83 | Tuco is a wild animal dude.
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Rating: 82.5
Plot
25%: 2.5
50%: 2.2
75%: 2
100%: 3
Favorite Character
1. Tuco Salamanca: 2.5
2. Walter White: 2.3
3. Jesse Pinkman: 2.2
4. Hank Schrader: 2.1
I really love this show especially when Walt shows the magic of chemistry.
Back in school I hated chemistry so much but now i enjoy it a lot when i watch this show.
I had an open jaw just like them at that part lol, the way this show is being acted, shot, and directed makes you actually live in the show.
A great way to wrap up a season: tension, humor, and science that encapsulate everything that made this show one of the best of all time. And to think that this episode was kind of edited and turned into a season finale at the last minute, since the season was supposed to have the usual 13 episodes, but had to be shortened because of the writers’ strike.
First off, let’s talk about Walt’s evolution. He started the series as a failed chemistry teacher, and now he’s negotiating with a bloodthirsty drug dealer like it’s the most natural thing in the world. The scene where he literally says “fuck you” to Tuco, demanding an advance and promising to double the meth production, is one of the tensest moments in the series. But it leaves you wondering: how much of this is pure desperation to keep up the facade, and how much is Walt getting addicted to the adrenaline this new lifestyle brings?
And you can’t forget about Jesse, who finally stepped out of the shadow of “Captain Cook” and started showing that, even though he’s screwed up, he’s a true partner in this whole venture. The way he explains to Walt the complications of finding enough “smurfs” to buy pseudoephedrine shows that he’s not just following orders; he’s actually trying to make the business work. Jesse was the most sensible person in this episode.
The chemistry between the two—pun intended!—is one of the highlights of the episode. They’re not just partners in crime anymore; they’re now partners who understand that they need each other to survive in the dangerous world of drug dealing. And this partnership is tested in an epic way during the negotiation scene with Tuco. The tension reaches sky-high levels, especially when Tuco, high on meth, brutally assaults his own partner for no reason. Look who Walt and Jesse got involved with...
Now, talking about Skyler, the show also gives us a glimpse of how she’s handling the whole situation, even without knowing everything. The way she manages the small day-to-day crises, like the awkwardness at the doctor’s office when she brings up Walt’s sexual drive, or the fake labor scene at the jewelry store, shows that she’s just as resilient as Walt, but in a different way. While he’s diving into a darker side, she’s trying to keep things normal, even when everything around her is falling apart.
Even with all the science, chemistry, and adrenaline, the episode doesn’t forget that, at the end of the day, it’s about family. Walt’s line to Skyler about how “people do things for their families” perfectly sums up the moral dilemma he’s facing—or at least the dilemma he wants us to believe he’s facing. Because the truth is, the deeper he goes into this underworld, the more it seems like he’s doing it all for himself, not for the ones he loves.
Anyway, this episode gives me everything I expect from Breaking Bad: tension, twists, and a Walter White who’s diving deeper and deeper into a path of no return. But it also leaves the question: how far is he willing to go, and what will be left in the end? I’m super excited to be rewatching this whole journey again.
A great episode to finish off an amazing season.
I'm rewatching the show and i forgot just how good this season was with it always being marked "the weakest" on the internet.
As a season finale, even as unintended as it was, it works because it’s the signal that things have shifted into a darker, more serious reality Walter and Jessie weren’t ready for
Marie why don’t you just kys
Shout by LineageBlockedParent2018-12-16T22:55:02Z
Tight, tight, tight, yeah. This was a pretty good season finale. I know that it was cut off short, that the first two episodes of the second season were meant to be the eighth and ninth episodes of the season, the latter being the season finale, but it worked out for good. I've yet to watch the second episode of the second season, so I don't know whether the season finale the writers meant to be the actual season finale is a better season finale than this episode.