Schwartzblog archives Season Four does something new, and actually opens with a clean up episode. And a great example of how the show builds tension out of long, quiet stretches and stillness. The scene in that episode? Nearly ten minutes, uninterrupted, with no dialogue from anyone but Walter. Most shows would cut to commercial … Continue reading
Links to all prior blogs I mentioned last time that I don’t think of Breaking Bad as a particularly slow show. At least not in the sense that we usually mean when we say that, which is that the overall plot moves slowly, that entire episodes go by just spinning the wheels, and there are … Continue reading
A good start
Season 1 On to season 2. The premiere is a bit of an odd duck, as it plays like a part two of the first season finale, but that one didn’t really end on a cliffhanger or demand that things pick up immediately. It’s neither the beginning nor end of the Tuco storyline. But it … Continue reading
Feels authentic
It’s an R-rated double feature!
yeah, it’s a blog about my fictional heroes.
I love Breaking Bad. I mean, I love it the way meth-heads love crank or bad writers love opening with obvious analogies made by thousands of others over the last 4 years. And it starts up again in about 2 weeks (2 weeks!), so I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and watching some … Continue reading
A confused mess.
Geeks, more than any other type of person are obsessed with technology. In fact I would go so far as to say that you cannot be a true geek unless the thought of a shiney new piece of tech excites you. Working in an I.T department I find myself regularly drawn into conversation about some … Continue reading