Breaking Bad has always kept fans on edge with black humor, inescapable pickles and miraculous getaways. But with the premiere this month of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, it’s theaters and studios that may be nervous. Camino reached nearly 8.2 million viewers its opening weekend, according to data from the ratings company Nielsen. The …
Breaking Bad
One of the beauties of Breaking Bad TV series was that no truth occurred without consequences: dead bodies needed disposing; stolen money had to be laundered; sins did not go unpunished. And so it goes with El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, the searing new film from Netflix and series creator Vince Gilligan. Taught, tense …
(Warning: series spoilers ahead) The last time we saw him, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) was barreling through a chain-link gate in his El Camino, half-laughing, half-crying after being sprung from his neo-Nazi captors by Walter White (Bryan Cranston) in a drug house bloodbath in the Breaking Bad finale. But where did Jesse go? Did Walter …
Well, that round of radiation therapy went pretty well. Turns out that not only is the body an amazing self-righting mechanism, but the body politic is an efficient self-lefting one. Sure, the GOP picked up seats in the Senate, but that was inevitable. We have gerrymandered ourselves into participation trophies in the most antiquated …
Warning: Spoilers don’t about; they lurk) As the unofficial Assistant to the Manager of the Vince Gilligan Fan Club, I have been watching Better Call Saul religiously — and by extension, reruns of my two favorite shows, Breaking Bad and Mad Men. And it has reawakened an inner-torment, one that perhaps other rabid fans of BB/MM …
Pity poor James McGill. He’s got a brilliant, condescending older brother who undermines his career dreams. He’s got such a penchant for scoundrels he becomes known as ‘Slippin’ Jimmy’ in the neighborhood for his staged injuries. He has the Albuquerque branch of the Mexican drug cartel miffed. And now he has to carry on the legacy of …
It’s been a rough year for Breaking Bad junkies. First, we had to go cold turkey when the finest drama on television concluded its remarkable run. Then Aaron Paul starred in the abysmal Need for Speed. Bryan Cranston took a forgettable role in Godzilla (though he redeems himself playing a legendary screenwriter in Trumbo). And we …
Ask me my favorite television show, and I’ll blurt out “Breaking Bad!” before you can get to “…of all-time.” But I have to concede. Mad Men, which begins its final arc Sunday, may be TV’s greatest drama. The difficulty is in separating the two, favorite from greatest. Our inclination is to defend our passions …
Technically, this story contains spoilers to a show some unfortunate souls have yet to see. If so, read no further. However, in this Twiteration, any plot point not revealed 30 minutes after a show airs constitutes less a ‘spoiler’ than an ‘archaeological find.’ First, a firm and earnest caveat: I am perhaps the planet’s …
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