![]() ![]() I’m amazed at how well some people I’ve known can mask their depression or whatever. You know, when you’re watching as an audience member, and you’re not quite sure how to feel about them or how they’re feeling in a certain moment? I feel like that’s how people are. “Those are the performances I’m drawn to. “I’m drawn to characters that there’s more space to fill in and more room to explore - where it’s not so cut-and-dried,” Plemons says, sitting amid the orange accents of the appropriately ranch-like Garland hotel in North Hollywood. And it’s the sort of role Plemons remains most eager to play. It is the definition of a scene-stealing performance: unexpected, profoundly strange, impossible to turn your eyes from. In “ Breaking Bad” and now “ El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” Plemons perfects the role, as he once described it, of “the guy that you would not expect to shoot someone.” His Todd Alquist, the cold-blooded white supremacist gang member who imprisons and tortures “El Camino’s” hero, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), also listens to yacht rock, collects snow globes and paints his apartment in perky pastels. His favorite games include Marvel's Spider-Man, The Last of Us, God of War, and Hades.As sidekick Landry Clarke in the high-school football drama “ Friday Night Lights,” devoted husband (and human butcher) Ed Blumquist in Season 2 of “ Fargo,” and socially awkward game developer Robert Daly in the “Star Trek”-themed “Black Mirror” episode “USS Callister,” Plemons has distinguished himself by playing the indistinguishable: unassuming fellas with a dark streak lurking within. Outside of Screen Rant, Chris enjoys watching his favorite sports teams (Giants, Yankees, and Knicks) and playing video games. Chris' favorite directors include Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino (among several others). He now has a wide range of cinematic tastes, enjoying the latest Hollywood blockbusters, Oscar contenders, and everything in between. Chris has attended several events for Screen Rant, including San Diego Comic-Con and Star Wars Celebration.Ĭhris credits Toy Story and Star Wars with launching a lifelong fascination with movies that led him on the path to his career. He was hired by Screen Rant in 2013 to write box office prediction posts in conjunction with the Screen Rant Underground's Box Office Battle game, and his role at the site grew from there. He is a graduate of Wesley College's Bachelor of Media Arts and Master of Sport Leadership programs. If anything, it adds to the Breaking Bad legacy and shows Gilligan is still at the top of his game.Ĭhris Agar is a senior movie/TV news editor for Screen Rant and one of Screen Rant's Rotten Tomatoes approved critics. Breaking Bad viewers were all but guaranteed to watch El Camino as soon as possible, but they'll be happy to know the film doesn't do anything to sully the property's sterling reputation. Jesse was always a co-lead on Breaking Bad, and if Walter White was able to receive closure to his arc, it's only fitting Jesse gets the same. Some may question if the film is truly "needed" in the grander scope of the franchise, but when the credits roll, it's hard to think about Jesse's story without this chapter. This is, after all, a sequel to five seasons of TV and it knows what its target audience is.Įl Camino is a great treat for Breaking Bad fans it's like a lost episode from 2013 that was only discovered in the vault now. Some level of familiarity with Breaking Bad is almost a requirement to fully appreciate what Gilligan's doing, but that's not a real slight against El Camino. Although, it must be said El Camino makes little attempt to make itself accessible to newcomers, which means it doesn't really work as a standalone film anyone with a Netflix subscription can turn on and enjoy. In some places, Gilligan fleshes out and enhances elements of Breaking Bad, giving already strong aspects one last layer of poignancy. It goes without saying El Camino is extremely indebted to its predecessor, but everything there isn't anything that plays as empty fan service. One of the strengths of Better Call Saul is its Breaking Bad references are organic, and that's more or less the same approach Gilligan takes here. ![]()
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