@Elisabeth Larsen ... Why does TH-cam say "40 ❤ Top ❤ recipient on this channel" ... What does this all mean? Is this some new TH-cam feature, or what?
Walt is like a slimy octopus with a god complex now. Various arms working every character to do his bidding, while having no actual regard for them as individuals.
By that same logic though.. We praised Gus for doing the same exact thing only because he gave us the idea he had complete control. If that's the thin line we're seperating the two from.. That's very unjust. Walt IMO is a better Gus considering he tied everything Gus had built over 20 years together for himself in simply 1. (SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER) It could have gone for WAY longer had he chosen to stay in the game and not hop out for the sake of his family and whatever remnant he could grab and hold together. I won't try to justify Walt's moral complex, ESPECIALLY here in season 5 where it's way harder to do, but he deserves more credit than the dustball people make him out to be. Walter isn't fully Heisenberg here yet. He twisted Jesse to do his bidding but had both of their well-beings and his family's in consideration. Jesse his a part of his family and he will do ANYTHING for his family.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 that's the thing, it IS Walt. The events of the last year have only revealed who he truly is and what he's capable of. Saying it's not Walt it's someone else is a way of scapegoating and not holding Walter White for his disgusting actions.
@@suinade5384 first of all, Gus is a better Hisenberg simply because he lacks any and all traces of ego. That is Walt's kryptonite. He has an insatiable massive ego, and often thinks with it. Walter has an ego comparable to Lucifer. It's almost a God complex. Gus on the other hand, didn't. He was smart, calculating and incredibly perceptive. Gus as written in the show would NEVER have allowed any of Walt and Jesse's bullshit to continue beyond Gayle and Box Cutter, but because Walt and Jesse were the main characters of the show they had the thickest of plot armor on so nothing anyone did could take them down. Despite the fact that the character of Gus as presented on screen would realize very quickly that Walter needs to be eliminated.
@@suinade5384 thats why Walt is a slimmy Octupus and Gus isn't. Gus was a business man that made a bad investment and lost his life for it. Walter is a egomaniacal, compulsively lying, emotionally manipulative, terroristic drug lord. He's not doing this for his family. That may have been what he started this out for and what he tells himself at night so he can sleep but he's doing for himself and his ego. It's about him. It's always about him. That's how ego works.
This is when Jesse’s character came full circle for me. Watching him break down in tears is tough, especially knowing that it’s Walt just playing him. Great acting by Aaron Paul. 🚽🐖🏦1️⃣1️⃣
@@NikkiStevenReact Nope. You said in the beginning "years later" but all the events happened since the very first episode is actually couple of months.
we got at least 100 comments in the last video about this exact topic... we watched episode 2 before reading comments so yes, it's behind us. thanks for the comment though.
@@NikkiStevenReact Sorry, mine was one of the 100 comments about the turkey bacon "50". I figured someone else would comment on it but I didn't have the time to read through all of the comments first. In case you haven't noticed...there are HUNDREDS OF THEM. LOL.
He's so criminally underrated as an actor! There's a video of the BB cast doing a live table read of an episode that comes a little later in S5. Even there, Aaron's delivery of his lines were so on point, you can see it moved Anna Gunn to tears.
@@cluster_f1575 Yes! I've watched that table read a few times, and Aaron Paul performed just as authentically as he does in the series. It was so heartbreaking. Even Bryan Cranston didn't bring his A-game like Aaron did. I mean, he definitely didn't need to for a simple table read, no one else did either, but it was cool nonetheless.
Podcast Notes: Madrigal Guests: Jonathan Banks (Mike); Michelle MacLaren (Director & Co-exec producer) 1. German lab was shot in a high school‘s film & cooking school building. Every sign had to be changed into German 2. Signs in background - some you can’t see. Los Pollos Hermanos, Luftwaffle (ha!), BurgerMatic - BurgerMatic is an inside joke from Home Fries, the first movie Vince wrote in 1989 (made in 1998 with Luke Wilson & Drew Barrymore) in which that’s the name of the fast food restaurant 3. The “Franch” had to be edible when they shot the guys testing it. On set, it was icing (which coagulated 🤢). the insert where it actually looks like sauce is mostly paint 4. They really wanted the actor to fall off the toilet, they made a soft floor that looked like real tile 5. A different actress was lined up to play the secretary, but at the last minute, she couldn’t do it. their second choice was in another city & she got this overwhelming feeling she had to go to Albuquerque for a role. She went there, and then got the call about doing the part! 6. The Jesse montage - Kelly was excited about how she edited it as it was different to anything they’d done on the show, the way she played with the chronology 7. Mike’s home - lots of Jonathan’s personal photos...Jonathan was super happy they included a Sugar Ray Robinson poster like he’d requested. He LOVES Sugar Ray Robinson, carries a quote of his in his wallet - “you can hit me and I won’t think much of it, but you can say something and hurt me very much” 8. “Mike is a guy who has lived more life than most people ever will” 9. Funny that Hank’s boss is let go because Gus is there right under his nose - goes to his home, etc. - and he didn’t recognize what he was....! 10. Jonathan says Mike doesn’t just feel protective of Jesse, he even feels (or felt) protective of Walt - he tries to keep people from completely selling their soul 11. There was a sweet cut scene where Mike was teaching Kaylee to box 12. The fly in the Chow scene was CGI 13. Lydia’s house is meant to be in Houston (though it was shot in a glass house in Albuquerque). It was difficult to establish it was Houston - they didn’t want to have it written in screen as we’re 48 eps in and have never done that previously so it’d be weird 14. They shot a different version of the Skyler scene where she reached back & gave him a handjob to avoid sex, but it was way too creepy and rapey
@Jessica ... Thanks for this. By the way, does anyone know what all the "Top ❤ recipient on this channel" means in these comments? It's saying the same for three different people in just this one comment thread ... You can't all be "Top", surely? ... TH-cam is tripping!
I loved the scene with Lydia and Mike at the diner. Breaking Bad is so great at putting tension into scenes. For years, you had Gus Fring bring tension to every scene he is in through this sense of calm and control. Lydia brings a sense of tension and danger from a completely different place. She is very smart, but her stress level is through the roof and operates under panic making her so unpredictable. Such a great character to introduce in season 5.
Couldn't agree more. While of course, everyone is going to like the "action scenes", it's really these excellent tension-building and character building scenes that are the best. It's that renowned "detail" work that is also just outstanding. I love the little split second angle they get on Lydia's face from the side with her head down as she is speaking to Mike, rather than just the dead-on front shot. I've seen it before a few times in some movies, but it fits even more perfectly with her and her character here in this scene.
lastool I realized that every time I finished watching a scene with her in it, my stomach hurt because of the tension she brings with her on-screen. Awesome character, in a weird kinda way.
@@daffy8995 I'm not so sure actually. I think Mike might rather be arrested if it somehow meant she kept the money, instead of losing all the money if it meant him being free. I think he's mainly furious that the money is gone, and I think that very reason is the only incentive Mike had to rejoin the trio.
@@chatpal1991 ~ Yes, the two thoughts are connected, though. I can't see how his granddaughter could get that money once they peg the business as a criminal enterprise (at least not in real world terms.) That's why Mike had to disavow any knowledge of the account. He is at much greater risk now and also is much more dangerous for Walter. It also circles back to the notion that they both are doing this "for family."
@@daffy8995 Yes, as I said "if it somehow mean she kept the money", as I can't think of a way that that would happen. The two are very attached. I was just chiming in to what I believed to be his primary motive
This episode and few before made me wish that Jesse was Mike’s apprentice. He definitely would never knowingly put him under any grave danger and wouldn’t play dirty.
I'd say that it's not necessarily "if Walt hadn't killed Gus", it's more like "if Walt hadn't destroyed the laptop". As Hank said, it was so encrypted, they wouldn't have been able to get into it. And Gus was so careful about what he did, it stands to reason he would have an encrypted laptop. That little action of destroying the laptop revealed those numbers, snowballing everything into something bigger and worse.
It always puzzled me why the writers were kinda obsessed with German references during the whole show (heisenberg as Walter's alias, the WWII museum, the Gustav cannon story Walt tells to jesse, madrigal being a Germany based company, Jesse calling Walter "adolf" multiple times, German last names for most characters such as ehrmantraut and Schrader among other things) and I can only think of nietzche's philosophy of breaking moral shackles to "be an evolved" individual. That's what Walter does, cross every moral boundary he encounters until he's a totally different person and nothing stops him anymore.
@@Jamie-kv9eg To be fair the flashforward only tells them what his age is at that point, not what it is currently. It could've been like 10 years later if you didn't remember he was already 50.
I'm working on a case right now that involves bank accounts in Anguilla and the Cayman Islands. You would be surprised at how easy AND difficult it is to investigate crimes involving those accounts. The DOJ and DA did manage to get their hands on bank account info as well as passports, etc., but it took years and lot of cooperation between state, federal and foreign governments and foreign attorneys. (What was shocking to me was how easy it is to move funds from one account to another, in some cases with nothing more than a phone call.)
So many great subtle things stand out in this episode, but two to mention are: at the end when Walt tells Skyler "It gets easier, you know?"....with regards to dealing with people getting hurt like Ted since she is clearly struggling with her guilt with that, is sort of terrifying. Walt is basically bringing her into being a part of the team and wants her to be like him, where he is so used to it that he can just move on without any guilt anymore.... And also, on an entirely different note, the camera work of the Mike and Lydia diner meeting, the way they get Lydia's face from that side angle with her head lowered looking at Mike when she is talking to him. It's just a little, subtle thing, but it's another example of the excellent artistry of the filmmakers of Breaking Bad that enhances their scenes, story telling, and character development. .
Exactly how I feel...I'm at the same point as Nikki and Steven right now, and I find myself rooting for Skyler and wishing Walt would get taken down a few notches.
Jesse and Walt laundered their money through Saul. So yes, the off shore accounts were just for Gus's people. Mike did all that work to gain money for his granddaughter and now all that money is untouchable :/ Gus did not have kids. The line "the kids won't eat" he said when Walt visited referred to other peoples kids(like when he'd have guests over who had children w them) or it was a manipulation tactic. I always assumed both.
I really like that last shot of walt hanging up the phone after speaking to mike. Hes at the moment where he's finally on top and mike is his first round draft pick that bent the knee
How good was that Mike scene when he goes to that ambush set up by that girl? You see Chow with the back of his head blown off, then Mike calmly gets one of his former loyal guys she paid to kill him to admit how much money she paid to kill him. Then the stage setting and camera angle when he fires those silencer round is so badass. Mike is one badass mo-fo, lol. I also loved the scene in Lydia's house: it really shows what her character is like. She has a very upscale house on the hills it looks like, and appears to be divorced or never married, but single with a kid. She's no joke either hiring that guy to put out the hits. And this cold open is really special in this. I loved the dark comedy aspect. You can tell the guy is nuts and going off the deep end as he's test tasting the new sauces for his fast food chains, and then he ominously slowly walks up and sees the police looking at photos of him and Fring, before he uses the defibrillator to off himself. Shit's getting real to all conspirators.
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras (late 1500s to early 1600s), typically for three to six singers. In the madrigal, the composer attempted to express the emotion contained in each line, and sometimes individual words, of a celebrated poem through word painting (such as having the word "high" sung on a high note). Thus, madrigals served as a direct influence on early Italian opera.
Hey Nikki and Steven -- Just wanted to say that I LOVE your videos. I’ve seen your reactions for every episode of Breaking Bad and almost every episode of Game of Thrones (as well as Stranger Things and the Punisher). I always look forward to your Breaking Bad reactions because BB is my favorite show of all time, and I love hearing your insight about each episode. Keep doing what you’re doing, I’ll always be part of the Stikker fam! 💜
Nikki- if you pulled a muscle on the back left side of your neck be careful driving. I had the same thing. You're not gonna be able to turn your head left without that sharp pain, and this leaves you with a big blind spot. I learned this the hard way. Give it a few days and you'll feel better. Good luck.
🚽🐖🏦1️⃣1️⃣ Walt is definitely feeling like, I'm the Gus now. It's feeding into his validation fantasy in a huge way. His behavior is definitely showing that.
Now, we see the system that Gus had in place start to crumble. How deep his operation was. It was beyond the U.S and Mexico it even reached Europe. Gus was even friends with the DEA. And now the DEA even looks dirty. I love how Gus' shadow still looms over the show. You can't sneak up on Mike, come on. He is the master of espionage, a master assassin. Love that line he delivers, "Are you ready?" Guy is a about to say something. Pop, pop, pop, shot before he can even begin. Mike is badass. My favorite line from Mike, "You are a ticking time bomb. Tick, tick tick.... And I have no intention of being around when it goes off."
Yes, this is all good stuff....And the lines bring up another good point- 5A has some of the best lines and quotable dialogue. The creativity in this season in every aspect is just off the charts.
the best scene : German guy goes into the bathroom with an emergency defib kit, straps it on and puts the other wire in his mouth and then........................the automatic toilet flushes one of the funniest scenes I've seen
From what I've read & heard from Vince & the writers themselves.....that cold open at the beginning of the season was sort of them challenging themselves. They threw it out there, and THEN worried about exactly HOW they would end up coming back to it. I think it was like a game for all of the writers all thru the entire series. It kept them on their toes.
15:05 - I was just noticing how Mike put his hands palms down on the table. And he also did it in the scene at the diner. Gus used to always sit like that, with both hands palms down on the table.
19:36 Actually him saying it “NEVER gets easier” the more reassuring of the two options. It shows he isn’t COMPLETELY crazy or evil. It shows a little of the human side possibly even a little of the Walt she married is still in there. It says he still has at least a shred of remorse in there somewhere. If he were to say it DOES get easier it would prove he has COMPLETELY lost it and “Heisenberg” is the only one in control now.
As a german i have to say the guy who presented the different sauces speaks german really bad. It was so hard to understand him that i needed foreign subtitles for my own language :D
That's hilarious. I've heard Mexican friends say the same about Gus' Spanish -- Giancarlo Esposito is actually from Denmark with Italian and African ancestry, so presumably does not actually speak Spanish. While Esposito was amazing as Gus, in this case it would seem they work with the extras they have...
I do know that Laura Fraser who plays Lydia, lied when they asked her in screen testing, if she could speak German, so she had to learn it quick time when she got the role!
"This is all Walt's fault". Yep. If he would have just fucking listened to Mike and Gus way back in Season 3 and kept working with Gale instead of muddying things by bringing in Jesse and getting too arrogant he would've likely had a good fucking thing going with them all.
@@declaneast8803- Walt didn't start the ABQ criminal underworld. He didn't get Crazy 8 and Emilio to pull a gun on him and threaten to kill him, he didn't make Jesse originally cook meth prior to his entry, he didn't cause Jane to be a heroine addict, he didn't make Jesse try to kill those two dealers on the corner, he didn't cause Gus to want to get revenge on Hector, he didn't cause Jane's dad to go back to work too early when he should have just stayed away for longer, he didn't cause Gus to covertly try to bring Gale back to replace him before plans to kill Walt, he didn't cause Saul to be a shady lawyer, he didn't force Hector to blow up Gus.... But, yeah, he did cause lots of things. Just not everything. The majority of characters in this show were bad people. There's an interesting alternative perspective someone raised that Walt is like a hurricane to ABQ's underworld. I wouldn't go that far, but it's an interesting view, though one that is also a little too simplified.
If only he'd eaten that magical turkey bacon in episode 1 and cured his cancer. Jesse would be married to Jane right now, Gus and Hector would be best friends, and Gale would have become world famous for his coffee.
That final scene where Walter crawls into bed with Skyler scares and creeps the fuck out of me. It's like Lucifer crawling into bed with you and there's no where you can run to. Fuck Walt.
The laptop was encrypted, so useless from the start, so the whole scheme to kill the laptop just killed a dozen people instead, for no reason. Walt's pride once again puts in a great supporting cast member appearance.
Gus's laptop was encrypted amd couldnt be accessed. BECAUSE Walt did the magnet thing, they found the offshore bank account. Mikes money would have been safe, the dude in the begininning wouldnt have offed himself, and Lydia wouldnt have put a hit out. Again, all this is Walts fault and he has no idea what his actions cause. The ticking timebomb
See what you're saying, but what if because the picture and frame was already submitted into evidence, they would have ended up discovering it anyway? Isn't that what a competent detective would do? People have been known to hide papers or pictures, maybe even money or anything behind the main pictures of picture frames. A good detective would have pulled the picture out anyway, maybe.
First off, I have to say I love you two reacting to good shows! Keep on doing what you do, I hope you'll never change no matter how popular you get. :) Some things about these past few episodes: Encryptions are not bulletproof. Sure, they slow you down, but eventually they can be broken. So what they did with the magnet and all wasn't for nothing. One other thing: Do you notice how everyone, including you, are drawing these causality lines between horrible events, stating "This is all Walt's fault"? Yup, that's what the show is partially about. But what people usually miss is that the show presents other people doing those exact same things that have driven Walt to the point and situation he is in now. For example, Ted getting injured was Skyler's fault. Not Walt's. And it could have gone either way, he could've just ended up dead just as easily. In addition to that, Skyler grasped the opportunity and took the role of the "scary mobster lady" who would just off you and your family without a second thought if that's what it took. Just like Walt did before, even if it wasn't really "him" - only he had the advantage of having nothing to lose, being a dying man, so it was easier for him. That's just one example. But no-one criticizes Skyler and the other characters for their actions. Have you wondered why is that? Remember how earlier in the show Walt used to end up in situations like Skyler's? But in his case, the worst usually happened. The subject did not end up just being injured and scared, but got killed. And after that it's been a snowball of things 'till he killed Gus (now he's really just blinded by his other persona). The point is, this other persona of his, Heisenberg, lives in all of us. We all are susceptible of doing horrible things in the right conditions. No-one is immune to that. Live in that mode for long enough and it becomes the norm. And that, I think, is why this show is so great. It shows flawed people in their flawed lives. Not ideal, not heroic, not great. Just normal people like you, getting into unfortunate events and making bad decisions like people do from time to time. It's easy to judge Walt as being a monster, but the fact is that most of us are when put in the right situation. Look at how they showcase that with different characters; Skyler would, in the right conditions, be a monster as well.
Why is everyone dying always Walts Fault? Where is the personal accountability of the people that chose to be drug dealers, smugglers, and muscle for cartels?
This. Their reaction to deaths as being all somehow Walt's fault is getting a bit ridiculous. A hitman getting killed is literally a risk of being in the business of BEING A HITMAN. You can't place that on Walt LMFAO; that could have happened at any moment in time regardless of whether Gus was killed or not. Walt is obviously an evil powerhouse by this stage in the show, but to claim that somehow every death is 100% his doing is absurd. I think that Nikki also tried to suggest that the plane crash victims were "on Walt" as well; which is nothing short of a stretch in logic of astronomical scale.
@@Y.d.o.b.o.n Unless Gus decided to kill them like he killed Victor with the box cutter. In reality they would still be alive if they chose to be plumbers.
Have you seen the AMC spin-offs with Mike discussing security training, Fring discussing employee training, etc? You should do reactions to these short films.
24:47 I think the consensus is that Gus did not have any kids. There's a really subtle detail in previous episodes at Gus's house. When he has Walt over for dinner he has kids toys lying on the floor, and even has a line about how the kids don't like the Chilean dish that he cooks. But later on when Jesse is invited for dinner at Gus's house, those toys are completely gone. The theory is that Gus just staged that those toys and lied about kids when Walt was there, so that Walt would identify with Gus as a "family" man, thus making it easy for Gus to manipulate him.
22:04 the reason mike had a bank account with gus is because Gus was laudering Mikes money for him. Walt launders his money through the carwash with the assistace of Saul. That is why he would not have an account with Gus or be an employee of Gus.
17:00 - Actually if Walt never built the electromagnet, the picture frame wouldn't have revealed the offshore accounts. Gus could've still died and had a happy ending.
Madrigal Electromotive is the company that sold Gus the industrial filter for the meth lab (recall Hank's meeting with ASAC Merkert and Gomez about Gus' fingerprints). Lydia was one of Gus' contacts at the company along with that exec who defibrilated himself at the beginning of the episode.
Nikki, this will sound crazy, but if you have a doorframe or post you can lean into and find where the muscle is tight in your back or shoulder (check around the shoulder blade) and hold it, it can really help! I tend to sleep like a fat cat trying to fit in a pop tart box and I get that tight neck all the time. I hope you feel better quickly! I loved how you two were pulled into the tension of this episode! I am so excited to watch you two go through the journey of Season Five. I watched it when it aired and I was the same way about the opening of the season! I kept yelling, "But how do we get to that?!"
The only thing that doesn't make sense about the offshore accounts and Hank checking them all is, wouldn't Walt and Jesse have one too, or were his supposed salary to be delivered in cash only?
Believe it or not, they say Vicks vapo rub works great on sore/ stiff muscles. It works for me. Just as good as icy hot. Hope you feel better, Nikki. Thank you for another awesome video, yo 🚽🏤11🐖
I think Gus was divorced because when he showed Walt the super lab for the first time he made the speech about "when you have children you have to provide because you are a man, even if you are not appreciated or wanted, a man must provide." So I think Gus was estranged from his wife and just provides for his kids similar to how Walt was. It's possible that Gus was gay since they insinuated that his partner that was murdered by Hector Salamanca at Don Eladio's pool seemed like someone Gus was in love with. But they never outright said this and Vince Gilligan said the audience can decide for themselves. But in my head I get this feeling that Gus was married with kids and the wife found out he was gay maybe and divorced him? We never got to see Gus's family life even in Better Call Saul being a prequel we haven't seen anything yet. Maybe we will in the final season coming in 2022?
When Walt is consoling Jessie, it is 110% genuine. Just because he uses Jessie all the time and puts him down, doesn't me he even cares for Jessie more than his own son. IMHO, I truly believe he sees Jessie as the son he never had. It's so sad too, because Jr was such a great kid and person!!! P.S. Jessie did so many screwed things and even started to target Walt (even after his ZERO tolerance policy) and Walt still did everything he could to keep Jessie with him. He said some serious things to a few people for even hinting to hurt Jessie!
About Walt and Mike's phone call... how it ended... when that happens in movies and TV it bugs the shit out of me. I mean mike has the last line "I've reconsidered. I'm in" and then Walt just hangs up. A funny way to mock this kind of movie/TV phone conversation would be if Mike immeditately called Walt back and said "Why did you hang up on me all of a sudden? I had more to say asshole."
Not only did Walt and Jesse do that whole thing destroying the computer for nothing, but they did harm. Remember the last episode when the cops were going through the destroyed/damaged evidence? And they found a picture of Gus and Max? And behind it there was a piece of paper with account numbers. Those were the offshore accounts. They hadn't found that until Walt, Jesse, and Mike did the magnet thing and the picture got damaged and went off kilter revealing the account numbers. So it's their fault they found them. Maybe they would have eventually, but maybe not
@@NikkiStevenReact My apologies. I was running mildly late when I started watching this so I started when the reaction started and only watched a few minutes after. Normally i watch the whole thing.
Mike for all his talk about full measures sure let people off the hook a lot in this show. He didn't kill Lydia in this episode and how many times did he not pull the trigger on Walt when he should have?
Walt and Jesse got paid cash. No paper trail. That's why he needed the car wash to launder the money so he could bank it a little at a time. Mike had Gus launder money for his granddaughter and put into a trust. that's why there was a trail.
I've hurt my neck bad twice, I think from sleeping wrong, and I was unable to turn it for a while cause it hurt so much. I just had to keep my head facing right until the muscle slowly relaxed. 🚽 🐖 🏦 11
Everything is Walt's fault. If he wasn't so ambitious to invade another territory, Combo wouldn't be dead. If Combo wasn't dead, Jesse wouldn't want to kill Gus' guys to get revenge. If Jesse didn't want revenge, Walt wouldn't kill the guys, consequentially Gus wouldn't want to kill Walt, and finally Walt wouldn't want to kill Gus ending his empire and creating this chaos.
Walt's calm arrogance is on full display this season. Like a guy who knows he's fully in control and knows exactly how to work and manipulate everybody. Remind you of someone? His scenes with Jesse and Skyler show he's essentially turned his closest personal relationships, his partner and wife, into pretty much mentally and emotionally abusive relationships so he can always ensure he gets his way. The only person who sees him for who he is and is willing to stand up to him is Mike, which is why he wants nothing to do with Walt. But now Mike is in a situation where partnering with Walt is his only good option.
"You don't kill 11 people as some kind of prophylactic measure." God I love that line.
Walt: Oh yeah? Think again!
We need to, again, acknowledge the fact that Aaron Paul did not take acting classes. The roomba scene is...heartbreaking. He is so convincing.
Right? Watching Jesse act almost brings me to tears every time, I can feel what he is feeling when I watch him it is so real looking.
@Elisabeth Larsen ... Why does TH-cam say "40 ❤
Top ❤ recipient on this channel" ... What does this all mean? Is this some new TH-cam feature, or what?
I always respect people like that. In many ways it's better this way cause he acts with his guts not because of any technics.
@@reactions5783 Where does it show? I don't see it 🤔
Acting classes are a waste of time anyway
Poor Herr Schuler, his last meal was a bunch of tater tots with sauces called "Franch" and "Cajun Kickass".
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Guy didn't even get a single Spice Curl
They're supposed to be chicken nuggets I think
Could've at least had some "bonsai badass" Wasabi sauce, lol. I felt so bad for Jesse when he broke down. 🚽🐖🏦11
No wonder he killed himself! 😲
Aaron Paul is the most convincing crying actor i have ever seen.
Who’s that
WHERE IS JAKE
@@JessePinkman08 he plays jesse
@@jasminbreakingbadwalkingde4614 r/wooosh
@John Matthews I'm a girl. and the actor who plays Jesse (Aaron) is a great crier. I read just fine.
Walt is like a slimy octopus with a god complex now. Various arms working every character to do his bidding, while having no actual regard for them as individuals.
That's because He's not Walt anymore, he's full on Heisenberg
By that same logic though.. We praised Gus for doing the same exact thing only because he gave us the idea he had complete control. If that's the thin line we're seperating the two from.. That's very unjust. Walt IMO is a better Gus considering he tied everything Gus had built over 20 years together for himself in simply 1. (SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER) It could have gone for WAY longer had he chosen to stay in the game and not hop out for the sake of his family and whatever remnant he could grab and hold together. I won't try to justify Walt's moral complex, ESPECIALLY here in season 5 where it's way harder to do, but he deserves more credit than the dustball people make him out to be. Walter isn't fully Heisenberg here yet. He twisted Jesse to do his bidding but had both of their well-beings and his family's in consideration. Jesse his a part of his family and he will do ANYTHING for his family.
@@johnnyskinwalker4095 that's the thing, it IS Walt. The events of the last year have only revealed who he truly is and what he's capable of. Saying it's not Walt it's someone else is a way of scapegoating and not holding Walter White for his disgusting actions.
@@suinade5384 first of all, Gus is a better Hisenberg simply because he lacks any and all traces of ego. That is Walt's kryptonite. He has an insatiable massive ego, and often thinks with it. Walter has an ego comparable to Lucifer. It's almost a God complex. Gus on the other hand, didn't. He was smart, calculating and incredibly perceptive. Gus as written in the show would NEVER have allowed any of Walt and Jesse's bullshit to continue beyond Gayle and Box Cutter, but because Walt and Jesse were the main characters of the show they had the thickest of plot armor on so nothing anyone did could take them down. Despite the fact that the character of Gus as presented on screen would realize very quickly that Walter needs to be eliminated.
@@suinade5384 thats why Walt is a slimmy Octupus and Gus isn't. Gus was a business man that made a bad investment and lost his life for it. Walter is a egomaniacal, compulsively lying, emotionally manipulative, terroristic drug lord. He's not doing this for his family. That may have been what he started this out for and what he tells himself at night so he can sleep but he's doing for himself and his ego. It's about him. It's always about him. That's how ego works.
Lydia is so high strung it makes me feel stressed out.
Maybe the most entertaining neurotic on T.V.
Ugh I know! It makes her easier to predict and more suspicious because she’s trying so hard not to be. She deserved what she got.
Reminds me of my brother in law 🙄
This is when Jesse’s character came full circle for me. Watching him break down in tears is tough, especially knowing that it’s Walt just playing him. Great acting by Aaron Paul.
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Church yo!! His acting is mmmm so sweet!
Walter's age at the beginning of BrBa is 50 years old.
Human Being thought we were past this!?!?
@@NikkiStevenReact Nope. You said in the beginning "years later" but all the events happened since the very first episode is actually couple of months.
we got at least 100 comments in the last video about this exact topic... we watched episode 2 before reading comments so yes, it's behind us. thanks for the comment though.
@@NikkiStevenReact Sorry, mine was one of the 100 comments about the turkey bacon "50". I figured someone else would comment on it but I didn't have the time to read through all of the comments first. In case you haven't noticed...there are HUNDREDS OF THEM. LOL.
0:35 "I'm an old lady." That's funny.
Aaron Paul is SO good in that scene where they "find" the cigarette.
He's so criminally underrated as an actor! There's a video of the BB cast doing a live table read of an episode that comes a little later in S5. Even there, Aaron's delivery of his lines were so on point, you can see it moved Anna Gunn to tears.
@@cluster_f1575 Yes! I've watched that table read a few times, and Aaron Paul performed just as authentically as he does in the series. It was so heartbreaking.
Even Bryan Cranston didn't bring his A-game like Aaron did. I mean, he definitely didn't need to for a simple table read, no one else did either, but it was cool nonetheless.
Podcast Notes: Madrigal
Guests: Jonathan Banks (Mike); Michelle MacLaren (Director & Co-exec producer)
1. German lab was shot in a high school‘s film & cooking school building. Every sign had to be changed into German
2. Signs in background - some you can’t see. Los Pollos Hermanos, Luftwaffle (ha!), BurgerMatic - BurgerMatic is an inside joke from Home Fries, the first movie Vince wrote in 1989 (made in 1998 with Luke Wilson & Drew Barrymore) in which that’s the name of the fast food restaurant
3. The “Franch” had to be edible when they shot the guys testing it. On set, it was icing (which coagulated 🤢). the insert where it actually looks like sauce is mostly paint
4. They really wanted the actor to fall off the toilet, they made a soft floor that looked like real tile
5. A different actress was lined up to play the secretary, but at the last minute, she couldn’t do it. their second choice was in another city & she got this overwhelming feeling she had to go to Albuquerque for a role. She went there, and then got the call about doing the part!
6. The Jesse montage - Kelly was excited about how she edited it as it was different to anything they’d done on the show, the way she played with the chronology
7. Mike’s home - lots of Jonathan’s personal photos...Jonathan was super happy they included a Sugar Ray Robinson poster like he’d requested. He LOVES Sugar Ray Robinson, carries a quote of his in his wallet - “you can hit me and I won’t think much of it, but you can say something and hurt me very much”
8. “Mike is a guy who has lived more life than most people ever will”
9. Funny that Hank’s boss is let go because Gus is there right under his nose - goes to his home, etc. - and he didn’t recognize what he was....!
10. Jonathan says Mike doesn’t just feel protective of Jesse, he even feels (or felt) protective of Walt - he tries to keep people from completely selling their soul
11. There was a sweet cut scene where Mike was teaching Kaylee to box
12. The fly in the Chow scene was CGI
13. Lydia’s house is meant to be in Houston (though it was shot in a glass house in Albuquerque). It was difficult to establish it was Houston - they didn’t want to have it written in screen as we’re 48 eps in and have never done that previously so it’d be weird
14. They shot a different version of the Skyler scene where she reached back & gave him a handjob to avoid sex, but it was way too creepy and rapey
Damn. Same person who directed 3x07 of Game Of Thrones.
Michelle McLaren is my favorite director of Breaking Bad. All of her episodes are on point, it seems like.
g henry they are! I really like her.
MFBloosh oh wow, I didn’t realize she’d directed that episode!
@Jessica ... Thanks for this. By the way, does anyone know what all the "Top ❤ recipient on this channel" means in these comments? It's saying the same for three different people in just this one comment thread ... You can't all be "Top", surely? ... TH-cam is tripping!
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17:22 "This is Walt's fault" pretty much describes the whole show
I mean, Walt had to kill Gus. He was too psycho for Walt to just walk away from.
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I loved the scene with Lydia and Mike at the diner. Breaking Bad is so great at putting tension into scenes. For years, you had Gus Fring bring tension to every scene he is in through this sense of calm and control. Lydia brings a sense of tension and danger from a completely different place. She is very smart, but her stress level is through the roof and operates under panic making her so unpredictable. Such a great character to introduce in season 5.
Couldn't agree more. While of course, everyone is going to like the "action scenes", it's really these excellent tension-building and character building scenes that are the best. It's that renowned "detail" work that is also just outstanding. I love the little split second angle they get on Lydia's face from the side with her head down as she is speaking to Mike, rather than just the dead-on front shot. I've seen it before a few times in some movies, but it fits even more perfectly with her and her character here in this scene.
@@ghenry4513 It looks like her hands have the slightest twitch in that scene as well.
lastool I realized that every time I finished watching a scene with her in it, my stomach hurt because of the tension she brings with her on-screen. Awesome character, in a weird kinda way.
Lydia works at madrigal. She was at the meeting with the DEA. This is not a spoiler, dont ban me moderators pls.
@@SparksDrinker That's a stretch ... Your comment however, states that outright. If anyone's spoiling...
@@SparksDrinkerShe's already important.
Spoiler : Walt jr is gona eat breakfast in a upcoming episode
@@SparksDrinker no, you should delete your comment. your comment is a spoiler, ops is not.
SparksDrinker just delete your comment dude
Thanks to Walt doing that magnet thing they found out about the accounts. They were trying to destroy the evidence and they ended up giving them more
Bender: AND THAT'S CALLED IRONNNYYYYYY!"
They would have found it eventually
@@Justinhomii Not if the case went cold.
Literally every scene with Mike is so fun to watch. He’s such an awesome character and an amazing actor.
Poor guy didn't deserved to die 😢
That face when Mike finds out the DEA is trying to get his money.. 😕
I think it's more like Mike's face when he finds out having his money put into an account for his granddaughter has connected him to these crimes.
It's more like a face that he do all the time for everything
@@daffy8995 I'm not so sure actually. I think Mike might rather be arrested if it somehow meant she kept the money, instead of losing all the money if it meant him being free. I think he's mainly furious that the money is gone, and I think that very reason is the only incentive Mike had to rejoin the trio.
@@chatpal1991 ~ Yes, the two thoughts are connected, though. I can't see how his granddaughter could get that money once they peg the business as a criminal enterprise (at least not in real world terms.) That's why Mike had to disavow any knowledge of the account. He is at much greater risk now and also is much more dangerous for Walter. It also circles back to the notion that they both are doing this "for family."
@@daffy8995 Yes, as I said "if it somehow mean she kept the money", as I can't think of a way that that would happen. The two are very attached. I was just chiming in to what I believed to be his primary motive
This episode and few before made me wish that Jesse was Mike’s apprentice. He definitely would never knowingly put him under any grave danger and wouldn’t play dirty.
But tbh he also would’ve killed Jesse if gus told him to.
I'd say that it's not necessarily "if Walt hadn't killed Gus", it's more like "if Walt hadn't destroyed the laptop". As Hank said, it was so encrypted, they wouldn't have been able to get into it. And Gus was so careful about what he did, it stands to reason he would have an encrypted laptop. That little action of destroying the laptop revealed those numbers, snowballing everything into something bigger and worse.
It always puzzled me why the writers were kinda obsessed with German references during the whole show (heisenberg as Walter's alias, the WWII museum, the Gustav cannon story Walt tells to jesse, madrigal being a Germany based company, Jesse calling Walter "adolf" multiple times, German last names for most characters such as ehrmantraut and Schrader among other things) and I can only think of nietzche's philosophy of breaking moral shackles to "be an evolved" individual. That's what Walter does, cross every moral boundary he encounters until he's a totally different person and nothing stops him anymore.
You think Walt is 40 something currently in the show? Go back and watch the first episode, with the turkey bacon.
To be fair, that was a really long time ago. I probably would've forgot his exact age as well.
James Park Literally the last episode they watched opened on his 52 birthday so........
Pilot episode shows him at 50 years old. Last episode cold open showed him at 52 years old.
... SPELLED OUT IN BACON!
@@Jamie-kv9eg To be fair the flashforward only tells them what his age is at that point, not what it is currently. It could've been like 10 years later if you didn't remember he was already 50.
The beginning of this episode makes me want chicken nuggets really bad.
I thought they were tater tots.
movieman175 What sauce would you like with that?
@@dr.feelgood8380 Cajun Kick-Ass!
To me they look like chicken nuggets and Los Pollos was a chicken joint.
seriously him eating those tater tots never fails to make me hungry asf😂😂🤦🏻♂️
Jessie is way to good hearted to be in the meth game especially with heartless-ruthless Walt
I'm working on a case right now that involves bank accounts in Anguilla and the Cayman Islands. You would be surprised at how easy AND difficult it is to investigate crimes involving those accounts. The DOJ and DA did manage to get their hands on bank account info as well as passports, etc., but it took years and lot of cooperation between state, federal and foreign governments and foreign attorneys. (What was shocking to me was how easy it is to move funds from one account to another, in some cases with nothing more than a phone call.)
Walter's that friend that'll steal from you and come over and help you look for it.
So many great subtle things stand out in this episode, but two to mention are: at the end when Walt tells Skyler "It gets easier, you know?"....with regards to dealing with people getting hurt like Ted since she is clearly struggling with her guilt with that, is sort of terrifying. Walt is basically bringing her into being a part of the team and wants her to be like him, where he is so used to it that he can just move on without any guilt anymore....
And also, on an entirely different note, the camera work of the Mike and Lydia diner meeting, the way they get Lydia's face from that side angle with her head lowered looking at Mike when she is talking to him. It's just a little, subtle thing, but it's another example of the excellent artistry of the filmmakers of Breaking Bad that enhances their scenes, story telling, and character development. .
Does Walt even know about what happened to Ted?
I wanted to yell spoiler but you worded that so well lol
🚽🐖🏦⏸ first time I watched the show I hated skyler , but the more I see the show , Walt is more of a monster
Exactly how I feel...I'm at the same point as Nikki and Steven right now, and I find myself rooting for Skyler and wishing Walt would get taken down a few notches.
Jesse and Walt laundered their money through Saul. So yes, the off shore accounts were just for Gus's people. Mike did all that work to gain money for his granddaughter and now all that money is untouchable :/
Gus did not have kids. The line "the kids won't eat" he said when Walt visited referred to other peoples kids(like when he'd have guests over who had children w them) or it was a manipulation tactic. I always assumed both.
He had kids toys in his house, although that could just be manipulation as well.
I really like that last shot of walt hanging up the phone after speaking to mike. Hes at the moment where he's finally on top and mike is his first round draft pick that bent the knee
How good was that Mike scene when he goes to that ambush set up by that girl? You see Chow with the back of his head blown off, then Mike calmly gets one of his former loyal guys she paid to kill him to admit how much money she paid to kill him. Then the stage setting and camera angle when he fires those silencer round is so badass. Mike is one badass mo-fo, lol.
I also loved the scene in Lydia's house: it really shows what her character is like. She has a very upscale house on the hills it looks like, and appears to be divorced or never married, but single with a kid. She's no joke either hiring that guy to put out the hits.
And this cold open is really special in this. I loved the dark comedy aspect. You can tell the guy is nuts and going off the deep end as he's test tasting the new sauces for his fast food chains, and then he ominously slowly walks up and sees the police looking at photos of him and Fring, before he uses the defibrillator to off himself. Shit's getting real to all conspirators.
A madrigal is a type of vocal music. Sung by a small group of people. Very pleasant.
I love Breaking Bad.
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A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras (late 1500s to early 1600s), typically for three to six singers. In the madrigal, the composer attempted to express the emotion contained in each line, and sometimes individual words, of a celebrated poem through word painting (such as having the word "high" sung on a high note). Thus, madrigals served as a direct influence on early Italian opera.
Season 5 is the best season. So stoked you guys are watching it already!! Enjoy the ride.
Now, that's called Chekhov's Roomba! No redundant objects in this series.
M H it really is amazing how even the smallest things have payoffs in this series
Hey Nikki and Steven --
Just wanted to say that I LOVE your videos. I’ve seen your reactions for every episode of Breaking Bad and almost every episode of Game of Thrones (as well as Stranger Things and the Punisher). I always look forward to your Breaking Bad reactions because BB is my favorite show of all time, and I love hearing your insight about each episode. Keep doing what you’re doing, I’ll always be part of the Stikker fam! 💜
This comment is nice, too nice
Thank you!!! We appreciate it!!
Nikki- if you pulled a muscle on the back left side of your neck be careful driving. I had the same thing. You're not gonna be able to turn your head left without that sharp pain, and this leaves you with a big blind spot. I learned this the hard way. Give it a few days and you'll feel better. Good luck.
dm gib ^^^^^
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Walt is definitely feeling like, I'm the Gus now. It's feeding into his validation fantasy in a huge way. His behavior is definitely showing that.
Now, we see the system that Gus had in place start to crumble. How deep his operation was. It was beyond the U.S and Mexico it even reached Europe. Gus was even friends with the DEA. And now the DEA even looks dirty. I love how Gus' shadow still looms over the show.
You can't sneak up on Mike, come on. He is the master of espionage, a master assassin. Love that line he delivers, "Are you ready?" Guy is a about to say something. Pop, pop, pop, shot before he can even begin. Mike is badass.
My favorite line from Mike, "You are a ticking time bomb. Tick, tick tick.... And I have no intention of being around when it goes off."
Yes, this is all good stuff....And the lines bring up another good point- 5A has some of the best lines and quotable dialogue. The creativity in this season in every aspect is just off the charts.
@@ghenry4513 This show is so qoutable. So many layers and as you peel it back there's even more layers. One of my top 5 favorite shows.
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Nikki is so in tune with the show it wasn't that she slept wrong, she's obviously having sympathy pains for Ted.
I still can’t believe we’re in season 5 already. Time goes by so fast when you’re so into something so interesting as Breaking Bad yo.
the best scene : German guy goes into the bathroom with an emergency defib kit, straps it on and puts the other wire in his mouth and then........................the automatic toilet flushes
one of the funniest scenes I've seen
From what I've read & heard from Vince & the writers themselves.....that cold open at the beginning of the season was sort of them challenging themselves. They threw it out there, and THEN worried about exactly HOW they would end up coming back to it. I think it was like a game for all of the writers all thru the entire series. It kept them on their toes.
15:05 - I was just noticing how Mike put his hands palms down on the table. And he also did it in the scene at the diner. Gus used to always sit like that, with both hands palms down on the table.
I just woke up, its 3am and this is a good reason to hold off going back to sleep!
19:36 Actually him saying it “NEVER gets easier” the more reassuring of the two options. It shows he isn’t COMPLETELY crazy or evil. It shows a little of the human side possibly even a little of the Walt she married is still in there. It says he still has at least a shred of remorse in there somewhere. If he were to say it DOES get easier it would prove he has COMPLETELY lost it and “Heisenberg” is the only one in control now.
This season starts Act 3 of Breaking Bad.
As a german i have to say the guy who presented the different sauces speaks german really bad. It was so hard to understand him that i needed foreign subtitles for my own language :D
That's hilarious. I've heard Mexican friends say the same about Gus' Spanish -- Giancarlo Esposito is actually from Denmark with Italian and African ancestry, so presumably does not actually speak Spanish. While Esposito was amazing as Gus, in this case it would seem they work with the extras they have...
I do know that Laura Fraser who plays Lydia, lied when they asked her in screen testing, if she could speak German, so she had to learn it quick time when she got the role!
Hey ! Im French and i love your video ! continue its cool ! :)
T'assures trop
Oui moi aussi. ^^
🏦🐷🚽🕚 So crazy that we've been along with you on this awesome ride through the series and there are only 14 episodes left!!
"This is all Walt's fault".
Yep. If he would have just fucking listened to Mike and Gus way back in Season 3 and kept working with Gale instead of muddying things by bringing in Jesse and getting too arrogant he would've likely had a good fucking thing going with them all.
*Every time Mike talks, all I hear is Commissioner Gordon from the Batman Arkham series games. Cause he voices him in the game*
Can't wait for you to get more into this season. Knowing the two of you, there is going to be a lot of great commentary and great reactions!
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I love this episode. It's low key, but tense and superbly acted.
Global warming is increasing
Nikki: its Walt's fault
Walter was the architect of everything that has led up to this point in season 5, so she’s not wrong most of the things are Walters fault right now
@@declaneast8803 WELL, he is the reason u have a show to watch...so there is that!
@@declaneast8803- Walt didn't start the ABQ criminal underworld. He didn't get Crazy 8 and Emilio to pull a gun on him and threaten to kill him, he didn't make Jesse originally cook meth prior to his entry, he didn't cause Jane to be a heroine addict, he didn't make Jesse try to kill those two dealers on the corner, he didn't cause Gus to want to get revenge on Hector, he didn't cause Jane's dad to go back to work too early when he should have just stayed away for longer, he didn't cause Gus to covertly try to bring Gale back to replace him before plans to kill Walt, he didn't cause Saul to be a shady lawyer, he didn't force Hector to blow up Gus....
But, yeah, he did cause lots of things. Just not everything. The majority of characters in this show were bad people. There's an interesting alternative perspective someone raised that Walt is like a hurricane to ABQ's underworld. I wouldn't go that far, but it's an interesting view, though one that is also a little too simplified.
If only he'd eaten that magical turkey bacon in episode 1 and cured his cancer. Jesse would be married to Jane right now, Gus and Hector would be best friends, and Gale would have become world famous for his coffee.
harry singh obviously!!
Weirdly enough, my neck was stiff as hell the last few days, as well. Had to do the Batman turn for at least three days.
That final scene where Walter crawls into bed with Skyler scares and creeps the fuck out of me. It's like Lucifer crawling into bed with you and there's no where you can run to. Fuck Walt.
They teased Madrigal Electromotive back in that Los Pollos Hermanos ad from season 3 episode 9, in the commercial's fine print.
jmwild1 yeah, once we saw the sign, it clicked. Hank talked about it too.
I thought it was a nice easter egg to notice on rewatch, that they referenced Madrigal 2 seasons ago as the parent company of Los Pollos Hermanos.
The laptop was encrypted, so useless from the start, so the whole scheme to kill the laptop just killed a dozen people instead, for no reason.
Walt's pride once again puts in a great supporting cast member appearance.
anybody else get the impression that Walter enjoyed being called a time bomb by Mike?
Mike is the GOAT
Thank you!!!
I soooo needed to see this now (I’m having a really bad day).
Love you guys!
Feel better Nikki!!!
Gus's laptop was encrypted amd couldnt be accessed. BECAUSE Walt did the magnet thing, they found the offshore bank account. Mikes money would have been safe, the dude in the begininning wouldnt have offed himself, and Lydia wouldnt have put a hit out. Again, all this is Walts fault and he has no idea what his actions cause. The ticking timebomb
See what you're saying, but what if because the picture and frame was already submitted into evidence, they would have ended up discovering it anyway? Isn't that what a competent detective would do? People have been known to hide papers or pictures, maybe even money or anything behind the main pictures of picture frames. A good detective would have pulled the picture out anyway, maybe.
Hmmm maybe, if it was Hank lol. the world may never know.
First off, I have to say I love you two reacting to good shows! Keep on doing what you do, I hope you'll never change no matter how popular you get. :)
Some things about these past few episodes:
Encryptions are not bulletproof. Sure, they slow you down, but eventually they can be broken. So what they did with the magnet and all wasn't for nothing.
One other thing: Do you notice how everyone, including you, are drawing these causality lines between horrible events, stating "This is all Walt's fault"? Yup, that's what the show is partially about. But what people usually miss is that the show presents other people doing those exact same things that have driven Walt to the point and situation he is in now. For example, Ted getting injured was Skyler's fault. Not Walt's. And it could have gone either way, he could've just ended up dead just as easily. In addition to that, Skyler grasped the opportunity and took the role of the "scary mobster lady" who would just off you and your family without a second thought if that's what it took. Just like Walt did before, even if it wasn't really "him" - only he had the advantage of having nothing to lose, being a dying man, so it was easier for him. That's just one example. But no-one criticizes Skyler and the other characters for their actions. Have you wondered why is that?
Remember how earlier in the show Walt used to end up in situations like Skyler's? But in his case, the worst usually happened. The subject did not end up just being injured and scared, but got killed. And after that it's been a snowball of things 'till he killed Gus (now he's really just blinded by his other persona).
The point is, this other persona of his, Heisenberg, lives in all of us. We all are susceptible of doing horrible things in the right conditions. No-one is immune to that. Live in that mode for long enough and it becomes the norm. And that, I think, is why this show is so great. It shows flawed people in their flawed lives. Not ideal, not heroic, not great. Just normal people like you, getting into unfortunate events and making bad decisions like people do from time to time.
It's easy to judge Walt as being a monster, but the fact is that most of us are when put in the right situation. Look at how they showcase that with different characters; Skyler would, in the right conditions, be a monster as well.
Why is everyone dying always Walts Fault? Where is the personal accountability of the people that chose to be drug dealers, smugglers, and muscle for cartels?
They would still be alive if Fring was alive
HTYY • so you expect Walt not too kill Gus, but Gus kill Walter?!
This. Their reaction to deaths as being all somehow Walt's fault is getting a bit ridiculous. A hitman getting killed is literally a risk of being in the business of BEING A HITMAN. You can't place that on Walt LMFAO; that could have happened at any moment in time regardless of whether Gus was killed or not. Walt is obviously an evil powerhouse by this stage in the show, but to claim that somehow every death is 100% his doing is absurd. I think that Nikki also tried to suggest that the plane crash victims were "on Walt" as well; which is nothing short of a stretch in logic of astronomical scale.
@@Y.d.o.b.o.n Unless Gus decided to kill them like he killed Victor with the box cutter. In reality they would still be alive if they chose to be plumbers.
@@ineone Walt is the main character. They are just looking at the consequences of his actions.
Have you seen the AMC spin-offs with Mike discussing security training, Fring discussing employee training, etc? You should do reactions to these short films.
24:47 I think the consensus is that Gus did not have any kids. There's a really subtle detail in previous episodes at Gus's house. When he has Walt over for dinner he has kids toys lying on the floor, and even has a line about how the kids don't like the Chilean dish that he cooks. But later on when Jesse is invited for dinner at Gus's house, those toys are completely gone. The theory is that Gus just staged that those toys and lied about kids when Walt was there, so that Walt would identify with Gus as a "family" man, thus making it easy for Gus to manipulate him.
16:47 “I am the one who knocks.”
22:04 the reason mike had a bank account with gus is because Gus was laudering Mikes money for him. Walt launders his money through the carwash with the assistace of Saul. That is why he would not have an account with Gus or be an employee of Gus.
This season is so amazing. I'm on edge watching you guys on edge
17:00 - Actually if Walt never built the electromagnet, the picture frame wouldn't have revealed the offshore accounts. Gus could've still died and had a happy ending.
Madrigal is an under appreciated episode
Madrigal Electromotive is the company that sold Gus the industrial filter for the meth lab (recall Hank's meeting with ASAC Merkert and Gomez about Gus' fingerprints). Lydia was one of Gus' contacts at the company along with that exec who defibrilated himself at the beginning of the episode.
4:44 Jesus Christ they’re minerals !!!!
Nikki, this will sound crazy, but if you have a doorframe or post you can lean into and find where the muscle is tight in your back or shoulder (check around the shoulder blade) and hold it, it can really help! I tend to sleep like a fat cat trying to fit in a pop tart box and I get that tight neck all the time. I hope you feel better quickly!
I loved how you two were pulled into the tension of this episode! I am so excited to watch you two go through the journey of Season Five. I watched it when it aired and I was the same way about the opening of the season! I kept yelling, "But how do we get to that?!"
i love lydia she’s such a good character
Israymer Valentin-Arias you are sexist and annoying
She should have been offed in this episode.
Total pussy pass.
binglio very good actress too
Lucimyr not random. analytical. many viewers of breaking bad are sexist, to deny this simple fact is not only ignorance it is a lie
@@threedeemelodies You're an idiot.
Have you guys got the DVD or blu-ray box set? There's a lot of great behind the scenes stuff and funny audio commentaries
You guys already knew about Gus and picked up on it last season, but this episode shows how big time Gus really was.
The only thing that doesn't make sense about the offshore accounts and Hank checking them all is, wouldn't Walt and Jesse have one too, or were his supposed salary to be delivered in cash only?
Why blame Walt for everything. They're all adults. And were corrupt long before Walt came into the business.
kj robbi because it’s all his fault?
i love you guys so much ! best youtube channel out there ♥️
Madrigal can mean a group of singers without instruments.
In case you didn't know, AEDs will not shock a normal heart rhythm. They are automated.
Believe it or not, they say Vicks vapo rub works great on sore/ stiff muscles. It works for me. Just as good as icy hot. Hope you feel better, Nikki.
Thank you for another awesome video, yo
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Thanks. I knew that, but forgot about it.
@@angie-tq4ew you're welcome ☺
I think Gus was divorced because when he showed Walt the super lab for the first time he made the speech about "when you have children you have to provide because you are a man, even if you are not appreciated or wanted, a man must provide." So I think Gus was estranged from his wife and just provides for his kids similar to how Walt was. It's possible that Gus was gay since they insinuated that his partner that was murdered by Hector Salamanca at Don Eladio's pool seemed like someone Gus was in love with. But they never outright said this and Vince Gilligan said the audience can decide for themselves. But in my head I get this feeling that Gus was married with kids and the wife found out he was gay maybe and divorced him?
We never got to see Gus's family life even in Better Call Saul being a prequel we haven't seen anything yet. Maybe we will in the final season coming in 2022?
When Walt is consoling Jessie, it is 110% genuine. Just because he uses Jessie all the time and puts him down, doesn't me he even cares for Jessie more than his own son. IMHO, I truly believe he sees Jessie as the son he never had.
It's so sad too, because Jr was such a great kid and person!!!
P.S. Jessie did so many screwed things and even started to target Walt (even after his ZERO tolerance policy) and Walt still did everything he could to keep Jessie with him. He said some serious things to a few people for even hinting to hurt Jessie!
Mighty Mike - he is just awesome
Nice react!!!!!!
- Your fan from Brazil :)
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About Walt and Mike's phone call... how it ended... when that happens in movies and TV it bugs the shit out of me. I mean mike has the last line "I've reconsidered. I'm in" and then Walt just hangs up. A funny way to mock this kind of movie/TV phone conversation would be if Mike immeditately called Walt back and said "Why did you hang up on me all of a sudden? I had more to say asshole."
Question:_what editing software do you have, and how would you recommend learning to use it?
Rolling Herd I sue premier pro. If you can get into a class I’d do that. If not, I’m willing to bet there’s a beginners tutorial on TH-cam.
Not only did Walt and Jesse do that whole thing destroying the computer for nothing, but they did harm. Remember the last episode when the cops were going through the destroyed/damaged evidence? And they found a picture of Gus and Max? And behind it there was a piece of paper with account numbers. Those were the offshore accounts. They hadn't found that until Walt, Jesse, and Mike did the magnet thing and the picture got damaged and went off kilter revealing the account numbers. So it's their fault they found them. Maybe they would have eventually, but maybe not
Beardy McJ that’s exactly what we talked a out before the reaction started.
@@NikkiStevenReact My apologies. I was running mildly late when I started watching this so I started when the reaction started and only watched a few minutes after. Normally i watch the whole thing.
Beardy McJ no apology needed. Just chatting.
YES! My Saturday morning ritual felt empty because of this but now my Sunday is off to a great start so it balances out lol
Mike for all his talk about full measures sure let people off the hook a lot in this show. He didn't kill Lydia in this episode and how many times did he not pull the trigger on Walt when he should have?
Walt and Jesse got paid cash. No paper trail. That's why he needed the car wash to launder the money so he could bank it a little at a time. Mike had Gus launder money for his granddaughter and put into a trust. that's why there was a trail.
I've hurt my neck bad twice, I think from sleeping wrong, and I was unable to turn it for a while cause it hurt so much. I just had to keep my head facing right until the muscle slowly relaxed. 🚽 🐖 🏦 11
Everything is Walt's fault. If he wasn't so ambitious to invade another territory, Combo wouldn't be dead. If Combo wasn't dead, Jesse wouldn't want to kill Gus' guys to get revenge. If Jesse didn't want revenge, Walt wouldn't kill the guys, consequentially Gus wouldn't want to kill Walt, and finally Walt wouldn't want to kill Gus ending his empire and creating this chaos.
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Walt's calm arrogance is on full display this season. Like a guy who knows he's fully in control and knows exactly how to work and manipulate everybody. Remind you of someone? His scenes with Jesse and Skyler show he's essentially turned his closest personal relationships, his partner and wife, into pretty much mentally and emotionally abusive relationships so he can always ensure he gets his way. The only person who sees him for who he is and is willing to stand up to him is Mike, which is why he wants nothing to do with Walt. But now Mike is in a situation where partnering with Walt is his only good option.
nikki and ted are bonding. thanks for the fast uploads yo!
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Big Boss thank you!!!
The story that Hank refers to about Mike's past isn't the "Half Measures" story.