Articles Posted by Devin Barnes
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 8 – “Gliding Over All”
“The whole night we were laughing, telling stories, drinking wine. And he’s somebody else completely. Right in front of me. Right under my nose.” Oh, how Vince Gilligan’s twisted sense of irony cuts deep. It’s…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 7 – “Say My Name”
“You all know exactly who I am.” “Say My Name” concluded in a fashion that was both inevitable and highly unexpected, a cataclysmic wrap-up to Mike’s proclamation of Walter White as a “time bomb, ticking…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 6 – “Buyout”
“I’m in the empire business.” Watching “Breaking Bad” has become a depressingly mesmerizing exercise for the jaded viewer, who cannot help feeling slack-jawed as a once kind-hearted, albeit morally misguided man descends further and further…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 5 – “Dead Freight”
“There are two kinds of heists: those where the guys get away with it, and those that leave witnesses.” “Dead Freight” is a near-flawless episode, containing one of the strongest endings of the series. It’s…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 4 – “Fifty-One”
A lot can happen in a year. It’s hard to believe only a year has passed since Walter White began his increasingly downward spiral into devout criminality. But here we are at Mr. White’s 51st…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 3 – Hazard Pay
From Mr. Chips to Scarface. It’s officially impossible to keep excusing Walter White’s behaviour. Yes, even poisoning a child had a horrific tinge of nobility to it, as Walt needed Jesse’s full allegiance to conquer the…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 2 – Madrigal
Slow, Methodical Build Up… Like its predecessor “Live Free or Die,” “Madrigal’s” primary focus is slow, methodical character interaction, as opposed to the enormous shocks we have come to anticipate from Vince Gilligan’s writing team.…
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TV Review: “Breaking Bad” Episode 1 – “Live Free or Die”
“Breaking Bad’s” eagerly anticipated fifth season premiere harkens back to the show’s earlier days, in which Walt and Jesse put their heads together to solve impossible problems. It’s chock-ablock with those darkly comedic “yeah Mr.…
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The Role of Women in Nolan’s Films
The protagonists of Christopher Nolan’s movies are intelligent, driven and haunted by their obsessions, many of which are incited by a woman’s untimely demise. Many antagonists share this trait, too – women add an element…