10 Ways Breaking Bad Was Almost Completely Different
9. California Dreaming
Location, location, location. The three most pertinent factors in determining the desirability of a property, but also a critical and often overlooked factor in helping your favourite TV shows achieve success. Try imagining Sherlock bereft of the lights and landmarks of London or The Wire set anywhere other than the toxic underbelly of Baltimore and you get the idea; the location is a character in its own right, and a hugely important one. Its now virtually impossible to think of Breaking Bad without the harsh blue skies, arid plains and eerie deserts of New Mexico also coming to mind, and Albuquerque was the perfect setting. Which, as it turns out, was a wonderful happenstance, but it was borne strictly of economics according to Vince Gilligan. Originally set in the city of Riverside in Southern California, the show switched locations to New Mexico to take advantage of a tax rebate that would allow more money to be invested directly in production. Fortunately, being that much closer to the Mexican border and infamous cartel wars also shaped and informed the shows content, and a California-based Breaking Bad would have been a very different beast. Now home to a veritable cottage industry of specialist tours, blue rock candy and Heisenberg Pez dispensers, Albuquerque embraced the show just as much, and the relationship turned out to be mutually beneficial.
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