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El Camino Review: An Epilogue Breaking Bad Fans Will Be Glad to Have

If Breaking Bad was a show about the sweet innocent Walter White taking control of his life, El Camino is about his loyal sidekick Jesse Pinkman finding his own, finally free from Walt’s manipulation. Aaron Paul pulls this off with the same soft intensity that he injected into Pinkman during Breaking Bad’s five-season run.

#VALUE! July 16, 2016

POV

What Bollywood Always Gets Wrong About the Differently Abled

Why can’t Bollywood filmmakers seem to give disabled protagonists challenges other than overcoming their disability? It isn’t as if we don’t have precedents. In films like Sparsh and Jagga Jasoos, the leads’ afflictions don’t dominate their characters.

Amal Singh May 8, 2016

Pop Culture

“What Up, Biatch?”: Why We Can’t Help But Root for Breaking Bad’s Jesse Pinkman

The question of “Is Heisenberg alive or dead?” still looms, thanks to the fact that El Camino, the new Breaking Bad movie, focuses on Jesse Pinkman instead. I couldn’t be happier, because after five top-notch seasons as second fiddle, Pinkman deserves his time in the spotlight.

Dushyant Shekhawat April 18, 2016