Of the many, many things that broke Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad, one of the most heartbreaking was the death/murder of Jane, his neighbor/girlfriend played by Krysten Ritter. Oh sure, she was a bad influence and was threatening to bring down Walter White’s meth empire, but Jesse loved her and he deserved to be happy way more than freakin’ Walter White—not to mention the people who died in the plane crash inadvertently caused by her distraught father. (Spoilers for Breaking Bad, but… c’mon, this happened a decade ago.)
Anyway, Paul and Ritter are finally being reunited, far from the cruel machinations of that bastard Walter White, with Variety reporting that they’re going to star in a new Audible Original podcast from James Patterson called The Coldest Case: A Black Book Drama. The podcast is a prequel to Patterson’s The Black Book and centers on a homicide detective sending in his new partner to investigate a drug ring in Chicago, with the two of them being “pulled into a dangerous web of corrupt politicians, vengeful billionaires, drugged pro-athletes, and violent, dark web conspiracies.”
The show, which also stars Nathalie Emmanuel from Game Of Thrones, will be the first of several “audio-only exclusive projects” that Patterson is developing for Audible.
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I simultaneously hate and admire Patterson’s business model. I’d feel better about it if he was a good writer.
People complain how awful a writer Dan Brown is but sweet Jesus, crack open a Patterson nook and try reading a paragraph. He is excruciatingly awful. It’s like anti-writing. Even people I know who weirdly like bad fiction won’t touch his shit. On top of that, his readers are dirt people. Dirty, toothless dirt people.
They already briefly reunited for a scene in El Camino. That’s good enough. Waitaminute, that’s not good enough at all! ABC should resurrect Don’t Trust the Bitch in Apt. 23, and cast Aaron Paul in it. It even gives him the chance to say “Bitch” a lot!
As long as Ritter’s character gives someone a smackwich, I’m down for it.
Im just glad Aaron Paul took responsibility for his Walter White privilege. While doing prayer hands no less![Cue up “Imagine]