Lunch Club! Spend Some Time In The Breaking Bad Writers Room
It takes seven writers twelve days to write just one episode. Watch them do it in an eight-minute timelapse.
I am not up-to-date on Breaking Bad. But I’m trying. I spent the last week watching at least two episodes a night, attempting to make it to the finish line in time. This is not the ideal way to watch Breaking Bad. I am an exhausted husk of a human. I go to bed traumatised most nights, unable to shake off the intensity and despair; I wake up poorly-slept and with a deep sense of forboding. I am not a good person to be around this week.
If watching two episodes in a row makes me feel like this, imagine what it feels like to write the damn thing. An episode can take around seven writers twelve days — and that’s before they even start on the dialogue.
A few of the writers and Vince Gilligan voiced a time-lapse of the process, honing in on Season Four, Episode Five (‘Fifty One’), replete with DIY animations and a piñata.
It seems to involve a lot of sitting — and then, occasionally, a spot of standing.
If you’re interested in delving further, read this.