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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Deserving Denouement

September 30, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Deserving Denouement

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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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Exiling Evil

September 23, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Exiling Evil

Dots are connected and characters suffer, setting up what is sure to be a heartwarming series finale.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Exploding Emotion

September 16, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Exploding Emotion

Still recovering from this week's emotional devastation, but Jason Mittell works through the carnage with an extra-long post.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Peaking Plot

September 9, 2013
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<i>Breaking Bad</i> Breakdown: Peaking Plot

Walt and Jesse return to where the series began to stage the program's climactic peak.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Title Tricking

August 26, 2013
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Title Tricking

This week we get plenty of confessions, but not the ones we might have expected.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Digging Down

August 19, 2013
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Digging Down

All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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