My cable company has all the old episodes available for free from On Demand. The fiancé is out of town, so I'm catching up from the beginning. This show is awesome, and I think it also is a pretty good critique of the drug war, in some ways. I mean, it shows how vile and gritty the drug underworld is, but it also shows how corrosive it is even on decent people who dabble around the edges, and especially the cops. Walt's brother in law is such a tool. Sorta decent, but still a tool. The hero is a freaking meth cook! You could not make this show even during the Clinton years. People really just don't care that drugs are illegal anymore. No one takes prohibition seriously anymore. Watching Intervention sometimes has a similar feel. They only use the fact that drugs are illegal as a means of threatening people with consequences, they never try to impugn their character or try and make them feel guilty about breaking the law.