Our Breaking Bad Coverage

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  Indiewire 

  The 10 Greatest 'Breaking Bad' Opening Sequences

  The episode openings of "Breaking Bad" are often the show's most striking and formally daring aspects, incorporating music videos, fake commercials, one-take encounters, flashbacks and strange images we don't understand until later in the hour or in the season.

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  Indiewire 

  'Breaking Bad' Says Goodbye to Los Pollos Hermanos, Hello to Vamanos Pest

  "Just because you shot Jesse James don't make you Jesse James."           --Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks)

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  The Playlist 

  Recap: Walt Learns About Overhead In 'Breaking Bad' Episode 3 'Hazard Pay'

  If the first two episodes of “Breaking Bad”’s thus far excellent fifth season were mostly concerned with tying up loose ends from last season while setting the stage for the next phase of the story, episode 3 titled “Hazard Pay,” begins moving forward in earnest. The breakneck pacing is likely a res...

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  The Playlist 

  Recap: An Uneasy Alliance Forms In Typically Strong 'Breaking Bad' Episode 'Madrigal'

  Instead of dispensing the final 16 episodes of “Breaking Bad" at once, Vince Gilligan and co. decided it would be better to split them up over 2 shorter mini-seasons to give the writers the best chance at finishing the story in a satisfying way. So far, that decision seems to be payi...

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  Indiewire 

  Future Drug Kingpin Walt Gets His Team Together on 'Breaking Bad'

  The cold opens of "Breaking Bad" are the series' stylistic sandbox, the place in which it makes its wildest and most distinctive gestures -- time slips forward or backward, we get a narcocorrido inspired by our protagonist's career choices or peek into the miserable day-t...

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