The second part of our four-part interview with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan covers “Bullet Points,” “Shotgun,” “Cornered,” and “Problem Dog.”
The AV Club’s amazing series of post-season showrunner interviews continues with Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan. As with Dan Harmon on Community (season 2), Michael Schur on Parks and Recreation (season 3), and Louis C.K. on Louie (season 2), the AV Club walks Vince Gilligan through each episode of the recently-wrapped fourth season, offering readers a trove of insight and commentary from the series’ creator throughout the four-part feature. Part one is up today, two through four will be posted later this week. Like Shark Week for TV snobs, indeed.
One of our commenters suggested that our week of Breaking Bad coverage is like shark week for people who like good television. If that’s the case, our four-part episode walkthrough with creator Vince Gilligan is the equivalent of non-stop footage of sharks jumping out of the ocean. So excellent.
Louis C.K. is doing two shows at the Bellhouse tonight in Brooklyn. Tickets went on sale - available online only - at 10:00am this morning; ticketweb server crashed at, like, 9:55am; tickets still somehow sold out by 10:01am.
Yes, modern life is mostly amazing, but can we please go back to the days of camping out in a line outside the box office so I can feel like the people who actually got tickets for shows like this got them out of perseverance and dedication rather than dumb luck?
Found this gem on YouTube while searching for clips for today’s Demski Five. ”Breaking Bad on ABC.” Well done, Internet!
The Demski Five - "Flawless Episodes" - Day 3
Inspired by last Sunday’s awe-inspiring episode of Breaking Bad, Day 3 of this week’s Demski Five - “Flawless Episodes” is up on the blog. Yes, it’s an episode from the same series that inspired this week’s theme. I couldn’t help it - Breaking Bad is just that good.
“So, you’re chasing around a fly, and in your world I’m the idiot.”
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The Demski Five - "Flawless Episodes" - Day 2
Inspired by Sunday night’s insane episode of Breaking Bad, Day 2 of this week’s Demski Five - “Flawless Episodes” is up on the blog.
“Are you havin’ a laugh? Is he havin’ a laugh?”
DRIVE: Jim Emerson's "under-the-hood manual"
Finally got to see “Drive” last night. If you were as fascinated by it as I was, check out this post on Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog.
Phil Hartman's Hand-Written Advice to an Aspiring Comedian circa 1997
Click through to visit the Letters of Note blog for yet another example of Phil Hartman’s awesomeness.
I’m still working my way through this year’s fall premieres, but so far this pilot has been the stand out. The crop this year has been rife with gimmicks, and honestly, a show about a man who is talking to ghosts obviously is not lacking for gimmicks, but this one came off almost, dare I say it, understated?
Michael Holt is a straight laced New York neural surgeon who bumps into his ex wife whom he hasn’t seen in 10 years only to find out the next day that she has been dead for 2 weeks. His sister (everyone’s favorite serial killer’s wife Julie Benz) enlists the help of a very attractive shaman (who I hope becomes a regular and is a real person I can make out with) to “extract” the spirit, but he decides to pursue his ex’s unfinished business at a downtown free clinic rather than letting her go.
So come on all you people who complain about the quality of network TV, let’s watch this show and tell all our friends with Nielson boxes to also watch this show so that complainers stop complaining, and we will have something good to talk about with our friends, and maybe one day I’ll get to make out with a shaman.
Sounds like it might be worth checking out. It can’t be worse than the uncomfortably anachronistic Prime Suspect pilot, right?
