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The producers, actors and everyone involved with Breaking Bad are comic geniuses. Not a scene rings true. In every moment the performances represent behaviour that has never occurred or never could between real human beings. Somehow the television viewing world generally regards this comedy as serious drama.

Where to begin? Why not the crazy driving scene in episode 1 of season 1? The only reason for the comical driving is to produces a crash that leads to more comedy. Ho hum, so it goes - on and on and on. Walt has coughing collapses to remind us how ill he is between periods where he seems as fit as you (probably) and I (probably not).

By the end of episode 4 I'd had enough. The paranoia scene in which happy-slappy bicycling evangelists were seen through a suppose paranoid misperception as vengeful, sword-wielding, grenade-toting bikie avengers finished it for me.

Absolute rubbish, but if America can elect you-know-who to lead them, favourable opinions of televisual crap fade into insignificance.

This could have been a good series. The hospital setting has plenty of promise, the acting is good and the script and situations interesting - with plenty of chuckles.

But the camera work is awful to the point of being unwatchable. What is the point of all those motion-sickness inducing sweeps, all those abrupt changes of focus, all those blurry shots of nothing?

Director Peter Capaldi must take the blame. Why was his chosen shooting style given the nod? I hoped series 2 might be an improvement over the three episodes of series 1, but its opening episode was just as bad. Enough was enough.

Incidentally, when Capaldi appeared as a doctor in the first series the camera treated him more kindly. What vanity, what cinematographic incompetence!