TV Foreshadowing In Breaking Bad By Walter White

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Breaking bad was never a show I could sit down and watch however after I found out that one of the main characters; Walter White wrongfully uses the disorder to get out of trouble I sat down to see just how bad it was. As the plot line thickens it shows Walter naked in a store waking up from an amnesia state supposedly from domestic stress. However the glory of TV foreshadowing we know that Walter was busy dealing with a broken meth lab in the middle of nowhere and couldn’t get back to civilization in an appropriate length of time. With many people looking for him, he came up with the distasteful idea to keep the disgruntled worriers at bay. In order to keep the terrible truth about his lifestyle a secret he willingly stripped naked and put

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