Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

That's a cop-out, and it should be 4a. and 4b. But I basically agree with the list you tried to avoid making:

1. Season 3
2. Season 4
3. Season 5
4. Season 1
5. Season 2

 

Interesting, he certainly makes the case the BB is better than Sopranos and the Wire, but what about every other great show ever? Mad Men and The Shield come to mind as shows that have characters that are moving on arcs like novels. It's a good column and it's got me thinking, but I sort of balk at the "given" that the three he chose are the holy trinity. Fits his argument though.

I thought this episode was good, better than the last few weeks, but there were episodes of the series involving Fring that I liked more.

 

I've gotta sadz if I'm reading this correctly -- Jesse dies for sure?

Why does Walt reveal that he let Jane die?
Walley-Beckett: It’s a prolonged death sentence for Jesse. Walt gave the nod for them to shoot him in the head and it would have been the end of it. That’s pretty powerful in and of itself. Jesse is no longer family. But he gets a short stay of execution because Todd makes a very good point, and so basically it’s clear Jesse’s gonna go and have an excruciating last day or two before he’s killed, and Walt is twisting the knife. It’s the last thing he can say or do to kill Jesse himself without actually physically killing him.

 

"Last day or two," huh? That could mean that Jesse will have been dead a good while before Walt comes back into town as Mr. Lambert.

Or it could mean nothing. I'm gonna go with nothing.

 

I assumed that the people coming after Walt's family will be the police and FBI. With two missing DEA agents and WALT in hiding, they'll have nobody else to go after.

 

It could be interesting to see Jesse forced to cook for (the presumably long period of) years before Walt goes on gung-ho on the nazis.
You've got to imagine that regardless of what he said in the desert that there's no way in hell Walt is going to tolerate a rival crew taking $69 million of his money and essentially his title while ALSO killing his brother-in-law and in essence ruining any shred of a chance of him making it through this with his family in tact.
My theory right now is that Walt goes back for revenge and kills Todd in exchange for information about where the hideout is, causing the nazis to go and destroy his house as we saw it in the flashforward. Walt then goes guns blazing into the warehouse, killing everyone inside and finding his money and, as he sits atop it, seemingly the victor, Jesse comes from another room and puts one in the back of his head with no emotion whatsoever and the final frames of the series are Walt bleeding out on his ginormous pile of cash that ultimately led to his destruction.

 

Season 2 gets dumped on because the ending kinda fell flat. The rest of the season was great. Season 3 gets remembered better than it should because the last two episodes ("Half Measures" and "Full Measures") were incredible, and basically start the Season 4 story arc.

My list:
Season 4
Season 5 (if I were going to split them in half 5B would be here and 5A would be much next to last)
Season 2
Season 3
Season 1

 

Completely disagree on season 3. The whole run of episodes up until the showdown between the cousins and Hank was very well done (and I contend that the end of that episode is the most intense scene from Breaking Bad). Then, in between that and the great Half-Measures/Full Measures eps, you had "Fly," which was fantastic as well. That's probably me second favorite dramatic season of television behind season 3 of The Wire.

 

Season 3 was great end-to-end. "I.F.T." is probably the most underrated episode the show had. It's great for reasons going well beyond the final admission, but it also was a key moment in Skyler's move toward not being just entirely terrible.

 

Which people do we think will be dead by the end of the show?

I think Saul, Holly and Walt Jr. survive. I tend to think they won't kill Skyler.

 

I think a lot of people survive from this point forth, as happened in The Wire.

 

Does anyone think Walt survives?