Created
by Vince Gilligan
Starring Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul
First shown in 2010
It starts
with a striking sequence in which an increasingly large number of people crawl
across semi desert tracks through a remote village towards a shack inside which
we see a cornucopia of items including a sketch of Heisenberg. It’s
doubtful whether any series has begun with quite such an obscure visual the
(unexplained) significance of which adds a typically offbeat flourish to a
season that, even more than the first two, uses some stunning photography
against which the story unfolds. You feel the heat of the desert as much as you
do the tricky situations in which our two `heroes` find themselves. Much of the
first quarter of the season deals with the emotional fallout from the dramatic
events at the tail end of season 2 but the slow pace works because we know
these characters by now and there is no necessity for the sort of detailed plot
turns that marked out the sophomore series. By the time the key firework are
lit we’re fascinated by every moment.
