Breaking Bad: The Glorious Darkness of Noir TV
By Eric Beetner
July 22, 2011There was a time when TV, while it didn’t exactly kill crime movies, certainly offered them a Kevorkian-style euthanasia. Routine programmers, which sometimes ran only sixty minutes themselves, were pushed off the big screen and into living rooms in the form of hour-long TV dramas like Perry Mason, where the inevitable good-guys-win stories were more…