In his latest video essay, Michael Tucker from Lessons from the Screenplay lays down the frankly awesome way Vince Gilligan expertly set up the narrative of his hit TV show Breaking Bad, in the show’s pilot episode. The show has been rightfully heralded as one of the greatest TV has even seen, but like all TV shows it had to start somewhere.

This video breaks down the structure of the first episode and shows how it set the audience up with everything it needed to know.

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