David K. Goodin and George Tsakiridis have gathered a collection of creative, deeply knowledgeable essays that help us rethink what the relationship between theology and pop culture can be. These essays are the ones who knock, opening up new ways of seeing the moral worldview of the Breaking Bad universe in all its messy, uncomfortable complexity.

Brandon R. Grafius, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit

This book pushes past simple notions of heroes and antiheroes to consider Breaking Bad and its spinoffs in all their moral complexity. The contributors demonstrate convincingly that, far from being "morally barren," Vince Gilligan's universe offers rich resources for thinking about both vice and virtue, and about truths both moral and metaphysical.

John W. McCormack, Aurora University

As the editors of the essays included in Theology and Breaking Bad skillfully argue, and as the volume of essays aptly demonstrate, the series is not just an American ‘crime-caper’ but a serious exploration of intriguing and provocative questions of theological concern with regard to Walter White and his world: themes such as sin, regret, family, loyalty, moral equivocation, evil and redemption are compelling, universal, and timeless. The essays are well- written and happily free of the academic jargon that usually precludes readership outside the academy, and making the volume an excellent resource for anyone interested in the intersection of popular narrative and serious (here, theological) analysis.

June-Ann Greeley, Sacred Heart University