When I wrote up Breaking Bad at the end of season one, what resonated with me most was the way the show is about how all the little choices we make have ripple effects on our lives. The show seemed very much about middle-aged regret. I’m happy AMC’s Breaking Bad returned to its character-driven writing […]
So, kids, selling drugs is bad, mmmkay. Manufacturing drugs is bad, mmmkay. Your wife’s life will be ruined, mmmkay. Your kids will hate you and believe lies about you, mmmkay. You will not have a telephone, mmmkay. You will not have internet access, mmmkay. You will not have cable television, mmmkay. (How will you watch […]
I get it. I get it. We had all the foreshadowing of Walt and Flynn watching Scarface together. So I wasn’t expecting a happy ending to this show. I was, however, expecting a well-written and character-driven ending. Vince Gilligan and crew, under whatever directive ruins shows like Weeds, are really forcing the ending on this […]
According to the internets, a lot of people are deeply not rooting for Walt, at this point. Apparently, a lot of people are also totally shocked by the way Skyler and Marie are reacting to events over the second half of season 5, like how could these nice ladies be all on-board with murder and […]
Tonight’s episode of Breaking Bad had some really great moments. I loved the parts where Jesse Pinkman is drinking black coffee out of the white DEA coffee mug and where Jesse is telling DEA Agent Hank Schrader and DEA Agent Steven Gomez that Mr. White is smarter then they are and luckier than they are. […]
I deeply appreciate the elegance of Walter White’s solutions to problems. The DVD confession of how his overbearing DEA brother-in-law forced him to use his chemistry knowledge to cook meth … and when he was in a vulnerable state from a cancer diagnosis … and even took his kids for three months to keep him […]
I wish I were watching Breaking Bad on my computer, the way I do a lot of HBO and Cinemax stuff. Because I want to share screencaps of the two most fantabulous moments of tonight’s show. They involve expensive women’s footwear and stacks of paper. So, when last we left our heroes, Walt had told […]
The first episode of the second half of the fifth season of Breaking Bad aired tonight. While I question the necessity of such complex math to describe a season of a show, maybe it comes with the high end chemist territory. I have to admit I considered not watching this second half of the fifth […]
Banshee is out on DVD and Netflix this week and it is awesome. (Also still available on Max Go from Cinemax.) Well-written, well-acted, well-directed, nice cinematography and variation of color palette. This show has many of my favorite things, from gothic characters who can kick ass to bad boys and bad girls who can’t follow […]
This week’s finale episode of Game of Thrones begins with me really not wanting to slog through recapping this dreary god-damned load. But Valar Dohaeris, fuckers. We in fact begin with the repellent Lord Flaymate mounting the battlements to survey the fiery, bloody, screaming mass of horror he has co-authored in his betrayal of the […]