Better Call Saul has cemented itself as one of the best shows on TV with its most incredible season yet...
**Spoilers Ahead** El Camino began as a simple short film that Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan wanted to make for the series’ 10th anniversary. Plans changed,...
**This review contains light spoilers** Breaking Bad, one of the top prestige series of the Peak TV era, went off the air more than six years...
“I did it for me.” After Walter White utters these words, the rest of “Felina,” the final episode of Breaking Bad, almost doesn’t matter. It’s a...
Breaking Bad is not a series generally noted for its lightness of tone, but Vince Gilligan and his collaborators have always managed to wring humor and...
Holy bloody damned hell. First, some (mild) vindication. I mentioned last week that there was absolutely no way this week’s outing would open with Hank dead,...
Remember a couple of weeks back, when it seemed like Breaking Bad couldn’t milk its cliffhanger tendencies any more than it already had? Those days seem...
“He’s smarter than you. He’s luckier than you.” “Rabid Dog” is more or less all talk, no (explicit) action, but as the Breaking Bad endgame begins...
Let’s talk about Anna Gunn and Betsy Brandt. Since the very beginning of Breaking Bad, these actresses have been tasked with the most thankless roles on...
Some series offer neat, tidy payoffs week-to-week, making sure to leave viewers satisfied while leaving them with enough plot and/or character movement to satisfy while leaving...
It’s important to keep expectations in check at all times, but especially with beloved TV series. There are so many variables at work, so many moving...
At this point in its run, it’s plain that there is no better-made show around than Breaking Bad. In terms of its distinctive visual universe, its...
Death, and endings: let’s talk about them. Even before we see the gun in Mike’s getaway bag, it seems inevitable: Mr. Ehrmantraut is not much longer...
Season Five hits a bit of a pacing snag with “Buyout,” which takes a long time to reach a crisis point that felt like it could...
Remember “Live Free or Die,” the fifth-season premiere of Breaking Bad, and its nifty but slight little magnet-powered heist? In retrospect, that was little more than...
How criminal is it that Anna Gunn has largely been left out of the accolades Breaking Bad has received over the years, only earning her first...
“Hazard Pay” is a classic get-the-pieces-moving episode, of the sort that serialized dramas generally need to make their season arcs tick. In other words, it’s not...
And so the end begins. The most acclaimed drama around kicks off its last, bipartite season with…a scene in a Denny’s. More specifically, a flashforward, one...
As though he’s been reading Breaking Bad threads online, Walter White has had a few moments of honesty this season, even if most of them are...
Now here’s an hour of television that had a lot to do. First, it had two incredible season finales to follow up on (Season 2’s “ABQ”...