He could have glamorized Albuquerque or chosen a nicer (and less representative) part of the country as a setting. But, no, he tells his tales of moral decay within a distinctly American spatial order: strip malls, arterial roads, parking lots, cul-de-sacs, and isolated single-use zones.
People watched Breaking Bad and kept saying how they hope they never ever have to go to Albuquerque
Wasn’t the primary reason for filming in Albuquerque due to a tax break for filming in New Mexico? But it does do a great job of demonstrating how the “American dream” suburb is just as crime ridden as a large metropolitan city.
Yeah. There are a few states like New Mexico and Georgia that have a lot of tax incentives for filming.