Returning to "Breaking Bad"

"Felina," the Breaking Bad series finale aired in September 2013.  The grand finale of five ridiculously intense seasons left me completely satisfied.  I had no desire to read anything about the episode, the stars, or reactions from other viewers.  This was the opposite of how I'd been operating as the AMC series progressed, scouring messages boards for posts by BB fans. However, after a year's hiatus I found myself taking great delight in Glenn Whipp's interview with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and the show's stars Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston.  The trio quips about what happened to Jesse once -- SPOILERS!!!! --he busted down the gates of the supremacist compound.  They also discuss alternative fates for master chemist Walter White.  My only bone to pick is I feel they exaggerated the threat Gale posed, but Gilligan is the show's creator and harbors in his mind the corners Gale could have turned given the chance.

Read the L.A. Times interview.

Previously on Ajumma's Pad:
Breaking Bad stars out and about
I'm seriously addicted to Breaking Bad
If I were Giancarlo Esposito
Men in cars
Men in pork pie hats
Breaking Bad stuff I like from the web

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I'm seriously addicted to "Breaking Bad"

"You need to stop cooking meth, go home, and repair things with your wife!" Such is my yelling while watching the AMC series Breaking Bad.  Now filming its 5th and final season, Breaking Bad is about a terminally ill high school Chemistry teacher named Walter White, and his former student, who cook and sell Crystal Meth.  It's about more than cooking meth; Breaking Bad is about insane raging violence, heart aching fractures in once loving relationships, utter desperation, and greed. Did I mention it's also extremely funny?  I've just begun the first episodes of Season 2.  I used to like Bryan Cranston's character Walter White, even after he committed his first murder.  Now I'm not so sure.  And I'm starting to feel protective of Walt's mouthy partner Jesse, which makes me feel kind of gross, yo.

Breaking Bad character Tio Hector can't speak, but can ring a bell for a yes or no.  Tio almost gave me a heart attack in Season 2 in the most intense television I've seen in years.

Men in cars

 James Dean (1931-1955) from Rebel Without a Cause and Giant 
met his fate in his Porsche Spyder at age 24.

 Steve McQueen (1930-1980) is notorious for his Bullit
 car chase scene through San Francisco.

Jerry O'Connell from Stand By Me and Burning Love

Channing Tatum of Magic Mike and G.I. Joe. 

Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy and Green Street Hooligans

Jeremy Renner of The Hurt Locker and The Town

Zac Efron from High School Musical and 17 Again

Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston from AMC's series Breaking Bad

Daniel Henney from Shanghai Calling and X-Men Origins goes topless.

Previously: Men on leather sofas , men in pork pie hats, and guys wearing glasses

Men in pork pie hats

Bryan Cranston as Heisenberg on AMC's Breaking Bad

Dexter Gordon photographed by Herman Leonard via Jackson Fine Art 

Johnny Depp channeling Charlie Chaplin (and Buster Keaton who also famously wore a pork pie hat) in Benny and Joon (1993) 

Jake Shimabukuro via Second Hand Sounds

Saxophone legend Lester Young

Korean star Yoo Ah In

Your eyes might think it's actor Alan Cummings in a pork pie hat, but it's really Robert Downey Jr..  If you've never seen an actual pork pie, it looks like this.