The second season of Good Behavior starts on TNT Oct. 15, and shows Letty and Javier trying to go legit. Letty is a con artist and Javier a killer, but they aim to provide a stable environment for Letty’s young son, Jacob.

Their attempts at wholesome living do not, by multiple accounts, last long. “Ten seconds in, she’s stealing, and he’s killing people,” said Michelle Dockery, who plays Letty.

Creator Chad Hodge said Letty and Javier’s gainful new lives go on a tiny bit longer than 10 seconds. Season two “is all about Letty and Javier trying to make a normal life for themselves,” he said. “That lasts for about 16 seconds.”

Hodge described season two as “sexy, funny, sort of absurd, sad for sure and cathartic.”

Dockery of course played Lady Mary in Downton Abbey. She said more and more people around Good Behavior’s Wilmington, N.C., base see her as Letty, not as the redoubtable Mary. Hodge notes how many Good Behaviorfans are surprised to hear Dockery speak in an English accent off the set.

Hodge described Dockery as a creative whirlwind. “My favorite thing about Michelle is, she tries slightly different things every take,” he said. “It’s such a joy to work with someone who’s willing to take risks.”

Both Dockery and Hodge take some risks in season two.

Still thinking about the shows we adored five years ago, esteemed TV critic Alan Sepinwall has published Breaking Bad 101: The Complete Critical Companion. It’s a review of every episode, along with other musings about the iconoclastic AMC series, and it features a foreword by series fan, and Lost co-creator, Damon Lindelof.

In his introduction, Sepinwall describes being holed up in a hospital room after his appendix burst, where he watched the famed “Ozymandias” episode from season five, which saw Walt and Skyler brawl, Walt take their baby, Hank get killed and the Nazis steal Walt’s barrels of cash. “As it turned out, the meds and sterile hospital atmosphere actually added to the experience,” he wrote.

Last year, Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz published TV (The Book), which ranked the top shows in TV history. Breaking Badfinished fifth.

It’s been four years, almost to the day, since Breaking Bad wrapped. But Sepinwall said plenty of viewers are just finding the series these days. Plus, spinoff Better Call Saulkeeps Breaking Bad top of mind. “A bunch of characters from that world are still out in the zeitgeist,” Sepinwall said.

He’s enjoying Saul and HBO rookie The Deuce, but said not much else on TV has the action, suspense and character that Breaking Bad offered. “There’s not a lot out there,” Sepinwall said, “that’s able to be all the things that Breaking Bad was.”

Pasadena -- TNT has ordered a second season of its drama series Good Behavior, the network said during its Television Critics Association Tour presentation Saturday.

The first season of Good Behavior averaged 4.4 million viewers across multiple platforms, according to Turner. In addition, on demand viewing accounted for 15% of its total audience.

The seductive thriller stars Michelle Dockery, Juan Diego Botto, Terry Kinney and Lusia Strus and is executively produced by Chad Hodge and Black Crouch.

"Fueled by unsinkable characters on a dangerous search for belonging, love and family, Good Behavior is addictive television," said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT. "Millions of viewers have fallen hard for this sexy, complicated couple, and in season two, Letty and Javier will give us plenty more to obsess about."

Telsey Advisory Group media analyst Tom Eagan increased his price target on Time Warner Inc., to $91 per share on Friday, based on what he believes is a strong slate of new programming targeting younger viewers, which should serve as a complement to its existing sports programming.

Eagan’s price increase represents a hefty premium (23%) to the shares, which closed at $74.07 each on May 26, and comes at a time when pay TV networks are under pressure to find new ways to attract younger viewers. It also comes on the heels of reports that Time Warner held informal talks late last year with Apple about a possible takeover.

Those talks never left the preliminary stage – according to the Financial Times, the meeting was initially between Apple’s SVP Internet software and services Eddy Cue and Time Warner EVP international and corporate strategy Olaf Olafsson to discuss a possible programming licensing deal for Apple’s since delayed TV service. The talks never involved Apple CEO Tim Cook or Time Warner chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes.

Back in 2014, 21st Century Fox made an $80 billion unsolicited offer for Time Warner, which was rejected by the company’s board of directors. Fox dropped its pursuit in August of that year.  Bewkes pledged to turn the company around, which he did by restructuring the Turner Networks division and launching HBO Now, the premium network’s standalone over-the-top offering.  

Time Warner, like other pay TV programmers, have been under pressure as OTT and declining pay TV rolls have chipped away at affiliate fees. But Eagan, in his report, said that Turner’s latest upfronts were encouraging, offering a slate of shows specifically targeted at young makes and females. While other networks have done the same – targeting a young demographic has been TV’s mission practically since the first broadcast signals were transmitted -- the new strategy (which Eagan calls "Frat Boys and Bad Girls") marks the continued departure from Turner's past practice of loading up the schedule with syndicated re-runs.

At TNT (whose tag line is TNT: Drama. Boom), new shows that feature strong female leads and are targeted to young women like Good Behavior and Animal Kingdom, join freshman shows like TBS comedy Wrecked – a Lost parody that takes comic aim at the survivors of a plane crash – that are focused on the young male demographic.

“Our early take is that the original programming appears compelling enough to draw the younger demographic that Turner Ad Sales is seeking,” Eagan wrote.

Add to that Turner’s strong sports offerings with the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and its recently extended deal for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and the networks could attract a wide swath of that audience.

“Ratings will, of course, be a major swing factor, especially in 2H16 after the new shows are launched,” Eagan wrote. “But, longer term, the strategy makes sense. Time Warner has realized that a major network's ratings can no longer be fueled by syndicated programming. The new world is original.”