Storyboard: Vince Gilligan on Cooking Up Breaking Bad’s Killer Drama
Series creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan talks about the creative magic that keeps Breaking Bad unbelievably good in this extended podcast interview.
Ancient Greeks imagined griffins that fused an eagle's head and wings to a lion's body, but that mythic hybrid looks like child's play compared to the Lizard, the multisourced movie monster that plagues Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man.
Grown-ups are experts at unwinding. We stuff our faces with name-brand farm animals, argue for hours about 20-year-old music, and guzzle cognac-and-espresso speedballs to stay up for karaoke. But won't someone please think of the children?
How Breaking Bad Resurrects Its Antihero Again and Again
Vince Gilligan and his writers' finely tuned plot machine deftly keeps the chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-cooker hitting rock bottom -- and bouncing back for more madness.