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Tuned In+June 11, 2010

Dead Tree Alert: Breaking Bad, Breaking Best

By James Poniewozik

In the print issue of TIME on newsstands today, I have a piece on the amazing third season of Breaking Bad, which wraps up Sunday night. [Update: Oh, it's customary to link to the story, isn't it? Ahem.] I’ve been a broken record about this at the blog, but it’s really something that a show [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 12 | June 7, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: One of Us

By James Poniewozik
AMC

Spoilers for Breaking Bad coming up: One of the most fascinating dynamics on The Wire was the juxtaposition in season 3 of Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale and their approaches to running the drug business. Avon was old-school and driven by emotion and pride as well as money: you held your corners not just for [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 11 | May 31, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: Working at the Car Wash

By James Poniewozik
AMC

Brief spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 10 | May 23, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: Buzzkill

By James Poniewozik
AMC

It is one of those cruel tricks of the calendar that the most unusual and very possibly best episode of Breaking Bad so far—and this following on a string of possibly-best-episodes—should come on the night of Lost’s finale. I’m guessing the audiences overlap a lot, so many of you may not get to it until [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 9 | May 17, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: Learning from the Master

By James Poniewozik

Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump: Last night’s episode of Breaking Bad was anchored by three remarkable monologues, by Walt, Jesse and Skyler. Each was styled as a confession of sorts: one true, one containing a lie, and one false, but revealing an uncomfortable truth in the process.

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 8 | May 10, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: Green Light

By James Poniewozik
AMC

SPOILER ALERT: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad follow. Now we wait. As last week’s episode, “One Minute,” blew up the storyline of the vengeful cousins and threw Walter’s family into crisis, it left us, with him, to go on vigil for Hank in the hospital ICU. (The episode’s title, “I See You,” was both [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 7 | May 3, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: "Family Is All"

By James Poniewozik
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Warning: Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad: The title of last night’s episode of Breaking Bad, “One Minute,” applies to both the horrifying first sequence of the episode and the terrifying final sequence of the episode. And the quote “Family is all” applies, in a different way, to both as well. It’s true of the [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 6 | April 26, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: …Don’t Come a-Knockin’

By James Poniewozik
AMC

Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:

+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 5 | April 19, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: The Divorce Papers Are in the Crib

By Steven James Snyder
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  “A man provides.” It is the diabolical wording – brainwashing really – used by one drug kingpin in luring a supplier back into the fray, fishing for any weaknesses in Walt’s decision to leave the business. Walt tells Gus he pursued a temporary career of cooking meth to provide for his children, and Gus [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 4 | April 12, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: ATM, Withdrawal

By James Poniewozik
AMC

Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 3 | April 5, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: Hostage Situation

By James Poniewozik
AMC

Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:

+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 2 | March 30, 2010

Walter White: The Most Fascinating Man on TV?

By Steven James Snyder
Breaking Bad / AMC

I realize I’m a little late here to be commenting on the most recent episode of Breaking Bad, but first I wanted to take a day and mull over a question that’s been rattling around in my head since the series returned for its third season: Is Walter White the most interesting male character currently [...]

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Tuned In+TV Recap Breaking Bad: Season 3, Episode 1 | March 22, 2010

Breaking Bad Watch: Survivor’s Guilt

By James Poniewozik
AMC

Spoilers for the season three premiere of Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:

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Tuned In+January 11, 2010

Good News for People Who Like Bad News

By James Poniewozik

Breaking Bad news, that is: The searing AMC drama returns for its third season March 21. With that, Justified and HBO’s The Pacific, we are looking at March coming in like a lion. Excerpts from the release after the jump: