MEAN and MASSIVE

SEB: LO S01e03 review, Lights Out 103I was slightly nervous before watching the third episode of FX new boxing drama Lights Out. I loved a lot the pilot, but the second episode was weak and gave bad signals about the future of the series. But it was just a tiny fall before the strong third [...]

This is the last part of my reviews on the second series of Being Human (BBC), and it contains the recaps for episodes 7 and 8. Watching both seasons in only a few days made it easier for me to see just how different they have been from each other, and I assume the third [...]

So far the second season of Being Human has left me quite confused. Many things happen in every episode, new characters pop up and disappear, and while our trio struggles to find a way of being with a meaning, I was left sometimes to wonder what was the meaning of this character in the series, [...]

I’ve decided to combine the recaps for the second season of Being Human (BBC), the first post containing my recaps for episodes 1-3, the second post forepisodes 4-6, then the final post for the last two episodes. It’s not that there is little plot to write about or that it all repeats itself – quite [...]

Jesse Pinkman: So what do we do? Walter White: You know what we do. As in many TV series, Breaking Bad season finale started in fact one episode earlier. In Half Measures many small problems have become one big problem that ended with Walter killing the guys who were about to kill Jesse, or in [...]

The violent snowball that started rolling with Jesse recognising the real people behind Combo’s death at the end of Breaking Bad‘s last episode is now fast enough to take everything on its way down with it. Like in the case of Walter, Jesse’s life also become one big bowl of acid that everybody who gets [...]

After the last episode, Fly, in which Walter almost explained Jesse his part in Jane’s death, we open this episode with a flash-back of Jesse and Jane in the museum in Santa Fe. Hard to say when this happened, between them in bed and them in bed, but surprisingly they managed to carry themselves to [...]

It’s all contaminated. -Walter White Breaking Bad turned into a kammerspiel on this episode, and Walter and Jesse (and of course Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul) proved their conflicts are enough for an episode in theatre-style minimalism. Two characters in a room (with a buzzing fly) gave all the reasons for those two men to [...]

Like in the last episode of Breaking Bad, this episode’s pre-title sequence didn’t give us an enigmatic hint on things to come. It was a commercial for Los Pollos, with the chicken dissolves into Blue Sky meth. It’s a big factory, and like in any other big factory – the owner makes a lot more [...]

Things are getting intense in Breaking Bad, and I See You was another reminder to Walter White that things can always get more complicated than they already are. The pre-title sequence was very different than what we got used to see: no flash-backs or flash-forwards, this time the sequence could just as well be played [...]

What an episode that was. One Minute is one of the strongest episodes of the season, with so many action scenes that either are the result of a previous plot twist, or a plot twist in themselves. One episode after Walter White had decided to cook again, and things are getting more complicated than ever. [...]

The pre-title sequence of Sunset shows us Tuco’s cousins killing again. Again, the sequence is a flash back, but the way it is connected to thestory is still unknown. Maybe it’s the fact that thecousinsare killing a cop, and at the end of the episode they will be asked to kill another cop – is [...]

The chemistry must be respected. -Walter White So if the first episode of the season was titled ‘No Mas’ (Mas in Spanish means ‘More’), this episode is titled ‘Mas’. And finally Walter is back in the lab. I plan to dedicate a post for the episodes titles in Breaking Bad. They sometimes act like asecret [...]

The season’s finale of Being Human continues exactly where the last episode stopped: Mitchell is wounded with Herrick’s army of vampires after him, George is trying to find the way to be with Nina, and Annie, who gave up the door for saving Mitchell, still has Owen’s problem on her mind, although the urgency of [...]

It took Mitchell very little to be convinced he does not want to take part in the vampire’s renaissance. Herrick got him at a time of weakness (“I’ve seen what humanity is really like, and this is where I belong. I’m home now”), but now he discovers things he didn’t know about Herrick’s plan, and [...]

After two episodes which focused on George (and Tully) and Annie (and Gilbert), it’s Mitchell’s turn. His guilt for the killings, and his attempt (especially in the last episode) to become human like his neighbours, brought him many problems. But this time he chose to deal with those problems like a vampire, ending up in [...]

Walter and Jesse haven’t worked together since Jesse got high on H, and it seems like they missed it just as much as we did. Even though Walter doesn’t admit it, he wants to cook again with Jesse, and this episode is probably the last one they operate alone. This ‘splitsville’ is about to end. [...]

This family is everything for me. Without it I have nothing to lose. -Walter White In the third episode (IFT, which meaning is revealed in the very last seconds of the episode, when Skyler admits to Walter she f**d Ted) – everyone is breaking bad. In the pre-title sequence we see a flash back of [...]

I never know with you if it’s a jewish guilt or a werewolf guilt. -Mitchell Love gets complicated in the third episode of Being Human. Mitchell and Lauren, George and Nina, Annie and Owen. Love is anyway complicated, but with that extra bit of weirdness, as a ghost, or awerewolf, it’s very hard to maintain [...]

It’s so cruel, it’s perfect. -Mitchell This isn’t a gift, it’s god stamping on us with his boot! -George Continuing my Being Human marathon, here is my review of the second episode. Just to remind you that this is a marathon of the original British series, and I am not yet sure if it contains [...]