54:12 Movie rule #1 : a cop saying "I love you" to his wife on the phone or before leaving for work must die shortly after that, especially if he’s about to solve a case and/or retire.
Remember that he was given a prognosis two years to live by the oncologist in the beginning. The series started on his 50th birthday and ended on his 52nd.
I love how Simone can hate Todd as a character but, the moment George jokes about the actual actor's look, she instantly becomes protective of him. Such a wholesome heart!
@@gandhialwaysleavesanonion679 Oh yeah, especially the Red Woman episode when we see the old lady everyone's ewww-ing and I'm like... but that still a real old woman, people, that's what they look like, calm down, it's incredibly disrespectful to that poor woman.
But this is exactly why it's dumb to get involved with someone who's clearly a professional criminal. You're making yourself a target just by talking to them. It's why Skylar wanted the kids out of the house because she understood that just being around was endangering them.
Yeah, it was really shocking when Brock pulled out his Glock, looked her dead in the eyes and said "maybe if the cereal had a little more milk every morning, all of this could have been avoided" and squeezed the trigger. Peak cinema right there.
Vince Gilligan always talked about how a good show movie should be more focused on bejng satisfying to the viewer than throwing in a huge unforeseen surprise. Breaking Bad had the balls to show that first episode cold open and already let the audience know what happened. Then they confidently built towards that moment with genius level storytelling expertise.
Well, also there are some parts of the story where it's better to know upfront that he is somehow walked away. Like with shoot out. It's tragic, because you're realising that Hank is dead before it happens. If we didn't had flashforward it would almost feel cheap or convenient that Walter got away once again. Until consequences hit him in the most unexpected, for him, way - in his home.
It's even more impressive when you realize they didn't know how the final season would end at that point. The final 8 episodes were written after the first 8 episodes of the final season were filmed.
Please don't try to make it sound like this was the first time when "xx hours/days/months/years earlier" was done in a tv series . They did it well and let's leave it at that. It's a trope that's been done to death, there's nothing original about it.
Neat Easter egg, as Walt is rolling the barrel, he passes his pants that flew off the RV in the opening shot of the series. Also, the baby saw her actual mother off screen and started crying “mama”, and Bryan went with it.
Breaking Bad, the story of a heroic high school chemistry teacher who single-handedly took down a drug kingpin and a Neo-Nazi group, all while battling lung cancer and tutoring a high school dropout.
@@LOSFOUFOUP yeah really, thats why context and nuances is important, because i belive there are actually people out there who actually belive that sumary is 100% correct
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 again, context and nuance, we can litteraly do that simplification for any story and look i find it funny when people do it, the problem is that this show has the bad luck of having a lot of fans that take everything at face value thats why i make the distinction.
@@andresfelipemanjarres7061 the show has the same problem as any other show: most of the audience members are idiots. That's always the case. It's funny how most of the people claiming that others don't "get" the "anti-hero thing" are also just plain wrong. Simone and George are also wrong with their view of Walter. He's not a psychopath, he's clearly driven by emotion and many, many different emotions. He does love his family. In a way he also loves Jesse. None of his behaviour is ever "purely evil". Dude's got problems. Who doesn't. I think Walter White might be the most realistic fictional person in TV history. But people are so set in their ways, they don't recognize the person in him. They are looking for the character. For the "idea" behind him. Is he "the villain"? Is he "the hero"? Or the "anti-hero"? He's none of those things. He's a person with issues drifting ever deeper into an extreme situation behaving like a person with issues drifting ever deeper into an extreme situation. That's it.
Simone commenting on Walt & Skyler in beige: remember in season 1 when they go to the Grey Matter birthday party and Skyler comments “we didn’t get the beige memo”. They’re affecting what they perceive as how the legitimately wealthy should present
Ozymandias is a television masterpiece. He grabs you by the throat from the first to the last scene. The level of script, direction and, above all, acting is at a level unattainable for many other artists
It's floating around on TH-cam, but an absolute wonderful soul animated Badger's Star Trek episode pitch and it's just as hysterical as Badger pitching it to Skinny Pete. It's fantastic 😂
Congratulations, you can Google and read an annoying know-it-all's way too long comment. If you would've figured it out by yourself, at least you would've gotten a pass. This way, you're just an annoying echo.
The ricin reminds of in video games when I don't use any of my supplies because I'm saving them for when I need them even more later, but that time never comes 😂
Todd is one of my favorite characters. Not because I like him, but because he's so believably scary. He pulls off the emotionless killer perfectly. Even Gus would--or at least should--be scared of somebody like that.
@@CheckersMcGavern i love that scene because he has contradictory emotions toward Skylar. He obviously wants to clear her name, but he never was able to lie if he didn't mean it. He was showing real disdain for sky at the same time.
@@KyleBaran90 Maybe a little. He had to go overboard on the call to satisfy the authorities and to try to absolve Skyler. To provide documented evidence suggesting Skyler had no choice but to fear him.
from the Breaking Bad wiki page: "There are 62 episodes in the Breaking Bad series. The 62nd element on the periodic table of elements is Samarium, which is essential in the treatment of bone pain with lung cancer."
I'm sure that's a complete coincidence. It's not like they would have figured out how to tell the story they wanted to tell in 61 episodes and said "oh, we need to shoot another episode of filler so we can get to Samarium." Likewise if they needed 63 episodes; not like they would just cut one out.
The moment where Walt finally tells Skylar that he did it all for him is one of my absolute favorite moments. Skylar's reaction, the pure look of the weight of Walt's lies being lifted off of her is genuinely magnificent and is just another testament to how great of an actress Anna Gunn is. Honestly, Breaking Bad is just full of incredible moments and I can't ever argue against it being one of the greatest television dramas of all time.
@@KyleBaran90 Nah that's kind of the trick. Walter did it for himself, but his conscience forced him to use an altruistic motivation as a rationalization
Felina is an anagram for finale, it's also a reference to the character in the song 'El Paso' that turns up. There's a fun edit that ties a bunch of Breaking Bad to that song, but it's not canon.
Man seeing Simone at 45:30 feeling bad for jesse even before his whole chapter being a captive by Todd and his uncle is really heartbreaking and funny at the same time😭
No one ever notices this but Jesse would have died or gone to prison in the first couple episodes without Walt. Jesse''s old partner conspired with his cousin to kill Jesse and take over the business. Jesse telling them about Walt's cook saved him, and the old partner and his cousin ended up dead. We also learn in another episode one of them was a snitch for Hank.
Yeah, but that's not worse than what happened to him. I would argue that would be better, at least Jane and Andrea would still be alive and Jesse would want that
and yet there plenty fans who claim that he was "ripped" of happy ending, that show should have ended on season 4 of first half of 5. While Walt actually got better ending then he deserved.
I never saw the final confrontation with Skyler and Flynn as particularly ironic. Yes, he didn't actually kill hank, but he got him killed very directly through his actions. Yes, he didn't literally pull the knife first, but he did start the whole situation and remains the most dangerous person and the one most in control there. They all understand those things and act accordingly.
"Felina" is a reference to the character in the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, and the episode has a similar premise about a man who commits a horrible crime over someone/something he loves, goes into exile, and then returns to see them again before being killed. For good measure, it's also the song playing on the radio when Walt hijacks the car
I don't think I'd say that Walt "won." One of the big issues he had several times mid-series was that he didn't want Skylar and his kids to think the money came from any source other than him and his talents. _He_ was going to provide for his family and _he_ was going to get the credit for it. At the end, though, although he _does_ provide for his family, he has to set it up such that he gets none of the credit. He has to give up on his pride and embrace the motivation that he _said_ was his all along: doing what was best for his family.
Exactly. It's an incredible irony that as he's finally confessing to Skylar that he did it for himself, he has just finished making arrangements for his family to get the money without him getting the credit. The writing in this show is just amazing.
The rare show that absolutely nailed the ending. Walt got an almost complete victory, being fatally wounded in the process. Skylar gets away with some money but it's blood money and she's lost her husband and brother in law. Jessie gets to drive away but we don't know what will come of his life, mirroring he's ups and downs throughout the show. It's just so good. Even the people who won didn't do it without great cost. They all lost people the loved deeply and severed ties with even more people. No one wins or loses completely which is quite realistic
I’m sure somebody said it already but yeah, it’s an anagram for “finale,” but it also represents the chemicals… Fe: Iron (blood) Li: Lithium (Meth) Na: Sodium (Tears)
What George said about handwriting comparisons being ultimately bunk (or just not airtight) might apply to much more indirect connections. But if you go into it with the question "Is this Gale Boetticher's handwriting," and then to your eye they're the exact same, I don't think science even needs to come into it, especially because we're talking about the start of an investigation thread, not building evidence itself just yet.
Right it's just many of these "sciences" have put people in prison purely on coincidence. Hair matching is bullshit. Partial fingerprints can be bullshit, especially since nearly all fingerprints follow a small set of patterns. Just pick a partial swirl and there's probably 100,000 people with that exact swirl. etc. People are generally too stupid to get nuance. So these are either "accepted" or "rejected" rather than "contextualized".
Finally someone else acknowledges that Jessie is not a saint. So many act like he was just an unwitting pawn in all of this. Everyone in this show outside of Walts's son did horrible things
yeah, but without Walt Jessie would end up in jail or dead much sooner. Walter dragged(repeatedly) him into evil of scale much beyond his abilities and desires.
@@Alvaro89RusHe was already selling a manufacturing meth regardless of who it hurt in the process. Jesse isn't a child he knows the difference between right and wrong.
Badfinger's "Baby Blue" was THE perfect song choice for this series to exit on. I still remember the first time I watched this ep, when the opening chords began, I actually did a little gasp bc it was so on point. Hearing the opening line "Guess I got what I deserved", and knowing the line "the special love I had for you, my Baby Blue" was coming . . . genius. I wonder how long Vince Gilligan had that idea stashed away.
@@Dayboot33 Another good choice. Both fit the scene in their own way, and each would have set a very different tone (the rocking guitars of Badfinger vs quiet guitar and harmonica of Dylan). I give the nod to Badfinger's, mainly for the impact of that opening lyric, but I couldn't complain if they'd gone with Dylan.
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The firefighter that finds Holly is Noah Segan! Y'all saw him in Knives Out and Glass Onion! He was a deputy (I think) and Derol (the chill dude who just was around on the island).
We were all waiting for you guys to watch this!!!!!!! 🎉❤ love your reactions and this is just such a rollercoaster, all these years and still my favorite show ever and favorite season and episodes!!!!
Yes, FELINA is an anagram for FINALE. It also stands for the elements of "Fe", "Li" and "Na", the symbols for iron, lithium and sodium, or shorthand for "blood, meth and tears".
The last 4 episodes contain so much, they feel like a complete season. They did more in those 7 episodes than some shows do in their entire run. Granted, a lot is built up with prior season, but there's a version of this where it all wraps up in a far simpler shoot 'em up typical to shows. Instead, they tie so much together, call it all back, all while keeping you engaged even as you know certain future results all along. Fantastic storytelling.
BIRD'S EYE VIEW We look straight down on Walt as he tumbles into frame, lying flat on his back on the floor. His eyes stare up at us, lifeless. And yet his final expression is one of faint satisfaction. We slowly crane up, up, and away from him. Walt shrinks smaller and smaller in frame. Police officers approach him now -- four, six, eight of them. They move in cautiously, their guns aimed. They're too late. He got away.
I still maintain that the "Froot Loops" comment to Brock was a tipoff to Walt's delivery system. The berries tasted sweet. The color and scent would be masked by the cereal. He put it in the Froot Loops.
Breaking bad last part of the last script: "BIRD’S EYE VIEW: we look straight down on Walt as he tumbles into frame, lying flat on his back on the floor. His eyes stare up at us, lifeless. And yet, his final expression is one of faint satisfaction. We slowly CRANE UP, UP and AWAY from him. Walt shrinks smaller and smaller in frame. POLICE OFFICERS approach him now -- four, six, eight of them. They move in cautiously, their guns aimed. They’re too late. He got away. We continue SKYWARD, looking down on Walt, rising as high as we can go. Off this image, slowly FADING TO BLACK... END SERIES"
The Gretchen and Elliot scene was not planned. There was a teen dying of cancer that was a big fan of the show and he wrote to the director about how he would be dead before the final season came out and he wanted to know the end before he died. They went to the kids deathbed and showed him what they had already filmed and the script they had, the kid then said something like, "What about Gretchen and Elliot? Their story isn't wrapped up" and that's why we got that scene, which is just amazing.
Face Dean Norris makes as Hank in the end of episode 9 when confronting Walt is amazing acting. I don't even know how to describe it... disgusted shock? It's both sadness and hate, and these dark shadows.
Thanks guy for your excellent reaction to this brilliant TV Series. Walt's gateway drug to the "life" was a genuine desire to provide for his family because of his impending demise. However he sadly learned that once you jump on the back of the tiger there is no going back just like it was for Jane, Gale, Fring, Mike, Andrea, Ldyia all of them. Walt was able to ignore the, misery, destruction and death associated with the meth business until it took a toll on his own family. The slavery, that is drug addiction, is the modern day equivalent of the slave trade where the conscienceless profit exponentially from the enslaved. It took Hank's death for him to start to realize he was the bad guy. Skyler attacking him with a knife, him realizing he had lost both his children and ultimately that his surrogate son, Jesse had been literally enslaved by Nazis added further clarification. Walt finally accepted he was no better than the worst people on earth. He used his final choices to right some of the wrongs he had committed and ultimately acted in the best interest of his family despite everything.
Ultimately, Walter became an addict, to the power, the prestige, the money, the success - ironic considering his disdain for those he was selling meth to. Jesse was a drug addict who tried to become sober as he saw the impacts on his friends and family, but Walt kept him in the game, like a dealer. One of the best shows of all time. And Better Call Saul is an exquisite continuation of the Breaking Bad Universe!
1:04:11 I get George saying Walt didn’t attack Skyler in this instance. But Jr. is protecting his mom. It’s the first time in the entire run of the series he sides with Skyler and he knows if he twists the story then Skyler will be safer. It’s the rare instance when I child truly tries to protect a parent.
Yeah, I've seen a few people describe it as Junior "lying" in that instance. But that was his perception at the moment. He was protecting his mom while his dad was standing over the both of them holding a knife and ranting. Neither of them recognized him anymore and weren't sure what he'd do. Yes, maybe if the cops came and got Junior to recount the events backward it would occur to him that his mom grabbed the knife first, but he certainly wasn't "lying" when he called 911.
It’s so funny how George asked a few episodes ago if Jesse found out about Jane and then George’s face when Walt said that was priceless. I love you two!!! My favorite people on TH-cam. All the success and happiness in the world to you guys!!! Sincerely Nate from Boston
55:10 That was quite the expression from George. My experience with this show was interesting. I started binge watching this while season 5B was airing live. And I got caught up the day this episode came out. So this was the first cliffhanger that I had to wait a full week to see resolved. That was a long week.
Felina is a combination of being an anagram of Finale and the same sound as the name "Feleena" from the song El Paso, which is playing in the episode several times.
I swear Badger and Skinny Pete are the Rosencrantz & Guildensterns of Breaking Bad. But my favorite line in the whole series was Mike Ehrmantraut line about killing Claudia: "Being sexist almost got me killed." Still makes me laugh all these years. 😆
This is the most bizarre reaction to the scene where Walt kidnaps Holly that I’ve ever seen. 😂 y’all are the first reactors I’ve seen get stuck on the fact that Flynn says Walt pulled the knife and then totally miss the biggest emotional hit of the show 😂 “oh yeah also sucks he kidnapped the baby” WUT 😂😂😂😂😂
It was never just for his family. If he placed his family above himself, he'd have taken Elliott's money immediately. It was always about ego first, because he was bitter about his past.
Yes, absolutely correct. By that point he had already experienced first hand how it is in the meth business, how things go wrong and people die and how that path leads him to become a worse person (killing Crazy 8 or whatever his name was). He knows it's not just morally wrong, but a volatile and dangerous methode for reaching his goal at all. So when a perfectly safe, guaranteed way to save his family from debt and get himself good healthcare comes along, the ONLY reasonable choice is to take it. But no. His pride and ego prevent it. And that first meth adventure didn't put him off enough, he found it a bit too exciting and cool from the very beginning not to go back.
Ah, people and their high and mighty opinion on the internet. I wish you could be in his position and be one of the founder of a billion dollar company like Tesla or Space X. Be offered a meagre pocket change check for your contribution to step aside. See how you would react then. Everyone's a hero on the internet for e-points and public image until they're facing the barrel of the gun themselves. 🤣
@@earth2saka Walt wasn't "offered a meagre pocket change check [...] to step aside". He chose to leave and sell his share. Even the writers of the show have stated that when he declined the offer from Elliot and Gretchen was the moment it became clear he wasn't actually doing it for his family.
FeLiNa is Iron, Lithium, and Sodium. Also, the song that plays at 1:17:58 is "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, where he sings from the POV of a character who falls for a Mexican girl named Felina. Felina shares a drink with a cowboy, and the main character in the song guns down the cowboy out of jealousy. A posse is assembled, and they chase and gun down the main character. After which Felina finds him, cradles him in her arms, and kisses his cheek as he dies. They were very creative with song choices in this show.
@@earth2saka I remember reading a review of Cena's first(?) movie, The Marine, and the reviewer referred to Cena as looking "like Matt Damon ate another Matt Damon," and that description has stuck with me for nearly 20 years.
It’s a pretty common rich people thing to have a huge portrait of the wife in her wedding dress, no groom. I’ve seen some extra gaudy ones that costed in excess of $50k
The episode title "Felina" was from an old country song about a cowboy who falls in love with a girl named Felina in a saloon, but gets into a fight with local thugs. He knows they will kill him if he goes back to see Felina, but he just can't stay away, so he goes back anyway. Just like Walt couldn't stay away from his creation.
43:41 Just noticed how the cascade in the pool and the lightning of the water its kinda like one of the process of the meth while being cooked since we saw the liquid blue meth fell in a very similar cascade than this one. And Walt sitting there just admiring it and wondering... Sorry for my bad english
Thanks for all the wonderful reactions and discussions! It's been fun watching you go through the journey of this show. :) I think the advantage of the flashforwards showing Walt on the run is that it adds tons of extra dramatic irony to his circumstances throughout the season: when he leaves the business and seems to have gotten away with everything, we're unable to relax because we KNOW it's all going to crumble. When he decides to give himself up to Hank in the desert, we're cursed with the knowledge that it won't actually end things. When he "escapes" to NH and gets a new identity, we're already aware that he'll somehow wind up back in town. So the flashforwards add an extra undercurrent of suspense and irony, hanging over things like a cloud.
Felina is the name of the protagonist's girlfriend in the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, the song actually plays for a little while when Walt starts the car. He's also going to New Mexico where El Paso is and he's going to see his wife. And yes it also spells "Finale"
I can’t “like” this video enough!!! Such a great show, and the BEST TH-camrs!!! The scene of Hank figuring it out is one of my all time fav tv moments!
The last episode “Feliná” is a reference to the Marty Robbin’s song playing at the beginning. In the song it’s about a cowboy going back to a Mexican woman named Feliná even though he knows he will certainly die.
54:06 George: "I'm a little worried about how silent it is and how long the celebration is." Yeah, you should be worried especially after Hank and Marie said "I love you" to each other.
According to wikipedia: "The episode title, "Felina", is an anagram of the word "finale." It is also inspired by the character Feleena from the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, which is featured throughout the episode." I'm so glad you both got to experience this journey of television's favorite "love to hate him" anti-protagonist/villain Walter White. It is funny how Jessie was supposed to die in season 1, but he was the only one who lasted throughout it all! (Well... Saul made it out at the end of THIS series). But I was glad to see you guys enjoy this!
Just to clear up the timeline confusion: Hank's realization and his initial confrontation with Walt takes place about six months after Walt's 51st birthday. In other words, six months before his 52nd, so the six months left to live that he mentions to Hank is spot on.
If you want to see Jesse Pleemons in a crazy disturbing role, watch Black Mirror - S04E01 - USS Callister. I think it is the best episode of Black Mirror...crazy riff of Star Trek. I don't think the episode would be anything without Jesse Pleemons.
Thanks for Reacting to one of the greatest shows ever made, following your guy's journey with this one, was awesome so entertaining from both of you guys, you nailed a lot of great predictions Can't wait to see more, you guys Fckin rock
It is so sad that we only get these short edits of the best season of the best show ever with the best episode in television history. There is so little reaction in this reaction video, always cut away instantly. I really wonder why you do it that way.
The final episodes title "Felina" has a triple meaning actually: Firstly, it is simply "Finale" rearranged. Secondly, the name is in reference to the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins (which briefly plays at the beginning of the episode when walt is hiding in the car) which describes a man who kills for his love, then flees town after his life is ruined by being an outlaw, then returns to find confrontation. There's a wonderful edit someone made on TH-cam that lines up key scenes throughout the show with the lyrics of the song. And thirdly, imo most interestingly, the word can be broken up into 3 parts to form 3 different elements on the periodic table: Fe: Iron, which is found in blood, Li: Lithium, which is a key component in making meth, and Na: Sodium, which is found in tears. FeLiNa: Blood, Meth, and Tears. Vince is just out of this world genius.
Greatest show of all time, so much effort put in to build the story and the world and then it’s an emotional rollercoaster for the final few seasons with massive pay offs that aren’t forced at all. I would do anything to watch the whole thing for the first time again
This is the best 8 episode arc in the history of television no takebacks. The whole show is and the whole season but definitely 9 through 16. Yes, he and Jane talked about going to live in Alaska.
1:16:19 to answer y’all’s question about the meaning of “Felina”: It apparently was meant to be an anagram for “Finale” but there’s a theory that it was meant to be a combination of three periodic table element symbols: Fe (Iron), Li (Lithium), and Na (Sodium). Apparently the reason for this was to stand symbol for “Blood, Meth, and Tears”.
Did you know there's a theory that in Breaking Bad, Hank had all these different rules he would follow as a DEA agent over the course of the show? So throughout breaking bad he ends up breaking every single one of these rules, and some of them are written down throughout the show in scenes Hank is in, but it's a blink and you'll miss it sort of thing, and by time he figures out Walt is Heisenberg he's at the 34th rule on his list and when he's about to catch Walt in the desert with his money, the rule is whether to just shoot Heisenberg on sight or arrest him. You should look it up, if you google Breaking Bad Walt and Hank Rule 34 you'll see what I'm talking about
54:12 Movie rule #1 : a cop saying "I love you" to his wife on the phone or before leaving for work must die shortly after that, especially if he’s about to solve a case and/or retire.
I mean, once he revealed Walt to the DEA his career was over, so he's also checked "one week until retirement" off the bingo card too.
That's in US made films only, because what Hollywood makes is extremely formulaic and made for dumb people.
Or a soldier talking about his girl back home
George: "I'm a little worried how silent it is, and how long this celebration is"
Vince Gilligan 12 years ago: "hehehehehehe .... yeahhh...."
Remember that he was given a prognosis two years to live by the oncologist in the beginning. The series started on his 50th birthday and ended on his 52nd.
World's best oncologist
@@robbob5258 He even predicted Walt's death by the bullet 👍
I like the reveal in the final episode that the oncologist is the one who fired the bullet that killed Walt.
@@Liesmith424 when he pulled the gun and said "It's just too much, I guess I broke, I've been breaking... Breaking Bad." Peak cinema.
I've never actually heard that be pointed out before, that's pretty cool
I love how Simone can hate Todd as a character but, the moment George jokes about the actual actor's look, she instantly becomes protective of him. Such a wholesome heart!
good ol' Meth Damon
@@EdenMB-w3x Yeah, I dont remember who but some reactor was roasting everyones appearance in I think a GOT series? Made me salty a bit lmao
@@gandhialwaysleavesanonion679 Oh yeah, especially the Red Woman episode when we see the old lady everyone's ewww-ing and I'm like... but that still a real old woman, people, that's what they look like, calm down, it's incredibly disrespectful to that poor woman.
Somehow managed to land Kirsten Dunst, so…
She's a pathetic, lonely woman 🤷🏻♂️
The most brutal scene that got to me was the way they killed Andrea, she was completely innocent, I reacted the same way as you!
It wasn't personal
Such is life usually, that is one of the most realistic scenes ever in television. Someone just getting shafted randomly out of their life.
But this is exactly why it's dumb to get involved with someone who's clearly a professional criminal. You're making yourself a target just by talking to them. It's why Skylar wanted the kids out of the house because she understood that just being around was endangering them.
@Hal2718 Bro she saw him like once over the past 4 months.
Yeah, it was really shocking when Brock pulled out his Glock, looked her dead in the eyes and said "maybe if the cereal had a little more milk every morning, all of this could have been avoided" and squeezed the trigger. Peak cinema right there.
Vince Gilligan always talked about how a good show movie should be more focused on bejng satisfying to the viewer than throwing in a huge unforeseen surprise.
Breaking Bad had the balls to show that first episode cold open and already let the audience know what happened.
Then they confidently built towards that moment with genius level storytelling expertise.
Well, also there are some parts of the story where it's better to know upfront that he is somehow walked away.
Like with shoot out. It's tragic, because you're realising that Hank is dead before it happens. If we didn't had flashforward it would almost feel cheap or convenient that Walter got away once again. Until consequences hit him in the most unexpected, for him, way - in his home.
It's even more impressive when you realize they didn't know how the final season would end at that point. The final 8 episodes were written after the first 8 episodes of the final season were filmed.
Please don't try to make it sound like this was the first time when "xx hours/days/months/years earlier" was done in a tv series . They did it well and let's leave it at that. It's a trope that's been done to death, there's nothing original about it.
Neat Easter egg, as Walt is rolling the barrel, he passes his pants that flew off the RV in the opening shot of the series.
Also, the baby saw her actual mother off screen and started crying “mama”, and Bryan went with it.
Breaking Bad, the story of a heroic high school chemistry teacher who single-handedly took down a drug kingpin and a Neo-Nazi group, all while battling lung cancer and tutoring a high school dropout.
Damn, nice. It's funny how wording can give a whole new perspective on a story.
@@LOSFOUFOUP yeah really, thats why context and nuances is important, because i belive there are actually people out there who actually belive that sumary is 100% correct
@@andresfelipemanjarres7061 It is. It's just leaving out a lot of other things.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 again, context and nuance, we can litteraly do that simplification for any story and look i find it funny when people do it, the problem is that this show has the bad luck of having a lot of fans that take everything at face value thats why i make the distinction.
@@andresfelipemanjarres7061 the show has the same problem as any other show: most of the audience members are idiots.
That's always the case.
It's funny how most of the people claiming that others don't "get" the "anti-hero thing" are also just plain wrong.
Simone and George are also wrong with their view of Walter.
He's not a psychopath, he's clearly driven by emotion and many, many different emotions. He does love his family.
In a way he also loves Jesse.
None of his behaviour is ever "purely evil".
Dude's got problems.
Who doesn't.
I think Walter White might be the most realistic fictional person in TV history.
But people are so set in their ways, they don't recognize the person in him.
They are looking for the character. For the "idea" behind him. Is he "the villain"? Is he "the hero"? Or the "anti-hero"?
He's none of those things. He's a person with issues drifting ever deeper into an extreme situation behaving like a person with issues drifting ever deeper into an extreme situation. That's it.
"I want Jesse to find out about Jane" Well...
Mission accomplished
Be careful what you wish for.
Isn't Simone just hopeless 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤡
Felina Fe- iron(blood) Li- lithium (meth) Na- sodium (tears) as well as an anagram of finale
And the focal point in the lyrics of El Paso by Marty Robbins, which plays at least twice in the series, once being in the finale.
Lithium has nothing to do with meth. The title does not reference chemical elements, this was just a nonsensical idea made up on Reddit.
Simone commenting on Walt & Skyler in beige: remember in season 1 when they go to the Grey Matter birthday party and Skyler comments “we didn’t get the beige memo”. They’re affecting what they perceive as how the legitimately wealthy should present
Wow thanks for sharing this!
BB and BCS have a lot of intentional color choices and symbolism
@@Daniel-kp9fb obvious ragebait is obvious, try again.
@@Daniel-kp9fb lol you smell
@@thahoule7924 Lol, it's obviously Lydia raging on her death bed
Ozymandias is a television masterpiece. He grabs you by the throat from the first to the last scene. The level of script, direction and, above all, acting is at a level unattainable for many other artists
This is Bryan reading the poem Ozymandias
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I love the way Huell so casually says "I gotta do it, man." As if everyone's reaction to seeing a pile of money that big is to just lay on it.
It's floating around on TH-cam, but an absolute wonderful soul animated Badger's Star Trek episode pitch and it's just as hysterical as Badger pitching it to Skinny Pete. It's fantastic 😂
3:25 - "They're so beige." Remember what all the rich, successful people looked like at Gretchen and Elliot's party?
Rewatching the series with knowledge of what all the different colors mean is a trip.
Congratulations, you can Google and read an annoying know-it-all's way too long comment. If you would've figured it out by yourself, at least you would've gotten a pass. This way, you're just an annoying echo.
The ricin reminds of in video games when I don't use any of my supplies because I'm saving them for when I need them even more later, but that time never comes 😂
YES! THIS!!
but also, i really wanted it to be the thing that killed Walt. that would’ve been poetic.
Later basically means "more late". You don't have to say more later like you don't have to say more wetter or more darker.
@@earth2saka you parsed the sentence incorrectly. the “more” goes with the “even” not the “later”.
i.e. “when i need them even more at a later time”
You guys are the greatest for putting out entire season reactions at once👏👏👏
Todd is one of my favorite characters. Not because I like him, but because he's so believably scary. He pulls off the emotionless killer perfectly. Even Gus would--or at least should--be scared of somebody like that.
God, that scene where Walt calls Skylar to try to clear her name... It always gets to me, man. Superb acting.
@@CheckersMcGavern i love that scene because he has contradictory emotions toward Skylar. He obviously wants to clear her name, but he never was able to lie if he didn't mean it. He was showing real disdain for sky at the same time.
Walter always does things spitefully, especially Jesse. It shows some good growth on his part to exonerate Skylar, bur he still twists the knife a bit
@@KyleBaran90 Maybe a little. He had to go overboard on the call to satisfy the authorities and to try to absolve Skyler. To provide documented evidence suggesting Skyler had no choice but to fear him.
from the Breaking Bad wiki page:
"There are 62 episodes in the Breaking Bad series. The 62nd element on the periodic table of elements is Samarium, which is essential in the treatment of bone pain with lung cancer."
peak cinema
Did you know that Breaking Bad is niche and unknown?
I'm sure that's a complete coincidence. It's not like they would have figured out how to tell the story they wanted to tell in 61 episodes and said "oh, we need to shoot another episode of filler so we can get to Samarium." Likewise if they needed 63 episodes; not like they would just cut one out.
@@GabrielOliveira-si8bvcalm down weeb
Bravo Vince
The moment where Walt finally tells Skylar that he did it all for him is one of my absolute favorite moments. Skylar's reaction, the pure look of the weight of Walt's lies being lifted off of her is genuinely magnificent and is just another testament to how great of an actress Anna Gunn is.
Honestly, Breaking Bad is just full of incredible moments and I can't ever argue against it being one of the greatest television dramas of all time.
I think Walt did do it for them ... initially. Once he got a taste of control and power, it was pure ego
@@KyleBaran90 Nah that's kind of the trick. Walter did it for himself, but his conscience forced him to use an altruistic motivation as a rationalization
Todd = Meth Damon. 😂 That will always resonate with me.
I was a co-star in Ozymandias. Still probably my coolest acting gig. Bryan Cranston was awesome to work with.
No surprise there lol
Felina is an anagram for finale, it's also a reference to the character in the song 'El Paso' that turns up. There's a fun edit that ties a bunch of Breaking Bad to that song, but it's not canon.
It’s also the chemical symbols for Iron, Lithium, and Sodium.
@@Wraiven22 blood, sweat, and tears
Did you know that Breaking Bad is niche and unknown?
@@hollybeary I always took it as blood, meth, and tears. Lithium is an ingredient in meth.
It’s not exactly the hardest anagram to workout
Man seeing Simone at 45:30 feeling bad for jesse even before his whole chapter being a captive by Todd and his uncle is really heartbreaking and funny at the same time😭
Yeahhhhhh
That shot of Walt standing in front of the Heisenberg graffiti is one of my, if not my all time favorite shot in the show
Nobody cares
@@patrickbateman7369free speech I respect it
@@patrickbateman7369 You seem to care a whole lot actually!
Did you know that Breaking Bad is niche and unknown?
@@domoslaf So much so that he had to comment!
57:11 "when you find the perfect stick" best part of the reaction side of things. Love it.
No one ever notices this but Jesse would have died or gone to prison in the first couple episodes without Walt. Jesse''s old partner conspired with his cousin to kill Jesse and take over the business. Jesse telling them about Walt's cook saved him, and the old partner and his cousin ended up dead. We also learn in another episode one of them was a snitch for Hank.
Am i going to have watch season 1 AGAIN!!??? lol
Yeah, but that's not worse than what happened to him. I would argue that would be better, at least Jane and Andrea would still be alive and Jesse would want that
@@debbyemerson3877It’s also brought up in BCS
Simone at 43:50: "And Jesse's like, why is everything purple?"
"He can't keep getting away with it!"
"He won't."
Narrator: Actually, he does.
and yet there plenty fans who claim that he was "ripped" of happy ending, that show should have ended on season 4 of first half of 5.
While Walt actually got better ending then he deserved.
The show could have ended at many different points. Every time Walt continues, his ego increases and many more get harmed
You are the first reactors I've seen who immediately understood what Walt was doing with that phone call at the end of episode 14. VERY ASTUTE!
George: "I didn't think this could get darker..."
Episode 15: "Hold my beer..."
I never saw the final confrontation with Skyler and Flynn as particularly ironic. Yes, he didn't actually kill hank, but he got him killed very directly through his actions. Yes, he didn't literally pull the knife first, but he did start the whole situation and remains the most dangerous person and the one most in control there. They all understand those things and act accordingly.
"Felina" is a reference to the character in the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, and the episode has a similar premise about a man who commits a horrible crime over someone/something he loves, goes into exile, and then returns to see them again before being killed. For good measure, it's also the song playing on the radio when Walt hijacks the car
Purple is the color of royalty. With Hank gone, Marie feels as if she’s nothing.
I don't think I'd say that Walt "won." One of the big issues he had several times mid-series was that he didn't want Skylar and his kids to think the money came from any source other than him and his talents. _He_ was going to provide for his family and _he_ was going to get the credit for it. At the end, though, although he _does_ provide for his family, he has to set it up such that he gets none of the credit. He has to give up on his pride and embrace the motivation that he _said_ was his all along: doing what was best for his family.
Exactly. It's an incredible irony that as he's finally confessing to Skylar that he did it for himself, he has just finished making arrangements for his family to get the money without him getting the credit. The writing in this show is just amazing.
The rare show that absolutely nailed the ending. Walt got an almost complete victory, being fatally wounded in the process. Skylar gets away with some money but it's blood money and she's lost her husband and brother in law. Jessie gets to drive away but we don't know what will come of his life, mirroring he's ups and downs throughout the show.
It's just so good. Even the people who won didn't do it without great cost. They all lost people the loved deeply and severed ties with even more people. No one wins or loses completely which is quite realistic
Ozymandias is BY FAR the BEST HOUR OF TELEVISION EVER. Literally no comparison no competition. The best TV episode of ALL TIME
I’m sure somebody said it already but yeah, it’s an anagram for “finale,” but it also represents the chemicals…
Fe: Iron (blood)
Li: Lithium (Meth)
Na: Sodium (Tears)
The day after the finale aired, the Albuquerque Journal published an actual obituary of Walter White as if he was a real person.
What George said about handwriting comparisons being ultimately bunk (or just not airtight) might apply to much more indirect connections. But if you go into it with the question "Is this Gale Boetticher's handwriting," and then to your eye they're the exact same, I don't think science even needs to come into it, especially because we're talking about the start of an investigation thread, not building evidence itself just yet.
Right it's just many of these "sciences" have put people in prison purely on coincidence. Hair matching is bullshit. Partial fingerprints can be bullshit, especially since nearly all fingerprints follow a small set of patterns. Just pick a partial swirl and there's probably 100,000 people with that exact swirl. etc. People are generally too stupid to get nuance. So these are either "accepted" or "rejected" rather than "contextualized".
"I don't know what this felina thing is" *holds cat*
Finally someone else acknowledges that Jessie is not a saint. So many act like he was just an unwitting pawn in all of this. Everyone in this show outside of Walts's son did horrible things
Damn, way to go after Holly like that. =P
@@mj_SR22 Holly is going to be the new meth dealer in breaking bad 2
yeah, but without Walt Jessie would end up in jail or dead much sooner. Walter dragged(repeatedly) him into evil of scale much beyond his abilities and desires.
I don’t think he’s a saint but he suffers far more than he deserves and Walt ruined his life
@@Alvaro89RusHe was already selling a manufacturing meth regardless of who it hurt in the process. Jesse isn't a child he knows the difference between right and wrong.
Badfinger's "Baby Blue" was THE perfect song choice for this series to exit on. I still remember the first time I watched this ep, when the opening chords began, I actually did a little gasp bc it was so on point. Hearing the opening line "Guess I got what I deserved", and knowing the line "the special love I had for you, my Baby Blue" was coming . . . genius. I wonder how long Vince Gilligan had that idea stashed away.
It's weird but whenever I think of this scene I always imagine it with Dylan's 'Its all over now, baby blue' instead.
@@Dayboot33 Another good choice. Both fit the scene in their own way, and each would have set a very different tone (the rocking guitars of Badfinger vs quiet guitar and harmonica of Dylan). I give the nod to Badfinger's, mainly for the impact of that opening lyric, but I couldn't complain if they'd gone with Dylan.
Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
The firefighter that finds Holly is Noah Segan! Y'all saw him in Knives Out and Glass Onion! He was a deputy (I think) and Derol (the chill dude who just was around on the island).
We were all waiting for you guys to watch this!!!!!!! 🎉❤ love your reactions and this is just such a rollercoaster, all these years and still my favorite show ever and favorite season and episodes!!!!
Yes, FELINA is an anagram for FINALE. It also stands for the elements of "Fe", "Li" and "Na", the symbols for iron, lithium and sodium, or shorthand for "blood, meth and tears".
Lithium has nothing to do with meth. The title doesn't reference chemical elements, this was just a fan theory made up on Reddit.
Steve Gomez is the only character to do nothing wrong the whole series. It hurt me a lot to see him die.
Nothing they show. But maybe off-screen, he's a horrible person.
That one janitor in season 1 who gets blamed for Walt: am I a joke to you?
@@earth2saka dude had a joint in the shcool grounds and lied about not having a record to work there..
The last 4 episodes contain so much, they feel like a complete season. They did more in those 7 episodes than some shows do in their entire run. Granted, a lot is built up with prior season, but there's a version of this where it all wraps up in a far simpler shoot 'em up typical to shows. Instead, they tie so much together, call it all back, all while keeping you engaged even as you know certain future results all along. Fantastic storytelling.
BIRD'S EYE VIEW
We look straight down on Walt as he tumbles into frame, lying flat on his back on the floor. His eyes stare up at us, lifeless. And yet his final expression is one of faint satisfaction.
We slowly crane up, up, and away from him. Walt shrinks smaller and smaller in frame. Police officers approach him now -- four, six, eight of them. They move in cautiously, their guns aimed.
They're too late. He got away.
Enjoyed watching the series again with you guys.
I still maintain that the "Froot Loops" comment to Brock was a tipoff to Walt's delivery system. The berries tasted sweet. The color and scent would be masked by the cereal. He put it in the Froot Loops.
Breaking bad last part of the last script:
"BIRD’S EYE VIEW: we look straight down on Walt as he tumbles
into frame, lying flat on his back on the floor. His eyes
stare up at us, lifeless. And yet, his final expression is
one of faint satisfaction.
We slowly CRANE UP, UP and AWAY from him. Walt shrinks
smaller and smaller in frame. POLICE OFFICERS approach him
now -- four, six, eight of them. They move in cautiously,
their guns aimed.
They’re too late. He got away.
We continue SKYWARD, looking down on Walt, rising as high as
we can go. Off this image, slowly FADING TO BLACK...
END SERIES"
The Gretchen and Elliot scene was not planned. There was a teen dying of cancer that was a big fan of the show and he wrote to the director about how he would be dead before the final season came out and he wanted to know the end before he died. They went to the kids deathbed and showed him what they had already filmed and the script they had, the kid then said something like, "What about Gretchen and Elliot? Their story isn't wrapped up" and that's why we got that scene, which is just amazing.
sounds hardly believeble.
@@Alvaro89Rus "What do I have to do for you to believe me?"
That sounds like pure apocrypha.
i dont believe this
No one would've cared about those 2.
If you two haven't seen the Malcolm in the Middle alternate ending, I NEED you to go find it and watch it. Just for yourselves.
It would be the perfect short.
Face Dean Norris makes as Hank in the end of episode 9 when confronting Walt is amazing acting. I don't even know how to describe it... disgusted shock? It's both sadness and hate, and these dark shadows.
Thanks guy for your excellent reaction to this brilliant TV Series. Walt's gateway drug to the "life" was a genuine desire to provide for his family because of his impending demise. However he sadly learned that once you jump on the back of the tiger there is no going back just like it was for Jane, Gale, Fring, Mike, Andrea, Ldyia all of them. Walt was able to ignore the, misery, destruction and death associated with the meth business until it took a toll on his own family. The slavery, that is drug addiction, is the modern day equivalent of the slave trade where the conscienceless profit exponentially from the enslaved. It took Hank's death for him to start to realize he was the bad guy. Skyler attacking him with a knife, him realizing he had lost both his children and ultimately that his surrogate son, Jesse had been literally enslaved by Nazis added further clarification. Walt finally accepted he was no better than the worst people on earth. He used his final choices to right some of the wrongs he had committed and ultimately acted in the best interest of his family despite everything.
"She Blinded Me With Science."
Ultimately, Walter became an addict, to the power, the prestige, the money, the success - ironic considering his disdain for those he was selling meth to. Jesse was a drug addict who tried to become sober as he saw the impacts on his friends and family, but Walt kept him in the game, like a dealer. One of the best shows of all time.
And Better Call Saul is an exquisite continuation of the Breaking Bad Universe!
1:04:11 I get George saying Walt didn’t attack Skyler in this instance. But Jr. is protecting his mom. It’s the first time in the entire run of the series he sides with Skyler and he knows if he twists the story then Skyler will be safer. It’s the rare instance when I child truly tries to protect a parent.
Yeah, I've seen a few people describe it as Junior "lying" in that instance. But that was his perception at the moment. He was protecting his mom while his dad was standing over the both of them holding a knife and ranting. Neither of them recognized him anymore and weren't sure what he'd do.
Yes, maybe if the cops came and got Junior to recount the events backward it would occur to him that his mom grabbed the knife first, but he certainly wasn't "lying" when he called 911.
It’s so funny how George asked a few episodes ago if Jesse found out about Jane and then George’s face when Walt said that was priceless. I love you two!!! My favorite people on TH-cam. All the success and happiness in the world to you guys!!! Sincerely
Nate from Boston
55:10 That was quite the expression from George. My experience with this show was interesting. I started binge watching this while season 5B was airing live. And I got caught up the day this episode came out. So this was the first cliffhanger that I had to wait a full week to see resolved.
That was a long week.
Felina is a combination of being an anagram of Finale and the same sound as the name "Feleena" from the song El Paso, which is playing in the episode several times.
I swear Badger and Skinny Pete are the Rosencrantz & Guildensterns of Breaking Bad. But my favorite line in the whole series was Mike Ehrmantraut line about killing Claudia: "Being sexist almost got me killed." Still makes me laugh all these years. 😆
This is the most bizarre reaction to the scene where Walt kidnaps Holly that I’ve ever seen. 😂 y’all are the first reactors I’ve seen get stuck on the fact that Flynn says Walt pulled the knife and then totally miss the biggest emotional hit of the show 😂 “oh yeah also sucks he kidnapped the baby” WUT 😂😂😂😂😂
Been waiting for this moment for so long! Thanks for having us on the journey!
It was never just for his family. If he placed his family above himself, he'd have taken Elliott's money immediately. It was always about ego first, because he was bitter about his past.
Yes, absolutely correct. By that point he had already experienced first hand how it is in the meth business, how things go wrong and people die and how that path leads him to become a worse person (killing Crazy 8 or whatever his name was). He knows it's not just morally wrong, but a volatile and dangerous methode for reaching his goal at all. So when a perfectly safe, guaranteed way to save his family from debt and get himself good healthcare comes along, the ONLY reasonable choice is to take it.
But no. His pride and ego prevent it. And that first meth adventure didn't put him off enough, he found it a bit too exciting and cool from the very beginning not to go back.
@baguettegott3409
he walked the ashuras path
Ah, people and their high and mighty opinion on the internet. I wish you could be in his position and be one of the founder of a billion dollar company like Tesla or Space X. Be offered a meagre pocket change check for your contribution to step aside. See how you would react then. Everyone's a hero on the internet for e-points and public image until they're facing the barrel of the gun themselves. 🤣
@@earth2saka Walt wasn't "offered a meagre pocket change check [...] to step aside". He chose to leave and sell his share. Even the writers of the show have stated that when he declined the offer from Elliot and Gretchen was the moment it became clear he wasn't actually doing it for his family.
The teaser for this season was that close up of Hank driving away from Walt’s house before the crash,got us all so pumped
Walt intended to kill Jesse because he thought he was partner with Jack, but when he seen what they had done to him he tackled him to save him.
FeLiNa is Iron, Lithium, and Sodium. Also, the song that plays at 1:17:58 is "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, where he sings from the POV of a character who falls for a Mexican girl named Felina. Felina shares a drink with a cowboy, and the main character in the song guns down the cowboy out of jealousy. A posse is assembled, and they chase and gun down the main character. After which Felina finds him, cradles him in her arms, and kisses his cheek as he dies. They were very creative with song choices in this show.
I honestly want a movie where Matt Damon, Jesse Plemons, and John Cena play brothers. I don't even care what it's about.
John Cena? That's so random.
@@earth2saka I remember reading a review of Cena's first(?) movie, The Marine, and the reviewer referred to Cena as looking "like Matt Damon ate another Matt Damon," and that description has stuck with me for nearly 20 years.
They don't share any scenes together, but there is a film (All the Pretty Horses) where Plemons plays a young version of Matt Damon's character.
"They're sooo 'beige' - Walt and Skyler..." Yeah, remember when they didn't get that memo for Elliot's b-day party? They've got it down pat now! XD
It’s a pretty common rich people thing to have a huge portrait of the wife in her wedding dress, no groom. I’ve seen some extra gaudy ones that costed in excess of $50k
The most flawless tv show ever made
The episode title "Felina" was from an old country song about a cowboy who falls in love with a girl named Felina in a saloon, but gets into a fight with local thugs.
He knows they will kill him if he goes back to see Felina, but he just can't stay away, so he goes back anyway.
Just like Walt couldn't stay away from his creation.
43:41 Just noticed how the cascade in the pool and the lightning of the water its kinda like one of the process of the meth while being cooked since we saw the liquid blue meth fell in a very similar cascade than this one. And Walt sitting there just admiring it and wondering... Sorry for my bad english
Thanks for all the wonderful reactions and discussions! It's been fun watching you go through the journey of this show. :)
I think the advantage of the flashforwards showing Walt on the run is that it adds tons of extra dramatic irony to his circumstances throughout the season: when he leaves the business and seems to have gotten away with everything, we're unable to relax because we KNOW it's all going to crumble. When he decides to give himself up to Hank in the desert, we're cursed with the knowledge that it won't actually end things. When he "escapes" to NH and gets a new identity, we're already aware that he'll somehow wind up back in town.
So the flashforwards add an extra undercurrent of suspense and irony, hanging over things like a cloud.
Felina is the name of the protagonist's girlfriend in the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, the song actually plays for a little while when Walt starts the car. He's also going to New Mexico where El Paso is and he's going to see his wife. And yes it also spells "Finale"
I can’t “like” this video enough!!!
Such a great show, and the BEST TH-camrs!!!
The scene of Hank figuring it out is one of my all time fav tv moments!
It’s so crazy how differently I see this whole series after watching Better Call Saul. Masterpiece of a series.
I remember watching the last episode live. The freakin' laser pointer scene got me so good.
The performances in ep 14 are absolutely brutal. Everyone did such an amazing job that even after multiple watches they still gut me.
The last episode “Feliná” is a reference to the Marty Robbin’s song playing at the beginning. In the song it’s about a cowboy going back to a Mexican woman named Feliná even though he knows he will certainly die.
54:06 George: "I'm a little worried about how silent it is and how long the celebration is."
Yeah, you should be worried especially after Hank and Marie said "I love you" to each other.
According to wikipedia: "The episode title, "Felina", is an anagram of the word "finale." It is also inspired by the character Feleena from the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins, which is featured throughout the episode."
I'm so glad you both got to experience this journey of television's favorite "love to hate him" anti-protagonist/villain Walter White. It is funny how Jessie was supposed to die in season 1, but he was the only one who lasted throughout it all! (Well... Saul made it out at the end of THIS series). But I was glad to see you guys enjoy this!
Just to clear up the timeline confusion: Hank's realization and his initial confrontation with Walt takes place about six months after Walt's 51st birthday. In other words, six months before his 52nd, so the six months left to live that he mentions to Hank is spot on.
If you want to see Jesse Pleemons in a crazy disturbing role, watch Black Mirror - S04E01 - USS Callister. I think it is the best episode of Black Mirror...crazy riff of Star Trek. I don't think the episode would be anything without Jesse Pleemons.
Thanks for Reacting to one of the greatest shows ever made, following your guy's journey with this one, was awesome so entertaining from both of you guys, you nailed a lot of great predictions
Can't wait to see more, you guys Fckin rock
It is so sad that we only get these short edits of the best season of the best show ever with the best episode in television history. There is so little reaction in this reaction video, always cut away instantly. I really wonder why you do it that way.
I think that's a bit overstated, but I did notice how much they cut out of the finale in particular.
The final episodes title "Felina" has a triple meaning actually: Firstly, it is simply "Finale" rearranged.
Secondly, the name is in reference to the song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins (which briefly plays at the beginning of the episode when walt is hiding in the car) which describes a man who kills for his love, then flees town after his life is ruined by being an outlaw, then returns to find confrontation. There's a wonderful edit someone made on TH-cam that lines up key scenes throughout the show with the lyrics of the song.
And thirdly, imo most interestingly, the word can be broken up into 3 parts to form 3 different elements on the periodic table:
Fe: Iron, which is found in blood, Li: Lithium, which is a key component in making meth, and Na: Sodium, which is found in tears. FeLiNa: Blood, Meth, and Tears.
Vince is just out of this world genius.
Greatest show of all time, so much effort put in to build the story and the world and then it’s an emotional rollercoaster for the final few seasons with massive pay offs that aren’t forced at all. I would do anything to watch the whole thing for the first time again
This is the best 8 episode arc in the history of television no takebacks. The whole show is and the whole season but definitely 9 through 16.
Yes, he and Jane talked about going to live in Alaska.
1:16:19 to answer y’all’s question about the meaning of “Felina”:
It apparently was meant to be an anagram for “Finale” but there’s a theory that it was meant to be a combination of three periodic table element symbols: Fe (Iron), Li (Lithium), and Na (Sodium).
Apparently the reason for this was to stand symbol for “Blood, Meth, and Tears”.
The thing with the chemical elements was just a bad fan theory made up on Reddit. Lithium has nothing to do with meth.
Thanks for the uploads! Glad to take this ride with you guys!
Did you know there's a theory that in Breaking Bad, Hank had all these different rules he would follow as a DEA agent over the course of the show? So throughout breaking bad he ends up breaking every single one of these rules, and some of them are written down throughout the show in scenes Hank is in, but it's a blink and you'll miss it sort of thing, and by time he figures out Walt is Heisenberg he's at the 34th rule on his list and when he's about to catch Walt in the desert with his money, the rule is whether to just shoot Heisenberg on sight or arrest him. You should look it up, if you google Breaking Bad Walt and Hank Rule 34 you'll see what I'm talking about
What an awesome journey this has been, loved the reactions. Hope you guys will watch LOST one day, another amazing show.
The song "El Paso" by Marty Robbins is playing in the car that Walt stole in NH. Felina is a character in the song. Walt's Felina is the meth lab.
The "Just so you know, this isn't personal" is one of the coldest lines and deliveries I've ever seen. Fantastic job, Jesse Plemons.
"Do you think it's the same spider?" Of course! Everyone knows there's only one spider in New Mexico :)