Breaking Bad represents everything that is good and right about television. Anyone who dismisses the medium as a junkyard filled with reality schlock and mindless drivel jammed in between ads for cars and movies clearly hasn’t taken the time to absorb the modern classic that is the menacingly intense and darkly comic world that is Breaking Bad.
If that’s setting the bar rather high, so be it. Breaking Bad’s third season was one of the finest that has ever graced the small screen. That AMC also produced Mad Men’s radical and stupendous fourth season in the same year is something close to awe-inspiring, but we’ll leave that as a tale for a different time.
In any event, I started thinking about questions that I have about Breaking Bad Season Four, things I’d like to see, questions I’d like answered.
Then I realized: it doesn’t matter. Not at all. I’m along for the ride and perfect willing to go where creator Vince Villigan and crew want to take us.
I was then perusing a Salon slideshow that depicts Breaking Bad’s 10 best moments (I’d likely select different ones in seven cases, but that only points to how lousy the series is with awesome scenes), which includes “The Ballad of Heisenberg”: “an expository summary of the growing legend of Walter White's drug-dealing alter ego, Heisenberg, told in the form of a music video for a song by Los Cuates de Sinaloa (the Sinaloa Twins).”
A great description, but you need the visuals to complete the picture:
Then I thought: now that’s the perfect way to get ready for the new season.
Or as Roger Sterling might say: ah, that’s where you’ve been.
“Box Cutter,” Breaking Bad’s fourth season opener, premieres tonight at 10pm on AMC.
