"El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie," the sequel/epilogue to Vince Gilligan's revolutionary masterpiece "Breaking Bad," was a good film because it felt like a double-episode in the same show. That's because we all knew what came before it. It was an extra, missing piece to the 62 episodes that made us obsessed with Walter White (Bryan Cranston), Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), and their family and business associates. Think of it as a short story added to an elaborate and extensive novel.

That's just the thing: The best TV shows that run for years work because they feel like novels told on the screen. We immerse ourselves and get lost in them, always eager to return to a world we love and are fascinated by, populated with characters we can never get enough of. Most movies can't (and won't) tr

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