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'Breaking Bad' Recap: Of Monsters and Montages | ARTICLE
It's been a long time since I had that much fun being completely miserable. "Gliding Over All," last night's "half-season" finale of Breaking Bad, was an exquisitely unpleasant viewing experience for most of its duration. Exhibit A: the...
September 3, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: Breaking Down | ARTICLE
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results, or so the saying goes. Breaking Bad seems determined to prove the inverse: Insanity is doing the same thing over and...
August 27, 2012 9:30 AM ET -
Q&A: 'Breaking Bad''s Jesse Plemons on Todd's Killer Instinct | ARTICLE
"There's definitely some stuff going on in that mind of Todd's . . . " says Jesse Plemons of his cold-blooded character on Breaking Bad before trailing off mid-sentence. Even the actor who plays Todd is at...
August 20, 2012 12:00 PM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: The Aftermath Doesn't Add Up | ARTICLE
So much for picking up where we left off. Last week's Breaking Bad was so breathless, its final moments so shocking, that the desire to put the world on pause until 10 p.m. the following Sunday and start...
August 19, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
Q&A: 'Breaking Bad' Star Dean Norris on the Many Faces of Hank | ARTICLE
"I know it's Rolling Stone – gotta hate the Man and stuff – but you've got to cut cops some slack." Happy to, at least in this case. Dean Norris couldn't discuss his character Hank Schrader, the...
August 13, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: Trainwreck | ARTICLE
"Our children are not in danger."—Walter White"Our children are not in danger."—Walter White (emphasis added) We kill children in our entertainment with increasing frequency. At least, that's how it feels to me. Maybe it's because I'm a...
August 12, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Q&A: Laura Fraser on the Mystery of Lydia | ARTICLE
Ask Scottish actor Laura Fraser about the future she concocted for her character on Breaking Bad – the executive-slash-black-marketeer Lydia Rodarte Qualye – while waiting for each new script, and you'll get a modest goal in reply:...
August 6, 2012 11:15 AM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: Heisen Plain Sight | ARTICLE
The biggest moment on tonight's Breaking Bad came before the opening credits rolled. Sudden and shocking, it nevertheless had an air of inevitability, like something the world of Walter White had been waiting for for a long,...
August 5, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
Q&A: 'Breaking Bad' Star Anna Gunn on Skyler's Suffering | ARTICLE
"One of the things that made Walt and Skyler fall in love with each other was that he has a brilliant mind and so does she," says Anna Gunn of the character she plays on Breaking Bad...
July 30, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: The Sky Is Falling | ARTICLE
People hate Skyler White. I know this because I've written about her sympathetically; I may as well have written COME AT ME, BRO in all caps. Remember when Walt bullied and bullshitted his way back into their home...
July 29, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: Heisenberg Uber Alles | ARTICLE
Anyone else feel like that made the season premiere look like a JAG rerun? Nothing against the premiere, mind you—between the ominous cold open, the demonstration of Walt's cold-bloodedness, and the Magneto cameo, it had a lot to...
July 22, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Recap: A Magnetic Personality | ARTICLE
They used a big magnet to solve a big problem on a little laptop, yeah. But in the words of Walter White, there were bigger fish to fry on "Live Free or Die," Breaking Bad's fifth and...
July 15, 2012 11:05 PM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: The Last Temptation of Daenerys | ARTICLE
"The King won't give you any honors. The histories won't mention you. But we will not forget." Lord Varys promises Tyrion "Scarface" Lannister that despite the ugliness that surrounds him, his good work will be remembered where...
June 4, 2012 6:30 AM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: Set Fire to the Reign | ARTICLE
When was the last time a television show – or anything on film, really – showed you something you'd never seen before? Oh, it happens. It may be harder to remember this month than most, what with the...
May 28, 2012 9:05 AM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: It's a Trap! | ARTICLE
You're a whore. Specifically, you're Ros, the redhead from Winterfell who came to King's Landing, rose to the top at Littlefinger's high-class brothel, and wound up a pawn in the games of the kingdoms' most powerful and dangerous...
May 21, 2012 11:10 AM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: Wicked Games | ARTICLE
"It's all a just game," says a grinning Theon Greyjoy near the beginning of a storyline that starts with him waking up from post-coital slumber on a lord's bed and ends with him hanging the burned corpses...
May 14, 2012 11:15 AM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: Blood in the Streets of the Town of King's Landing | ARTICLE
We've reached the point in Game of Thrones where you could easily spend entire episodes fixated on the differences between the show and its source material. What a waste of time that would be. Sure, loyalty to the...
May 6, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: Something Winter This Way Comes | ARTICLE
It began and ended with brutal murders, but the scariest things in this week's episode of Game of Thrones were the ones that haven't happened yet. Doomsday weapons, ominous invitations, vows of vengeance, secret plans, bad dreams...
April 29, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Game of Thrones' Recap: Baratheon Psycho | ARTICLE
It's not just the White Walkers who lurk unseen beyond Game of Thrones' Wall – it's fictional serial killer Patrick Bateman. Shades of American Psycho – both Bret Easton Ellis's brutal horror-satire novel and Mary Harron's fine feminist...
April 22, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
Shia LaBeouf, Underground Comic Book Artist | ARTICLE
Meet the world’s most famous underground cartoonist. Transformers actor Shia LaBeouf is hardly the first celebrity to dabble in comic books, but where other stars slap their name on tie-ins for nerd-friendly Hollywood franchises or thinly disguised...
April 18, 2012 11:50 AM ET
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