“Buy the RV; we start tomorrow.”
Last week, Walter White’s illusions of salvaging his family life were violently stripped away. This week, the target…
Last week’s episode was a Leone movie, I saw someone remark on Twitter—outsized drama, heightened style, breathless…
Careful the wish you make
Wishes are children.
Mr. White is the devil, Jesse? This episode left me with the inescapable conclusion that Mr. Gilligan is the devil.…
People resist when they’re told they need to watch Breaking Bad because it’s a great TV show. When something is…
When we left Hank and Walt facing each other down in the garage last week, the question uppermost in our minds from…
A year ago, at the end of the first half of Breaking Bad’s fifth season, we learned that Walter managed to extricate…
“When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.”—Hans Gruber in Die…
“This whole thing could’ve been avoided,” Walt babbles to Mike, as his former partner, the only person in their…
Last week’s review started with a verse from Warren Zevon’s “Frank And Jesse James,” about the romance of the outlaw…
They rode against the railroads,
And they rode against the banks
And they rode against the governor
Never did they…
You think Mike the Cleaner’s job is just, you know, cleaning? Like keeping Gus Fring’s nose clean? You don’t know…
Only 14 episodes of Breaking Bad remain, a number that has to be a relief to Vince Gilligan and his writers. They…
If Breaking Bad were a Torchwood or Doctor Who-style series of miniseries, the subtitle for season four would be…
I’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…
How many showdowns can you pack into one episode? If you are Breaking Bad season four, and you have spent 10…
It’s funny how Breaking Bad will take its time, episode after episode, carefully setting up dominoes, and then in an…
There are only three episodes left in this season, and after last week and this week we can look forward to a…