I don’t know what the reaction is from the critics, or even a sizable sample of the Breaking Bad fandom, but from our little room in Anderson, Indiana, everyone seemed to really dig the finale, as did everyone on our Facebook thread. I outlined at the beginning of this season what I was hoping the…
Read MoreThe Villigan has been quoted as saying the series finale of Breaking Bad would not please all the fans. While I agree that it’s impossible to please everyone, this is one fan who was certainly pleased. I can’t imagine a more fitting end for Walter White. He finally admitted that his reasons for doing the…
Read MoreI think I may have dropped the oh-shit-this-show-makes-me-feel-dirty bomb a week too early. That idea was ratcheted up this week. All along, we’ve been questioning where to draw the line on Walter White. When should we jump ship and say “this is an evil man, he deserves what he gets”? For many, that line was…
Read MoreUp until tonight, I could see a semi-happy ending to Breaking Bad. I had to squint maybe, but it was there. Okay, so what if Walt, Skyler, Hank, Marie, even Walt Jr. end up biting it. We can always have Jesse and Baby Holly on the run with a barrel full of cash. I’d take…
Read MoreLast week in our podcast covering “To’Hajiilee”, I refused to judge the wisdom of ending the episode in the middle of what everyone expected to be a fatal gunfight for Hank, Gomie, Jesse, Walt or maybe just everyone. After seeing this week’s episode – “Ozymandias” – I’m glad I held that judgement.
Read MoreBreaking Bad returned to form, once again proving that it’s worth grinding your gears a little to get to the “good stuff”. In this case, the “good stuff” was really, really bad, awful in places, but it was some of the best damned television I’ve ever watched. What else can you say about an hour…
Read MoreThe tables are turned this week and the mighty Heisenberg is finally captured… at least for a few seconds. Though not quite as twisty as last week’s timeline-slight-of-hand episode, I really appreciated the way the plot unfolded in To’Hajiilee. Hank has a history of taking pictures of crime scenes on his shitty 90’s flip phone…
Read MoreThe trouble with setting up a season with the pace and skill that the final season of Breaking Bad has been set with is that you can’t let off the throttle without taking some criticism. That’s how I felt about 512 Rabid Dog.
Read MoreAs I said on the instant take podcast, one of my pet peeves is when sportscasters immediately declare that something they just saw was the greatest “game”, “performance”, “comeback”, “catch” etc. in the history of the sport! As humans, we tend to overvalue new experiences and discount older ones. Our memories play tricks on us,…
Read MoreI feel like I’m watching my child compete in the Olympics when I watch Breaking Bad. I know that I’m watching something extraordinary but there’s an ever-present fear of it all going horribly wrong. The last show I can remember that sucked me in this much was LOST. We all know how that turned out……
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