Shall we anticpate the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

for all we know it's set in the future!

afaik it's always been something along the lines of "the present day" (ie walt jr driving a 2011 dodge challenger earlier)

Dan's right, it's a Steve Aoki shirt. http://dimmak.bigcartel.com/product/steve-aoki-beard

i think walt jr should take gus up on the offer 2 work at pollos hermanos and bring this whole operation down from the inside

or wind up running it!

and i was assuming the cartel guys still want Walt dead.

Which cartel guys? i kinda thought that the particular division or subset of the cartel that knew Walt more intimately then just the name Heisenberg were all dead.

i don't think so. someone had to have sent the twins last season.

Yeah that other boss that Gus had a meeting with, they worked for him. That guy got raided by the feds while on the phone with Gus before going Rambo and I assumed getting himself killed (they never showed that much though). This was all part of Gus’s power move to wipe out the cartels. The cartel guys you see now are another faction coming in to take up the void.

Yeah that other boss that Gus had a meeting with, they worked for him

from last season though, not to be confused with the most resent meeting

Also opening scene with Jesse and Rage was just about perfect.

I was pretty much at the point of "ok ok I get it" w/r/t/ Jesse's downward spiral so I was glad to see him fixing shit up and whitewashing the walls later in the ep

I like how the scene w/ hank presenting the case against gus to the dea tied up all the unspoken things that've been rattling around in his head the last few eps

also the scene with walt and the car was classic

liked Hank mulling over what Walt Jr was telling him. i have a feeling that's going to be rattling around his brain for a while too!

and i was assuming the cartel guys still want Walt dead.

― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, August 29, 2011 1:49 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

My first thought is that they want to poach Walt from Gus.

aaron paul TOTALLY killing it this season imo

He really is. Did you notice the veins standing out on his neck in the NA meeting scene? The actor was completely gone, it was Jesse sitting there.

Agree Aaron Paul taking it up a notch

saw him in a scene in Whatever It Takes this weekend

My first thought is that they want to poach Walt from Gus.

yes, this - meaning Walt doesn't know how characteristically self-destructive it is to be nagging someone else to commit murder for him, on the one guy who has a huge investment in protecting and keeping him and his family safe.

http://i.imgur.com/ybQXN.png

Walt and Jesse have a poor record of successfully killing people with ricin, don't they?

Umm yep
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln5f8iXUOy1qhtqtjo1_400.gif

Saw a preview for that movie Mr White is in during the show. Looks trashy, no? Hellboy from Sons of anarchy is also in it.

Number none nicely done

It's Nicolas Winding Refn, so it could be really great. It won best director at Cannes. xpost

Drive looks awesome

I don't remember - does Fring own one of the DEA guys?

Dunno yet. Probably tho

we know v little about the extent of Fring's tentacles until now - the revelation in this ep that a German-based multinat company has an ownership interest in Pollos raises a whole bunch of q's - is Gus a low-level dude in this company? does he own the German co. but still work his mgr job at Pollos? is the stake just a way of paying for the equipment in kind, and they're only making a slice of chicken profits, not meth profits?

Love how this is a flip of the usual morality tale: Jesse begins pretty amoral and, only through committing various acts of terror, starts to develop a clearer sense of right and wrong, or at least an inkling. Very efficient episode.

What are the odds that the thing the cartel wants from Gus is Walt?

Also, if Gus is in the position to make a $50 mil payout to anyone, then who knows what or who the dude owns.

such a dope episode

I was super happy for Hank at the end.

yes, esp when he won them back after they started rolleyeing over poor stir-crazy lost-it Hank

alternatively, I was so angry at Walt early on that I thought about walking out and not watching the show ever again if he's just going to keep getting worse

top dea guy feels suspect to me - on the take?

i finally watched this new ep so now i can comment...

remember there was a scene in the desert where we got the idea that hank's DEA associate (with the goatee, not the old white guy) was somehow on the take? i remember being like OOOhhhh THAT guy, of course. Hank sure has done some good work, though. I wonder if anyone will follow through on it...

a little eager to dismiss Hank at first. but that would be too obvious for BB, methinks.
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best ep of the season

epic fail line, omg

we know v little about the extent of Fring's tentacles until now - the revelation in this ep that a German-based multinat company has an ownership interest in Pollos raises a whole bunch of q's - is Gus a low-level dude in this company? does he own the German co. but still work his mgr job at Pollos? is the stake just a way of paying for the equipment in kind, and they're only making a slice of chicken profits, not meth profits?

That bit fed into a suspicion I'd had for a couple of episodes that the organisation might stretch considerably higher than Gus himself. Makes sense - why would whoever runs things put themselves in the line of fire or anywhere where they can be identified. I have been wondering whether the new guy who's occasionally coming into the laundry is actually Gus's superior.

Gus offering Walter Jr a job was a real "oh shit" moment, it's the sort of thing that would appeal to Jr and would genuinely freak Walt the fuck out.

Great observation by Sepinwall this week that this episode is all about whether you're in, or out. The cartel to Gus: yes, or no? Walt to Skyler: in, or out? Jesse: Walt? or Gus and Mike?

I have to admit to squirming in my seat pretty hard when Jesse thought about dosing the coffee. I'll also admit that I never saw his rapprochement with Walt coming. All along I'd imagined the show was angling to bring Jesse into open conflict with Walt, and now all of a sudden they're conspiring to poison Gus together!

Also, LOL at how stupid they've been with the car wash. Jesus.

I'll also admit that I never saw his rapprochement with Walt coming. All along I'd imagined the show was angling to bring Jesse into open conflict with Walt, and now all of a sudden they're conspiring to poison Gus together!

but then they had Mike's line about Jesse being loyal to the wrong person at the end of the episode. I don't think they're best buds again just yet

Also Jesse looks very much in two minds about the whole ricin thing.

Yeah - he's confused and fucked up and still kind of hates Walt's guts. But that moment when he turned around and said, hey, spare me the sales pitch, I'll do it - that surprised me.

The car wash seems stupid, but recall criminal lawyer Saul's idea was a nail salon, which surely doesn't bring in as much as a car wash. Dumb question, but how did they even pay for the car wash? $800,000 in cash? And then how could Skyler have no idea how much money they were dealing with?

Basically none of the financial stuff in the show makes sense at this point

Skyler had no idea because Walt doesn't tell her shit.

But this:

alternatively, I was so angry at Walt early on that I thought about walking out and not watching the show ever again if he's just going to keep getting worse

omg yes. I was never so angry at a TV character as I was when he was clumsily trying to manipulate Jesse into getting angry and upset enough to kill Gus.

how could Skyler have no idea how much money they were dealing with?

Because Walt's failure to communicate with her has now become practically pathological. "Church and state!!"

i.e. what Jenny said