It's weird: I really, really like Breaking Bad in spite of the fact that I completely loathe Walter White. I see his motivation for much of the lying as pride: stupidly stubborn pride. "Finding a fictional world interesting" for me does not necessarily entail "rooting for the protagonist". Jesse Pinkman is a much more sympathetic character. Also rooting for Skyler to find a way out of Walter's tangled web of bullshit.
You watched the entirely wrong episodes of Black Mirror. The pointless humiliation... was that S1E1? Nobody should start with S1E1 of Black Mirror. Yeah, they made a bad decision, starting the series with that one. Recommendations for "San Junipero" and "NoseDive" seconded. I'd also recommend "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too". (That they have an ACTUAL ex-child-pop-star playing Ashley is rich.) I also enjoyed "Smithereens" and "The Entire History of You"; not everyone agrees with me on those. Many of the other episodes are just blah. Fortunately, it's an anthology, so one could just cherry-pick the worthwhile ones.
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You watched the entirely wrong episodes of Black Mirror. The pointless humiliation... was that S1E1? Nobody should start with S1E1 of Black Mirror. Yeah, they made a bad decision, starting the series with that one. Recommendations for "San Junipero" and "NoseDive" seconded. I'd also recommend "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too". (That they have an ACTUAL ex-child-pop-star playing Ashley is rich.) I also enjoyed "Smithereens" and "The Entire History of You"; not everyone agrees with me on those. Many of the other episodes are just blah. Fortunately, it's an anthology, so one could just cherry-pick the worthwhile ones.