In which I shine the light on a French police drama and its treatment of passion versus duty. This is a model we can steal from in L&D because we often use drama to discuss how to deal with rules when they conflict with your emotions. Head versus heart.
Episode 6, Breaking Bad
In L&D there is a widespread misconception that if you make a character bland, uncharacterised,or even not there, (by dint of putting the camera in the position of the protagonist), this willmaximise empathy. That isjust wrong. In this analysis I show how the Breaking Bad pilot episode creates a drug-dealing killer who isa sympathetic human being.