SHEELA CLARY: Pick-me-up viewing recommendations

On the dark side of the light-to-dark entertainment continuum, “Breaking Bad” is making its third comeback in my viewing life. It’s delightfully packed with outrageously bad human behavior, and I love it all. Over the years, I’ve talked to dozens of people who gave up on the show based on one scene from the second episode of season one. I’ve advised them to look past that particular gruesomeness, since the dozens of murders from there on out are mostly not so gnarly. The reason I keep coming back again and again is probably the same reason I chose to read “Stalingrad” when I was expecting my first child and not “What To Expect When You’re Expecting.”

But while I revel in Walter White’s every evil turn, I’m also a sucker for good turns. I’ve recently watched a movie and a play that both tell inconceivably good, true stories from real life events of the…