“We’re going to touch on an interesting real-life religion that is taking hold down in Mexico these days,” spills Gilligan. “It’s the cult of Santa Muerte, which is Saint Death. It’s a religious movement that worships the idea of death itself. We have a couple of characters who we meet in the midst of making a pilgrimage down to one of these saint’s shrines. These are a couple of bad guys who are going to cause all kinds of problems for Walter White [Bryan Cranston] down the road.”

Bryan, last year’s Best Actor winner and a current nominee, is directing the season premiere
and has already begun plotting the New Mexico shoot. “It’s bizarre and chilling,” he reports. “The first image you see in the opening teaser will be the Santa Muerte deity. We reveal ways
those who are devotees show their respect and worship.” Walter will also come to realize his culpability in the plane crash that ended last season “as well as his culpability in the failure of his marriage,” says Bryan.

Gilligan says fans will also see a more grown-up Jesse Pinkman, who challenges his father-figure, Walter. “The first few episodes of the new season are unbelievably insane,” says Aaron Paul (Jesse), who is celebrating his first Emmy nomination. And where was Bryan when he got the good news of his own nomination? “I was peeing at the time,” kids the actor. “It was a straight
pure stream, no obstructions at all. Unfortunately I was still in bed.”

As for the show’s famous fans, Gilligan plans to work some of them in as guest stars. Bryan tells me those who have expressed interest include Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, George Lopez and Terrence Howard. “Terence said, ‘I’d love to come play with you in the desert,’”

Source: TV Guide Magazine

They're going in more of a lighthearted direction this season, huh? LOL.

Rooting for our Big Kahuna at the SAG Awards tonight!

Hey Zia,

Your "click here" does not work. Anyway, this forum is not friendly to much more than text and some hyperlinks. Even the avatar will not allow a GIF.

It has been so long since I thought about anything other than the old shows, I had forgotten all about my predictions for the plots for this March.

It is going to be interesting to see how the aftermath of the airplane crash will be worked into the story. There are so many side plots in this show, I guess “why not add a fire ball with dead people raining from the sky”? Jesse will be out of rehab and in a new house. (He can't live in the house where Jane died.) Maybe he will get his Aunt’s house back. Because he went to rehab and got clean, his parents may let him have it back!!!! Then, he can live in the house where Emillo died. Walt should get a new car.

That Santa Muerte is some serious weirdness. There was a Santa Muerte cult operating along the boarder of Texas back in the 70's and 80's. They got up to all kinds of murder and mutilation. The drug war is rampant in El Paso and Nuevo Laredo. I read a statistic that said more people have been killed in the drug wars along the Texas/Mexico boarder than have been killed in the same time span in the war in Iraq.

i really don't feel they will work anything in with the plane crash... i think that John de Lancie is on to other things and his daughter is dead.. murdered by walt.

maybe a flashback scene with jesse or something.

I expect to see more of walt jr... and perhaps louis

certainly more action with the cartel and somewhere seeing gus get offed by jesse or walt.. walt more than likely seeing as he is the killer.

i really wonder how long it will be till hank figures it out and what he will do about it... he will have a certain amount of egg on his face if he exposes walt

my gut feeling is that this will be the last season, the actors don't want to get locked into these role..

my 2cents

there is only a certain amount of storyline they can use without getting too redundant

.. but then again look at 24.. just how many beatings can Jack Bauer take or how many times can he save the world from evil axis folks before it just rehashing the same lines

don't get me wrong.. i love the show... but it's better to go out on top than to die a slow death

Hmmmm. Who is Louis?

louis is walt jr. friend.. helped to learn how to drive.. set up the pen pal account on the savewalterwhite web site.

omg was digging aroung to find his real name as he did say a couple of words on the show and came across this.

http://www.swans.com/library/art14/lproy43.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith