Breaking Bad

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**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, and over time that…

While each season of Breaking Bad has a very different trajectory from the others, one thing that is consistent throughout the show is dread.

Better Call Saul has returned for its 4th season, and following the grim final moments of season 3 a lot has changed. Of course the most natural question after Chuck’s final…

There are shows you can watch while engaged in other activities. Better Call Saul is not one of them. This is a show that really asks you to pay attention.…

Now entering its third season, Better Call Saul stands heroically on its own, defiantly unlike its parent show, Breaking Bad. Of the two, it has become the sadder, slower, more deliberate…

Fan theories can be sometimes annoying. They range from the ridiculous and the obvious to sometimes idiotic. Once in awhile, though, fan theories can prove to be thought-provoking or at…

“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 definitive punctuation mark, the…

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 quirk out of what…

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, just like that. True…

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 so quaint now. “To’hajiilee”…

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 parts operated by so…

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 brilliant performances, its clever,…

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 have come a lot…

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 a dry run for…

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 Emmy nod this year?…

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 which sees our esteemed…

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 in some way self-serving.…

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” and Season 3’s “Full…