Better Call Saul is Very Different from Breaking Bad. And that’s a Good Thing.
You’ll be surprised by what literary analysis reveals about what it really means to “Call Saul”.
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Amc on Overthinking It
What Better Call Saul Gets Right About Being A Lawyer
A real lawyer weighs in on how well AMC’s Better Call Saul understands the profession.
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The Empire Business
How Anakin became Darth Vader, and how Walter White became Heisenberg.
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The Hole in the Middle: Mad Men and Breaking Bad
Mad Men and Breaking Bad, the most critically acclaimed dramas on AMC, are two shows about the same thing: the failure of the American Dream to satisfy.
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Hell On Workers
The Occupy Wall Street connection with AMC’s Hell On Wheels.
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The Killing: Death as Denial, Death as Distraction
It turns out I was wrong about The Killing.
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[Think Tank] Breaking Bad
No more half measures, Overthinkers.
The Killing: Death as Surprise, Death as Interruption
The Killing is one of the few police procedurals where the protagonist knows something we don’t.
Mad Men Season 4: In Which There Is No Fresh Start
Just because she speaks French does not mean she will let you cheat on her.
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