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A Lesson In Raising The Stakes: Breaking Bad Season 2 Opener
Breaking Bad Commentary At the risk of flooding my site with Breaking Bad content, I want to comment on the first episode of the second season. Writers are sometimes told to make the story the worst day of their character’s life. We are told to raise the stakes, up the conflict, etc. But a lot…
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Please Paul McGuigan, A Whole Good Movie
Push is an action movie that might entertain you for about 30 seconds at a time, but proves without good writing snazz is nothing. It’s about mutants on the run from shady government types, which isn’t exactly wild originality in the superhero genre. There are a lot of directors who do what I like to…