![]() ![]() We’ll have spent almost ten times as much time with Walt and Jesse and Skyler as we did with Gatsby and Daisy or Michael Corleone and Tom Hagen. When it’s over, Breaking Bad will span 62 episodes. You can read The Great Gatsby in roughly the same amount of time. Watching The Godfather Part I and Part II takes about six and a half hours. Part of Breaking Bad’s grandeur stems from the medium itself. Chips into Scarface, Gilligan wrote his own version of The Great American Novel. Whereas Tony Soprano spent seven seasons running errands around North Jersey, Walter White embarked on an epic journey, tracing an arc reserved for iconic characters of literature and cinema like Jay Gatsby and Michael Corleone.Īs he morphed Mr. Vince Gilligan started Breaking Bad with no such constraints. Jimmy McNulty, Stringer Bell and other characters of The Wire fought hard for change-changing themselves and changing the system-but Simon’s message was that the drug/cop/court/prison/politics system in a fictionalized Baltimore was, tragically, too big and too strong to be taken down by a few angry men and women. Tony Soprano was a man who didn’t change, couldn’t change. That’s how you can make the Korean War last eleven years.Īnd as that first generation of shows from television’s post-millennial Golden Era threw off so many of the shackles of convention inherent in the medium, they kept this one. After every episode of M*A*S*H or The Rockford Files there’d be a cosmic reset button that would allow the characters to return to exactly where they started at the beginning of the episode. Television had always been about a kind of inertia. Showrunner Vince Gilligan set his protagonist in motion. Not exactly part of the soundtrack but Line of Fire by Junip (José González <3 and Tobias Winterkorn) fit the finale promo perfectly.But Breaking Bad did something those iconic shows didn’t do. (Yes, we all should go hit our 9 th grade chemistry book again) Also Fe/Li/Na as in Blood, Meth and Tears. Now if you’re some sort of philanthropist by day crime fighter by night and you really don’t have time to watch the 5 seasons just take 4:20 min and listen to this, you’ll get the story.įelina also an anagram for Finale. No song could possibly fit the soul-crushing finale better. “I guess I got what I deserved… I would show the special love I have for you, my baby blue” Gilligan first knew the song 30 years before the show and when he heard it again on the radio while heading to work he knew he had to use it. This 90’s complete-girl-makeover like montage (only it’s about dealing meth and laundering money) is one of the most terrific scenes. ![]() ![]() Crystal Blue Persuasion – Tommy James & The Shondells “I saved your life Jesse, are you gonna save mine?”ģ. Season 3, Episode 2, “Caballo Sin Nombre” Thanks to Breaking Bad this song plays in my head whenever I’m about to finish my chicken tenders.Ī real Walter/Walter Jr. No song captures “Death Professor’s” irredeemable descent into darkness better than this. Take My True Love by the Hand – The LimelitersĪ flawless choice for arguably one of the best episodes in TV history. It’d be nice if you clued me in a little.” Jesse, Jesse, Jesse.ĩ. “You got me riding shotgun to every dark anal recess of this state. I’ve grown up some different kinda fighter and when the darkness come, let it inside you, your darkness is shining, my darkness is shining” “All my enemies are turning into my teachers. White’s darkness can’t shine any brighter. In the desert, Heisenberg, Jesse, Tuco and the kind of song you replay, bitch. Season 1, Episode 7, “A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal” Who’s Gonna Save My Soul – Gnarls Barkley Scroll down for the YouTube links and playlist.ġ3. There are numerous tracks that we absolutely love from Mozart to Stan Getz and Coltrane so this is by no means a “top songs” list but some of my favorites in terms of capturing the moment and setting the tone of the series. You know what was so brilliant about Breaking Bad aside from the plot, the impeccable acting of Pinkman and the brain, the attention to detail, and everything? The music! The wolf of Albuquerque we love wouldn‘t have been the same if it weren’t for Thomas Golubić (music supervisor) and Vince Gilligan’s genius selection of tracks. ![]()
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