"Breaking Bad has shifted from being all about Bryan Cranston’s triple-Emmy’d (so far) lead performance to the best ensemble show on TV. This year, we were spun around four compromised points of the male compass: brains (the increasingly Machiavellian Walt), ego (Giancarlo Esposito’s drug kingpin Gus), heart (Aaron Paul’s Jesse, Walt’s reluctant sorcerer’s apprentice), and pure testosterone (Dean Norris as Hank, Walt’s DEA-agent brother-in-law—who’s got a supernally wise dark-side twin in Jonathan Banks, Gus’s head enforcer)."
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-GQ’s Men of the Year, “The Men of Breaking Bad”
I know that railing against GQ for being sexist is like railing against The Joy of Cooking for mentioning food. But if the four points on your idiotic metaphorical compass can stretch to accommodate five characters, then why not seven? It is steamin’ bullshit to write about the ensemble of Breaking Bad and fail to mention the amazing performances of Anna Gunn and Betsy Brandt as Skyler and Marie.
Perhaps GQ felt they had pushed the envelope enough already with their feminist declaration that Kristen Wiig is a total bro, bro.
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