The big news out of the "Chuck" panel at Comic-Con? Linda Hamilton will be playing Chuck Bartowski's long-lost, presumed dead mother, as long rumored and finally confirmed right before the panel began. "...
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...
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...
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...
Here is the thing.
"V" could have saved itself with a truly great finale. It wouldn't have redeemed 11 episodes of meandering, pointless plotting. It wouldn't have redeemed a show that seems to have a major...
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 ...
Tonight's episode of "V" concludes with a scene where one guy we don't care about cuts a deal with an alien we don't care about. And that deal is one we're pretty much just finding out is in the works. And w...
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...
So, yeah, "V" kind of headed in a direction that felt vaguely interesting as it opened tonight's episode. I was down with the idea that we were being dropped into the story in medias res. I didn't need to le...
