Breaking Bad: Grilled
By fred | March 16, 2009
(S02E02) Last week we left our two drug dealer in a very bad position: inside Jesse’s car, with an armed, pissed off Tuco in the back, who might have been coming to get them as part of his plan to kill everyone. The question on our minds, knowing this, was of course what the Hell does Tuco want? what he is going to do? what will happen to Walter & Jesse? how will they get out of this alive?
Skyler doesn’t know all that we do, but she knows Walter has been acting strange lately, she knows he’s been tense and troubled, worried even, though he never said why. She knows in was in the house one second, and gone the next. And while it’s not the first time he disappears, or spends the entire day God knows where doing God knows what, this time it was different.
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Shows: Breaking Bad
In Series: Breaking Bad Season 2
(S02E03) The show continues to demonstrate how brilliant it is, and how it is unlike anything else on TV. Last week Walter & Jesse managed to get away from Tuco, but that doesn’t mean they were fine. They each had a lot of explaining to do, and as has become the trademark of the show, what would usually take 30 seconds in a movie with the same situation, here we spend a lot more time on it, because things aren’t as simple as they look.
(S02E04) This show is about drugs, and the effect it can have on one’s life. But instead of looking at it from the usual consumer side, we’re here witnessing the lives of a chemistry teacher and his once student who are now trying to cook and sell meth, and how that will most likely end up destroying their lives completely. After all they went through, having to kill some people and deal with some pretty crazy ones who got shot by DEA agents, you might have thought for a moment there that they’d realize how messed up this was, how awful it could get and that they’d use the opportunity of bring “free” to just quit.
(S02E06) It’s been noticed in previous episodes before, and maybe not even only this season but already during the first one, how the characters are evolving on the show, and there seem to be a reversal of roles in the partnership. At first, it was relatively easy to see Walter as a good guy. He was a good guy, working his job teaching chemistry in high-school, working two jobs to support his family and pregnant wife, but he got bad luck.
(S02E08) Sometimes you can loose faith in television, when you see some shows turning to crap, others being worse and yet getting a renewal all the while some brilliant series are let go or canceled after the network messed with it as much as they could. Luckily, though, every once in a while there’s hope. Every once in a while there’s a show that is simply brilliant, continues to deliver week after week and, because cable has such luxury, gets supported and renewed no problem.
(S02E11) It is something we’ve pretty much knows from the get-go, from the very first episode of this show : it won’t have an happy ending. It just can’t end well, not when we’re dealing with what we’re dealing here, and especially not when our two leads behave the way they do. But if at first Jesse was the drug dealer, the “bad guy,” while Walter was only a poor family man hit by cancer, an high school teacher who learned he might not have long left.
(S02E12) For a long time I assumed, and I don’t think that I was alone there, that if everything would eventually fall apart for Walter & Jesse, it would come from outsiders. Not that they wouldn’t have done wrong or made bad decisions, but what would eventually set the whole place on fire and get people to scream and run in circle would be one of those other guys.
(S02E13) Ever since the season premiere, we have known that something bad was coming up, and that it would somehow involve a teddy bear missing an eye floating in Walter’s pool, and leave a couple of dead bodies around his house. We have been wondering all season what exactly would be happening, what would cause all this, but we knew one thing for sure : it was all due to Walter.