/10
Breaking Awful
17 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Starting off I thought this would be a good Breaking Bad ripoff with a mix of Ozark, with potential, but rapidly realized after the first few episodes that it wouldn't even be in the ballpark.

The "hero" professor is a pathetic sniveling spineless idiot, too dumb to ever take advantage of his original windfall, too stupid to realize that hiding the evidence is rule #1 in a crime, too spineless to be anything other than a tool to be used by others.

The criminals are depicted as typical violent sociopaths, torturing and killing others for no apparent reason other than for gratuitous violence and brutality. The lead "bad guy" goes from a seeming smart conniver to becoming a tool as well, in a few short episodes.

The police and their mole are so formulaic as to elicit yawns.

The model family title is obviously a joke but to hammer it in we have the typical kids, one an angel, one rebellious, because she sees the hell of her parents' relationship and wants nothing of it.

I would have liked to see more of the wife because she seems to have potential and could hopefully do some real damage as she seems way smarter and capable than her dolt of a husband, but frankly the show is so unrealistic and full of potholes I could care less.

Shlock explotation formulaic trash.
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