POSTS TAGGED: breaking bad

The Wire’s been off the air forevs, and Breaking Bad doesn’t come back to finish its run until the Summer. Boooooo!! Fortunately, YouTube video champ jamesmontalbano has made a mash up of these two brilliant shows, and he’s done it with all the seasons told through openings. Really cool for fans of the show. Enjoy!   

Hey, Breaking Bad-ders. Welcome to the recap for Season 5 Episode 8, aka “Gliding All Over”, aka the finale of the first half of Season 5. That’s right, there will be no more new episodes until next year. AMC is blue-balling us. This week’s episode is a bit unusual because it involves lots of time [...]

Plus: What if Walt wrote a management how-to book?

To what depths will Walt sink? Oh. Those depths. Yikes.

Walt turns 51; Skyler attempts a 5150.

Walt and Jesse learn what it is to be a small business owner.

Even a cheerful housekeeping robot is not immune from Walt’s depravation

It turns out you can apply what you learned from your high school science project to your life of crime.

Saturday, July 14 Happy Bastille Day, or as the French call it, “La Fête Nationale” or “le quatorze juillet.” So drink some wine, eat some brie on a fresh baguette, and sing “La Marseillaise.” The Firm (NBC 10pm) Finale: A new enemy threatens Ray and Tammy’s wedding; Mitch makes a stunning discovery as Patrick Walker’s [...]

A swarthy reality show host saves the world by doing what he does best, making love.

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Walt emerges from his evil-cocoon a beautiful, evil butterfly

Just when you finally felt happy for Walt, they went ahead and did THIS. The Breaking Bad Season 4 finale begins right where last week’s episode left off. After Gus’s instincts told him not to get in his car, Walt hurries across the street to retrieve the bomb from under the car’s bumper. Then he [...]

How much does this dude have stashed away?

The simplest solution is usually the right one. Apparently Walt and Jesse didn’t get the memo.

None of that “multiple storylines” bullshit THIS week. They only got one and it’s more than enough. Last week, the doomsday scenario finally happened when Gus decided it was time to kill Hank, threatening to kill Walt’s entire family if Walt tried to interfere. In response, Walt tried to smuggle the wife and kids out [...]

You know that thing where Walt is cooking meth to support his family? Yeah, not really working any more.

Picking up where we left off last week, Gus, Mike, and Jesse are in quite a pickle. Gus’s power-play to kill off the entire leadership of the Juarez Cartel has been a success, but now he’s full of poison and Mike’s full of bullets. It’s up to Jesse to get them out of Cartel country [...]

Breaking Bad turns into a Warren Zevon song

So this one has some crazy shit and some some not-so-crazy shit. First the shit of lesser craziness… Picking up where we left off last week. Today is Jesse’s 16th birthday and Walt and Skyler were supposed to give him a car, but Walt is nowhere to be found. Walt, it turns out, is recovering [...]

You can’t un-cook your books, Ted.

We open the week with a closeup of a glasses frame sitting on a floor next to Walt’s shoe. A couple drops of blood fall next to the glasses. Then Walt’s hand pops into frame to pick the glasses up and the lens pops out of them. Uh-oh. More on that later. The first story [...]

It’s just like Mitch Albom’s classic, but with more meth and murder

One of the fun things about Breaking Bad is that two of the biggest characters, Walt and Gus, live lives that suggest they have fascinating backstories, but we don’t know those are. Well, this week a pretty big chunk of Gus’s backstory gets filled in. That’s pretty much all I need for an intro, don’t [...]

Donuts, a tete-a-tete, and dog murder

Happy Monday, Breaking Bad-ites. Here’s the minicap for Season 4 Episode 7, which was called “Problem Dog”. So far Season 4′s been mostly “the gang deals with the emotional consequences of the assorted shit they’ve done”. This week is much the same, but we do have a little fun and suspense injected in. It’s also [...]

…Walt will be offended three times.

Hey guys. Breaking Bad, Week 6 is here. Let’s get into the short version… The week starts, once again, inside a refrigerated Los Pollos truck. Like a couple episodes ago, the truck’s full of buckets of Los Pollos batter, and hidden inside those are the meth supply. But this time, instead of Mike protecting the [...]

Just tweak Walt and Jesse’s father issues and they’ll do whatever you want.

The week opens with Walt speeding through traffic. He’s trying to figure out what the hell happened to Jesse. Right now he’s barking orders to Saul over the phone, but his voice is inaudible over the din of the traffic and the city. Then, he calls Skyler…to tell her he’s thinking about her. I’m done [...]

The final showdown, without anything actually resembling a showdown

As The Lie continues expanding, Walt and Skyler make time for some marital boxin’

OK, I admit, I just watched Week Four of BrBa, so it’s still really fresh in my mind, but I’ve also barely had time to digest it. My first reaction though was, my god, what an episode! The week starts with Mike. He’s sitting inside a refrigerated Dos Pollos truck—Gus smuggles the meth out of [...]

Skyler engages in a bit of subterfuge that would make Colonel Hogan proud

Bill Burr is not happy with the acetone levels

For the thousandth time, Walt learns he’s not a criminal

Hey guys! Welcome to the brief summary of season 4, episode 2. Let’s get to it… The week starts with Walt. He can’t let go what happened to Victor last week, and he’s terrified for his own life. We find him in a dingy hotel room meeting with a shady-looking gun dealer, the person you [...]

Gus goes all Mr. Slate on Walt and Jesse

You guys. Breaking Bad is back for Season 4! I can’t tell you how excited I am to be handling the ‘gasm’s first season of BrBa coverage. Since we haven’t featured the show on the site before I’ll be filling in backstory as we go along. For now, though, a quick run-through of the Season [...]

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