Breaking Bad Season 3 Premiere & Television Poster

Breaking Bad, one of the best shows on television, returns to AMC this Sunday night (March 21st) for the start of its third season. It’s truly amazing how quickly Bryan Cranston was able to shake off the wholesome image he cultivated while starring on Malcolm in the Middle to truly become Breaking Bad’s Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to making meth to support his family when he learns he is dying from cancer. Cranston has since won back to back Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for this role, and they were well deserved for his stunning portrayal of an everyman pushed to the brink.


Aaron Paul (Big Love) also stars as Jesse Pinkman, a former student of Walt’s and his partner in meth making. Paul’s performance in Season 2 was so captivating, I almost wish they had given his character more screen time over Walt. Jesse’s struggles with drug addiction were interesting, exciting and depressing all at once.

I can’t wait to see what Season 3 has in store for Walt, his family and his newly expanding drug cartel. In many ways, Breaking Bad has become the blue collar equivalent of The Sopranos, with the show focusing on both Walt’s home life and crime family, and how the two effect each other. I hear Season 3 has some crazy game changers early on, so expect a bumpy ride this year!

Breaking Bad airs Sunday nights at 10/9c on AMC.

Big Love Season 4 Television Poster and Sunday Season Premiere on HBO

The second season premiere air this Sunday that The Blot has been anxiously awaiting for is HBO’s Big Love. While I love HBO’s programming, it’s been almost a full year since the show’s third season ended, and that is way too long for both diehard fans and casual viewers to wait! I’ve got to imagine viewership is hurt significantly by these extended layoffs, but when a show is as good as Big Love, who cares!


Season 3 ended with so many crazy cliffhangers I’m not even sure which storyline I want the writers and producers of Big Love to address first (Bill vs. Alby; Joey vs. Roman; The Casinos; Niki’s mysterious first family; the tension between Margene and Ben; and of course Sarah’s marriage). Regardless, I’ve got a feeling life for the Henrickson clan in Utah will not be getting any easier any time soon.

(click on the photo above for a more detailed look)

The Big Love season premiere is set for this Sunday, January 10, 2010, at 9/8c on HBO.

Big Love Season 3 Television Poster

HBO’s Big Love is finally returning to TV this Sunday with an all new season after over a year hiatus. I have to be honest, I tried watching Big Love’s first season and couldn’t get into it. I ended up only watching the show’s first two episodes that year. Then, when Big Love Season 2 debuted I decided to give it another shot and you know what, I got hooked. Not only that, but Aly got hooked too. Needless to say we’re both really excited for Big Love’s third season to get underway on January 18th and I highly recommend renting Big Love Seasons 1 & 2 if you either don't have HBO or have never watched an episode of the HBO drama before. Once you get past that whole polygamy thing the show becomes a really moving and startling look at family life.


Big Love airs every Sunday on HBO at 9/8c.

The Blot's Top 10 Cable Television Shows of 2007

Well its officially 2008, but I figured there was still time left to recap 2007. I wanted to do a The Blot’s Favorite Television Shows of 2007, but thought I’d just be giving publicity to a lot of shows already getting tons of pub. So instead I decided to narrow down the focus and shine the spotlight on shows often over looked because they’re on cable and not on the big four (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox). Sorry CW, you’re not one of the big boys yet, but I’m still going to leave you off this list since you’re technically a broadcast station. And you won’t see The Sopranos or Entourage making the list this year, there’s no grandfathering in for past success. Both had considerably down seasons this past year and got pushed out by some little engines that could.

So here it goes, The Blot’s Top 10 Cable Television shows of 2007! If you want to find out more about these great shows, when they air or how you can catch up on past seasons, feel free to click on the names of each show and you’ll be taken to that show’s official website.

10. Little People, Big World - TLC

09. Doctor Who – The Sci-Fi Channel / Torchwood – BBC America (tie)



08. Psych – USA Network


07. Ace of Cakes – Food Network


06. Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations – Travel Channel


05. Damages - FX


04. Battlestar Galactica – The Sci-Fi Channel


03. Big Love – HBO


02. Burn Notice – USA Network


01. The Shield - FX