Features
Wednesday, January 11 2012
The Best Television Shows of 2011
The small screen offers up the usual suspects, proving once again that, with a few exceptions, what's good on today's prime time schedule will stay that way until the next best-of list.
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best TV Shows of 2010
Running the gamut from the ever-present to the new and novel, PopMatters' TV picks prove that, as a medium, the small screen challenges the big at every entertainment (and aesthetic) level.
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Friday, January 8 2010
The Best TV of 2009
Aside from one or two new shows, this look at the Best of TV 2009 seems awfully familiar. A look at early '60s admen? A practically incomprehensible drama about an island of airplane crash castaways? The Americanization of a UK workplace comedy? That definitely rings a bell.
Columns
Wednesday, June 8 2011
Characters, Compounds, & the Study of Change in 'Breaking Bad: Season 3'
Walter White didn't just wake up one morning and decide he'd spice up his life by cooking methamphetamine and muscling his way into a business with life-or-death stakes. It was a chain of events.
Reviews
Friday, July 15 2011
'Breaking Bad' Season Four Premiere
However Walt justifies himself -- and he is an expert in self-justification -- the impact of his choices on Jesse has been especially brutal, emotionally and physically.
Thursday, March 25 2010
Breaking Bad: Season Three Premiere
The subtext that makes Breaking Bad both enthralling and often unbearable to watch is that Walt is becoming who he always was.
Monday, March 22 2010
Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season
In short order, Breaking Bad not only surpassed Mad Men in quality and storytelling; it is, without question, the best show on television.
Tuesday, March 10 2009
Breaking Bad: Season Two Premiere
The second season of Breaking Bad promises to be quite a ride.
Sunday, January 27 2008
Breaking Bad
In Walter's transformation, Breaking Bad marries ruthless capitalism with masculine aggression to produce a peculiar kind of alpha male.
News
Monday, August 22 2011
'Desperate Housewives,' 'Breaking Bad': When is it the right time to pull the plug?
Early this week, word came from AMC that "Breaking Bad," the critically adored drama about a meth-selling chemistry teacher, will wrap up with a 16-episode…
Tuesday, August 16 2011
Sony Television, AMC work out deal for 'Breaking Bad'
LOS ANGELES — After almost losing one of its signature shows, cable network AMC has signed a new deal for 16 episodes to keep its…
Thursday, July 14 2011
'Breaking Bad' still unbroken
Usually right about now, the AMC cable network — or what I like to call TV's little art house — offers an exciting break from…
Tuesday, March 30 2010
Bryan Cranston's 'Breaking Bad' turn as a drug trader is rewardingly dark
LOS ANGELES — It's a tough job, and Bryan Cranston is more than glad to do it — playing Walter H. White, the frazzled antihero…
Sunday, March 21 2010
'Breaking Bad,' premiering Sunday on AMC
LOS ANGELES — And so we begin a third season of AMC's "Breaking Bad," relating the misadventures of a meth-making high school professor, family man…
