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Destroy All Monsters: Breaking Lost And The Infancy Of Series Finales

Spoilers for Breaking Bad. The Lost haters came out in dull, predictable force within moments of the final image of Breaking Bad's last episode, which unmistakably mirrored one of the last images of Lost's torturously criticized finale. Granted, the...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.08 - "Gliding All Over"

They sure montaged the hell out of this one, didn't they? Walt's effortless rise to the top of an Albuquerque meth empire (oh, and let's not forget a franchise out in the Czech Republic) is served up as one of...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.07 - "Say My Name"

"Your play, Walter. You're on your own." The previous episode left the precarious balance between Walter, Jesse, and Mike, already teetering, in even more serious jeopardy. Walter (Bryan Cranston) had managed to hide 1,000 gallons of methylamine and proposed a...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.06 - "Buyout"

You can understand and maybe empathize with how someone like Jess Pinkman could come to be the way he is. Some suburban life worn down by his parents' expectations and his own unwillingness to try and bam, you're in...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.05 - "Dead Freight"

"Everyone sounds like Meryl Streep with a gun to their head." With the fifth season of Breaking Bad broken into two discreet eight-episode runs, pacing and structure have been issues. The first four episodes have moved deliberately, slowly establishing a...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.04 - "Fifty-One"

Sorry for not catching up with last week's episode, "Hazard Pay," but as with most episodes of Breaking Bad, you can see creator Vince Gilligan and his writers building something between episodes. And what they're building is a monster in...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.02 - "Madrigal"

Before I start in on this week's reaction to the second season five episode of Breaking Bad, I have to call our own Jason Gorber out who last week chided Vince Gilligan's season for having a "weak first season."...

TV Review: BREAKING BAD 5.01 - "Live Free or Die"

Once upon a time, people would gather to watch Television shows on a given time, because, well, that's the only time the show was on. Then came VCRs, and PVRs, and downloading, and other kind of stuff that resulted in...