Breaking Bad: A No Rough Stuff Type Deal
By fred | March 10, 2008
(S01E07) You know what, I’ve just watched the latest episode of AMC new series, Breaking Bad, and I realize that I should feel worried and/or sad. I know I should, and I’m sure many fans of the show do feel sad at this moment, because although nine episodes were actually ordered, due to the writers’ strike only seven of them were completed. As such, what we got this Sunday night was the last episode of the first season.
Truth is, AMC has yet to renew the show for a second season. So at this very moment, there are no guarantee that the show will have a second season, nothing else than the fact that this show is freaking great, one of the best thing on TV, and anyone who ever watched the show fall in love with it and is now addicted to it, and demands a second season !
Yeah, AMC better renew it for a second season, and it might be a good thing if that second season could have a little more episodes, like say 13 of them. This cannot be a series finale, I won’t accept that. And maybe I should be worried, for the future of the show, maybe I should be sad, that the show is gone for now, but so far I can’t, because I just watched this episode, and I’m still high on it.
This was another fantastic installment of a show that has proven without leaving any doubt that it was most certainly a great, refreshing, exciting new series. This is some TV as we all love to see, and writers have been able to nicely tweak this final episode so that it does work as a season finale. It does, it ends leaving Walt & Pinkman in a new situation they put themselves in, and that might easily go over their head. How the Hell are they going to handle this is only one of the many questions we have, this episode sure left us hanging and we have to have some more, and I have no doubt AMC will renew the show.
Last week we saw Walt evolving, we saw his transforming into a different person, a meth cook somewhat crazy on the side, we saw him letting himself go and enjoying those moments during which he truly feels alive : when he blows up some asshole car, or a crazy violent drug dealer. This week he continued to be seduced by the dark side, he’s completely embracing the move and trying to adjust to his love of everything illegal.
There was him playing with his wife right in the middle of some anti-drug meeting at his (and their kid’s) high-school, leading to having sex in their car, right there on the parking lot, something which both he and his wife enjoyed very much, and as Walt admitted, if it felt so good it was because it was… illegal ! Walt is really getting used to, and maybe addicted as well, to those rush of adrenaline as he’s breaking the law, letting himself go and feel completely free.
He even tried to see how others felt on the topic, first his DEA agent of a brother-in-law, and later on his wife, who may not have reported her sister, but there’s a huge difference shoplifting and, you know, theft, destruction of property, production of methamphetamine, or murder, just to name a few. Walt still looks as this simple guy from the pilot, only a handful of episodes ago, but he’s already got himself a very long and impressive list of crimes. Don’t let appearances fool you, of the two Pinkman is definitely not the criminal one, not anymore.
In fact, this week and after his last encounter with Tuco, sending him unconscious to the hospital, Pinkman was ready to quit everything and move away. He was selling his house, he was out. But Walt wasn’t ready to let that happen, because he needs him. You had to love it when he was motivating Pinkman, ex-student of his, to become a man and believe in his self, to stand up and decide to do something with his life, to become someone, when this someone Walt was inspiring him to become was nothing else than a drug dealer !
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Shows: Breaking Bad
