An excruciating, terrific episode cranks up the intensity, but also shows that this drama really is about family. Even if Heisenberg has a funny way of showing it.
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Trigger Warning: Sons of Anarchy Out-Shocks Itself Again
The season premiere’s horrific ending could be exploitative or dramatically fruitful–depending on the consequences.
Breaking Bad Watch: Here Comes the Cavalry
The pulse-pounding “To’hajiilee” seemed to set up a certain kind of ending, but Breaking Bad is not ready to give Walt–or freaked-out viewers–the answers so easily.
Breaking Bad Watch: You Gotta Keep the Devil Way Down in the Hole
As Jesse tries to turn on “Mr. White,” Breaking Bad reveals itself as a horrifying, sustained depiction of the psychology of abuse.
How ‘The Bridge’ Solved the Mystery (of How Not to Ruin a Murder Mystery Show)
The serial-killer story is one of the least interesting aspects of FX’s new drama–and that’s how you build a show that can survive its first murder.
Breaking Bad Watch: You Made Your Bed of Money, Now Lie on It
In a series of wrenching scenes, Skyler (and the rest of us) must stare down the aftermath of last week’s big revelations.
Breaking Bad Watch: I Am the One Who Gets Knocked Out
If you were worried Breaking Bad would take its time getting back up to speed, worry no more. It’s game on
TV Tonight: Broadchurch
I didn’t want to watch one more moody drama about a child murder, either. But this British drama is excellent, most of all for how it treats the living.
Perfect Storm: The Genius of Sharknado
This exquisitely ridiculous Syfy movie was the most delicious social-media chum, and we are merely creatures of instinct.
Killings, Convicts, and Campers: Three New Shows to Watch for
This week sees the debuts of three of the summer’s most promising new series about murder on the border, culture clashes in prison, and love in the woods
TV Weekend: Ray Donovan
Showtime’s new brooding-antihero drama is a couple of good performances in search of a show.
TV Tonight: Under the Dome
CBS’s Stephen King–based snowglobe scenario asks: what if your little community suddenly became the entire world?
Scary Movie: The Fear Factor of Mad Men’s Season Six
The foreboding this season has had fans spinning dark theories about who will get whacked. But the show is telling a more intimate kind of horror story.