‘Breaking Bad’ Season 3 (2010) digs into black market

August 23, 2020August 6, 2021 John Hansen Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Blogging ‘Bad’ (TV review): The most memorable moral dilemmas crop up for Walter and Jesse in the third season of Gilligan’s series.

‘Breaking Bad’ Season 2 (2009) embraces dark comedy

August 16, 2020October 2, 2021 John Hansen Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Blogging ‘Bad’ (TV review): “Breaking Bad” Season 2 embraces its dark comedy side with the back-and-forth between Walter and Jesse.

A modern (meth) myth begins with ‘Breaking Bad’ Season 1 (2008)

August 9, 2020October 2, 2021 John Hansen Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Blogging ‘Bad’ (TV review): One of the century’s elite television sagas begins in modest fashion with Vince Gilligan’s “Breaking Bad” Season 1.

‘Hancock’ (2008) hampered by conflicting tones

April 11, 2020April 25, 2023 John Hansen Movies

Superhero Saturday (Movie review): Will Smith’s strong performance can’t reconcile the conflicting tones.

Engrossing ‘Better Call Saul’ inches closer to the ‘Breaking Bad’ timeline in Season 4 (TV review)

October 10, 2018May 9, 2021 Shaune Redfield Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul

Being as I haven’t reviewed or talked about AMC’s “Better Call Saul” or “Breaking Bad” in the past, I feel it is necessary to preface this review a bit. “Breaking Bad” is in my top […]

‘The Lone Gunmen’ reviews

One-Season Wonders

John’s “The Lone Gunmen” flashback review, johnvhansen.com, May 8, 2011 NDSU Spectrum: TV review ‘Lone Gunmen’ finds its niche in comedy By JOHN HANSEN May 5, 2001 At first, “The Lone Gunmen” didn’t seem like […]

All 20 episodes of ‘The X-Files’ Season 9 (2001-02), ranked

June 12, 2011March 14, 2022 John Hansen IMDb Top 250 TV

TV review: The original run of “The X-Files” bows out in respectable fashion as Doggett and Reyes take the lead. But Mulder and Scully also pop in.