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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 [...]

You can give a man power, but don’t expect him to stay sane very long

Hello and welcome to the minicap for The Walking Dead s2e12, “Better Angels”. Last week ended with the tragic death of Dale at the hands of a zombie. Now, the group puts everything on hold so they can bury Dale and pay their last respects. Rick gives a eulogy that is FULL of subtext: To [...]

That rascal is causing all kinds of trouble. Also, justice and stuff.

A father’s fight to save his daughter, stalled by…budget cuts

We learn the regional differences in slang words for zombies

Hello, Walking Dead-ers! Welcome to the minicap for Season Two Episode 9, (or if you prefer, Season Two Part II episode 2…which you should not prefer), entitled “Triggerfinger”. We got three stories going on this week, and the two major plots build directly off what happened last week. So first, we return to Rick, Glen, [...]

Plus: Shane turns into Iago

What up, TWD-ers. This is your minicap for episode 207, aka “Pretty Much Dead Already”, aka the Midseason Finale. Hoo boy, what an episode that was. In a season that’s lacked much momentum, a lot of shit sure goes down. This week’s episode opens with Glenn. The rest of Team Rick is having breakfast around [...]

After two seasons of secrecy, the truth finally comes out. Thud.

Hi, TWD team! Here’s you quick rehashing of episode #206, “Secrets”. This week’s episode is all about, well, secrets. Surprise! There are about 89 different secrets on this show, but two of the biggest are: Dr. Greene keeps zombies in his barn for some weird reason; and, Lori is pregnant. Unfortunately, Glenn is the only [...]

Hey there, TWD fans. Welcome to the 203 minicap. Let’s get to it! We open on Shane in the upstairs bathroom at the Greene homestead. This is a flash-forward, taking place after the events of this week’s episode. He’s shaving his head with an electric razor. When he finishes, he puts the razor down and [...]

Hey Walking Dead-ers. Welcome to the 202 minicap! We have a lot of questions after last week’s fucking CLIFFHANGER: is Carl alive? Who shot him? What are Rick and Shane gonna do? And less importantly, are the other survivors still looking for Sophia? But all that has to wait because we begin with a flashback. [...]

As they leave Atlanta, the gang trades city-zombies for country-zombies.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Despite their best efforts, Sea Shepherd doesn’t manage to lose the mothership.

To open Week 9 of our ten-episode season, the Gojira has just come upon the Nisshin Maru. It’s the mothership of the Japanese whaling fleet. If Sea Shepherd prevents it from loading whale carcasses onto its slipway, all whaling operations will come to a halt and the campaign will be over. Sea Shepherd has been [...]

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

Bill Burr is not happy with the acetone levels

Jereth Cutestory would have a field day with this

It’s hard to find whalers, even if someone tells you exactly where they are

Wile E Coyote does not catch the Road Runner

Gus goes all Mr. Slate on Walt and Jesse

Makin’ stuff up and callin’ it real

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 [...]