Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

With everything else that happened in this episode, I expected the dog that ran across the street in the last shot to get run over, because at this point, eh, why the fuck not?

there shouldve been a shot of the ayrans smiling and nodding when they realized they could just put the bodies in there

yr friend should've changed the channel. the rain delay in the seahawks game lasted exactly the length of this ep! i flipped back after the end and not one second of game clock had passed

telling jesse about jane makes sense to me...walt's wrath had grown to the point of wanting to see jesse executed in front of him..once that was deferred, spilling those particular beans was his only consolation prize available.

it was pretty funny when he was getting all exasperated w his family like ill explain everything in the car ok

yeah this worked so well - it's such a classic normal dad thing, rushing everybody into the car - just blown up into this horrible nightmare version of every morning in suburbia

Jack and the other guy casually hopping right on to the next point of conversation immediately after shooting Hank was a nice grim touch.

the whole sequence really illustrated how outclassed walt is as a criminal. he thought he could save hank, he told them about the money, and he let them steal jesse to cook for them

seeing hank's bloody body get dragged away to get dumped in the same hole as gomie was way worse and more brutal than seeing him shot imo.

nice lil touch there at the beginning showing the first lie

Yea. And letting the Chekov knives come into view.

voiceover for the next ep preview is saul goodman

dean norris on this talking bad show getting upset about the 'team walt guys' right now

Can someone design a pouring-a-Schraderbrau-on-the-ground jpeg

It's really hard to guess what goes down next episode. I've been really enjoying speculating the past few episodes - but I have no clue from here on in

well based on the flashforwards... walt goes away, walt comes back with a gun. honestly it seems pretty phoned in where this is going, give or take which non walt/jesse characters get the axe.

kinda feeling like the writers tipped their hand a bit much with those flashforwards now.

something happens that brings walt back

Walt literally dug their grave weeks ago

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yeah that was excellent. makes everything feel inevitable. some greek tragedy stuff right there.

wondering if walt doesn't just go after the nazis because he's mad they took his money

if he was gonna do that why bother growing the hair back

Planning phase

GTA V release delays his planning

ha, naw theres another shoe to drop

i really appreciate dean norris' complete hatred of walter white

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someone just RTed that from a couple days ago lol

the contrast between the phone calls that bookended the episode was (like everything else) pretty brutal. Even with the formulation of the lie there was a brief look at the side of Walt that's been missing for so long, and then immediately any possibility of that side returning was snuffed out with everything finally going well and truly to hell - it hadn't really come to mind that, as implausible as it would have been, before Hank's death everything could still have worked out okay for Walt's family.

i had no idea there were breaking bad bar nights, i imagine this one was good for sales

def one of the most intense hours of tv i've seen.

I think it's pretty clear where things are going, but the writers are very good at the false telegraph, so it doesn't really matter. but the current setup is walt has disappeared, jesse is enslaved, and the rest of the whites are exposed. the nazi-todd-lydia is a shaky alignment fraught with combustibility. the only worth walt has to anybody is his skill. if something prevents jesse from cooking, the nazis need walt, and the only option they have is to threaten his family to bring him back.

also, "I'm sorry for your loss"

ha yes todd is the best

never change, todd

todd actually was responsible for both walt and jesse getting out of there
his uncle would've shot walt to begin with but todd apparently would never forgive him for that, for some reason

todd is awesome, in the sense that you don't know at all what he's thinking or what his plan is

Yeah lol'ed at "sorry for your loss"...Did he mean Hank or the money?

this episode, god damn.

the problem/rabid dog jesse being put on essentially a dog leash was a fitting touch

i'm wondering again if that long abusive tirade over the phone winding up with calling skyler a stupid bitch was supposed to be interpreted as one more 'redemptive' gesture by walt - intentionally letting the police overhear him - and whether we're supposed to be okay with that

because what he's doing is demanding that she continue to be complicit by going along with more lies, right? if this conversation was to try and 'save' skyler from legal trouble, and she goes along with it, she's going to have to lie to the police and keep lying to marie and walt jr and going along with walt's version of events

yeah, exactly: that and more and that you see all that is what makes the show so goddamn good.

was that opening scene a direct lift from s1? for a good while i thought some internet japester had made a particularly skilled-trollblag torrent and the whole episode would be from back then

naw it was a new scene

cranston keeping with the 'warm but firm dad' tone then flipping to JUST DO WHAT I SAY to walt jr was next-level acting - again one of those everyday suburban scenes elevated to real horror

xp, serious or you japestering? i believe nothing anymore :(

not japestering!

don't want to pick holes as that - and the rest of the series - has been some incredible 'golden age of tv' stuff but i did wince a little at the scene of him rolling the barrel with that olde timey song in the background. i mean i liked it as a wtf but it jarred slightly with what just happened

haha ok, aaron paul really did look 4 (or however many years since s1) years younger though. ballsy as hell to open with such a sweet cutesy flashback after the devastation the last ep ended on

rolling the barrel and buying the truck scenes seemed very coen brothers and i didn't care for that part

maybe it was shot for the first season and never used idk, i was thinking jesse looked a lil more ragged than in s1 tho

i expect the next ep will focus more on jesse, he was barely in this one. total end of seat mouth open nooooo when it looked like he was going to be killed just a minute after hank. man what a fucking show, almost feels like an honour to be watching this 'live'

ive always felt breaking bad was pretty coenesque

oh the barrel roll was some great sierra madre stuff. if they had more time they could have done a great bottle episode with just walt and the barrel.

another nice touch - the way Walt yelled at Walt Jr when he wouldn't start packing. Obviously it wasn't out of animosity, more just anxiety due to the situation crumbling, but he's never really yelled like that at his son, and you could kind of read in Walt Jr's reaction that he was stunned by his very different, intense demeanor, and that he was seeing the other side of his father in person for the first time.

xxxpost (GODDAMMIT someone just posted this exact thing)

that sensation when we're watching marie look already-wiped-out and *then* she hears walt on the phone say 'you'll never see hank again'. top 10 most affecting tv moments ever