Last week still hurts. R.I.P. Mike. But thank you, Vince Gilligan, for giving me Jonathan Banks. Love.
I think all Breaking Bad finales should fall on holiday eves. I probably won't be able to sleep afterward anyway, might as well get the day off.
Mike's in the trunk and it's up to Walter and Todd to give him the ol' acid-and-barrel funeral. Sooner or later, everyone ends up in a barrel. Jesse shows up, but doesn't see Mike. Walter says he's handling the situation with the 9 guys in prison. Jesse really needs to just leave the ABQ. Sweetie, seriously, just go. Now.
Dennis the laundry manager is ready to make a deal with Hank.
Heisenberg walks in to a restaurant to meet with Lydia, sunglasses and all. Walt's there to get the list of names. Really, dude? What are you going to do, kill them all? Ass. But first, Lydia lays out a business plan -- she's ready to take this thing international -- time to bring meth to the Czech Republic. He's in. She gives him the names. Walter had the ricin capsule under his hat the whole time. But I guess the prospect of international diversification was enough to allow Lydia to live. The ricin capsule goes back behind an electrical outlet faceplate.
Remember Todd's uncle with the prison connections? That's who's tapped to kill off all the dudes. He and his boys (including Devil!!) make the plans to hit the guys in all their separate prisons. Whacking bin Laden wasn't this complicated. Everyone gets viciously shivved, except Dennis, who gets burned the eff up.
Walter's at Marie's with the baby when Hank comes home, despondent that his case just got effed. Poor Hank. I officially want him to find Walter out and win.
Time for a back-to-business montage. Walter and Todd cook, Lydia flies the meth out of the country, and Skyler launders the fat stacks. Rinse, repeat. 3 months passes. Marie's ready for the kids to go home already. Marie's a saint. I wouldn't watch my sister's effing kids for 3 months just so she can run a car wash.
Skyler takes Walter to a storage facility. Inside is all the money she can't launder. Tons of it. She doesn't even know how much there is. Fat. Stacks. She wants her kids and her life back, so she wants Walter to see that he has enough goddamn money already.
When we get back from break, Walter's at the doctor again. No follow up on that yet.
Just when I was hoping Jesse would just disappear from the story altogether (because that's actual preferable to how things are probably going to end), Walter pays him a visit. There's a bong so he's getting high again. :(
The boys reminisce about their RV. Oh man, those were some good times. Walter gives Jesse his $5 million. That's true love right there.
We see Jesse had a gun on him the whole time. You know, just in cases. Walter goes home and tells Skyler, "I'm out." Man, don't you wish the show would just end here? I kind of do. Except not really. Because I'm a glutton for punishment and I was to sufferrrrrrr.
Hank goes to take a crap during dinner at the White house. And what does he find on the back of the toilet? Leaves of Grass, inscribed to W.W. from G.B. OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIT SONNNNNNNN IT'S ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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02 September 2012
26 August 2012
Breaking Bad
When we last left Walter, he was claiming everyone would win. But we know better, right? Mike drives the Three Musketeers out into the desert to meet the methylamine buyers. Or would-be buyers, as Walter tells them they can't have it. But he offers them 35% of his business if they work as his distributors. He makes Classic Coke, not their generic-cola, dyed-blue crap.
Mike gets his $5 million and Declan's crew gets his share of the business. Jesse tries to remind Walter that he's out too, but Walter wants a transition period. Even in the meth business, you gotta give your two weeks' notice. Poor kid ain't getting out....
Mike says his goodbyes and tells the guys to get the bug out of Hank's office. The attorney distributes the legacy costs to his guys' safety deposit boxes, and leaves a big old stack in a box for Mike's granddaughter's 18th birthday. Mike overhears the DEA saying they have a search warrant, so he tosses his laptop and a million guns into a well and parks a car at the airport.
Back to poor Jesse... Walter just won't let him talk. Walter wants to give Jesse his own lab and his own cook so they can cook twice as much. Jesse wants out. Walter asks him what he'd do other than video games and go-karts, and probably using drugs again. Jesus. Walter says Jesse shouldn't have the money, because it's filthy blood money, right? So why not stay and make more? Jesse doesn't need your money, asshole!! Jesse awesomely walks out while Walter stands alone, yelling that he's getting nothing.
Walter starts a cook with Todd. Oh god. Those 2 deserve each other.
Over in DEA land, Hank's not doing so great at the new job, not timely filing his reports and wasting time on Mike. He decides to start tracking the attorney instead. The attorney makes another drop at the bank, but this time Gomez is waiting for him. Drat. Walter pays Hank a visit to cry some more about Skyler and then remove the bugs. He also overhears Gomez tell Hank that the attorney is going to flip and give up Mike. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! This can only mean one thing....
Walter gives Mike the heads-up that the DEA is coming to get him at the park where he's watching his granddaughter, then he and Jesse meet with Saul to review options. Saul's hilariously offended that Mike used another lawyer to move the money. Mike calls and asks Saul to get his go-bag from the airport parking garage. Jesse wants to deliver it because he's sweet, but Walter does. There's a gun in the bag. Of course there is. Christ on a bike I can't watch this!!!
Walter wants the names of Mike's guys, but Mike just lays Walter out for ruining the good thing they all had going. Of course Walter runs after Mike and shoots him. They made me all excited too, thinking he was getting away. Instead, Mike just sits by a river, bleeding out. Walter finds him and is all, Oh nevermind, Lydia has the names, I can get them from her. Mike tells him to shut up so he can die in peace. Awesome til the end. Mike falls over. I am sad.
R.I.P. Mike you were THE SHIT!!!
Mike gets his $5 million and Declan's crew gets his share of the business. Jesse tries to remind Walter that he's out too, but Walter wants a transition period. Even in the meth business, you gotta give your two weeks' notice. Poor kid ain't getting out....
Mike says his goodbyes and tells the guys to get the bug out of Hank's office. The attorney distributes the legacy costs to his guys' safety deposit boxes, and leaves a big old stack in a box for Mike's granddaughter's 18th birthday. Mike overhears the DEA saying they have a search warrant, so he tosses his laptop and a million guns into a well and parks a car at the airport.
Back to poor Jesse... Walter just won't let him talk. Walter wants to give Jesse his own lab and his own cook so they can cook twice as much. Jesse wants out. Walter asks him what he'd do other than video games and go-karts, and probably using drugs again. Jesus. Walter says Jesse shouldn't have the money, because it's filthy blood money, right? So why not stay and make more? Jesse doesn't need your money, asshole!! Jesse awesomely walks out while Walter stands alone, yelling that he's getting nothing.
Walter starts a cook with Todd. Oh god. Those 2 deserve each other.
Over in DEA land, Hank's not doing so great at the new job, not timely filing his reports and wasting time on Mike. He decides to start tracking the attorney instead. The attorney makes another drop at the bank, but this time Gomez is waiting for him. Drat. Walter pays Hank a visit to cry some more about Skyler and then remove the bugs. He also overhears Gomez tell Hank that the attorney is going to flip and give up Mike. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! This can only mean one thing....
Walter gives Mike the heads-up that the DEA is coming to get him at the park where he's watching his granddaughter, then he and Jesse meet with Saul to review options. Saul's hilariously offended that Mike used another lawyer to move the money. Mike calls and asks Saul to get his go-bag from the airport parking garage. Jesse wants to deliver it because he's sweet, but Walter does. There's a gun in the bag. Of course there is. Christ on a bike I can't watch this!!!
Walter wants the names of Mike's guys, but Mike just lays Walter out for ruining the good thing they all had going. Of course Walter runs after Mike and shoots him. They made me all excited too, thinking he was getting away. Instead, Mike just sits by a river, bleeding out. Walter finds him and is all, Oh nevermind, Lydia has the names, I can get them from her. Mike tells him to shut up so he can die in peace. Awesome til the end. Mike falls over. I am sad.
R.I.P. Mike you were THE SHIT!!!
19 August 2012
Breaking Bad
Earlier this week, I saw a still from this episode of Jesse having dinner with The Whites. It blew my mind. OMG LET'S DO THIS!
But first, it's time for Walter, Mike, and Todd to unload the truck from last week's heist, including that nosy motorbike kid's body. The bike and the body get the usual dissolve-in-a-drum treatment. They take apart the bike piece by piece and all you can think about is how they're going to be taking apart that body. Or maybe he'll be able to just fit right in. Jesse's outside the whole time. When Todd comes out and gives him a casual, "Shit happens, huh?" Jesse punches him in the face.
The Four Musketeers have a meeting (trial?) where Todd pleads that he had no other choice. He's sorry and all, but doesn't think he did anything wrong since he was protecting the team and the business. He's essentially using this like a job interview, looking for a promotion. He has an uncle with prison connections, and he wants to be a full partner. Walter's options: 1. Fire Todd. He knows way too much. 2. Dispose of Todd. Of course Jesse would never let that happen. 3. Keep Todd. That's the only way to go. But that kid is going to be the death of everyone, isn't he?
The DEA is tailing Mike, but of course Mike is aware of it. He leaves a "dead drop" for them -- a note that says, "F**k you."
While Jesse and Walter are cooking, they see a report on the news about the missing motorbike kid. Walter needs him to soldier on, whistle while he works like Walter does. After all, they have everything they need for the next year. Everything's going to be so perfect, right? Oy.
Once the batch is done, Walter joins Mike and Jesse for a late night pow-wow. Mike says the feds are getting too close to him so Walter flies off the handle. Then Mike says he's out. "Sorry to see you go, Mike." Horse's ass. Walter says Jesse will have to take over distribution. Only... Jesse's out too. I WISH THIS WERE THE ENDING I SWEAR TO GOD!!!!! Mike already has plans to sell their shares of the methylamine. They'll each get $5 million. Guess who this isn't good enough for?
Mike meets with the people Walt refers to as his competition to sell the methylamine, but the guy only wants to buy if the blue meth will be off the market entirely. He wants the full amount of methylamine. They can't promise that, since Walt plans to keep cooking.....
Jesse comes to Walt's house to try to sell him on the methylamine deal. $5 million, no one else gets killed, isn't this perfect? Walter says he hasn't been working this hard just to sell out. OY! His dumb ass brings up Gray Matter, the company he took a $5000 buyout from that is now worth billions. That's his fault. Ass. "I'm in the empire business." I. HATE. YOU.
Skyler comes home and they all sit down for dinner. Because, of course, Skyler will be as compliant as Walter wants her to be, and Walt is quite satisfied to show that off. It's the Greatest Family Dinner Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesse is hysterical and Skyler is downing large glasses of wine. Skyler's all, "Did you tell him about my affair, too?" OMG IT'S THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!! Once she leaves the table, Walter goes, "Do you know my kids are gone?" and Jesse says, "Thank god" in the quickest, greatest way possible. He did NOT need more awkwardness. Walt tells Jesse that he has nothing left but the business "and you want to take it away from me." You're always the martyr, right, Walter? Everyone's always persecuting you? UUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
Walter goes to the office to take his methylamine, where Mike is there to sit on him all night and make sure he doesn't interfere with the methylamine deal. In the morning, Mike chains Walter's hand to the radiator so he can go take care of something. Well, that was dumb, since Walt finds a way out, using exposed wires to burn through the plastic strap on his wrist. Barely seems to feel the pain.
Mike's with Saul, who is meeting with Gomez and Hank, accusing the DEA of harassment for all their surveillance. He's filing a restraining order. And when Mike comes back to the office? The methylamine is gone and Jesse's there with Walter. Walter has a proposal: "Everybody wins." WHY DO I KNOW THAT YOU'RE LYING?????????
But first, it's time for Walter, Mike, and Todd to unload the truck from last week's heist, including that nosy motorbike kid's body. The bike and the body get the usual dissolve-in-a-drum treatment. They take apart the bike piece by piece and all you can think about is how they're going to be taking apart that body. Or maybe he'll be able to just fit right in. Jesse's outside the whole time. When Todd comes out and gives him a casual, "Shit happens, huh?" Jesse punches him in the face.
The Four Musketeers have a meeting (trial?) where Todd pleads that he had no other choice. He's sorry and all, but doesn't think he did anything wrong since he was protecting the team and the business. He's essentially using this like a job interview, looking for a promotion. He has an uncle with prison connections, and he wants to be a full partner. Walter's options: 1. Fire Todd. He knows way too much. 2. Dispose of Todd. Of course Jesse would never let that happen. 3. Keep Todd. That's the only way to go. But that kid is going to be the death of everyone, isn't he?
The DEA is tailing Mike, but of course Mike is aware of it. He leaves a "dead drop" for them -- a note that says, "F**k you."
While Jesse and Walter are cooking, they see a report on the news about the missing motorbike kid. Walter needs him to soldier on, whistle while he works like Walter does. After all, they have everything they need for the next year. Everything's going to be so perfect, right? Oy.
Once the batch is done, Walter joins Mike and Jesse for a late night pow-wow. Mike says the feds are getting too close to him so Walter flies off the handle. Then Mike says he's out. "Sorry to see you go, Mike." Horse's ass. Walter says Jesse will have to take over distribution. Only... Jesse's out too. I WISH THIS WERE THE ENDING I SWEAR TO GOD!!!!! Mike already has plans to sell their shares of the methylamine. They'll each get $5 million. Guess who this isn't good enough for?
Mike meets with the people Walt refers to as his competition to sell the methylamine, but the guy only wants to buy if the blue meth will be off the market entirely. He wants the full amount of methylamine. They can't promise that, since Walt plans to keep cooking.....
Jesse comes to Walt's house to try to sell him on the methylamine deal. $5 million, no one else gets killed, isn't this perfect? Walter says he hasn't been working this hard just to sell out. OY! His dumb ass brings up Gray Matter, the company he took a $5000 buyout from that is now worth billions. That's his fault. Ass. "I'm in the empire business." I. HATE. YOU.
Skyler comes home and they all sit down for dinner. Because, of course, Skyler will be as compliant as Walter wants her to be, and Walt is quite satisfied to show that off. It's the Greatest Family Dinner Ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesse is hysterical and Skyler is downing large glasses of wine. Skyler's all, "Did you tell him about my affair, too?" OMG IT'S THE GREATEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN!!!!! Once she leaves the table, Walter goes, "Do you know my kids are gone?" and Jesse says, "Thank god" in the quickest, greatest way possible. He did NOT need more awkwardness. Walt tells Jesse that he has nothing left but the business "and you want to take it away from me." You're always the martyr, right, Walter? Everyone's always persecuting you? UUUUUGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
Walter goes to the office to take his methylamine, where Mike is there to sit on him all night and make sure he doesn't interfere with the methylamine deal. In the morning, Mike chains Walter's hand to the radiator so he can go take care of something. Well, that was dumb, since Walt finds a way out, using exposed wires to burn through the plastic strap on his wrist. Barely seems to feel the pain.
Mike's with Saul, who is meeting with Gomez and Hank, accusing the DEA of harassment for all their surveillance. He's filing a restraining order. And when Mike comes back to the office? The methylamine is gone and Jesse's there with Walter. Walter has a proposal: "Everybody wins." WHY DO I KNOW THAT YOU'RE LYING?????????
12 August 2012
Breaking Bad
We open with a kid zipping through the desert on his motorbike. He finds a giant tarantula and puts it in a jar. End of teaser. Okaaayyyy.
Hank's moving into his new office and gets a visit from Walter. Hank notices his Rolex right off. Keep being a sloppy showoff, Walter! Walter starts crying in front of Hank, saying Skyler doesn't love him anymore and thinks he's a bad father. Hank can't deal with real emotions and leaves to get Walter some coffee. Which is exactly what the Master Manipulator wanted, because he puts some kind of tap on Hank's computer and a bug in his picture frame.
The Three Musketeers have Lydia handcuffed to a table in some empty warehouse. Mike makes her call Hank's office and tell him that she discovered the tracking device on the methylamine. After she hangs up, the bug in Hank's office tells them that the DEA had nothing to do with it... but the cops did. So Lydia narrowly avoids execution. And she knows where they can get "an ocean" of methylamine. Time for a train robbery!!
Mike thinks there's no choice but to kill the train crew, so as to prevent authorities from being alerted immediately. And Walter won't let them switch to a pseudo cook because they won't make enough money. As his parents argue back and forth, Jesse comes up with the real plan.
Todd is let into the inner circle, helping them rig up tanks in the desert to siphon the methylamine from the tanker car while replacing it with water. Bill Burr helps out by flagging down the train, pretending to be a motorist stranded on the tracks. This is bold as shit, them doing it in the daytime, plus it takes a while. It's tense as shit. Also -- 10 bucks says that tarantula kid is going to be a witness and will have to be killed. Goddammit.
Bill Burr's truck is cleared off of the tracks faster than anyone wants it to be, but Walter waits til the last possible second to stop his siphoning operation so he can be as precise as possible. Jesse has to lie under the train as it starts moving, and Todd has to jump off. Jesus Christ. I was quite literally biting my fingers. Jesse celebrates their success with his customary, "Yeah bitch!" And then we hear the dirtbike. And the kid waves at them. And this cannot stand. Todd is the one to grab a gun and shoot the kid in the face. Holy shit. I actually called that it would be him and not Walter. Something about that kid. He's solidifying his place among the crew. This will be interesting.
Hank's moving into his new office and gets a visit from Walter. Hank notices his Rolex right off. Keep being a sloppy showoff, Walter! Walter starts crying in front of Hank, saying Skyler doesn't love him anymore and thinks he's a bad father. Hank can't deal with real emotions and leaves to get Walter some coffee. Which is exactly what the Master Manipulator wanted, because he puts some kind of tap on Hank's computer and a bug in his picture frame.
The Three Musketeers have Lydia handcuffed to a table in some empty warehouse. Mike makes her call Hank's office and tell him that she discovered the tracking device on the methylamine. After she hangs up, the bug in Hank's office tells them that the DEA had nothing to do with it... but the cops did. So Lydia narrowly avoids execution. And she knows where they can get "an ocean" of methylamine. Time for a train robbery!!
Mike thinks there's no choice but to kill the train crew, so as to prevent authorities from being alerted immediately. And Walter won't let them switch to a pseudo cook because they won't make enough money. As his parents argue back and forth, Jesse comes up with the real plan.
Todd is let into the inner circle, helping them rig up tanks in the desert to siphon the methylamine from the tanker car while replacing it with water. Bill Burr helps out by flagging down the train, pretending to be a motorist stranded on the tracks. This is bold as shit, them doing it in the daytime, plus it takes a while. It's tense as shit. Also -- 10 bucks says that tarantula kid is going to be a witness and will have to be killed. Goddammit.
Bill Burr's truck is cleared off of the tracks faster than anyone wants it to be, but Walter waits til the last possible second to stop his siphoning operation so he can be as precise as possible. Jesse has to lie under the train as it starts moving, and Todd has to jump off. Jesus Christ. I was quite literally biting my fingers. Jesse celebrates their success with his customary, "Yeah bitch!" And then we hear the dirtbike. And the kid waves at them. And this cannot stand. Todd is the one to grab a gun and shoot the kid in the face. Holy shit. I actually called that it would be him and not Walter. Something about that kid. He's solidifying his place among the crew. This will be interesting.
05 August 2012
Breaking Bad
The Aztec is back, baby!!!! That thing just won't die. And Walter must have amazing insurance. The Heisenberg hat is inside too. Walt sells the car to the body shop for $50 and gets himself a shiny black pimpmobile, and gets Walt Jr. a red Challenger. Jesus Christ. He makes me so mad. Last week he was so concerned about his money. Keep showing off money you're not supposed to have. Idiot. Skyler wants to send Junior to boarding school, to get him out of this hell they live in.
Walt's all, it's smooth sailing from here on out, there's nothing to be afraid of. "Life is good." Dummy. He wants to have himself a birthday party. (So we're a year out from where the series started now. Eventful year. Also a year away from the first teaser from this season.)
Hank and Gomez come to Madrigal to talk to Lydia. She gives up a foreman they're looking for, and then screams into a pillow. This bitch is real crazy; she put on 2 different shoes this morning. The poor nervous wreck. The DEA's putting surveillance on Mike, and have discovered the blue meth back on the streets. Hank is invited to put in an application for his former boss's position, but he'd have to give up all investigations, including Fring.
Walter comes home from work expecting a birthday party he doesn't get. Ha! Ass. He just gets Marie and Hank over for dinner. On the drive over, Marie tells Hank about Skyler and Ted because of course she can't keep her mouth shut. Lots of painfully awkward silences at dinner. Just douchechills. Skyler gets up while Walt is talking and stands behind him at the pool. The whole time he's talking I am sure she's going to throw herself to the bottom. Sure enough, she eventually walks into the pool and stays under until Walt jumps in and pulls her out. Happy birthday, asshole.
With the foreman/chemical delivery guy out of commission, Jesse comes to Lydia's warehouse to get the methalmine. When he's taking the barrel down off the shelf, Lydia's OCD ass sees something on the bottom - a GPS tracker stuck to it. It's the barrel that she removed from inventory, so it's the only barrel they can have.
Ten bucks says Walter puts Skyler in an institution and gets her electroshock therapy, Homeland-style. He can't have an unstable wife threatening his whole operation. Bitch has to go. Marie and Hank offer (at Skyler's suggestion) to take the kids for a couple days so Walter and Skyler can "work things out." Skyler actually stands up for herself against Walt, saying he'll never have the kids back in the house. "What are you going to do to stop it?" he asks. And he indeed threatens to have her committed, then she counters with a threat to claim spousal abuse. She doesn't have a long-term solution, and he refuses to let her win. She says she'll just wait -- for the cancer to come back and kill him. For the first time EVER, I'll all TEAM SKYLER, BITCH! Great scene.
So now we have the methalmine problem to deal with. Mike's suspicious about the tracker -- sloppy police work, and did any other barrels have the tracker on them? He thinks it was Lydia's ass, so she could get out of the business. Mike says he'll take his business elsewhere indeed -- after he leaves her alone in a ditch. Jesse doesn't want her killed, and Walter vetoes Mike decision because they need to keep the methalmine flowing, can't afford to slow production.
Poor, misguided Jesse gets Walter a Rolex for his birthday. Walter just doesn't deserve him. He comes home and shows the watch to Skyler, saying it was a present from someone who wanted him dead too not so long ago. So now because Jesse is sweet and naive and dumb enough to change his mind about Walt, she's supposed to? Screw you, Walter White!!! He officially makes my skin crawl.
Next week, the guys have to pull a freaking heist to get methalmine???? This isn't The Town!!! They aren't made for this!
Walt's all, it's smooth sailing from here on out, there's nothing to be afraid of. "Life is good." Dummy. He wants to have himself a birthday party. (So we're a year out from where the series started now. Eventful year. Also a year away from the first teaser from this season.)
Hank and Gomez come to Madrigal to talk to Lydia. She gives up a foreman they're looking for, and then screams into a pillow. This bitch is real crazy; she put on 2 different shoes this morning. The poor nervous wreck. The DEA's putting surveillance on Mike, and have discovered the blue meth back on the streets. Hank is invited to put in an application for his former boss's position, but he'd have to give up all investigations, including Fring.
Walter comes home from work expecting a birthday party he doesn't get. Ha! Ass. He just gets Marie and Hank over for dinner. On the drive over, Marie tells Hank about Skyler and Ted because of course she can't keep her mouth shut. Lots of painfully awkward silences at dinner. Just douchechills. Skyler gets up while Walt is talking and stands behind him at the pool. The whole time he's talking I am sure she's going to throw herself to the bottom. Sure enough, she eventually walks into the pool and stays under until Walt jumps in and pulls her out. Happy birthday, asshole.
With the foreman/chemical delivery guy out of commission, Jesse comes to Lydia's warehouse to get the methalmine. When he's taking the barrel down off the shelf, Lydia's OCD ass sees something on the bottom - a GPS tracker stuck to it. It's the barrel that she removed from inventory, so it's the only barrel they can have.
Ten bucks says Walter puts Skyler in an institution and gets her electroshock therapy, Homeland-style. He can't have an unstable wife threatening his whole operation. Bitch has to go. Marie and Hank offer (at Skyler's suggestion) to take the kids for a couple days so Walter and Skyler can "work things out." Skyler actually stands up for herself against Walt, saying he'll never have the kids back in the house. "What are you going to do to stop it?" he asks. And he indeed threatens to have her committed, then she counters with a threat to claim spousal abuse. She doesn't have a long-term solution, and he refuses to let her win. She says she'll just wait -- for the cancer to come back and kill him. For the first time EVER, I'll all TEAM SKYLER, BITCH! Great scene.
So now we have the methalmine problem to deal with. Mike's suspicious about the tracker -- sloppy police work, and did any other barrels have the tracker on them? He thinks it was Lydia's ass, so she could get out of the business. Mike says he'll take his business elsewhere indeed -- after he leaves her alone in a ditch. Jesse doesn't want her killed, and Walter vetoes Mike decision because they need to keep the methalmine flowing, can't afford to slow production.
Poor, misguided Jesse gets Walter a Rolex for his birthday. Walter just doesn't deserve him. He comes home and shows the watch to Skyler, saying it was a present from someone who wanted him dead too not so long ago. So now because Jesse is sweet and naive and dumb enough to change his mind about Walt, she's supposed to? Screw you, Walter White!!! He officially makes my skin crawl.
Next week, the guys have to pull a freaking heist to get methalmine???? This isn't The Town!!! They aren't made for this!
29 July 2012
Breaking Bad
Every week, I watch the previous week's episode before the new one. And let me just say -- Jonathan Banks is the effing man. He owned last week. Mike rules, he rules, I love him so much. Don't die.
Mike visits the laundry manager in prison. He's undercover as a "paralegal" for the guy's attorney. Mike cleans up well, looks good in a suit. They visit everyone else who was on the list; Mike's planning to take some of his cut to pay these guys to shut up.
Saul's not happy about a fourth amigo being allowed in to their operation. Mike's threatened him in the past. Walter: "He probably threatened somebody before breakfast this morning. It's what he does." Saul has found them a box factory to work in, but Walter deems it too humid. So let's try a tortilla factory. Nope - unannounced government inspections in the food industry. Laser tag is out too. Pest control warehouse? Nope, but it gives Walter an idea.
They're going to work out of the houses that are shut down and tented while undergoing a fumigation. Brilliant! Going mobile! And the pest control team they're working with are good people -- burglars.
Skinny Pete is a master pianist (!) and he and Badger are shopping in a music store -- for roadie boxes. What better to use to transport a mobile meth lab? The boys want in on the business with Jesse, but Disapproving Grandpa Mike ain't gonna have that. Mike breaks the rules down to the pest control crew (Vamonos Pest) in hilarious fashion - no stealing from the houses, call Walter and Jesse "Yes sir and no sir," and if they tell you to jump, DO IT.
I need a Vamonos Pest jumpsuit and I need one IMMEDIATELY!!!!! Jesse and Walter wear them well, and get to work on their first cook, done in cramped quarters, much more like the RV - a tented room within the tented house. But during their downtime they get to enjoy some beers and Three Stooges on the family's couch. And some unsolicited advice from Walter to Jesse -- maybe he should tell Andrea everything, because honesty is the best policy. What's he up to?
Skyler loses it at Marie - seriously, shouts, "Shut up!" about 47 times at her - so now Marie's wondering what's going on with the Whites. Walter explains it away as Skyler being freaked out about Ted's accident, making sure to let Marie know that Skyler was having an affair with Ted. Walter is a master manipulator with everyone, cuz now Marie feels bad for him. "I don't want you to think less of her." What a jackass.
After paying everyone involved in the business, the guys net $137,000 each. Of course that's not enough for Walter - he has to nitpick over what Mike pays the mules who transport the drugs, and he doesn't want to contribute to the cost of paying off Gus's guys to keep them happy. He's making less than he did when he worked for Gus. His greed isn't going to end in good things.
Jesse broke up with Andrea - so that's what Walter was going for, guilting him out of the relationship. That's great. The one thing going right in Jesse's life was her and that kid. Then Walter throws in a dig about Victor maybe getting his throat cut because he "flew too close to the sun" -- which I took as a subtle threat to Jesse, not to mention an uber-passive-aggressive threat behind Mike's back. Know your place, kid. Screw you, Walter, as always.
Mike visits the laundry manager in prison. He's undercover as a "paralegal" for the guy's attorney. Mike cleans up well, looks good in a suit. They visit everyone else who was on the list; Mike's planning to take some of his cut to pay these guys to shut up.
Saul's not happy about a fourth amigo being allowed in to their operation. Mike's threatened him in the past. Walter: "He probably threatened somebody before breakfast this morning. It's what he does." Saul has found them a box factory to work in, but Walter deems it too humid. So let's try a tortilla factory. Nope - unannounced government inspections in the food industry. Laser tag is out too. Pest control warehouse? Nope, but it gives Walter an idea.
They're going to work out of the houses that are shut down and tented while undergoing a fumigation. Brilliant! Going mobile! And the pest control team they're working with are good people -- burglars.
Skinny Pete is a master pianist (!) and he and Badger are shopping in a music store -- for roadie boxes. What better to use to transport a mobile meth lab? The boys want in on the business with Jesse, but Disapproving Grandpa Mike ain't gonna have that. Mike breaks the rules down to the pest control crew (Vamonos Pest) in hilarious fashion - no stealing from the houses, call Walter and Jesse "Yes sir and no sir," and if they tell you to jump, DO IT.
I need a Vamonos Pest jumpsuit and I need one IMMEDIATELY!!!!! Jesse and Walter wear them well, and get to work on their first cook, done in cramped quarters, much more like the RV - a tented room within the tented house. But during their downtime they get to enjoy some beers and Three Stooges on the family's couch. And some unsolicited advice from Walter to Jesse -- maybe he should tell Andrea everything, because honesty is the best policy. What's he up to?
Skyler loses it at Marie - seriously, shouts, "Shut up!" about 47 times at her - so now Marie's wondering what's going on with the Whites. Walter explains it away as Skyler being freaked out about Ted's accident, making sure to let Marie know that Skyler was having an affair with Ted. Walter is a master manipulator with everyone, cuz now Marie feels bad for him. "I don't want you to think less of her." What a jackass.
After paying everyone involved in the business, the guys net $137,000 each. Of course that's not enough for Walter - he has to nitpick over what Mike pays the mules who transport the drugs, and he doesn't want to contribute to the cost of paying off Gus's guys to keep them happy. He's making less than he did when he worked for Gus. His greed isn't going to end in good things.
Jesse broke up with Andrea - so that's what Walter was going for, guilting him out of the relationship. That's great. The one thing going right in Jesse's life was her and that kid. Then Walter throws in a dig about Victor maybe getting his throat cut because he "flew too close to the sun" -- which I took as a subtle threat to Jesse, not to mention an uber-passive-aggressive threat behind Mike's back. Know your place, kid. Screw you, Walter, as always.
Yep, It Was Awesome
So I think I'll watch The Avengers now (I have it with some foreign (Russian?) subtitles, but couldn't care less). On a related note, I'm 95% sure I'm giving up on So You Think You Can Dance. And I'm pretty sure there's a new Project Runway season, yet I have no desire to watch that either. When you don't watch a show for a few days and don't miss it and pretty much dread starting it, that means it's OK to abandon it. And I find myself thinking I'd rather do a Massive Fringe Rewatch v. watching new SYTYCD. It can be so and it will be so!
Long story short, Breaking Bad has ruined all other TV for me.
22 July 2012
Breaking Bad
We open in an industrial kitchen in Germany where they're taste-testing different sauce formulations - honey mustard, "Franch" (French + Ranch), things like that. We are, of course, at Madrigal Electromotive, home of lots of fast food chains. Sadly, the Los Pollos Hermanos sign is coming down. Police come to meet with the head guy, but he decides to electrocute himself in the bathroom rather than meet with them.
Jesse is hella bothered with thoughts of where that ricin cigarette went. Walter makes a dummy ricin cigarette out of salt, stashes the real one behind a light-switch (OF COURSE HE DIDN'T FLUSH IT), and goes over to Jesse's house to help him search. Walt plants the dummy cig in the Roomba. Poor Jesse breaks down because he almost killed Walter over this thing. Oh god, now Jesse can be even further tortured with unnecessary guilt. NOOOOOOOOOOO! Eff you, Walter, I will never forgive you for what you've done to this boy.
Mike's at home having an Ensure and a beer. OMG I love him more every day. Walt and Jesse come over to convince him to partner up and get back to cooking. The market demands it. Mike wants no part of it, so the boys are going to press on without him.
The Germans come to talk to the DEA. Hank's boss is taking the fall for the screwup with Fring's investigation, and is soon to go into forced retirement.
Mike meets with a woman named Lydia in his diner, and the woman's very conspicuous in her desperation to remain inconspicuous. And scared. She wants to know who killed Gus, and gives Mike a list of 11 names of people who could do them both in regarding their connection to Gus. Mike refuses to kill any of the guys, because he vetted them and he knows they won't say anything. Besides, killing 11 guys would be a little obvious.
Mike comes down to the DEA to be interviewed by Hank and Gomez. He officially worked Corporate Security for Los Pollos Hermanos. We find out Mike was a cop in Philadelphia whose tenure as a cop ended dramatically. And Mike answers all the questions in typical Mike fashion. The DEA found an account with $2 million in the name of Mike's granddaughter. They want Mike to turn on everyone else in the operation. Guess how that works out. Mike pleads ignorance, but you can see he's pissed.
Jesse and Walter meet with Saul to make their business plans. Walter rules out RVs and refuses to do a pseudo cook when Jesse can't find methylamine. Saul wants them to quit while they're ahead, but of course Walter's not ahead anymore. He still needs the cash.
One of Mike's 11 guys, Chow, calls Mike and says he's ready to flip because he needs money and needs to meet. He says this because another guy named Chris has a gun to his head. Mike goes to the house. Mike's not stupid. He gets the drop on the guy. Chris was being paid by Lydia to knock everyone off, and got Chow. Mike kills Chris, and seems sad that his guys aren't as strong as he thought they'd be under pressure.
Mike heads to Lydia's large, impressive house and holds a gun to her head. But he doesn't kill her -- he wants to know if she can still get her hands on methylamine. Maybe. Mike calls Walter and tells him he's in.
Back at the White House, Skyler just lies in bed all day, depressed and scared I suppose. Walter is creepy as hell trying to assure her that it gets better and since they're doing it for family, they're in the right, and everything will be awesome.
Right.
Jesse is hella bothered with thoughts of where that ricin cigarette went. Walter makes a dummy ricin cigarette out of salt, stashes the real one behind a light-switch (OF COURSE HE DIDN'T FLUSH IT), and goes over to Jesse's house to help him search. Walt plants the dummy cig in the Roomba. Poor Jesse breaks down because he almost killed Walter over this thing. Oh god, now Jesse can be even further tortured with unnecessary guilt. NOOOOOOOOOOO! Eff you, Walter, I will never forgive you for what you've done to this boy.
Mike's at home having an Ensure and a beer. OMG I love him more every day. Walt and Jesse come over to convince him to partner up and get back to cooking. The market demands it. Mike wants no part of it, so the boys are going to press on without him.
The Germans come to talk to the DEA. Hank's boss is taking the fall for the screwup with Fring's investigation, and is soon to go into forced retirement.
Mike meets with a woman named Lydia in his diner, and the woman's very conspicuous in her desperation to remain inconspicuous. And scared. She wants to know who killed Gus, and gives Mike a list of 11 names of people who could do them both in regarding their connection to Gus. Mike refuses to kill any of the guys, because he vetted them and he knows they won't say anything. Besides, killing 11 guys would be a little obvious.
Mike comes down to the DEA to be interviewed by Hank and Gomez. He officially worked Corporate Security for Los Pollos Hermanos. We find out Mike was a cop in Philadelphia whose tenure as a cop ended dramatically. And Mike answers all the questions in typical Mike fashion. The DEA found an account with $2 million in the name of Mike's granddaughter. They want Mike to turn on everyone else in the operation. Guess how that works out. Mike pleads ignorance, but you can see he's pissed.
Jesse and Walter meet with Saul to make their business plans. Walter rules out RVs and refuses to do a pseudo cook when Jesse can't find methylamine. Saul wants them to quit while they're ahead, but of course Walter's not ahead anymore. He still needs the cash.
One of Mike's 11 guys, Chow, calls Mike and says he's ready to flip because he needs money and needs to meet. He says this because another guy named Chris has a gun to his head. Mike goes to the house. Mike's not stupid. He gets the drop on the guy. Chris was being paid by Lydia to knock everyone off, and got Chow. Mike kills Chris, and seems sad that his guys aren't as strong as he thought they'd be under pressure.
Mike heads to Lydia's large, impressive house and holds a gun to her head. But he doesn't kill her -- he wants to know if she can still get her hands on methylamine. Maybe. Mike calls Walter and tells him he's in.
Back at the White House, Skyler just lies in bed all day, depressed and scared I suppose. Walter is creepy as hell trying to assure her that it gets better and since they're doing it for family, they're in the right, and everything will be awesome.
Right.
18 July 2012
Comic-Con 2012: Day Two
Friday’s line was freaking nuts, as there is apparently a TV show called The Big Bang Theory, and it is apparently very popular. We didn’t make it in to see the first couple panels, but we got in for The Walking Dead. It was a really cool panel and we saw awesome footage from Season 3. It holds a lot of promise, but that show tends to shit all over promise, so that remains to be seen. On a related note, on Preview Night, Robert Kirkman (creator of the comic and show) was unveiling a Walking Dead-themed car and I got a picture with him. He’s so adorable and super nice!!
Game of Thrones is a great show. George R.R. Martin must be a genius for thinking all of that up. But he’s boring as shit. And he moderated the panel. OMG he’s awkward and painfully unfunny – so he’s a typical socially-awkward nerd then. They didn’t have new footage and I could tell that it was going to be dull, so I headed upstairs to hopefully not miss Breaking Bad.
And I got right in to Ballroom 20. I saw an Entertainment Weekly panel about “Women Who Kick Ass” featuring Anna Torv, who does indeed kick ass. Plus Lucy Lawless! It was cool. Joss Whedon was up next, and he’s pretty much a Comic-Con god. It was just him and a microphone on stage, answering questions from the audience. He’s hysterical and I love him.
The panel I was really there for was Breaking Bad. And I got way up front!! They didn’t show the premiere like I had heard they would, but really that’s OK because we got to hear the cast talk for an hour – Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Betsy Brandt, Dean Norris (in a warrior princess costume), Jonathan Banks and creator/god Vince Gilligan. And they are A. May. Zing. And they were very appreciate and awesome about the fans. So cool to have them at Comic-Con!!!
Here’s what I learned from the Breaking Bad panel:
• The season premiere will be one of the funniest episodes, and not violent like last year’s
• The opening segment will say a lot and yet leave you with a lot of questions. Have patience – all will be revealed. From the teaser we saw, it looks like Future!Walt putting something in a trunk.
• You will likely lose any remaining sympathy you might have had for Walt – full bad guy mode now
• The season feels “creepy” with Aaron Paul comparing it to the Crawl Space episode in tone
• We’ll have some more Skinny Pete and Badger and Grey Matter
• Madrigal Electromotive and Germany will be featured this season
• Episode 5 is the opposite of a bottle episode, with them actually filming outside of Albuquerque.
16 July 2012
Breaking Bad
Before I discuss the season premiere, here is the scoop I got from the Breaking Bad panel at Comic-Con (full report and awesome pictures to follow):
• The season premiere will be one of the funniest episodes, and not violent like last year’s
• The opening segment will say a lot and yet leave you with a lot of questions. Have patience – all will be revealed. From the teaser we saw, it looks like Future!Walt putting something in a trunk.
• You will likely lose any remaining sympathy you might have had for Walt this season – he’s in full bad-guy mode now
• The season feels “creepy,” with Aaron Paul comparing it to last season’s “Crawl Space” episode in tone
• We’ll have some more Skinny Pete and Badger and Grey Matter
• Madrigal Electromotive and Germany will be featured this season
• Episode 5 is the opposite of a bottle episode, with them actually filming outside of Albuquerque for once
OK, now on with the premiere! This is a good way to end my San Diego vacation.
Walter is “celebrating” his 52nd birthday at Denny’s and has a full beard and head of hair. He also has a New Hampshire driver’s license under the name Lambert. He meets the guy that sold him his gun last season in the bathroom and makes a money-for-keys exchange. The keys open a car with a big ass gun in the trunk. End of teaser.
Now we pick up just where we left off last season. Walt’s cleaning up all the bomb-making materials from his kitchen and putting the Lily of the Valley in his trunk. Skyler and the kids come home and Skyler says she’s scared of Walt. Walter suddenly stands up, as if realizing he forgot to clean up something, and says, “Oh shit.”
Hank joins the DEA in the ruins of the Superlab. He sees the remnants of a camera. Oh god, next up is Gus’s laptop....
Mike’s feeding chickens down in Mexico when the doctor breaks the news that Gus is dead. Mike goes speeding up the road as Walter and Jesse drive down to meet him. Jesse steps out between them to prevent Mike from shooting Walter. Mike: “What is it with you guys?” LOL. Walter wants Mike to help clean up the video situation and get rid of all records. They rush to the restaurant to get the laptop, but the cops are already bagging it. Dagger!
Mike puts in a call to the cops, pretending to be a Postal Inspector, tracking down that laptop. Yep, they’ve got it. “We’re boned.” Mike’s ready to skip town, but Walter insists on trying to get into the police evidence room. Jesse suggests a giant magnet to grab the laptop. Cute, honey, but how about using a magnet to erase the hard drive instead? They visit the junkyard and pay the dude a buttload for the magnet that picks up cars. They run a test at the junkyard and determine the amperage and distance they’re going to need. Jesse yells triumphantly: “Yeah, bitch! Magnets!”
Saul visits Skyler at the car wash to tell her that Ted had an accident – so the asshole’s not dead after all. She goes to visit him in the hospital, where he is bald and with a halo brace thing on his head. So broke his neck then. Ted hasn’t told on her or Saul’s guys. He says he’ll never breathe a word about the situation, he just wants his family to be cared for. Skyler: “Good.”
Mike helps Jesse and Walter break into the lot next to the police building so they can park their U-Haul loaded with magnets alongside the outer wall of the evidence room. Everything starts flying off the shelves. Walter turns the magnets up so high that it causes the truck to tip over, so they have to ditch it. That won’t be good, but Walt claims it’s all untraceable. Mike wants to know how he’s supposed to believe it’s all done and going to be OK. Walt: “Because I said so.” Shit, this man is in CHARGE!
In the magnet ruckus, another piece of Gus’s evidence was damaged – a picture of him and his dead BF, which, now that it’s been damaged, reveals what looks like maybe an address in the Cayman Islands.
Walter visits Saul, pissed that he and Skyler did this whole Ted thing without his input, giving away most of his money to a man who had been sleeping with his wife. Saul says they’re done. Walter walks right up to him, nose-to-nose, and says, “We’re done when I say we’re done.” Alright, Walter, now you’re just being an asshole. To further prove that point, he goes home, hugs Skyler, and says, “I forgive you.” Oh, that’s rich.
• The season premiere will be one of the funniest episodes, and not violent like last year’s
• The opening segment will say a lot and yet leave you with a lot of questions. Have patience – all will be revealed. From the teaser we saw, it looks like Future!Walt putting something in a trunk.
• You will likely lose any remaining sympathy you might have had for Walt this season – he’s in full bad-guy mode now
• The season feels “creepy,” with Aaron Paul comparing it to last season’s “Crawl Space” episode in tone
• We’ll have some more Skinny Pete and Badger and Grey Matter
• Madrigal Electromotive and Germany will be featured this season
• Episode 5 is the opposite of a bottle episode, with them actually filming outside of Albuquerque for once
OK, now on with the premiere! This is a good way to end my San Diego vacation.
Walter is “celebrating” his 52nd birthday at Denny’s and has a full beard and head of hair. He also has a New Hampshire driver’s license under the name Lambert. He meets the guy that sold him his gun last season in the bathroom and makes a money-for-keys exchange. The keys open a car with a big ass gun in the trunk. End of teaser.
Now we pick up just where we left off last season. Walt’s cleaning up all the bomb-making materials from his kitchen and putting the Lily of the Valley in his trunk. Skyler and the kids come home and Skyler says she’s scared of Walt. Walter suddenly stands up, as if realizing he forgot to clean up something, and says, “Oh shit.”
Hank joins the DEA in the ruins of the Superlab. He sees the remnants of a camera. Oh god, next up is Gus’s laptop....
Mike’s feeding chickens down in Mexico when the doctor breaks the news that Gus is dead. Mike goes speeding up the road as Walter and Jesse drive down to meet him. Jesse steps out between them to prevent Mike from shooting Walter. Mike: “What is it with you guys?” LOL. Walter wants Mike to help clean up the video situation and get rid of all records. They rush to the restaurant to get the laptop, but the cops are already bagging it. Dagger!
Mike puts in a call to the cops, pretending to be a Postal Inspector, tracking down that laptop. Yep, they’ve got it. “We’re boned.” Mike’s ready to skip town, but Walter insists on trying to get into the police evidence room. Jesse suggests a giant magnet to grab the laptop. Cute, honey, but how about using a magnet to erase the hard drive instead? They visit the junkyard and pay the dude a buttload for the magnet that picks up cars. They run a test at the junkyard and determine the amperage and distance they’re going to need. Jesse yells triumphantly: “Yeah, bitch! Magnets!”
Saul visits Skyler at the car wash to tell her that Ted had an accident – so the asshole’s not dead after all. She goes to visit him in the hospital, where he is bald and with a halo brace thing on his head. So broke his neck then. Ted hasn’t told on her or Saul’s guys. He says he’ll never breathe a word about the situation, he just wants his family to be cared for. Skyler: “Good.”
Mike helps Jesse and Walter break into the lot next to the police building so they can park their U-Haul loaded with magnets alongside the outer wall of the evidence room. Everything starts flying off the shelves. Walter turns the magnets up so high that it causes the truck to tip over, so they have to ditch it. That won’t be good, but Walt claims it’s all untraceable. Mike wants to know how he’s supposed to believe it’s all done and going to be OK. Walt: “Because I said so.” Shit, this man is in CHARGE!
In the magnet ruckus, another piece of Gus’s evidence was damaged – a picture of him and his dead BF, which, now that it’s been damaged, reveals what looks like maybe an address in the Cayman Islands.
Walter visits Saul, pissed that he and Skyler did this whole Ted thing without his input, giving away most of his money to a man who had been sleeping with his wife. Saul says they’re done. Walter walks right up to him, nose-to-nose, and says, “We’re done when I say we’re done.” Alright, Walter, now you’re just being an asshole. To further prove that point, he goes home, hugs Skyler, and says, “I forgive you.” Oh, that’s rich.
09 October 2011
Breaking Bad
So here we are - Breaking Bad season finale time. And I'm a big bundle of nerves!!! This recap is likely to be a big jumble of CAPSLOCKOMG!
Walter runs to Gus's car to retrieve his bomb. He puts it in his diaper bag (LOL! Love this show!) and meets with Jesse in the hospital. The magnetic bomb gets stuck on the elevator door. El. Oh. El. The guys try to think about where they can plant the bomb. Then the ABQ police show up. OH GOD! They're following up on the whole ricin thing. You can't really drop that word and expect to get away with it....
Jesse uses the House/Discovery Channel defense - he just saw something about ricin and thought that could be it. I knew he was going to drop the Discovery Channel! Jesse loves him some cable television. Better call Saul.
Walter wants to see Saul too, and drops by the office, by which I mean breaks in the office. Saul's secretary won't give up his location unless Walter pays her $25,000. "I'll be right back," he says, as he slips on the broken glass and whacks his head on the door. Bryan Cranston: the king of physical comedy.
Walter goes home to retrieve his money, but first calls his neighbor and asks her to check on something in his house -- so she can be the first one to walk through the door in case it's booby-trapped, Home Alone-style. Oh, Walter, you asshole. A couple guys do come out of his backyard area, but his neighbor survives, and so Walter breaks into his own house and gets some crawlspace cash. The 2 guys come into the house - who the hell are they? - but Walter gets out in time.
Line of Night from Saul, to Jesse: "If I ever get anal polyps, I know what to name them." Saul meets with Walter and tells him that Jesse told him about Gus visiting Hector in the old folks' home. Genius -- Walter can get that damn bell ringer to go along with his plan -- ring a bell and Gus is dead. Walter visits Hector and offers him an opportunity for revenge. OH SNAP!
Hector rings his bell to let the nurse know -- "NEED DEA".
Hank continues to analyze the laundry pictures Gomey took. Gomey comes to get Hank because Hector will only talk to Hank. You know what this show is? A massive chess game. Just got to get all of the players in the right spot. Hank comes down to the office and meets with Hector (along with everyone else in the office). Waiting for Hector to spell out words is painful. He spells out "SUCK MY" and then "FUC". Love that scary old bastard. OK - so this was a distraction or something. As Hector is loaded back onto his van, Tyrus is watching -- so now Gus will have to pay Hector a visit to see what's up!
Jesse is finally released from interrogation -- the tests on Brock came back negative for ricin. OK, so that's good, only Jesse's ricin cigarette is still missing. On his way out of the hospital, Jesse is tased and put in a minivan by Gus's guys.
Back to the nursing home! Tyrus comes into Hector's room and sweeps it for bugs. Gus takes his usual calm, kickass walk inside. OH CHRIST this show gives me indigestion. Gus has a syringe ready for Hector because he's been talking to the DEA. Hector finally looks Gus in the eye and then rings his bell repeatedly. Even though I knew the explosion was coming, I screamed. And then screamed again when Gus walks out of the room, seemingly unscathed. But he's not -- he's like goddamn Two Face and half his face is blown off. He straightens his tie aaaand now he's dead. R.I.P. Gus. That earns an Instant Rewind. You know Gus had to go out like that!!!!!!!!!! Like a champ!!
Now I'm just freaking out. There's still time left. Ricin: missing. Jesse: kidnapped. Mike: still in Mexico. Those 2 guys: were in the Whites' house.
Now we're in the Super Lab and Jesse is cooking under the supervision of the guys that tased him. OK, good -- they only kidnapped him to cook meth, not to do anything bad. :) Walter comes in, blows the 2 dudes away, and tells Jesse that Gus is dead and they have work to do. Time to blow up the Super Lab! This is nearly as sad as when the RV got crushed. (Seriously, R.I.P. RV.) Badass.
So Brock wasn't poisoned by ricin, he likely ingested Lily of the Valley. Now it's my turn to freak out, because I'm pretty sure that Walter is to blame -- when he was spinning his gun last week, it ended up pointing at a flowered plant. Jesse: "But Gus still had to go right?" Walter: "Damn right." My boys shake hands and part ways. Walter calls Skyler and tells her he won.
We end with a shot of the Whites' pool area -- and the Lily of the Valley. So that asshole really did poison that kid -- he did it (knowing the kid would survive, I hope) so that Jesse would suspect Gus so that Jesse would help Walter get rid of Gus. Walter beat Gus at this chess match.
Loved the ending. Everything is set up for a blank slate next season. And I can't wait.
Walter runs to Gus's car to retrieve his bomb. He puts it in his diaper bag (LOL! Love this show!) and meets with Jesse in the hospital. The magnetic bomb gets stuck on the elevator door. El. Oh. El. The guys try to think about where they can plant the bomb. Then the ABQ police show up. OH GOD! They're following up on the whole ricin thing. You can't really drop that word and expect to get away with it....
Jesse uses the House/Discovery Channel defense - he just saw something about ricin and thought that could be it. I knew he was going to drop the Discovery Channel! Jesse loves him some cable television. Better call Saul.
Walter wants to see Saul too, and drops by the office, by which I mean breaks in the office. Saul's secretary won't give up his location unless Walter pays her $25,000. "I'll be right back," he says, as he slips on the broken glass and whacks his head on the door. Bryan Cranston: the king of physical comedy.
Walter goes home to retrieve his money, but first calls his neighbor and asks her to check on something in his house -- so she can be the first one to walk through the door in case it's booby-trapped, Home Alone-style. Oh, Walter, you asshole. A couple guys do come out of his backyard area, but his neighbor survives, and so Walter breaks into his own house and gets some crawlspace cash. The 2 guys come into the house - who the hell are they? - but Walter gets out in time.
Line of Night from Saul, to Jesse: "If I ever get anal polyps, I know what to name them." Saul meets with Walter and tells him that Jesse told him about Gus visiting Hector in the old folks' home. Genius -- Walter can get that damn bell ringer to go along with his plan -- ring a bell and Gus is dead. Walter visits Hector and offers him an opportunity for revenge. OH SNAP!
Hector rings his bell to let the nurse know -- "NEED DEA".
Hank continues to analyze the laundry pictures Gomey took. Gomey comes to get Hank because Hector will only talk to Hank. You know what this show is? A massive chess game. Just got to get all of the players in the right spot. Hank comes down to the office and meets with Hector (along with everyone else in the office). Waiting for Hector to spell out words is painful. He spells out "SUCK MY" and then "FUC". Love that scary old bastard. OK - so this was a distraction or something. As Hector is loaded back onto his van, Tyrus is watching -- so now Gus will have to pay Hector a visit to see what's up!
Jesse is finally released from interrogation -- the tests on Brock came back negative for ricin. OK, so that's good, only Jesse's ricin cigarette is still missing. On his way out of the hospital, Jesse is tased and put in a minivan by Gus's guys.
Back to the nursing home! Tyrus comes into Hector's room and sweeps it for bugs. Gus takes his usual calm, kickass walk inside. OH CHRIST this show gives me indigestion. Gus has a syringe ready for Hector because he's been talking to the DEA. Hector finally looks Gus in the eye and then rings his bell repeatedly. Even though I knew the explosion was coming, I screamed. And then screamed again when Gus walks out of the room, seemingly unscathed. But he's not -- he's like goddamn Two Face and half his face is blown off. He straightens his tie aaaand now he's dead. R.I.P. Gus. That earns an Instant Rewind. You know Gus had to go out like that!!!!!!!!!! Like a champ!!
Now I'm just freaking out. There's still time left. Ricin: missing. Jesse: kidnapped. Mike: still in Mexico. Those 2 guys: were in the Whites' house.
Now we're in the Super Lab and Jesse is cooking under the supervision of the guys that tased him. OK, good -- they only kidnapped him to cook meth, not to do anything bad. :) Walter comes in, blows the 2 dudes away, and tells Jesse that Gus is dead and they have work to do. Time to blow up the Super Lab! This is nearly as sad as when the RV got crushed. (Seriously, R.I.P. RV.) Badass.
So Brock wasn't poisoned by ricin, he likely ingested Lily of the Valley. Now it's my turn to freak out, because I'm pretty sure that Walter is to blame -- when he was spinning his gun last week, it ended up pointing at a flowered plant. Jesse: "But Gus still had to go right?" Walter: "Damn right." My boys shake hands and part ways. Walter calls Skyler and tells her he won.
We end with a shot of the Whites' pool area -- and the Lily of the Valley. So that asshole really did poison that kid -- he did it (knowing the kid would survive, I hope) so that Jesse would suspect Gus so that Jesse would help Walter get rid of Gus. Walter beat Gus at this chess match.
Loved the ending. Everything is set up for a blank slate next season. And I can't wait.
02 October 2011
Breaking Bad
So do we think the cancer will be back before the season ends next week? Walt's been coughing a lot lately; I really noticed it when rewatching last week's episode. It's been quiet on the cancer front for far too long.... Something tells me it'll come back as a central player next season.
The DEA pulls up to the White residence to pick them up for protective custody at Hank and Marie's -- Marie is freaking out and wants them all there with Hank. Walter refuses to go because he tells Skyler he's the target and they won't be safe with him there. He says his goodbyes to her and Holly, saying he has to face the consequences; he's dodged death long enough.
Walter sits poolside with a gun.
Hank thinks it's weird that the threat against him comes on the heels of his investigation of Gus. He convinces Gomez to go to the laundry and investigate. Gomez sweet-talks his way into the laundry facility to look around with a camera and a drug-sniffing dog. Crap. I'm freaking out the whole time -- I do NOT want them caught! And that's even before I see that Jesse's down there cooking. Shit. Gus calls down to let Jesse know what's going on, and that it's all Walter's fault. Still, Jesse won't accept Gus killing Walter. Good boy. Gus tells him there will be an "appropriate response." Only Gus could make those words sound scary as hell.
Gomez leaves with nothing but photos. Back to cooking. The operation is so paranoid at this point that Jesse doesn't park there - he parks out in the middle of nowhere and is transported to/from the laundry by a laundry truck. (Walter was transported in dirty laundry last week.) Jesse calls Walter but he doesn't pick up; then he checks his 6 voicemails from Saul.
Saul is packing up his office (by which I mean "shredding") and gives Jesse his money, plus mentions that Gus threatened to kill Walter's family. Jesse doesn't deal well with kids being threatened. Which leads to our next dilemma....
Jesse gets a call from his GF that her son is in the hospital. Suddenly I realize that Gus might have a different "appropriate response" in mind -- one that hits Jesse close to home. And you know what? That's not going to sit well with Jesse. But then when Jesse goes outside to smoke - he realizes his ricin cigarette is missing!!!!! Brock must have come into contact with it! Jesse would never forgive himself if Brock died because of that!! He runs back into the hospital to tell Andrea to let the doctors know that it's ricin, and then he heads to Walter's house. Walter's all paranoid and skittish. Jesse picks up the gun and aims it at Walt. I gasp. Jesse thinks Walter poisoned Brock!! He says there's no way Brock could have gotten it himself. But then there's no way Walter could have done it! OMG was it Gus!? He knew about the ricin!? YIKES!
This scene is intense as hell and Walter starts with the hysterical laughter again. He figures Gus wanted Jesse to think Walter did it so that Jesse would kill him himself. Walter freaking dares Jesse to kill him and I! AM! DYING!!! Walter gets a gun imprint in his forehead and everything. STOP KILLING ME, SHOW!
Of course Jesse doesn't do it, and now he wants vengeance against Gus. Walter won't let Jesse do it himself and insists on helping. Time to get the band back together! Hell. Yes. The next day, Jesse's still at the hospital (even though Andrea won't let him in to see Brock) and refuses to go into work. And Walter's in his kitchen cooking up something good!! It's a bomb!!!!!!!!! Yeah Science!!
Gus comes to the hospital to see Jesse. Parks his car in a garage. IS THAT BOMB READY YET!? At first Gus wants Jesse back to work immediately, but then Jesse tells Gus that he knows Brock was poisoned. Gus tells him they'll just dump the current, ruined batch and Jesse can return to work next week. He gives Jesse a reassuring pat on the back. It's the opposite of reassuring.
As Gus returns to his car, we see Walter spying from next door. Gus stops before reaching the car, clearly suspicious about something. Jesus Christ, they are prolonging this forever and I both hate them and love them for it!!!!!!! Can I use more exclamation points tonight!? Gus finally turns around and walks away from the car. Walter's bitter as hell, clearly exhausted and out of options. The end. CHRIST!!!
Only one more -- sadnessssssssss!!!
The DEA pulls up to the White residence to pick them up for protective custody at Hank and Marie's -- Marie is freaking out and wants them all there with Hank. Walter refuses to go because he tells Skyler he's the target and they won't be safe with him there. He says his goodbyes to her and Holly, saying he has to face the consequences; he's dodged death long enough.
Walter sits poolside with a gun.
Hank thinks it's weird that the threat against him comes on the heels of his investigation of Gus. He convinces Gomez to go to the laundry and investigate. Gomez sweet-talks his way into the laundry facility to look around with a camera and a drug-sniffing dog. Crap. I'm freaking out the whole time -- I do NOT want them caught! And that's even before I see that Jesse's down there cooking. Shit. Gus calls down to let Jesse know what's going on, and that it's all Walter's fault. Still, Jesse won't accept Gus killing Walter. Good boy. Gus tells him there will be an "appropriate response." Only Gus could make those words sound scary as hell.
Gomez leaves with nothing but photos. Back to cooking. The operation is so paranoid at this point that Jesse doesn't park there - he parks out in the middle of nowhere and is transported to/from the laundry by a laundry truck. (Walter was transported in dirty laundry last week.) Jesse calls Walter but he doesn't pick up; then he checks his 6 voicemails from Saul.
Saul is packing up his office (by which I mean "shredding") and gives Jesse his money, plus mentions that Gus threatened to kill Walter's family. Jesse doesn't deal well with kids being threatened. Which leads to our next dilemma....
Jesse gets a call from his GF that her son is in the hospital. Suddenly I realize that Gus might have a different "appropriate response" in mind -- one that hits Jesse close to home. And you know what? That's not going to sit well with Jesse. But then when Jesse goes outside to smoke - he realizes his ricin cigarette is missing!!!!! Brock must have come into contact with it! Jesse would never forgive himself if Brock died because of that!! He runs back into the hospital to tell Andrea to let the doctors know that it's ricin, and then he heads to Walter's house. Walter's all paranoid and skittish. Jesse picks up the gun and aims it at Walt. I gasp. Jesse thinks Walter poisoned Brock!! He says there's no way Brock could have gotten it himself. But then there's no way Walter could have done it! OMG was it Gus!? He knew about the ricin!? YIKES!
This scene is intense as hell and Walter starts with the hysterical laughter again. He figures Gus wanted Jesse to think Walter did it so that Jesse would kill him himself. Walter freaking dares Jesse to kill him and I! AM! DYING!!! Walter gets a gun imprint in his forehead and everything. STOP KILLING ME, SHOW!
Of course Jesse doesn't do it, and now he wants vengeance against Gus. Walter won't let Jesse do it himself and insists on helping. Time to get the band back together! Hell. Yes. The next day, Jesse's still at the hospital (even though Andrea won't let him in to see Brock) and refuses to go into work. And Walter's in his kitchen cooking up something good!! It's a bomb!!!!!!!!! Yeah Science!!
Gus comes to the hospital to see Jesse. Parks his car in a garage. IS THAT BOMB READY YET!? At first Gus wants Jesse back to work immediately, but then Jesse tells Gus that he knows Brock was poisoned. Gus tells him they'll just dump the current, ruined batch and Jesse can return to work next week. He gives Jesse a reassuring pat on the back. It's the opposite of reassuring.
As Gus returns to his car, we see Walter spying from next door. Gus stops before reaching the car, clearly suspicious about something. Jesus Christ, they are prolonging this forever and I both hate them and love them for it!!!!!!! Can I use more exclamation points tonight!? Gus finally turns around and walks away from the car. Walter's bitter as hell, clearly exhausted and out of options. The end. CHRIST!!!
Only one more -- sadnessssssssss!!!
25 September 2011
Breaking Bad
Oh, how re-watching last week's episode brings me so much joy!
Jesse comes speeding in to a pop-up ER in a warehouse with Gus passed out in back and Mike gut-shot in the front seat. The doctor and staff only rush to assist Gus. Jesse has to bring Mike into the OR on his own. Mike's bleeding everywhere, but Gus pays the doctor's salary, so there you go. POOR MIKE SO HELP ME GOD NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO HIM!!!!
The doctor has a fridge fully stocked with blood for Mike, Jesse, and Gus, and knows everything about Jesse's health. Gus is all better, so he and Jesse leave; Mike has to stay behind for at least a week. So now it's time for Gus and Jesse to hike across the border together. AWESOME!!! Gus tells Jesse he can do the cook by himself now, and Jesse says that if he's going to do that, then Gus needs to let Walter walk away. Don't kill him, just pay him off and let him go. Gus says that won't work.
Walt's cooking under the supervision of Gus's man, wondering where everyone else is. Hank takes him out to spy on the chicken farm and mentions that he's heard rumors of a major cartel massacre in Mexico.
Ted's still being a major douche and refusing to pay the IRS. Skyler had used the Walter-gambling story to explain the money and the fear of government scrutiny. But Douche Ted suddenly develops a conscience and doesn't want to use Skyler's money. Because it's not enough -- he needs more so he can pay off his house, save himself from bankruptcy, etc., etc. I don't think Skyler's used to a man that actually stands up to her -- he won't do what she wants! She's just going to have to have his brakes cut or something. Ted's a dead man. Skyler calls Saul.
Gus pays a visit to Hector, the man whose evil bell-ringing haunts my dreams, and presents him with Don Eladio's necklace to let him know everybody's dead (including Hector's grandson, who was the guy Jesse shot). Gus rubs Hector's face in it, but Hector still won't look him in the eye.
When Walt picks Hank up for the next stakeout, Hank instead has him drive to an industrial laundry he wants to check out. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Instead of turning into the laundry, Walter turns his car into oncoming traffic. I totally called that he was going to do that - there was no other choice!
Saul sends Bill Burr to Ted's house (after making sure he doesn't own a gun or have a good alarm system) to convince him to write a check to the IRS. I'm worried we're going to have a Fargo-type situation where things go awry. And that's pretty much exactly what happens -- Ted goes running, trips on his rug, slams his head into his kitchen island, and dies (I'm assuming). It's still awesome though. At least the check's in the mail....
Back at the lab, Walter knows someone's been cooking while he's been out of commission for 4 days. And guess what -- Jesse's back with his girl and playing video games with her son! AWWWWW! It's so cute! I love it! Walter goes to see him there, pretty much begging for his life and saying that if Jesse agrees to cook on his own, Walt's a dead man. Jesse's pretty much like, F U, you wanted me in a barrel. He goes back into the house, and Gus's men hit Walter with a taser.
Now we're in the desert and Walter has a bag over his head. This show is driving me crazy with tension tonight!!! Gus shows up and fires him - tells him to stay away from the laundry and from Jesse. Walter, ever the asshole, says, "Stay away from Pinkman or else you'll do what?" OMG! He's going to keep challenging him!! Walter knows Gus won't kill him, because if he did then Jesse wouldn't cook for him. Gus didn't succeed in turning Jesse against him. OF COURSE HE DIDN'T - JESSE LOVES YOU, WALTER! Gus says Jesse will come around. LOL times a million. Then Gus says he'll kill Walter's wife, son, and infant daughter (I screamed incoherently at that) if Walter doesn't let Gus take care of the Hank situation.
Walter runs right to Saul to get the information on the guy who can save his family and get them new identities. Saul gives him the business card for a vacuum salesman. LOL again. Walter has to get his family ready before he makes the call, have half a million ready, and there's no turning back. He begs Saul to phone in an anonymous tip that there's a hit out on Hank. And then he heads to the crawl space to get the cash -- well, guess what -- there isn't enough. Because Skyler's fat ass gave it to Ted. This is the point at which Walter just effing loses it. Screams and cries until he laughs like a crazy person.
And if that's not enough, Marie calls Skyler to tell her that they got word that someone wants to kill Hank, and so agents are guarding their house. Walter is still laughing maniacally in the background. It's the scariest thing I've ever heard. And we end with a great shot of Walter on the floor of the crawl space, as viewed through the hole in the floor. It was really awesome how the shots were paced with the music and the phone ringing and the laughing and the INSANITY!
OH MY GOD - EVERYTHING IS SUCH A MESS!!! I LOVE IT!! Honestly, this episode would have been a great season finale. But that's what's so great about the show -- IT ISN'T! We're in for even more!
Jesse comes speeding in to a pop-up ER in a warehouse with Gus passed out in back and Mike gut-shot in the front seat. The doctor and staff only rush to assist Gus. Jesse has to bring Mike into the OR on his own. Mike's bleeding everywhere, but Gus pays the doctor's salary, so there you go. POOR MIKE SO HELP ME GOD NOTHING CAN HAPPEN TO HIM!!!!
The doctor has a fridge fully stocked with blood for Mike, Jesse, and Gus, and knows everything about Jesse's health. Gus is all better, so he and Jesse leave; Mike has to stay behind for at least a week. So now it's time for Gus and Jesse to hike across the border together. AWESOME!!! Gus tells Jesse he can do the cook by himself now, and Jesse says that if he's going to do that, then Gus needs to let Walter walk away. Don't kill him, just pay him off and let him go. Gus says that won't work.
Walt's cooking under the supervision of Gus's man, wondering where everyone else is. Hank takes him out to spy on the chicken farm and mentions that he's heard rumors of a major cartel massacre in Mexico.
Ted's still being a major douche and refusing to pay the IRS. Skyler had used the Walter-gambling story to explain the money and the fear of government scrutiny. But Douche Ted suddenly develops a conscience and doesn't want to use Skyler's money. Because it's not enough -- he needs more so he can pay off his house, save himself from bankruptcy, etc., etc. I don't think Skyler's used to a man that actually stands up to her -- he won't do what she wants! She's just going to have to have his brakes cut or something. Ted's a dead man. Skyler calls Saul.
Gus pays a visit to Hector, the man whose evil bell-ringing haunts my dreams, and presents him with Don Eladio's necklace to let him know everybody's dead (including Hector's grandson, who was the guy Jesse shot). Gus rubs Hector's face in it, but Hector still won't look him in the eye.
When Walt picks Hank up for the next stakeout, Hank instead has him drive to an industrial laundry he wants to check out. NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Instead of turning into the laundry, Walter turns his car into oncoming traffic. I totally called that he was going to do that - there was no other choice!
Saul sends Bill Burr to Ted's house (after making sure he doesn't own a gun or have a good alarm system) to convince him to write a check to the IRS. I'm worried we're going to have a Fargo-type situation where things go awry. And that's pretty much exactly what happens -- Ted goes running, trips on his rug, slams his head into his kitchen island, and dies (I'm assuming). It's still awesome though. At least the check's in the mail....
Back at the lab, Walter knows someone's been cooking while he's been out of commission for 4 days. And guess what -- Jesse's back with his girl and playing video games with her son! AWWWWW! It's so cute! I love it! Walter goes to see him there, pretty much begging for his life and saying that if Jesse agrees to cook on his own, Walt's a dead man. Jesse's pretty much like, F U, you wanted me in a barrel. He goes back into the house, and Gus's men hit Walter with a taser.
Now we're in the desert and Walter has a bag over his head. This show is driving me crazy with tension tonight!!! Gus shows up and fires him - tells him to stay away from the laundry and from Jesse. Walter, ever the asshole, says, "Stay away from Pinkman or else you'll do what?" OMG! He's going to keep challenging him!! Walter knows Gus won't kill him, because if he did then Jesse wouldn't cook for him. Gus didn't succeed in turning Jesse against him. OF COURSE HE DIDN'T - JESSE LOVES YOU, WALTER! Gus says Jesse will come around. LOL times a million. Then Gus says he'll kill Walter's wife, son, and infant daughter (I screamed incoherently at that) if Walter doesn't let Gus take care of the Hank situation.
Walter runs right to Saul to get the information on the guy who can save his family and get them new identities. Saul gives him the business card for a vacuum salesman. LOL again. Walter has to get his family ready before he makes the call, have half a million ready, and there's no turning back. He begs Saul to phone in an anonymous tip that there's a hit out on Hank. And then he heads to the crawl space to get the cash -- well, guess what -- there isn't enough. Because Skyler's fat ass gave it to Ted. This is the point at which Walter just effing loses it. Screams and cries until he laughs like a crazy person.
And if that's not enough, Marie calls Skyler to tell her that they got word that someone wants to kill Hank, and so agents are guarding their house. Walter is still laughing maniacally in the background. It's the scariest thing I've ever heard. And we end with a great shot of Walter on the floor of the crawl space, as viewed through the hole in the floor. It was really awesome how the shots were paced with the music and the phone ringing and the laughing and the INSANITY!
OH MY GOD - EVERYTHING IS SUCH A MESS!!! I LOVE IT!! Honestly, this episode would have been a great season finale. But that's what's so great about the show -- IT ISN'T! We're in for even more!
19 September 2011
This Has To Happen
Before it gets yanked again, check out Jesse Pinkman dropping by Dunder Mifflin. Love it.
18 September 2011
Breaking Bad
We now interrupt The Emmys to watch Breaking Bad. (Quick Emmy note: Did you see the video with Jesse Pinkman on The Office? It was amazing. Tomorrow I'm going to find the video, link to it, and watch it 600 times. I wish it were real. OK - found this link, but the sound sucks. Still worth it!!)
As is tradition, we re-watch the previous week's episode of Breaking Bad before watching the new one. God, that fight was amazing. Watching it for the first time, I was so afraid someone was going to pull out a gun - I just wouldn't put it past this show to do. And now watching it again, when things are less tense, GODDAMN I HATE WALTER WHITE!!! This man doesn't realize what he's done to Jesse. Remember innocent, goofy little screw-up dimebagger Jesse? With the messy hair and baggy clothes? Now we have this cold, haunted, dark skinhead version of Jesse who wears kickass black leather jackets. And Walter doesn't care. Jesse's reaching out to him for help, plus warning Walter about the imminent cartel war -- and Walter can only think of himself. He doesn't realize what he's made this kid do for him and how it has impacted him. He doesn't trust Jesse after Jesse killed Gale for him? Walter stinks and even if it means Jesse has to become a career criminal, I'm all for Mike being Jesse's New Daddy. At any rate, I'm glad Jesse got to take out all of this frustration on Walter, since I wasn't able to.
OK - on with this week's episode. Mike, Jesse, and Gus board a prop plane in the middle of nowhere and Gus is holding a gift-wrapped box. Seriously? If this were the series finale I would be sure it contained Walter's head.
Walter himself is MIA so Skyler presents Walter Jr. with his 16th birthday present - a car. And it's a PT Cruiser - OK, that's hysterical!!! After the Charger? Nice ride, Junior.
The Three Amigos are blindfolded and taken to a Super Lab in Mexico where Jesse has to be the main dude and teach the formula. Go Jesse! At first he's thrown (he says he gets a chemical from "the barrel with the bee on it" whereas they expect him to synthesize it). But then he's awesome -- lectures them on the cleanliness of their lab, bosses them around, it's brilliant. He's so badass and Mike is so proud!!!!!! Gus too! Once Jesse passes his Cooking Exam, the Cartel tells him he's staying with them in Mexico. Wha??
Walter Jr. swings by Walter's place and Walter answers the door the only way I like him to -- bloodied, and in his tighty whities. His cover story to Junior is that he was gambling and got in a fight, and begs him not to tell Skyler. He starts crying and says he made a mistake and I'm hoping it's not an act on his part (though I'll bet it is) and that he's finally upset over what he did with Jesse. Walter Junior puts his dad to bed and Walter's all mumbling and out of it and he CALLS HIM JESSE!!! I "awwwwwwwed" loudly. OK, so maybe he meant it after all. Now just say it to Jesse, asshole.
Meanwhile, Saul meets with Ted Beneke -- to notify him of a "dead great-aunt" who has left him "an inheritance" -- i.e., Skyler is giving this asshole Walter's money!! It's the right decision though I guess -- can't have the government poking around in your stuff when you're a White. But really? Dead relative? Wonder if that'll stick. But the best part? Saul gets to be all, "I told you so" to Skyler because he brings her Ted's credit report - hours after getting the money, he leased a Mercedes. Ha! Love it! Ted's a freaking dirtbag and Skyler's plan didn't work -- she better let him have it. Ted doesn't want to take Skyler's advice - he wants to fight the IRS and get his business going instead. I kind of love that her plan has fallen apart and she doesn't have any control over the situation. But then Skyler can't resist - she tells him that she gave him the money. UGH!
The Three Amigos hang out by Don Eladio's pool, the site of Gus's BF's death so many years ago. Gus hands over Jesse as the new cook, like he's a bride or a slave, and then presents the boss with his gift -- tequila. I should mention at this point that, while looking at the pool wistfully, Gus took a pill. Mike (my husband, not the character) immediately goes -- "he took an antidote." Tequila shots proceed to be passed around all the Cartel guys. And Jesse can't drink because he's in recovery. OMFG MIKE IS RIGHT!!!!!! After a bit, everyone starts collapsing and Mike strangles the security guy. Gus pukes and is a bit affected by the poison, but walks out with Jesse and Mike's assistance.
I love this. Love it. How does Gus continue to be so goddamn brilliant? He took out the Cartel!!!!!!!!!!! It took 20 years but he got revenge! Jesse and Mike load Gus into a car -- and then a dude opens fire. He hits Mike and I scream, and then Jesse takes his ass out. He shoots him 100 times like he's playing his goddamn video game. Mike's still alive, so that's good. And Jesse the hero drives them away. Jesse. The Motherlovin' Hero. Who needs Walter White? Jesse = the man. Holy crap.
That episode was amazing.
As is tradition, we re-watch the previous week's episode of Breaking Bad before watching the new one. God, that fight was amazing. Watching it for the first time, I was so afraid someone was going to pull out a gun - I just wouldn't put it past this show to do. And now watching it again, when things are less tense, GODDAMN I HATE WALTER WHITE!!! This man doesn't realize what he's done to Jesse. Remember innocent, goofy little screw-up dimebagger Jesse? With the messy hair and baggy clothes? Now we have this cold, haunted, dark skinhead version of Jesse who wears kickass black leather jackets. And Walter doesn't care. Jesse's reaching out to him for help, plus warning Walter about the imminent cartel war -- and Walter can only think of himself. He doesn't realize what he's made this kid do for him and how it has impacted him. He doesn't trust Jesse after Jesse killed Gale for him? Walter stinks and even if it means Jesse has to become a career criminal, I'm all for Mike being Jesse's New Daddy. At any rate, I'm glad Jesse got to take out all of this frustration on Walter, since I wasn't able to.
OK - on with this week's episode. Mike, Jesse, and Gus board a prop plane in the middle of nowhere and Gus is holding a gift-wrapped box. Seriously? If this were the series finale I would be sure it contained Walter's head.
Walter himself is MIA so Skyler presents Walter Jr. with his 16th birthday present - a car. And it's a PT Cruiser - OK, that's hysterical!!! After the Charger? Nice ride, Junior.
The Three Amigos are blindfolded and taken to a Super Lab in Mexico where Jesse has to be the main dude and teach the formula. Go Jesse! At first he's thrown (he says he gets a chemical from "the barrel with the bee on it" whereas they expect him to synthesize it). But then he's awesome -- lectures them on the cleanliness of their lab, bosses them around, it's brilliant. He's so badass and Mike is so proud!!!!!! Gus too! Once Jesse passes his Cooking Exam, the Cartel tells him he's staying with them in Mexico. Wha??
Walter Jr. swings by Walter's place and Walter answers the door the only way I like him to -- bloodied, and in his tighty whities. His cover story to Junior is that he was gambling and got in a fight, and begs him not to tell Skyler. He starts crying and says he made a mistake and I'm hoping it's not an act on his part (though I'll bet it is) and that he's finally upset over what he did with Jesse. Walter Junior puts his dad to bed and Walter's all mumbling and out of it and he CALLS HIM JESSE!!! I "awwwwwwwed" loudly. OK, so maybe he meant it after all. Now just say it to Jesse, asshole.
Meanwhile, Saul meets with Ted Beneke -- to notify him of a "dead great-aunt" who has left him "an inheritance" -- i.e., Skyler is giving this asshole Walter's money!! It's the right decision though I guess -- can't have the government poking around in your stuff when you're a White. But really? Dead relative? Wonder if that'll stick. But the best part? Saul gets to be all, "I told you so" to Skyler because he brings her Ted's credit report - hours after getting the money, he leased a Mercedes. Ha! Love it! Ted's a freaking dirtbag and Skyler's plan didn't work -- she better let him have it. Ted doesn't want to take Skyler's advice - he wants to fight the IRS and get his business going instead. I kind of love that her plan has fallen apart and she doesn't have any control over the situation. But then Skyler can't resist - she tells him that she gave him the money. UGH!
The Three Amigos hang out by Don Eladio's pool, the site of Gus's BF's death so many years ago. Gus hands over Jesse as the new cook, like he's a bride or a slave, and then presents the boss with his gift -- tequila. I should mention at this point that, while looking at the pool wistfully, Gus took a pill. Mike (my husband, not the character) immediately goes -- "he took an antidote." Tequila shots proceed to be passed around all the Cartel guys. And Jesse can't drink because he's in recovery. OMFG MIKE IS RIGHT!!!!!! After a bit, everyone starts collapsing and Mike strangles the security guy. Gus pukes and is a bit affected by the poison, but walks out with Jesse and Mike's assistance.
I love this. Love it. How does Gus continue to be so goddamn brilliant? He took out the Cartel!!!!!!!!!!! It took 20 years but he got revenge! Jesse and Mike load Gus into a car -- and then a dude opens fire. He hits Mike and I scream, and then Jesse takes his ass out. He shoots him 100 times like he's playing his goddamn video game. Mike's still alive, so that's good. And Jesse the hero drives them away. Jesse. The Motherlovin' Hero. Who needs Walter White? Jesse = the man. Holy crap.
That episode was amazing.
The Emmys Are Tonight
Hey, so remember The Emmys last year? When I was all, "Who the eff is this Aaron Paul punk and why does Bryan Cranston keep winning awards?"
Yeah. 2010 Me stinks -- what an idiot.
Yeah. 2010 Me stinks -- what an idiot.
11 September 2011
Breaking Bad
Another violence warning!! Eeeeee! The cold open is Walter dripping blood on the floor and reaching for his broken glasses.
It's cool to see Hank all jazzed up and happy again, singing "Eye of the Tiger" (badly) as Walter drives him to retrieve the GPS tracking device from Gus's car. Of course, the device only shows Gus going from home to work and back again. But Hank won't let it go - he's interested in the chicken farm now. Walter calls Mike to give him the tip that they'll be coming by soon, and Mike starts supervising the cleaning he does so well.
Walter sees Gus's guy following them into Hank's neighborhood -- and that badass Walt pulls up alongside the car, rolls the window down, and calls the cops on him!!! Then he bums a cigarette from Jesse outside the lab. Oh Jesus, Walter's on a hot streak, watch out.
The car wash business is going so well that Skyler tells Walter he doesn't have to work his second job anymore. Time to think about an exit strategy. (Yeah, bitch, he's all over that.) Ted stops by the car wash to tell Skyler he's being audited by the IRS - criminal division. She's in a panic because her name is all over his books, and she certainly can't afford getting wrapped up in an audit. She shows up to the audit with a ton of makeup and her fat tits hanging out. No one wants that, Skyler. She plays dumb, like she's a dumb bimbo twat accountant who uses Quicken (oh guess what - she is, that's not much of an act). So it appears Ted will be off the hook for the criminal charges, but he still owes a ton of money -- and he's driving around in a car as bad as Jesse's. I hope this bitch doesn't pay his bills.
As they're cleaning up the chicken farm, a sniper shoots a dude in the head right in front of Jesse. Mike tackles Jesse to get him out of the sniper's range. Then Gus walks his bad-as-shit ass out of the warehouse, walking toward the gunman, shots ringing out the whole time. He opens his arms wide, silently saying, "Come and get me bitches, I dare you!" (Jesse later calls it "Terminator shit" because Jesse rules.) The sniper leaves. Later, Gus gets a call and says, "Tell them the answer is Yes."
Mike and Jesse bring the dude's body to the lab, a/k/a Walter's House of Meth Cooking and Body Disposal. Mike tells Walter to quit with the calling cops on his guys - Mike is the MAN tonight!!
Jesse shows up to Gus's for a dinner date because he's had some questions, and Mike said they should just speak directly. Gus asks Jesse if he can cook Walter's formula. Jesse says no, and that if Gus kills Mr. White he'll have to kill him too. Gus says that's not what he asked....
So earlier we saw that Walter had a tracking device on his end table. He uses it to track Jesse -- so he knows he met with Gus. Jesse calls Walter over to his house, where Jesse tells him he's being sent to Mexico so that he can give the Cartel the formula and teach them how to cook it. Walter just sits there and listens as Jesse rambles on, then finally confronts him on his dinner date and the not-killing-Gus. They proceed to beat the crap out of each other. These 2 just need to do it already.
Jesse asks Walter if he can walk. "Then get the fuck out of here and never come back." That was intense and awesome. And I'm sure the whole formula thing is the truth too - even if Walter didn't buy it -- that the Cartel doesn't really want Walter dead, that they want the formula.
Next week: Mike and Jesse take their show on the road to Mexico!!
It's cool to see Hank all jazzed up and happy again, singing "Eye of the Tiger" (badly) as Walter drives him to retrieve the GPS tracking device from Gus's car. Of course, the device only shows Gus going from home to work and back again. But Hank won't let it go - he's interested in the chicken farm now. Walter calls Mike to give him the tip that they'll be coming by soon, and Mike starts supervising the cleaning he does so well.
Walter sees Gus's guy following them into Hank's neighborhood -- and that badass Walt pulls up alongside the car, rolls the window down, and calls the cops on him!!! Then he bums a cigarette from Jesse outside the lab. Oh Jesus, Walter's on a hot streak, watch out.
The car wash business is going so well that Skyler tells Walter he doesn't have to work his second job anymore. Time to think about an exit strategy. (Yeah, bitch, he's all over that.) Ted stops by the car wash to tell Skyler he's being audited by the IRS - criminal division. She's in a panic because her name is all over his books, and she certainly can't afford getting wrapped up in an audit. She shows up to the audit with a ton of makeup and her fat tits hanging out. No one wants that, Skyler. She plays dumb, like she's a dumb bimbo twat accountant who uses Quicken (oh guess what - she is, that's not much of an act). So it appears Ted will be off the hook for the criminal charges, but he still owes a ton of money -- and he's driving around in a car as bad as Jesse's. I hope this bitch doesn't pay his bills.
As they're cleaning up the chicken farm, a sniper shoots a dude in the head right in front of Jesse. Mike tackles Jesse to get him out of the sniper's range. Then Gus walks his bad-as-shit ass out of the warehouse, walking toward the gunman, shots ringing out the whole time. He opens his arms wide, silently saying, "Come and get me bitches, I dare you!" (Jesse later calls it "Terminator shit" because Jesse rules.) The sniper leaves. Later, Gus gets a call and says, "Tell them the answer is Yes."
Mike and Jesse bring the dude's body to the lab, a/k/a Walter's House of Meth Cooking and Body Disposal. Mike tells Walter to quit with the calling cops on his guys - Mike is the MAN tonight!!
Jesse shows up to Gus's for a dinner date because he's had some questions, and Mike said they should just speak directly. Gus asks Jesse if he can cook Walter's formula. Jesse says no, and that if Gus kills Mr. White he'll have to kill him too. Gus says that's not what he asked....
So earlier we saw that Walter had a tracking device on his end table. He uses it to track Jesse -- so he knows he met with Gus. Jesse calls Walter over to his house, where Jesse tells him he's being sent to Mexico so that he can give the Cartel the formula and teach them how to cook it. Walter just sits there and listens as Jesse rambles on, then finally confronts him on his dinner date and the not-killing-Gus. They proceed to beat the crap out of each other. These 2 just need to do it already.
Jesse asks Walter if he can walk. "Then get the fuck out of here and never come back." That was intense and awesome. And I'm sure the whole formula thing is the truth too - even if Walter didn't buy it -- that the Cartel doesn't really want Walter dead, that they want the formula.
Next week: Mike and Jesse take their show on the road to Mexico!!
04 September 2011
Breaking Bad
I think we can all agree that Breaking Bad is as perfect as television gets. And if you don't agree, then you likely haven't seen it. Get on that. There are very few things about this show that have ever rung false. But when rewatching last week's episode tonight, I realized we got one of those odd moments -- Gale was 34 years old. Yeah. Right. If he was 34, then I'm 15. I mean, some people go prematurely gray, but that man looks ollld. Rant over. (But seriously, Breaking Bad, what the hell? Thanks for just being near-perfect.)
We start off tonight with a violence warning!!! YESSSSSSS!
Walter's back at the hospital for a routine checkup, talking to a fellow cancer patient about how he has control over his life. Sure. God, I love little scenes like that that say so much about the kind of man Walter is - an out of control, panicking bastard who wants to pretend he's cool, calm, and collected.
The DEA and APB call Gus in and tell him his fingerprints were found at the scene of a drug-related homicide. Oh god, here we go. But Gus has his cover at the ready -- Gale was the recipient of a chemistry scholarship he had established. They were just getting reacquainted and had dinner, that's all. Hank drops the nugget that Gustavo Fring might not be his real name, that there's no evidence of him before the 1980's in Mexico. Gus covers that up by blaming the Chilean dictator. Smooth.
Saul drops cash off to Jesse's old GF, who has found a nice place to live for her and her son. Meanwhile, Skyler's hiding fat stacks of cash in those vacuum-packed bags, hidden amongst clothes.
Walter gives Hank a drive to Pollos, and Hank tells him that he thinks Gus is a major meth drug lord. Walter starts losing his shit, quietly, as you would expect. Hank asks Walter to put a GPS tracker on Gus's car. And at that moment, Mike pulls up in the parking lot. Pulls up, sees Walter talking to Hank, exchanges meaningful glances, and sits there. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Walter pretends to put the tracker on the car, but then goes into the restaurant and shows it to Gus. Gus tells him to go ahead and do it, and so he does. But Walter's in control of his life. Right.
Walter rushes to the lab and tells the camera all about Hank's suspicions, and pretty much begs Gus not to harm Hank. I love when Walter has one-sided conversations with the camera. Then he rushes to Jesse's house to get a progress report; he wants Gus to get got tonight. He tells Jesse that Hank's on to Gus, and if Gus goes down they'd go with him. He has a whole elaborate plan for how Jesse should demand to see Gus (of course he does). Then he sees a text from Mike that was talking about a meeting with Gus that got canceled. So now he knows that Jesse has seen Gus since the diner, is closer with Gus than he thought, and yet hasn't killed him as he was instructed. Jesse's not your little bitch boy anymore, Walter White!!!
Mike did some digging around and found out that Hank is doing this investigation on his own, that Gus isn't considered a suspect by real law enforcement. But he tells Gus he's concerned that the combination of the Cartel + Hank could be a perfect storm. Gus removes the GPS tracking device from his car and goes to visit the bell-ringing Uncle. (God, that man terrifies me like no other. At least there's no bell ringing tonight.)
Flashback to the 1980s when Gus and the other Pollo Hermano meet with the head of the Cartel, along with the Uncle. The Hermanos are cooking up more than just good chicken - they're cooking up the "drug of the future" - meth. Jesus, Gus really gave birth to the whole meth movement!
Anyway, Gus's partner does the cooking while Gus is the business guy. The head of the cartel wants to know - if he cooks, why do I need you? It's all so much like when Gus, Tuco, and everyone else wondered why they needed Jesse if Walter was the cook. Gus's partner assures everyone that he needs Gus, and then Gus's partner is shot in the head by the Uncle. And there's where our violence warning comes from, as he bleeds into the pool behind him. (That's it? I've seen way worse from this show - like, say, the season premiere. They raised those stakes, dammit!) We see Gus as a sniveling man, out of control, who is kept alive due to some past connection, and is told to stick with chicken. Interesting parallels with Walter there, as Walter tries to grow himself a big set of Gus Fring balls and become a drug kingpin of his own.
We start off tonight with a violence warning!!! YESSSSSSS!
Walter's back at the hospital for a routine checkup, talking to a fellow cancer patient about how he has control over his life. Sure. God, I love little scenes like that that say so much about the kind of man Walter is - an out of control, panicking bastard who wants to pretend he's cool, calm, and collected.
The DEA and APB call Gus in and tell him his fingerprints were found at the scene of a drug-related homicide. Oh god, here we go. But Gus has his cover at the ready -- Gale was the recipient of a chemistry scholarship he had established. They were just getting reacquainted and had dinner, that's all. Hank drops the nugget that Gustavo Fring might not be his real name, that there's no evidence of him before the 1980's in Mexico. Gus covers that up by blaming the Chilean dictator. Smooth.
Saul drops cash off to Jesse's old GF, who has found a nice place to live for her and her son. Meanwhile, Skyler's hiding fat stacks of cash in those vacuum-packed bags, hidden amongst clothes.
Walter gives Hank a drive to Pollos, and Hank tells him that he thinks Gus is a major meth drug lord. Walter starts losing his shit, quietly, as you would expect. Hank asks Walter to put a GPS tracker on Gus's car. And at that moment, Mike pulls up in the parking lot. Pulls up, sees Walter talking to Hank, exchanges meaningful glances, and sits there. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Walter pretends to put the tracker on the car, but then goes into the restaurant and shows it to Gus. Gus tells him to go ahead and do it, and so he does. But Walter's in control of his life. Right.
Walter rushes to the lab and tells the camera all about Hank's suspicions, and pretty much begs Gus not to harm Hank. I love when Walter has one-sided conversations with the camera. Then he rushes to Jesse's house to get a progress report; he wants Gus to get got tonight. He tells Jesse that Hank's on to Gus, and if Gus goes down they'd go with him. He has a whole elaborate plan for how Jesse should demand to see Gus (of course he does). Then he sees a text from Mike that was talking about a meeting with Gus that got canceled. So now he knows that Jesse has seen Gus since the diner, is closer with Gus than he thought, and yet hasn't killed him as he was instructed. Jesse's not your little bitch boy anymore, Walter White!!!
Mike did some digging around and found out that Hank is doing this investigation on his own, that Gus isn't considered a suspect by real law enforcement. But he tells Gus he's concerned that the combination of the Cartel + Hank could be a perfect storm. Gus removes the GPS tracking device from his car and goes to visit the bell-ringing Uncle. (God, that man terrifies me like no other. At least there's no bell ringing tonight.)
Flashback to the 1980s when Gus and the other Pollo Hermano meet with the head of the Cartel, along with the Uncle. The Hermanos are cooking up more than just good chicken - they're cooking up the "drug of the future" - meth. Jesus, Gus really gave birth to the whole meth movement!
Anyway, Gus's partner does the cooking while Gus is the business guy. The head of the cartel wants to know - if he cooks, why do I need you? It's all so much like when Gus, Tuco, and everyone else wondered why they needed Jesse if Walter was the cook. Gus's partner assures everyone that he needs Gus, and then Gus's partner is shot in the head by the Uncle. And there's where our violence warning comes from, as he bleeds into the pool behind him. (That's it? I've seen way worse from this show - like, say, the season premiere. They raised those stakes, dammit!) We see Gus as a sniveling man, out of control, who is kept alive due to some past connection, and is told to stick with chicken. Interesting parallels with Walter there, as Walter tries to grow himself a big set of Gus Fring balls and become a drug kingpin of his own.
29 August 2011
Breaking Bad
Jesse uses a video game for shooting practice. Oh how innocent and sweet this little killer is. He also has visions of shooting Gale along with the zombies, but at least he's alone in his meth house. That kid is on his way to becoming a killer for a drug lord and 10 bucks says he kills Walter before the show's over. (The whole series, not this episode.)
Skyler made arrangements with the car dealership to take the Challenger back, and instructs Walter to do so. Of course she did. Instead, he takes it to an empty parking lot to do insane donuts and pretend he's a stunt driver. And then he lights the thing on fire and blows it up. Ol' "rebellious" Walt. Gotta love the asshole.
At this point on Sunday, my power went out and I cursed God's existence. Now to finish watching courtesy of Amazon....
Walter visits Saul who gets him out of trouble for the destruction of property. It's gonna set him back $52,000, not to mention the cost of the car. This giant idiot. Saul has a lot of audio tapes in his safe and that makes me laugh - gotta wonder what kind of conversations he has saved up and why. Walter asks Saul to find a hitman to get Gus. Saul suggests Craigslist, but then says that Jesse can get near Gus.
Walter visits Jesse, who is painting the living room, finishing the former meth house's conversion. Walter's suspicious about (and likely insane with jealousy/paranoia over) Gus seeing something in Jesse. He does the patented Walter White Manipulation on Jesse, bringing up the whole past with Gus, the death of his girlfriend's brother, etc. "Is it possible he'd think you're that weak-willed?" Jesus Christ, Walter is cruel. Jesse tells him to drop the sales pitch, that he'll kill Gus the first chance he gets.
Walter supplies Jesse with Ricin to slip into Gus's food or drink. Jesse hides it in a cigarette, and now I have to be nervous every time he sees Gus. He's going to get caught with it, he just isn't that good.... Wonder if he'll go through with it - or if he'll accidentally smoke it.
Under Skyler's management, the car wash rocks an awesome 80's soundtrack. Walter brings in $274,000 in cash with the Coke Zero. Waaaahhhh, it's too much for Skyler to launder through the car wash, waaaahhh. Oh, looks like some fat bitch is over her head. She stinks.
Hank is walking with a walker, and he and Walter Jr. take their crippled asses to a Pollos for lunch. Gus comes to greet them and even offers Junior a job. Ha! That would be hilarious - Junior working the legitimate side of the business. Gus grabs Hank a refill, and Hank grabs the cup for fingerprints. SHIT! I sooo don't want Gus to get caught!
It's Meeting Day at the chicken farm. Gus v. The Cartel. There are TONS of security dudes around. Jesse brings the requisite veggie platter, and Mike also gives him a gun - for emergencies only. The Cartel turns out to be one dude who is the spokesperson for the group. Gus offers him 50 million dollars to conclude all business. But the Cartel wants something else, and we're left hanging.
Jesse goes back to his rehab group meeting, and tells them he's 4 days sober. Yay! He also tells the group that he killed Gale, but by saying he killed a problem dog. Long story short, Aaron Paul earns his second Emmy. The group leader doesn't want people judging Jesse for his actions, but Jesse says there are some things you just shouldn't "accept". Throws it back in his face about running over his own kid and everything. I pretty much just sat there in stunned silence. Oh, self-loathing Jesse, you are painful to watch.
Hank's back at work, walking with a cane. He linked the writing on Gale's Pollo bag with a model number for a huge air filter, the air filter to Pollos... and Gus's fingerprints to Gale's apartment. Holy Jesus. It's all coming down, son!!!!!
Skyler made arrangements with the car dealership to take the Challenger back, and instructs Walter to do so. Of course she did. Instead, he takes it to an empty parking lot to do insane donuts and pretend he's a stunt driver. And then he lights the thing on fire and blows it up. Ol' "rebellious" Walt. Gotta love the asshole.
At this point on Sunday, my power went out and I cursed God's existence. Now to finish watching courtesy of Amazon....
Walter visits Saul who gets him out of trouble for the destruction of property. It's gonna set him back $52,000, not to mention the cost of the car. This giant idiot. Saul has a lot of audio tapes in his safe and that makes me laugh - gotta wonder what kind of conversations he has saved up and why. Walter asks Saul to find a hitman to get Gus. Saul suggests Craigslist, but then says that Jesse can get near Gus.
Walter visits Jesse, who is painting the living room, finishing the former meth house's conversion. Walter's suspicious about (and likely insane with jealousy/paranoia over) Gus seeing something in Jesse. He does the patented Walter White Manipulation on Jesse, bringing up the whole past with Gus, the death of his girlfriend's brother, etc. "Is it possible he'd think you're that weak-willed?" Jesus Christ, Walter is cruel. Jesse tells him to drop the sales pitch, that he'll kill Gus the first chance he gets.
Walter supplies Jesse with Ricin to slip into Gus's food or drink. Jesse hides it in a cigarette, and now I have to be nervous every time he sees Gus. He's going to get caught with it, he just isn't that good.... Wonder if he'll go through with it - or if he'll accidentally smoke it.
Under Skyler's management, the car wash rocks an awesome 80's soundtrack. Walter brings in $274,000 in cash with the Coke Zero. Waaaahhhh, it's too much for Skyler to launder through the car wash, waaaahhh. Oh, looks like some fat bitch is over her head. She stinks.
Hank is walking with a walker, and he and Walter Jr. take their crippled asses to a Pollos for lunch. Gus comes to greet them and even offers Junior a job. Ha! That would be hilarious - Junior working the legitimate side of the business. Gus grabs Hank a refill, and Hank grabs the cup for fingerprints. SHIT! I sooo don't want Gus to get caught!
It's Meeting Day at the chicken farm. Gus v. The Cartel. There are TONS of security dudes around. Jesse brings the requisite veggie platter, and Mike also gives him a gun - for emergencies only. The Cartel turns out to be one dude who is the spokesperson for the group. Gus offers him 50 million dollars to conclude all business. But the Cartel wants something else, and we're left hanging.
Jesse goes back to his rehab group meeting, and tells them he's 4 days sober. Yay! He also tells the group that he killed Gale, but by saying he killed a problem dog. Long story short, Aaron Paul earns his second Emmy. The group leader doesn't want people judging Jesse for his actions, but Jesse says there are some things you just shouldn't "accept". Throws it back in his face about running over his own kid and everything. I pretty much just sat there in stunned silence. Oh, self-loathing Jesse, you are painful to watch.
Hank's back at work, walking with a cane. He linked the writing on Gale's Pollo bag with a model number for a huge air filter, the air filter to Pollos... and Gus's fingerprints to Gale's apartment. Holy Jesus. It's all coming down, son!!!!!
21 August 2011
Breaking Bad
We open like we did a couple weeks ago, with the interior of a Pollos Hermanos truck. This time it's not Mike, but two armed guys inside. They're ambushed again, but instead of being shot up, exhaust fumes are fed into the back of the truck until they die. The ambushers know just what they're looking for - the marked batter bucket that contains the meth.
When we last left Walter, he couldn't keep his whore mouth shut. Now it's the next day, and Skyler has done her research on Gale while Walter was passed out. Walter wants to treat the meth business and home life as "church and state," but of course that's not going to be good enough for Skyler. She's worried that he wants to be caught, and she reiterates that they need to go to the police if he's in danger. Walter awesomely puts her in her place, tells her to STFU, and says that HE'S the danger, that he's the one who knocks on doors. Oh god, he's such a phony, emasculated, condescending prick; I love it. When Walter gets out of the shower, Skyler's gone. She stays gone overnight too, and the next day Walter's out with Junior and buys him a car. A brand new sportscar. Because of course Walter wants to prove himself to be the man in his son's eyes. Bastard.
Jesse's still working his second job with Mike, which tonight involves keeping him company at a diner. Jesse's got some withdrawal symptoms going on, so Mike nicely shares his dinner. OMG, these two, seriously - love it! Forget that Gucci Zen rehab - the Mike method is going to stick!!
Walter is sooo hot and bothered over Jesse's new standing in the company. He just wants subservient Jesse back so - once again - he can feel like The Man. He tells Jesse that he thinks the whole thing is a setup by Gus, that he's trying to drive a wedge between them. Goddammit, man, let Jesse feel good for 10 seconds!
In the lab, the phone rings. It's for Jesse. He's called out on assignment and Walter's left to clean up. Walter tries to get some laundry ladies to come downstairs to help him. They initially don't want to, because I'm sure they're told never to go downstairs, but he convinces them/bribes them to do it. So he freaking pours himself a cup of coffee, toasts the camera, and lets the ladies do the work. Jesus, this whole thing is one giant chess match. I love it.
Gus rewards the ladies with a bus trip back to Honduras.
Mike and Jesse are watching a house that's suspected of holding stolen meth. Jesse's not one to just wait around, so he goes to the house "looking to buy." It doesn't work, so back to Mike's original plan - 90% of the job is waiting. But no, Jesse's still not satisfied and he's gonna get those guys to come out - "I know meth heads." He gets the shovel from the trunk and starts digging in their yard. A junkie comes out to see what he's doing. "Digging." Jesse uses his Meth Whisperer skills and gets the junkie to take over the digging. Once inside the house, Jesse has a bit of a standoff with another unstable, gun-toting meth head (Dewey Crowe!), but knocks him out with a bong. He and Mike find a Pollos batter bucket and there's a message written in Spanish - "Are you ready to talk?"
Gus stops by where Mike and Jesse are having another romantic dinner. Jesse goes outside so the big boys can talk. Mike wants to hire 10-15 guys to hit back hard, but Gus wants a Cold War. He's willing to set up a meeting. When he leaves, he tells Jesse he heard he's been doing well. And says that he sees things in people, when Jesse asks, "Why me?"
While Skyler was out, she visited the Four Corners and threw a coin, which landed in Colorado twice. But she kicked it over into New Mexico and returns home. She wants the car gone, because of course it doesn't fit in with their story. "Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family." BURN. This bitch is officially Carmela Soprano.
When we last left Walter, he couldn't keep his whore mouth shut. Now it's the next day, and Skyler has done her research on Gale while Walter was passed out. Walter wants to treat the meth business and home life as "church and state," but of course that's not going to be good enough for Skyler. She's worried that he wants to be caught, and she reiterates that they need to go to the police if he's in danger. Walter awesomely puts her in her place, tells her to STFU, and says that HE'S the danger, that he's the one who knocks on doors. Oh god, he's such a phony, emasculated, condescending prick; I love it. When Walter gets out of the shower, Skyler's gone. She stays gone overnight too, and the next day Walter's out with Junior and buys him a car. A brand new sportscar. Because of course Walter wants to prove himself to be the man in his son's eyes. Bastard.
Jesse's still working his second job with Mike, which tonight involves keeping him company at a diner. Jesse's got some withdrawal symptoms going on, so Mike nicely shares his dinner. OMG, these two, seriously - love it! Forget that Gucci Zen rehab - the Mike method is going to stick!!
Walter is sooo hot and bothered over Jesse's new standing in the company. He just wants subservient Jesse back so - once again - he can feel like The Man. He tells Jesse that he thinks the whole thing is a setup by Gus, that he's trying to drive a wedge between them. Goddammit, man, let Jesse feel good for 10 seconds!
In the lab, the phone rings. It's for Jesse. He's called out on assignment and Walter's left to clean up. Walter tries to get some laundry ladies to come downstairs to help him. They initially don't want to, because I'm sure they're told never to go downstairs, but he convinces them/bribes them to do it. So he freaking pours himself a cup of coffee, toasts the camera, and lets the ladies do the work. Jesus, this whole thing is one giant chess match. I love it.
Gus rewards the ladies with a bus trip back to Honduras.
Mike and Jesse are watching a house that's suspected of holding stolen meth. Jesse's not one to just wait around, so he goes to the house "looking to buy." It doesn't work, so back to Mike's original plan - 90% of the job is waiting. But no, Jesse's still not satisfied and he's gonna get those guys to come out - "I know meth heads." He gets the shovel from the trunk and starts digging in their yard. A junkie comes out to see what he's doing. "Digging." Jesse uses his Meth Whisperer skills and gets the junkie to take over the digging. Once inside the house, Jesse has a bit of a standoff with another unstable, gun-toting meth head (Dewey Crowe!), but knocks him out with a bong. He and Mike find a Pollos batter bucket and there's a message written in Spanish - "Are you ready to talk?"
Gus stops by where Mike and Jesse are having another romantic dinner. Jesse goes outside so the big boys can talk. Mike wants to hire 10-15 guys to hit back hard, but Gus wants a Cold War. He's willing to set up a meeting. When he leaves, he tells Jesse he heard he's been doing well. And says that he sees things in people, when Jesse asks, "Why me?"
While Skyler was out, she visited the Four Corners and threw a coin, which landed in Colorado twice. But she kicked it over into New Mexico and returns home. She wants the car gone, because of course it doesn't fit in with their story. "Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family." BURN. This bitch is officially Carmela Soprano.
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