After last night's incredible "Breaking Bad" finale (my review of that finale is here), AMC aired a sneak preview of the pilot of "Rubicon," the conspiracy thriller that will have its rea...
The trick to writing "Breaking Bad" is to keep painting Walter White into a tighter and tighter corner but also keep leaving him believable ways to exist in that corner. You've got to make sure that he's wel...
While the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise made Johnny Depp a global superstar, the popularity of the franchise didn't rest just on his shoulders. It's no secret that most of the fun in the first a...
There's a darkness inside of Walter White. It's the thing that has been allowed to flourish now that he's taken his turn toward bad things, the thing that has driven him and pushed him and gotten him to the place wher...
Production began today in Atlanta on AMC's adaptation of Robert Kirkman's zombie comic book epic "The Walking Dead," written and directed by Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption") and starring...
I guess if I were to make a single criticism of "Breaking Bad," one that I thought most held the show back from being theoretically "perfect" (which, of course, is unattainable), it would be that t...
"Fly" belongs to a club of my very favorite types of TV episodes. They're the types of episodes that feel like small plays, the types of episodes where it seems like the writing staff comes up with a c...
The most important thing about telling a lie is not the lie itself. It's not coming up with a believable story or figuring out just the right way to diverge from reality to win over the person you're lying to. All of ...
In pretty much every way, "I See You" is a deliberate ramping down of the tension that's been building up throughout the last few episodes of "Breaking Bad." This makes sense, in a way. The episode...
There was a time when you just didn't kill a regular cast member on a television series. Major TV deaths were so few and far between that the ones that did exist - Henry Blake's plane being shot down over the Sea of J...
