by Erik Kain on January 17, 2012
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, AMC’s Breaking Bad has the loveliest cinematography of any show on television. For that and for many other reasons, it’s probably the best thing you could spend your time watching – a show so well put together that I have yet to watch a single episode I didn’t [...]
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Tony Soprano, Walter White, and a plethora of other men comprise the ranks of popular anti-hero dramas on today’s television sets. But where are the female anti-heroes? Alyssa Rosenberg picks up the too-much-ambition-in-TV thread that David Haglund started a while back (read my take here.) She thinks that it’s not so much a failure of [...]
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That’s what David Haglund contends, in this piece at Slate. Shows like Hell on Wheels (AMC) and the new Kelsey Grammer show, Boss, keep trying to raise the stakes. Others, such as Boardwalk , rely heavily on big names and expensive sets but don’t quite live up to the promise. David writes: It’s not that TV shows [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 21, 2011
AMC’s Breaking Bad takes television to an entirely different level. Here are six reasons why you should be watching. Full disclosure: I’m still catching up on Breaking Bad. I’ve currently seen up through Season Two, Episode Nine “4 Days Out.” I have a few more to go before I even finish the second season. Even though I’m [...]
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by Erik Kain on November 10, 2011
The following post contains spoilers through Season 2, Episode 6 of Breaking Bad, which originally aired April 12th, 2009. This was a hard episode to watch for a number of reasons but mainly for the horrific child neglect. The story follows Jesse Pinkman as he sets out to reclaim stolen money and meth from a pair [...]
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I’m still way behind in my viewing of AMC’s excellent series, Breaking Bad, but I wanted to say a few things about the show up through Season 2, Episode 5: ‘Breakage‘ which originally aired April 5th, 2009. If you haven’t watched it yet, there will be spoilers below. To briefly summarize, it’s the story of a chemistry teacher, Walter [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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