Breaking Bad is starting to wind down this week with its penultimate episode of the year entitled “Say My Name.” Unlike usual Breaking Bad episodes, the purpose behind the title becomes quite evident from the cold opening. Following directly from the ending of last week’s “Buyout”, Walt (Bryan Cranston), Jesse (Aaron Paul), and Mike (Jonathan Banks) ride out into the dessert to have their... 

Breaking Bad presses on with the first half of his 5th season this week with “Buyout.” The episode starts out with the direct results from last week’s cliffhanger, showing Walt (Bryan Cranston), Jesse (Aaron Paul), Mike (Jonathan Banks), and Todd (Jesse Plemons) disposing of the evidence from their train heist, including the motorbike and the body of the young witness to their crimes... 

After the intense confrontation of ”Fifty-One,” Breaking Bad rages on with this week’s episode “Dead Freight.” The cold opening is one that seems fairly unnecessary; a boy on his motorbike is riding through the desert, picks up a tarantula and puts it in a jar. We’ve never seen this kid before, but one must instinctively know that this kid will come back at some later... 

Breaking Bad Season 5 Part 1 hits its half waypoint this week with the episode “Fifty One.” In this week’s cold opening, Walt (Bryan Cranston) and Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte) are getting the old family SUV fixed. However, as father and son are about to leave the mechanic shop, Walt decides to spontaneously sell off the perfectly usable car and splurge on some souped-up vehicles for both himself... 

Breaking Bad continues it’s astonishing fifth season with this week’s episode “Hazard Pay”. And before you can ask what the title means, the writers pull a title drop during the cold opening. Mike (Jonathan Banks), disguised as a paralegal for a lawyer, visits one of his former co-workers under Gus in prison. The prisoner explains that he’s willing to stay quiet, but he needs compensation... 

Breaking Bad continues its final season this week with episode two “Madrigal”. As with last week, this episode starts off with a cold opening that puts out signals of what may come. In this case, the opening follows Peter Schuler, the head of the eponymous German company Madrigal, which was a parent company to Gus Fring’s Los Pollos Hermanos. As the episode starts, German police are... 

To say Breaking Bad is a phenomenal piece of brilliant story telling is really doing it justice. Vince Gilligan’s AMC show is one of those shining examples of how far television has come as a medium, showcasing just how far long form storytelling can go on the idiot box. This week marked the premiere episode of the show’s fifth (and final) season entitled ”Live Free or Die,” which...