Breaking Bad Backwards

  First shot, a man, not Walter. But I recognize him so a star/well known actor.  Van drives past a building and turns in between buildings, man lets out another hiding man, ah the lawyer, Saul, that got his own spinoff.  I was thinking of starting my backward progression with Better Call Saul, but had read that it had a lot of flashbacks and time jumps out of order so it seemed like it would interrupt my pure reverse progression.  The building was not emphasized but I paused and looked carefully and it was a vacuum cleaner store.  Is that significant? As an standalone store for a single type of household implement seemed quite large but it turns out to be a front for a "cleaner" character that has a safe house in his basement.  Oh gosh there is a breaking bad movie, I just saw that on imdb looking to correct spelling.  The cleaner character, Ed, was in that famous scene in Mulholland Drive. Walter is in the basement safe room, and bald, how long does ...

   I missed out on the Breaking Bad phenomenon, was not watching much tv and just did not grab me and did not want to go back and hunt down episodes or try to keep track of the the random reruns.  But it's always intrigued me a bit, know the rough outline of a chemistry teacher that makes ends meet. Then it hit, that old alliteration bug. The what, the name of this blog, just popped in my head when I thought I'd just watch the last season or final episode. Then that phrase just got stuck under my tongue, Breaking Bad Backwards. What would watching an excellent drama be like in reverse. Unfortunately not being an insane billionaire I can't hire a video editor to cut scene by scene like Memento on steroids, so reverse episodes one by one will have to do.  Great finale, very clever, am wondering what the relationships between the characters are.  Walter has deeply honest regret and careful plans to make right his sins. It opens with a man breaking into an old car i...