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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obfuscated" data-source="post: 1642622" data-attributes="member: 6005">I've been thinking that I was the only one glued to this show.....I caught an early episode in Season 1, and haven't been able to stop watching.  I don't quite know what it is that fascinates me so.It's like those people who stop to look at an accident scene, only the accident in this case is the enormous moral train-wreck that makes up the characters lives.For a show with only 4 or so main characters, it packs more drama (and grisly surgeries) than ER!In fact I think I know what it is that keeps drawing me back to the show.  It's the intensity.  The show is full of tension.  Whether it's sexual tension (with your partner's wife, or her mother  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ) , anger between the characters, fear (of failure, being shot by a drug lord, arrested for hit and run, etc.).After I watch this show I feel like exhausted.  And then I think about the moral choices that each character was forced to make in the episode.  And let me tell you, some people make very poor and selfish choices.  That's something that we all do, sometimes.  But this show in particular seems to play a moral game of 'spin the bottle'.  I'm not even sure that some of the characters have a working moral compass, but each one has shown (and portrayed on-screen quite well, I might add) that they are neither good nor bad, just human.Wow, I think that's more than my $.02 worth.  So I'll stop now.-Obfuscated</blockquote>

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