Posts Tagged ‘ Breaking Bad ’

The first part of a week-long forum for media scholars to share their thoughts about Lifetime's UnREAL explores the series in relation to contemporary anti-hero dramas.
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Piers Britton on Mad Men's visual style, series structure, and Sixties-philiac tendencies, and how the TV series turned its tension between the espousal of emotional truthfulness and a preoccupation with “superficial” visual pleasures into a branding strategy.
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What do we want from a finale? Should it be a spectacular episode that serves as the dramatic peak of the series? Should it like any other episode of the series, only more so? Should it be surprising, shocking, or transformative? Or should it offer closure? For me, the main thing that I’m looking...
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Dots are connected and characters suffer, setting up what is sure to be a heartwarming series finale.
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Still recovering from this week's emotional devastation, but Jason Mittell works through the carnage with an extra-long post.
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Walt and Jesse return to where the series began to stage the program's climactic peak.
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The season hits its first speed bump, as characters bide time while looking toward the inevitable confrontation.
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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This week we get plenty of confessions, but not the ones we might have expected.
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All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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Breaking Bad returns from almost a year off to reset our timeframes and set-up its endgame.
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