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Face Off (Breaking Bad)
"Face Off" is the thirteenth episode and season finale of the fourth season of the American television drama ''Breaking Bad'', and the 46th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on October 9, 2011. It was directed and written by series creator and executive producer Vince Gilligan. The episode marks the culmination of the arc concerning the conflict between Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) which served as the focus of the fourth season. The episode marks Esposito's final appearance as Fring, as well as the final appearances of recurring characters Hector Salamanca and Tyrus Kitt, played by Mark Margolis and Ray Campbell, respectively. The episode received widespread critical acclaim on its initial airing and was named by ''TV Guide'' as one of the best episodes in all of television in 2011. Plot Walter White removes the bomb from Gus Fring's car and asks Jesse Pinkman if he knows of a place Gus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Turley
Myra Turley is an American film and television actress, best known as Dale in the 1995 sitcom ''Muscle'', and as Madeline Evelley in Clint Eastwood's ''Flags of Our Fathers''. Her other appearances include supporting roles in episodes of such television series as ''Dallas'', ''LA Law'', ''Murphy Brown'', '' ER'', ''NYPD Blue'', ''Party of Five'', ''Seinfeld'', ''Friends'', ''That '70s Show'', ''Scrubs'' and ''Desperate Housewives''. She played Katherine Olson, Peggy Olson's mother, in ''Mad Men ''Mad Men'' is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner and produced by Lionsgate Television. It ran on the cable network AMC from July 19, 2007, to May 17, 2015, lasting for seven seasons and 92 episodes. Its fict ...''. Filmography Film Television References External links * Living people American film actresses American television actresses College of New Rochelle alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Fring
Gustavo "Gus" Fring is a fictional character portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito in the crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'' and its prequel ''Better Call Saul''. He is a Chilean-American businessman and major narcotics distributor in the Southwestern United States who uses several legitimate businesses, including a chain of successful fried chicken restaurants called Los Pollos Hermanos (The Chicken Brothers) and an industrial laundry facility called Lavandería Brillante (Bright Laundry), as fronts used to launder money for a vast drug operation. Though outwardly he works with the Mexican cartel to distribute cocaine, he secretly plots revenge against its members over the death of his business associate and romantic partner Maximino "Max" Arciniega at the hands of Hector Salamanca, the patriarch of the cartel-backed drug trade in the Southwest. To become independent of the cartel's cocaine, he constructs a secret lab under the industrial laundry to manufacture methamphetamine. Frin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Guide
TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ... TV listings, listings information as well as entertainment and television-related news. The company sold its print magazine division, TV Guide Magazine, TV Guide Magazine LLC, in 2008. Corporate history Prototype The prototype of what would become ''TV Guide Magazine'' was developed by Lee Wagner (1910–1993), who was the circulation director of Macfadden Communications Group#Macfadden Publications, MacFadden Publications in New York City in the 1930s – and later, by the time of the predecessor publication's creation, for Cowles Media Company – distributing magazines focusing on movie celebrities. In 1948, Wagner printed New York City area lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito (; born April 26, 1958) is an American actor and director. He is best known for portraying Gus Fring in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'', from 2009 to 2011, and in its prequel series ''Better Call Saul'', from 2017 to 2022. For this role, he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and earned three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Esposito's other television roles include Federal Agent Mike Giardello in the NBC police drama series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1998–1999), Sidney Glass / Magic Mirror in the ABC supernatural drama series ''Once Upon a Time'' (2011–2017), Tom Neville in the NBC science-fiction series ''Revolution'' (2012–2014), Dr. Edward Ruskins in the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Dear White People'' (2017–2021), Stan Edgar in the Amazon Prime Video superhero drama series '' The Boys'' (2019–pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor and director who is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–2013) and Hal in the Fox sitcom ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–2006). He has received several awards—including six Primetime Emmy Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award—with a nomination for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award. Bryan Cranston's performance on ''Breaking Bad'' earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times (2008, 2009, 2010, and 2014). After becoming a producer of the show in 2011, he also won the award for Outstanding Drama Series twice. ''Breaking Bad'' also earned Cranston five Golden Globe nominations (with one win) and nine Screen Actors Guild Award nominations (with four wins). He was previously nominated three times for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter White (Breaking Bad)
Walter Hartwell White Sr., also known by his drug-lord alias Heisenberg, is the main protagonist of the American crime drama television series ''Breaking Bad'', portrayed by Bryan Cranston. Walter was a skilled chemist and co-founder of a technology firm before he accepted a buy-out from his partners. Walt became a high-school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, and barely making ends meet with his family with wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) and son Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte). At the start of the series, the day after his 50th birthday, Walt is diagnosed with Stage III lung cancer. After this discovery, Walt resorts to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to ensure his family's financial security after his death. Due to his chemistry training and production route, Walt's "blue meth" is purer than any other on the market, and he is pulled deeper into the illicit drug trade. Walt becomes increasingly ruthless as the series progresse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AMC (TV Channel)
AMC is an American multinational basic cable television channel that is the flagship property of AMC Networks. The channel's programming primarily consists of theatrically released films, along with a limited amount of original programming. The channel's name originally stood for "American Movie Classics", but since 2002 the full name has been de-emphasized as a result of a major shift in its programming. As of July 2015, AMC was received by approximately 94,832,000 households in the United States that subscribe to a pay television service (81.5% of U.S. households with at least one television set). In March 2015, Dish Network's Sling TV announced it would soon begin making AMC channels available to cord cutters, including AMC, BBC America, IFC, Sundance TV, and We TV. History 1984–2002: Focus on classic films American Movie Classics, as AMC was originally known, debuted on October 1, 1984, as a premium channel by Rainbow Programming Services (a subsidiary of Cablevis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breaking Bad (season 4)
The fourth season of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad'' premiered on July 17, 2011 and concluded on October 9, 2011. It consists of 13 episodes, each running approximately 47 minutes in length. AMC broadcast the fourth season on Sundays at 10:00 pm ET in the United States. The complete fourth season was released on Region 1 DVD and Region A Blu-ray on June 5, 2012. Cast Main *Bryan Cranston as Walter White *Anna Gunn as Skyler White *Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman *Dean Norris as Hank Schrader *Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader *RJ Mitte as Walter White, Jr. *Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman *Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo "Gus" Fring *Jonathan Banks as Mike Ehrmantraut Recurring Episodes Production On June 14, 2010, AMC announced that ''Breaking Bad'' was renewed for a fourth, 13-episode season. The writers began brainstorming and writing for the season in early July 2010. At the 2011 Television Critics Association press tour, it was announced production on the se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live Free Or Die (Breaking Bad)
"Live Free or Die" is the fifth season premiere episode of the American television drama series '' Breaking Bad'', the first episode of the first part of the season and the 47th overall episode of the series. Written by series creator Vince Gilligan and directed by Michael Slovis, it originally aired on AMC in the United States on July 15, 2012. The episode is titled after the official motto of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, seen on a license plate in the opening. Plot The episode starts with a flashforward to Walter White in a restaurant on his 52nd birthday. He illegally purchases a machine gun from his arms dealer which is hidden inside the trunk of a car. In the present, Walt disposes of any evidence connecting him to Gus Fring's killing and Brock Cantillo's poisoning. Skyler White tries not to speak to Walt, explaining that she is now scared of him. Walt suddenly remembers the surveillance cameras that Gus installed in the superlab, and realizes that the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
End Times (Breaking Bad)
"End Times" is the twelfth and penultimate episode of the fourth season of the American television drama series ''Breaking Bad'', and the 45th overall episode of the series. It originally aired on AMC in the United States on October 2, 2011. '' GQ'', and '' Salon.com'' named "End Times" as one of the best television episodes of 2011. Plot After receiving an anonymous warning from Saul Goodman about Hank Schrader having been targeted by a drug cartel, the DEA dispatches a squad of agents to guard Hank and Marie Schrader's house. The White family is also brought to the Schrader household for protection, but Walter White convinces Skyler White to let him stay behind at their own house, ready to face the consequences of his actions. Walt sits nervously in the backyard, spinning a gun on the table that keeps pointing at him, but takes note when it points at a potted plant. Hank deduces that his investigation of Gus Fring is the reason for the threat on his life, so he asks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mara
''Breaking Bad'' is a neo-Western crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan, primarily based on the television series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–13), its prequel/sequel series, ''Better Call Saul'' (2015–22), and its sequel film, '' El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'' (2019). The following is an abridged list of characters from all three. Main characters Cast table Introduced in ''Breaking Bad'' Walter White Walter Hartwell White (also known by his clandestine alias Heisenberg) (played by Bryan Cranston) is an underachieving Albuquerque, New Mexico high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with lung cancer, starts manufacturing methamphetamine to provide for his family upon his death. Knowing nothing about the drug trade, he enlists the aid of his former student, Jesse Pinkman, to sell the meth he produces. Walt's scientific knowledge and dedication to quality lead him to produce crystal meth that is purer and more potent than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Douglas
Jason Douglas is an American film, television and voice actor, known as Tobin on AMC's '' The Walking Dead'', as the voice of Beerus in the anime film '' Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods ''and the series Dragon Ball Super, and Krieg in the video game '' Borderlands 2'' and its sequel, '' Borderlands 3''. Douglas is noted for his appearances in films, including ''Sin City'', '' Parkland'', '' Two Step'' and ''No Country for Old Men'' as well as recurring and guest appearances on hit TV shows such as '' The Leftovers'', '' Breaking Bad'', '' Nashville'' and '' The Night Shift''. In addition to the role of Beerus in the '' Dragon Ball'' franchise, his prolific voice acting career includes roles in ''My Hero Academia'', ''RWBY'', '' Attack on Titan'', ''One Piece'', ''Fairy Tail'', ''Psycho-Pass'' and ''Parasyte''. Filmography Live-action Film Television Voice acting Anime * '' A.D. Police: To Protect and Serve'' – Officer Hans Klief * ''After the Rain (manga)'' – Masami K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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