The devil is in the details...and in the waiting

Breaking Bad is a bold show filled with bald men. It is a series that isn't afraid of changing things and trying risky stuff. I love it so much for that. A show has to be very confident in both itself and its audience to open its fourth season with an episode with very little action and so few words, as the A-plot is almost told without any dialogues at all.

But as Alan Sepinwall said: "It helps, of course, to be working with a bunch of world-class actors in this scenario - to have Cranston and Paul and Giancarlo Esposito and Jonathan Banks be able to say so much when they're not saying anything at all."

By the way the quotation is from a good article which is a spot-on review: http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/breaking-bad-box-cutter-the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part

It wasn't the best BB episode but it was a great opener and it lived up to the reputation of what is the best tv series on television. And while keeping true to its spirit and identity, the show dared to change a few things we were used to...or, to use a chemistry metaphor, to slightly alter its own formula.

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Now I'm going to rewatch the episode again!

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