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“Breaking Bad” Season 5.1 recap: Gliding Over … and out

September 4, 2012 Matthew Grimm

Mike is gone. It seemed inevitable given the collision course he and Walter White were on from Episode 1 of Breaking Bad’s fifth season. It sucks because Jonathan Banks played Mike, the fixer’s fixer, with such brilliant rough-concrete surety as to be the compass of the ad hoc crime syndicate White (Bryan Cranston) presumed to create after assassinating their meth-kingpin boss, Gus, with jaw-dropping horror at Season 4’s end. Yet it is par for Breaking Bad because creator Vince Gilligan has a similar surety when it comes to finding those nerve-nexuses in narrative tension and seemingly following his characters’ natural […]

“Breaking Bad” Season 5 premiere recap

July 16, 2012 Matthew Grimm

A scruffy, stolid, bespectacled guy gabs absently with a chatty Denny’s waitress. He makes the number 52 with the bacon on his plate. It is his birthday, he says, which she says rates him a free meal. He meets a guy in the bathroom, exchanges money for a car-key, leaves a hundred for his free birthday breakfast and exits to appraise the trunk full of the heavy machine gun and cache of ammunition he just purchased. Thus begins the long-anticipated Season 5 of AMC’s Breaking Bad, creator Vince Gilligan telling us again subtly what he has been telling us for […]

“Breaking Bad” season premiere to include sneak peek at “Walking Dead”

July 13, 2011 StayTuned Staff

This Sunday, as Breaking Bad begins its fourth season, AMC is sneaking a first-look video at the much-anticipated Season 2 of The Walking Dead. Through six episodes last fall, The Walking Dead — based on the comic book series that follows the survivors of a zombie apocalypse — garnered record ratings for the network in the key adults 18-49 demographic. Season 2 debuts in October.

Aaron Paul Divulges Some Details From The Second Season Of “Breaking Bad”

March 27, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Aaron Paul says the second season of Breaking Bad blows away the show’s first season. He should know — on the series, Paul plays Jesse Pinkman, a former student and current business partner of chemistry teacher-turned-crystal-meth maker Walter H. White (Emmy winner Bryan Cranston). We asked him a few questions about the impending season, which premieres March 8 on AMC. Where does Season 2 pick up? Aaron Paul: In the final climax of Season 1, [Walter and Jesse are] making the biggest deal we’ve made, to the crazy drug dealer — this lunatic — Tuco. We’re, first of all, just […]

“Breaking Bad” Fans: AMC Wants You To Get Down(loads) With Your “Bad” Selves

February 20, 2009 Lori Acken

Breaking Bad addicts, are you counting the minutes until the second season of the best show on TV premieres March 8 (if you’re not, I’ve got my hands on the first three episodes and, honeys, you should be)? Happy news — thanks to Sony Pictures Television and AMC, fans of the Emmy® Award-winning series are now just a few clicks away from some fun little fixes. Start at amctv.com to catch five original mini episodes penned by Vince Gilligan, Kate Powers, and Gennifer Hutchinson, and directed by John Shiban. The “minisodes” feature the series’ regular cast members in storylines that […]

‘Breaking Bad’: AMC’s New Series Is Bad — And It’s Brilliant

January 18, 2008 Lori Acken

I’m sitting on a low brick wall in the backyard of a cozy ranch home on the outskirts of Albuquerque, fragrant sage and rosemary bushes scratching at my back as a dozen men and women dressed for outdoor comfort alternately run over and step on my toes. And I couldn’t be happier. That is, until I realize that the equally tickled guy beside me, snapping photo after photo of the action, is none other than Vince Gilligan, creative mastermind behind The X Files — and the exquisitely original dramedy being filmed before our eyes. Seated at a patio table a […]