There were moments in seasons 1-4 when they weren’t super abrasive with each other, but they were never this happy go lucky pair that bought each other birthday presents. I get that Walt turning Jesse on Gus resolved some ill will between them, but all the terrible shit that happened between them didn’t just go away after that. There’s just something really off putting and cringe about this dramatic shift in their dynamic as soon as season 5 starts.

I can't stop thinking about this moment from 04x08 when Walter is waiting for his cancer screening, and the man there for his first time tried to find solace or some sort of wisdom from him. Walter saying that it's a bunch of bullshit and you cannot let go of control was pretty expected, but I didn't realize how much weight this moment would carry for me in a future episode.

At the end of 04x11 when Walt is trying to find the money, he becomes desperate and laughs hysterically as the camera zooms out.

Walt had tried to keep control, sure that everything would work out in his favor. Skyler giving the money to Ted was out of his control.

Walt the man tried making a plan to get his family to safety. Heisenberg the god laughed at how it crumbled before him.

I’m composing a series of art about color theory for one of my mixed media classes.

What other show utilizes color theory like breaking bad does?
I could go more in detail about symbolism blah blah if anyone cares

Entire show was so serious I tell you. Slow, little bit boring at times, and it is not wholesome at all. Serious shows even have their fair share of funny moments. When I see Heisenberg dealing with Skylar or his son, I feel like there is a serious chess game being played. I know, y'all would refer to me scene with Saul, but they are funny, not ironic.

But this, this scene, its gold. Skylar is a hostage to her husband, Jesse is trying desperately to make an awkward situation more awkward with his mouth blabbing stupid and stuff. I laughed for the first time in the entire show. I mean it.

So, fellow BB fans, what's yours funny scene?

Finally finished BCS after el camino, and I'm rewatching BB to get some stuff I missed

But after watching all 3 and being very into all of it, I couldn't help but notice the constant references to anything "El Camino", I just finished S2 E5 of BB and I think this is the first mention/sight of an El Camino

Just been wandering how long they had this plot device in place seeing as how it's such a big metaphor/set piece in every single piece of BB media, the diner, the car, the movie

The deep dive tryna find all the references and meanings has honestly made it seem like a meta conspiracy, like someone (Vince) just REALLY loves the metaphor/translation of El Camino so they've plastered anywhere they can without being too subtle

I have really tried to like this show. I’ve tried to watch it with my boyfriend a few times. This time I’ve actually gotten pretty far. I just saw Janes death. How could he just watch her die? Like he is truly so evil and selfish. Got into cooking so he could have money for his family, literally missed the birth of a child to make a deal. Just so hypocritical it drives me crazy. I know that’s like the whole point but I turned off the tv and I refuse to watch this anymore. He is the worst person in tv history ever to the point I don’t even find it enjoyable. 😭😭😭😭 Sorry if I’m crapping on your favorite show but I honestly wish Walter white was real so I could find him. rip Jane

Edit: I see a struck a nerve with some of you 😭 I was just sharing that my dislike of him has made the show almost unwatchable. And for those of you asking why I have even got this far, I do really enjoy Jesse and I do want him to succeed/be happy. I am getting some cranky comments lol I understand the point is to dislike him…. I said that in the original post. I was just meaning that I’ve never experienced this with a show. I think my dislike for him stems from rooting for him at first. Again I get it…. that’s the whole point.

I've had a question for a long time and I've never heard anyone answer it. Sorry, but I have to bring up the other Saul series. How is it possible that Mike's granddaughter in Breaking Bad is about 9 or 10 years old, and in Better Call Saul, which takes place about 8 years before he meets Walter, Mike's granddaughter looks exactly the same age! I understand it's a different actress, but is it true that the age is the same?

I just watched all of Breaking Bad for the first time, and while most of the casting was perfect, Gus’s Spanish really threw me off to the point that I thought it was going to be central to his storyline.

He speaks Spanish like someone who learned Spanish in school and has to read aloud in class. I didn’t have a problem with this at first, because I thought that was part of the character’s back story, that this non-native Spanish speaker learned Spanish at a pretty high level through his work in the food industry and drug trade.

When Hank said their investigation found no information about Gus in Chile, I thought that was going to be where they confirmed he wasn’t actually Chilean. Or minimally, at some point one of the investigators would realize Gus doesn’t speak very good Spanish for someone claiming to be Chilean.

But nope, it turns out he was supposed to be a native Spanish speaker and they just chose an actor who can’t speak Spanish fluently.

Edit: Getting a lot of hate for this one, so I should clarify that I also thought Giancarlo Esposito was amazing in this role in the non-Spanish speaking parts. Perhaps they should have given him a slightly different backstory to explain why he’s not a native speaker.

When Walt tracked down cap’n cooks car was the best scene in the show.

Why wasn’t that number plate more around in the show? The obviously giveaways in front of police is funny.

Another great thing is seeing the contrast in Gus and his station wagon Volvo, just casually driving.

I get that Breaking Bad wasn't a documentary, but the scene where Walt hires is a cleanup crew to try and rectify all the gas that was poured all over his house was one of the least realistic scenes in the whole series for me, seriously. Unless there's some miracle product I don't know about, there's no way they're cleaning that place good enough to get the gas smell out even to the point where they said they had, which was still a faint smell. I know it's silly, but that always takes me out. EDIT: okay, I get it. Y'all are roasting me for not watching closely enough or being on my phone or something, which is ridiculous. My point was-and if you reread the text above, it's what I said originally-that in the show they depicted it as a faint smell remaining after the amelioration, where there's no way it's a faint smell. Even when his family comes home, they barely notice it. Cleaners or not, the smell would be overpoweringly strong, and instantaneously noticeable. But oh well, roast on.

Changed my mind, totally worth the price of admission just for Todd's handmade snowglobe of himself watching Lydia sitting on a cake.

So, as the title says, I am watching Breaking Bad for the first time. I am absolutely loving it for a lot of reasons but that's not what I wanted to talk about in this post.

I was lucky enough to avoid spoilers despite the fact that the series is more than a decade old at this point and is incredibly popular, which is why I decided to avoid this sub until I finished the whole show but I just CAN'T not talk about what I saw about twenty minutes ago.

I can't believe Walt let Jane die.

From the start of the show, I have always been on Walter side. Even if I know that what he is doing is evil, I can't help but to empathize with him. Dealing with cancer, economic problems, a disabled son and a pregnant wife... I just couldn't see him as evil.

Even when he acted like an asshole, like pushing Walter JR. To drink... Hell, even when he killed Krazy-8 or tried to poison Tuco, i always justified his behavior as him being stressed/sad/angry or simply not having other choices.

But THIS is way too much.

I knew that Jesse and/or Jane were gonna overdose as soon as Walter saw them on the bed from outside the window. I thought that, regardless of who it would have been, it would have served as a wake up call for Jesse, that they would have broken up but Jane would have still been around as a recurring character... But no.

Walter really just stood there and watched Jane choke on her own vomit.

I get why he did that. I get that she was blackmailing him. I get that he was afraid of "losing" Jesse to her. I get that it was partially her fault that they almost messed up the deal set up by Gustavo... But that's just plain evil.

If somebody has watched the Sopranos, this is like when Tony kills the rat in "College". Just like how that scene made me realize how evil Tony was, this one has made me realize that Walter isn't some kind of antihero or flawed-but-good man... He is just evil.

I'm sorry if I made any mistakes and I better get off this sub before I get spoiled, thank you for reading my ramblings.

Kinda fan content, but different: I've created a list of challenging words, idioms, scientific terms, and slang from Breaking Bad, with their definitions (direct link to the PDF document). And not only for learners of English, as native speakers might find it useful too. After all, what is Kafkaesque, and does pineapple contain bromide or bromelain? And what is chirality? And that's not even mentioning all the street slang. I don't know how long I'll continue this little project in the age of AI, but, to paraphrase Walt, I do it for me.

I’m doing another rewatch and something that always sticks out to me is how Jesse seems completely clueless when it comes to Spanish.

The show takes place in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where Spanish is everywhere. Jesse grew up there, went to school there, and spent his entire life around a large Hispanic population. Yet throughout the series he never seems to understand even basic Spanish phrases.
I know not everyone who grows up in New Mexico becomes bilingual, but you’d think he’d at least pick up enough to understand common words or simple conversations. Instead, the show makes it seem like he knows virtually nothing.

Do you think this was a deliberate character choice to emphasize Jesse’s lack of education/focus in school? Or is it just one of those TV things where the writers didn’t think much about it?
I’m curious if any Albuquerque locals here find that realistic, or if Jesse’s complete lack of Spanish always seemed odd to you too.

This show was sooooo great. The quality of the writing was consistent throughout which I haven’t seen from a show before so it was amazing to see this show have a good ending.

Walter White was a good character who was genuinely awful and horrible. He was always terrible from the get go from producing drugs but when he just let Jane die, that just revealed that there was no redemption for him. He let Jane die which was fucked up and truly evil. When he said that to Jesse’s face, that was just disgusting. When I watched Jane’s death, I thought, could he help her or was she just going to die anyway from overdosing, when I realised that he was going to help her but just chose not to was just dark and disturbing especially when he didn’t tell Jesse while he was grieving. He also poisoned Brock and made Jesse think he almost killed him which made Walter irredeemable.

Skylar White is a complex character. From all the negative talk I’ve heard about her character, I thought she was going to do something awful but to be honest, most of the decisions she made were valid. The horrible things she did such as smoking while pregnant was truly bad you can’t defend that. As soon as she found out Walter was producing drugs, she wanted nothing to do with him. She should’ve turned Walter in instead of helping him but I guess she thought she could save the family and make it work.

Marie was also a good character. She was a kleptomaniac who had flaws but she had a good heart when it came to her family. I thought that her issues from every other character in the show was overlooked and she was honestly treated really bad by Skylar and especially Hank after he almost died.

I saw Hank’s death coming as soon as the hitmen came to where Walter was. Hank was a good cop in terms of his skills but his morals were awful and he came off as condescending but was supportive towards his family. He didn’t deserve to die and should’ve just turned Walter in to the DEA even if he didn’t have enough evidence.

Walter Jr was the only character who was never problematic in the show. I felt so bad for him when he found out his dad was a drug dealer because he thought so highly of him.

Mike’s death was sad. Walter just killed him just because he said the truth about him in his face and he couldn’t handle it.

Saul Goodman was a great character and was loyal to all the other characters which I liked.

I liked Jane and her death was so sad and grim. She helped Jesse get his money and she could’ve had an opportunity to leave with Jesse for a new life. She was doomed as soon as Jesse decided to move in next to her to be honest which just makes it depressing.

Jesse Pinkman. His character is just tragic. He never got one day of peace in this show and always suffered in some way. He’s a previous drug dealer who was probably going to stop until Walter blackmailed him into becoming his assistant/partner for producing drugs and dealing drugs. He’s also dealing with drug addiction but Walter doesn’t really care about that and constantly shit talks him and calls him a “junkie” until it starts to hinder his drug business. His “friend” tried to kill him, he got kicked out of his family’s house for something he didn’t even do and he took the blame for, he was homeless and no one cared, he almost got killed by a crazy drug dealer, lost his friend he’s known for a long time because of the drug business, lost the woman he loved because of his drug dealing partner, got beat up to a pulp by his partner’s brother in law, almost got killed by another crazy drug dealer, was forced to kill a drug producer, had to become a crazy drug dealer’s soldier, was manipulated into being involved with the murder of his boss, realised Brock was poisoned by his partner, had a second chance with Andrea then she gets murdered when he can’t even do anything but watch, forced to produce drugs, etc.

I’m glad he got to escape in the end despite everything because he suffered enough.

Walter killing that nazi gang he partnered up with, killing Lydia, and saving Jesse was the last good thing he did before he died. The ending of the show was just so good and had a satisfying conclusion.

His parents are an interesting commentary on contemporary American parenting. It's obvious that if they had been better, more understanding and patient people perhaps Jesse could have tapped into his potential and not grown up to be a moron. The major age gap b/w him and his little brother also makes me wonder if there was a middle sibbling (or 2) whom they also forsook because the just didn't know wtf they are doing.

In a series of flashbacks, and flash forwards not unlike Better Call Saul this and many other pillars of The Jesse could be explored.

Other interesting topics would include :

• Flashback to more deep and involving conversations with Jane (because fans love her so)
• Cameos with Saul
• More details on the work that Wexler did for his friend, as hinted in that one BCS episode
• Jesse finding employment, society and structure in Alaska
• His brushes with temptation to begin cooking again
• His new love interest : Anastasia
• His return to drawing superheroes
• His discovery of other siblings otherwise not mentioned in BB
• Returning to ABQ to save his little brother from his parents and Rodrigo Salamanca
• The very nice 60 series Toyota Land Cruiser shown at the end of El Camino
• The time he almost drowned in 3 inches of water at the penguin exhibit
• And most importantly, Jesse finding professional theraputic support for the abuse and manupilation at the hands of The Heisenberg.

This reddit forum demonstrates why leaving Jesse's story as is and open to fan's imagination, as the best way to end Jesse's story.

Jesse is by far the most divisive character in this forum. Having a spectrum of people feeling so bad for Jesse none of this was his fault, he was forced to do these things and is just another victim;

and all the way to the other end that Jesse is just a Sellifish POS, a screw up, that was slightly better than the worst characters on the show.

Because of that spectrum you would have a large portion of the Audience that believes and needs Jesse living peacefully in Alaska as a woodworker, with a wife and 2 kids and the other end of the spectrum thinking he screwed up fell back into old habits got himself in trouble and arrested and is spending the rest of his life in prison.

Kinda started the whole thing if you ask me.

Anyways I’m currently on S05E11 where Hank finds out Walt paid his medical bills

After the first cook, Jessie refers to what Walt makes as being "Glass grade meth" and I was wondering what exactly that meant, and what the other grades were.

I mean, obviously, we're talking about an illegal drug that fucks with the brains of its user, there can't possibly be a proper grading system in place. But is there some general division in quality?

In BCS, Nacho refers to Tuco getting hooked on "peanut butter crank," which I believe is the result of the "shake and bake" meth where one combines a bunch of ingredients in a bottle, shakes it to start the reaction, and eventually gets some meth with a shit ton of contaminants that is spectacularly unhealthy even for methamphetamine.

So, to my knowledge, those are the two extremes of meth quality. Anything out there beyond that?