What a weekend for quality TV. I don't know whether it's coming or going -- and this weekend, with Friday Night Lights leaving NBC and Breaking Bad returning to AMC, it's doing both...
In both cases, I'll end up referring you elsewhere.
The gang at NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross decided that we should devote Friday's show to the last telecast of Lights, even though the finale episode already was presented on DirecTV and available on DVD. (Thanks, guys!)
So, in a show that you can hear on NPR (or, after about 5 pm. ET Friday, by clicking HERE), you get highlights of Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies' 2007 interview with Friday Night Lights executive producer Peter Berg, and my interviews with series stars Kyle Chandler (from 2008) and Connie Britton (from last year).
You also can grab prior seasons of Friday Night Lights by clicking HERE. Clear eyes. Full hearts. Empty wallets. But for good reason.
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As for Breaking Bad, I don't have to bother writing an enthusiastic welcome-back column, and doing that tricky dance of explaining exactly what makes the show so brilliant without revealing any significant particulars.
I don't have to bother because one of our TVWW contributors, Eric Gould of The Cold Light Reader already has done just that. So read his preview HERE, without fear of learning anything you don't want to know -- and get ready for Sunday at 10 p.m. ET on AMC, and the welcome, riveting, squirmingly tense return of Walter White and Breaking Bad.