Breaking Bad (Season 4): The pressure’s turned up even higher as Walter White and his protégé Jessie Pinkman play a dangerous game of tactics with Mexico and ABQ’s top drug kingpins. This is the first season of BB that comes out of the blocks sprinting, starting dramatically, with the coldest murder to date. Almost every episode has a narrative purpose, story & character development and some solid drama – it’s not just about the characters anymore (finally). Needless to say the acting is some of the finest on TV; Walt and Jessie continue to evolve, but it’s Gus who shines brightest as an ever-calm, focused, calculating, courteous, professional, ruthless, business-minded, innocuous drug lord. Hank gets a lot more time, and a gripping sub-plot as he does some top investigation work; as does Mike, Gus’ hardened, dryly comic right-hand man. Visually, the show is like nothing else, with so many innovative & beautiful time-lapses, montages, and knockout camera shots. They’re often unusually high or low which sticks out;

attached to an object (like a shovel or self-navigating vacuum cleaner); and sometimes stuck inside / behind / under something – a pipe or oven – and there’s even a dodgy ‘filming up through glass pretending to be underground’ shot. The show’s visual flair is one of its best and most unique features, and something that always keeps you on your toes. The tone also becomes more eclectic as everything closes in on Walt: synth music and manic laughter wouldn’t feel out of place in The Shining, and there’s some flat-out slapstick moments like Walt scrambling around his house trying to evade hitmen. Season 4 is when Breaking Bad finally makes the leap from good to fantastic and unmissable TV; every aspect is continually improving and evolving in to everything you could ask of a show; stylistically, plot-wise, and such 3D characters – which comes together to produce a final product that is entertaining, thrilling, dark, funny, ‘gritty’, and believable. Breaking Bad Season 1 Review

Breaking Bad Season 2 Review Breaking Bad Season 3 Review Rate this:Share the loveLike this:A&E cancels its second affliction show, Robert De Niro fills in for James Gandolfini, and Wolf of Wall Street is way too long. Well, feel free to fill your living room with doll clothes and Arby's wrappers, or stuff your garage with broken gun racks and old newspapers, because nobody's gonna stop you now. A&E has canceled its hoarders intervention series Hoarders (not Intervention, which was canceled earlier this year) after six seasons and 71 episodes. So, no more peeks into the scary homes of people with this peculiar psychological affliction, no more gasping in horror at grimly discovered cat poop or watching as some poor soul wails as all their broken vacuum cleaners are thrown out. Well, except for TLC's Hoarding: Buried Alive, of course. But really, Hoarders was the Cadillac of hoarding shows, and now it's gone. A&E is clearly trying to shift their branding a bit, now that they've got some scripted shows that people like watching (Longmire, the completely insane Bates Motel).

They're going for more AMC, less TLC. Though, what happens to people with hoarding problems now that the glare of national attention is moving elsewhere? Robert De Niro will replace James Gandolfini in the HBO miniseries Criminal Justice, from the excellent crime writer Richard Price. Catalan Sheepdog Puppies For Sale UkDe Niro will play "an ambulance-chasing New York City attorney" who "gets in over-his-head when he takes on the case of a Pakistani (Ahmed) accused of murdering a girl on the Upper West Side." Buy Kenda Tyres AustraliaThere's nothing terribly ambulance-chasey about Robert De Niro, but he's been doing some new stuff recently (and by "new stuff" I mean "acting") so he's probably up for a little challenge. Pitbull Puppies For Sale Near Charlotte Nc

Of course it would have been better to see Gandolfini in the role, but I'm glad the thing is still being made. Back in the old days, before anyone knew what Los Pollos Hermanos is or what "I am the one who knocks" means, Bryan Cranston needed a job. He was done with Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad hadn't come around yet, and so he did what many an out of work actor does every day: He took a seedy gig because he was desperate. Yes, Bryan Cranston did some guest work on How I Met Your Mother. And now that Breaking Bad is over, he's sadly been forced to crawl back, to do that filthy work again. He'll guest star in an episode on the show's last season, playing Ted Mosby's (why are all the names in How I Met Your Mother so ridiculous?) mean boss. I know I shouldn't judge, and that many think How I Met Your Mother is a valid form of artistic expression, but to me it's just so unseemly and so degrading. To put yourself on display like that, doing those things. I'm sorry, but it is.

How did Bryan Cranston fall so quickly? Though I guess it's at least good he's not doing The Big Bang Theory. I hear they for real kill people on film over there. At the moment, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is clocking in at a whopping three hours long. Paramount isn't thrilled about this, so they are making plans to move the release date of the film to Christmas so Scorsese can have some more time to cut the film down. More time for less time. If they push the movie to Christmas, that means that Jack Ryan, the Kenneth Branagh reboot of the Tom Clancy franchise, might get pushed to the wintry cinema wastelands of January, which would be too bad for them. An even direr possibility is that Wolf won't be finished by Christmas, meaning it would be pushed to sometime in 2014. Why not just release the long movie? I know the common wisdom is that people are scared of long movies, but Avatar was 2 hours and 40 minutes and Titanic was 3 hours and 15 minutes, and I think those movies did pretty well?