- AMC has produced a new Breaking Badthemed documentary that will attract fans of both Breaking Bad and the prequel series that it spawned, Better call Saul.
- The new series is called The broken and the bad.
- Introduced by actor Giancarlo Esposito, who played drug boss Gus Fring on both hit AMC shows, this new series tells the real-life stories of fictional people and places that made those AMC series so engaging to fans. .
The deeper you fall into the deliriously entertaining television burrow that Vince Gilligan created in two television series for AMC network, which left enthusiastic critics and fans wanting more, might at some point, like me, be misled into believing that the guy who gave us Breaking Bad and Better call Saul it is the last conjurer.
How else to explain the stories he drew from the chaos and worldliness of the Albuquerque desert, like that of the sad sack attorney who lives on the borderline between respectability and the decision that the cartel’s money is as green as anybody’s. another person? Or the high school teacher-turned-drug dealer, not to mention his rival who hides profits made behind the appearance of a fast-food chain, along with everything else Gilligan filled each box with from his two interconnected shows. . Shopping malls and the suburban vibe, the arrogant arrogance of great lawyers like Howard Hamlin, the dead ends that remind you of a pre-Great Recession American dream, the legal partner fears electricity, the losers and the addicts who hide in the dark outside the city, all to tell irresistible TV stories. What I didn’t realize, and neither did you, is how much of that was true. Or, rather, based on things that were.
The best of AMC’s new documentary series, The broken and the badit’s not just that it fills the Better call SaulOversized in my heart, with the Season 5 finale aired in April (which brought the best season thus far Breaking Bad prequel to a close, setting all kinds of juicy story possibilities for Jimmy McGill / Saul Goodman, Kim Wexler, and various criminals from the poster before the series’ swang song.) It also introduces viewers to real-world characters like Adam Reposa, a bigger-than-life star, wearing a cowboy hat from his own crazy TV commercials (a la Saul Goodman) in which he yells at the camera and throws a message barely coherent. Assortment of buzzwords. We also know ex-shady (and extremely real) scammers who explain some of Jimmy McGill’s tricks, along with border city police officials whom we follow in the dusty and dirty tunnel warehouse that facilitated drug flows into The USA Apparently there is also a real city in West Virginia where you will find people like Chuck McGill, convinced that they have some kind of hypersensitivity to electricity.
Featured in six bite-size chunks of episodes lasting less than 10 minutes each, this series is an easy binge and a must-see for anyone who’s a fan of the two series people and places of the present have spawned. An extra bonus: all are presented by Giancarlo Esposito, the actor who gave life to the annoying and threatening drug boss and owner of Los Pollos Hermanos.
In the first episode of the series, we are introduced to Reposa, through one of his quirky commercials that will remind him of similar moments from Better call Saul, when Jimmy was trying to take off his practice and his name.
“I’m Adam Reposa,” he taunts in the commercial, which is sounded with the crunch of electric guitars at one point and includes Reposa’s beard warning that if you’re processing his clients, “YOU’RE ON. MY. WAY. “
Esposito describes him as a “Texas defense attorney, often the last chance for those on the wrong side of the law.” Like “Saúl”, continues Esposito, Reposa has created a person who “delights” in overcoming the system to cause “chaos in the courtroom that will eventually serve its clients. “
“People ask me, what about all these crazy things?” Reposa reflects during the episode. “And I tell you flatly, it is a brand.” Of course, it is a specific type of brand. If you want to read more about it, there is this Vice 2012 profile simply titled “Adam Reposa: lawyer, lunatic. “In it, among other things, you learn about the origin of the truck that Adam destroys in the video above.
“There is nothing easier than being a lawyer,” says Reposa in one of the most memorable moments of his episode. “Wear a nice tie. Talk about how big the United States is. Thanks to the judge. Again, the seeds for Saul Goodman. Right there, as unmistakable as a snake in the desert.
As we collectively look forward to a new season of SaulAnd to link stories that include any mischief Lalo Salamanca has planned in the wake of the nightly coup that failed miserably, consider this series a worthwhile diversion and worth a place in your content stack.
My favorite episode of The broken and the bad is Episode 2, “The Art of the Scam”. In it, we meet a former scammer who used to live in an attic suite and dress in $ 2,000 Hugo Boss suits. “My name is Logan Devine” is how he introduces himself to the camera, before also introducing himself as Simon Quinn, John Foster and Declan McManus. His real name, he finally reveals, is Aiden Sinclair, and he grew up in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood.
“There is a kind of vanilla world that most people live in,” he explains. “With a job and a house and a child … There is another world just below the surface of that, which is very gray. “Understanding what someone needs and someone wants: that’s where he says the scam art lies. It’s a skill mastered by the kind of person who looks at a crowd and reflects: “There are many people walking. With my money in my pocket.
Sinclair says: “The boy I learned from three-card Monte had a spirit: it’s your fault. Why would you put your money on that table? But people did, and do, every day, falling into legal and other disadvantages. AMC has published all of The broken and the bad to YouTube, and you can watch the six episodes below:
Andy is a reporter in Memphis and also contributes to media like Fast Company and The Guardian. When he’s not writing about technology, he can be found protectively hunched over his burgeoning vinyl collection, plus guarding his whovianism and binging on a variety of television shows he probably won’t like.
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