ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “Felina”Donna Bowman9/29/13 10:30pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“Buy the RV; we start tomorrow.”
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Granite State”Donna Bowman9/22/13 10:30pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLast week, Walter White’s illusions of salvaging his family life were violently stripped away. This week, the target of …
ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “Ozymandias”Donna Bowman9/15/13 10:20pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLast week’s episode was a Leone movie, I saw someone remark on Twitter—outsized drama, heightened style, breathless…
ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “To'hajiilee”Donna Bowman9/08/13 9:05pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkCareful the wish you make Wishes are children.
ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “Rabid Dog”Donna Bowman9/01/13 9:05pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMr. White is the devil, Jesse? This episode left me with the inescapable conclusion that Mr. Gilligan is the devil.…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Confessions”Donna Bowman8/25/13 9:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkPeople resist when they’re told they need to watch Breaking Bad because it’s a great TV show. When something is…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Buried”Donna Bowman8/18/13 9:05pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWhen we left Hank and Walt facing each other down in the garage last week, the question uppermost in our minds from the…
ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “Blood Money”Donna Bowman8/11/13 9:05pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkA year ago, at the end of the first half of Breaking Bad’s fifth season, we learned that Walter managed to extricate…
ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “Gliding Over All”Donna Bowman9/02/12 11:30pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”—Hans Gruber in Die…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Say My Name”Donna Bowman8/26/12 11:30pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“This whole thing could’ve been avoided,” Walt babbles to Mike, as his former partner, the only person in their…
ASeason 5Breaking Bad: “Buyout”Donna Bowman8/19/12 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkLast week’s review started with a verse from Warren Zevon’s “Frank And Jesse James,” about the romance of the outlaw…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Dead Freight”Donna Bowman8/12/12 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThey rode against the railroads, And they rode against the banks And they rode against the governor Never did they ask…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Fifty-One”Donna Bowman8/05/12 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalink“What’s the plan?”
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Hazard Pay”Donna Bowman7/29/12 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkYou think Mike the Cleaner’s job is just, you know, cleaning? Like keeping Gus Fring’s nose clean? You don’t know the…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Madrigal”Donna Bowman7/22/12 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOnly 14 episodes of Breaking Bad remain, a number that has to be a relief to Vince Gilligan and his writers. They…
A-Season 5Breaking Bad: “Live Free Or Die”Donna Bowman7/15/12 9:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIf Breaking Bad were a Torchwood or Doctor Who-style series of miniseries, the subtitle for season four would be…
ASeason 4Breaking Bad: “Face Off”Donna Bowman10/09/11 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’m going to pretend the last shot of “Face Off” doesn’t exist. In my mind, I’ve replaced the push-in to the plant's…
ASeason 4Breaking Bad: “End Times”Donna Bowman10/02/11 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkHow many showdowns can you pack into one episode? If you are Breaking Bad season four, and you have spent 10 episodes…
ASeason 4Breaking Bad: “Crawl Space”Noel Murray9/25/11 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkIt’s funny how Breaking Bad will take its time, episode after episode, carefully setting up dominoes, and then in an…
A-Season 4Breaking Bad: “Salud”Donna Bowman9/18/11 10:00pmEmbiggenEditSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThere are only three episodes left in this season, and after last week and this week we can look forward to a…
