Cheers & Jeers: Breaking Bad Takes it towards the Banks

Jonathan Banks Cheers to Jonathan Banks for getting new meaning to badass on Breaking Bad. Want more Cheers & Jeers? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine. As Mike, muscle for meth kingpin Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito), the bullet-headed character actor makes sequences like Sunday's heart-preventing opener - by which he blasted his way to avoid it of the ambush, then comfortably bent his nearly blown-off ear back to place - seem like a stroll within the proverbial park. An experienced of crime dramas stretching to Barnaby Johnson, Banks most particularly performed Ken Wahl's FBI handler within the cult favorite Wiseguy, an apt description from the sly spontaneity he gives his roles, including his surprising recent guest shot as Erectile dysfunction O'Neill's cancer-stricken brother on Modern Family. This week's Breaking Bad ended with Mike driving a drug-addled Jesse (Aaron Paul) in to the desert and towards an uncertain fate. A look in the next two episodes, tensely entitled "Shotgun" and "Cornered," discloses more twists and turns ahead for that wrapped-up thug. Maybe he'll lend an ear to some support group with Evander Holyfield? How good is Jonathan Banks on Breaking Bad? Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!