The secret origin of a Breaking Bad villain

You call this a new Ace Hardware commercial. I call it a prequel to Breaking Bad season four.

Yep, that's Gus Fring's right-hand man Tyrus selling paint to the lady. He seems nice enough here, but one has to assume that dealing with customers like this all day could drive a man a little crazy. And would anyone be surprised if Fring recruited his muscle by combing big-box-retailers for under-appreciated and slightly off-kilter employees? That's exactly the kind of twist Vince Gilligan and his writers at Breaking Bad like to pull!

By the way, Bryan Cranston tweeted a few days ago that production on season five, slated to debut in July, will begin in a few weeks. Here's some bonus video to get you excited. (Warning: Don't watch unless you're totally caught up.)

Author: Robert Brian Taylor

Robert Brian Taylor is a writer and journalist living in Pittsburgh, PA. Throughout his career, his work has appeared in an eclectic combination of newspapers, magazines, books and websites. He wrote the short film "Uninvited Guests," which screened at the Oaks Theater as part of the 2019 Pittsburgh 48 Hour Film Project. His fiction has been featured at Shotgun Honey, and his short-film script "Dig" was named an official selection of the 2017 Carnegie Screenwriters Script and Screen Festival. He is an editor and writer for Collider and contributes regularly to Mt. Lebanon Magazine. Taylor also often writes and podcasts about film and TV at his own site, Cult Spark. You can find him online at rbtwrites.com and on Twitter @robertbtaylor.