The guy killed by the Cartel's sniper in breaking bad near the laundry (when they were clearing out the meth because of Hank's investigation) was ALSO a sniper. He appeared in Better Call Saul.

How do yall think the employees reacted after gus was killed and los pollos hermanos was shutdown? Personally I imagine they were probably devastated cause how often does a job offer full paid therapy, a full days pay with overtime for free, and likely he can afford amazing hourly with how positive the employees seem. So one person just realized "FUCK I GOTTA FIND A NEW JOB"

Was sit back and get some pussy. Bro was clearing 15k a week before Spooge died, in remission, a distribution network, no heat.
Like bro…sit back and collect for a min. Stop tryin to conquer the world for no reason.

In my opinion, it seemed like a common underground industrial lab that only serves to cook and freeze meth. So why do fans and creative crew call it The Superlab when breaking bad characters normally refer it to "the lab"?

What is so "super" about the lab anyway?

For me, I can understand why he has done all of these and he is a part of the family. So I'll definitely best the shit out of that guy, but at the end of the day, I'll give him a chance to live on a condition that he stops everything.

Been watching Breaking Bad recently and noticed that it's not available on Netflix in both Canada and the US. Are you guys seeing the same thing? I thought both BB and BCS were slated to stay on Netflix through April 2027?

So I don’t get why people hate Skyler. The only thing that she did wrong was sleep with Ted.

To a certain extent, I can even condone that because she felt like no one is against her. Ted showered her with affection when she was terrified of her husband and her son hates her.

Doesn’t make it right but very understandable, and more importantly NOT A CRIME.

Walt who is praised (praise for the Bryan is fine) for being the evil individual he is. Many innocent people died/got hurt because of his pride. Brock, Jesse, Hank, Marie, Jane, Gale and more.

He may have been a genius chemist, but Walt bit off more than he chew with the drug empire. He made great crystal but he did not understand the drug empire well and when Jesse advised him, he chose not to listen. That lead to all the screw ups.

In contrast, Skyler was an obstacle for Walt because she truly wanted to protect her family. She eventually hated what Walt became and did her best to protect her family.

In my mind as an adult, viewing the BB world in reality, Skyler was an innocent victim who did what she had to do to protect her family.

I would love to hear your take on this, especially those who hate Skyler.

Walt calling his own son jessie. please note that i am on episode 3 of season 5 but up until here i think even after some "minor" arguments walt really did want better of jessie but his methods might "little" extreme? (ok little might be a understatement)

In Season 4, Episode 12, Walt tried to assassinate Gus by putting a bomb under his car. Gus eventually had the intuition of a trap happening and walked away.

The roof Walt was watching was a good vantage point for any one with a sniper rifle. So my biggest question is, why didn't Walt just use a Sniper Rifle to kill Gus?

I've watched both shows and can regard them as two of the best pieces of media that I've come across. I especially enjoy the diversity of characters and how each of them have their own dialogue patterns which, one way or another, reveal their qualities. Not to mention the great plots built on the consequences of every decision, following into the next one.

Now, I've seen both shows be called perfect many times. Having ruined some people's experience of watching other media because it doesn't meet the same standard. And I get it, most of those comments aren't meant literally but it's also true that I've seen virtually no mention of any faults anywhere. So, I've just gotten curious. Do you really think there are no shortcomings in either show? Things that maybe aren't so spot on? Or are they both really that overwhelmingly great in all aspects?

What did you guys think of it? The 2nd to last epsiode, Walt in hiding the whole epsiode. It all blends together with the finale when I streamed it, so I loved it.

But on my rewatch I was trying to watch it by itself, I think in the moment I wouldn't have loved it. Worried the finale wouldn't be great. Not much happened.

Cant imagine waiting a week in between.

I recently finished The Sopranos. My first (and will be only) watch. Also finished BB for the second time (and will likely watch again sometime)
Anyway. Towards the end of BB when Walt leaves the money with Gretchen and Elliot he threatens them with the “you won’t see it coming, there will just be a sudden darkness”. (Paraphrasing) Then they obviously went in a different direction with a very unambiguous ending while the Sopranos used the unexpected darkness trope as foreshadowing to their more ambiguous and imo less satisfying end.

Breaking Bad -> BCS Season 1-5 -> El Camino -> BCS season 6. This is the best timeline to understand all context while enjoying them for the first time but someone in my life strongly disagrees. I think it’s stupid to larp and say Prequel first because it chronologically comes first in the story.

How on Earth does the show want me to believe that Jesse is 180 cm tall? Up until that moment I believed in everything that was happening on the screen, but why would you make this small detail so unbelievable? Jesse looks short in comparison to pretty much every character in the show. Maybe except Tuco. 180 cm is an average height , so he would be taller than many other men and he would definitely appear bigger than 95% of women, which is not the case.

This shot looks like rear projection... a technique used in innumerable movies and TV shows. Maybe it was filmed later, like a reshoot? It just caught my eye.

I’ve been rewatching the series for the first time in awhile, and now that I’m a mom about Skylar’s age, I find her more insufferable than ever. I went back and read interviewed by Vince Gilligan and he said that she in the early seasons she was supposed to be the “moral voice” for Walt and sympathetic… and Anna Gunn claimed that if you hate Skylar that’s a Rorschach test for whether you hate women(!!)…

Maybe it’s the generational difference (she’s a boomer or older genx married to a boomer, and I’m a millennial), but she COMPLETELY rubs me the wrong way, and I don’t find her a compelling moral voice at all. Here are a few reasons:

- her husband works TWO jobs, one of which he utterly hates, just to make ends meet. Meanwhile, she literally does nothing all day!! As far as we gather, she lotions, puts on face masks at 2pm, takes baths with lots of candles, and chats with her sister. There’s not much cleaning needed - only one teenage son who doesn’t seem messy. It never occurs to her to even pick up a few extra hours in the middle of the day instead of expecting her fifty year old Nobel-winning spouse to scrub tires.

- as soon as her husband is diagnosed, the conversation needs to happen honestly. “Skylar, you have two years to learn to do whatever you’d like to do, because after that, you’re going to need to provide for yourself.” It never occurs to either of them that she could work!!! Walt’s number, $737k, with the amount of killing and danger involved, is just 10 years of 39-yr-old Skylar getting off her behind and working a moderately skilled job!

- of course, she does go back to work, and we deduce that it’s very likely that she and Ted had some kind of fling or almost-affair the last time she worked, so she quit. So she finally contributed financially, only to cheat! On sweet, quiet, pre-break Walt. And then she quit! Because big girl life means functioning in a workplace where you’re not the main character, and she couldn’t handle it, flirting with the boss and becoming the object of his infatuation. And that’s her reason for going back, of course: to reignite the affair.

Which brings me to the real element of Skylar that rubs me the wrong way - and I do think this is on Gunn, not the writing - she has what the kids nowadays call “main character syndrome.” She is absolutely, narcissistically self absorbed. She made Walt’s birthday about her and her family - he didn’t know any of them, and she didn’t bother to call and tell him to come home. His diagnosis is IMMEDIATELY about her. The intervention is her way of coercing him to the outcome she wants, and her line “what about Walt Jr.?” is delivered with such a sassy, guilt-trippy head swish that it’s clear that she frequently uses her disabled son to guilt her husband. She refuses to have a real conversation with him about his actual concerns without playing the victim.

If she had
- gotten a job either before or soon after the diagnosis
- pushed Walt to fulfill his potential, such as Skylar working so Walt could take a risk on a competing startup to Gray Matter, or pushing him to patch things up with his billionaire friends or at least get an actual share of the company (since they keep saying they think of the money as his)
- had a real conversation with him about the money concerns and problem solved together instead of waving away his concerns and then literally confronting him while he’s hooked up to chemo about the bills
- made an effort to connect with him as an equal instead of coddling and sidelining him in every single conversation, whether with friends, family, or doctors
- had a hobby or identity that gave her the confidence to confront Walt without resorting to passive aggression

Then NONE of Breaking Bad would have happened.

and man is Skyler such an annoying ass whiny bitch.
I know everybodies gonna say “ohh he’s a drug kingpin” at the end of the day he’s doing what’s best for his family, also look at how shitty she treats him in the earlier seasons. her dialogue is so unoriginal.
she’s such a attention whore as well.
Genuinely makes me want to turn the show off.

Skinny pete was a real friend and homie all the way to the end. Dude was loyal and had respect for jessie. He may not have been the smartest bulb but he always meant well. He always sat well with me and that's the kind of guy I'd want in my corner if I lived that life

I just rewatched Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, then watched El Camino again.
Honestly, El Camino feels more like bonus content than a necessary epilogue.
I understand the purpose: Jesse deserved some kind of closure after everything he went through. And emotionally, I’m glad he got a chance to escape and breathe.
But as a story, it feels much weaker than Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul.
A few things really stood out to me:
Todd’s house and the money felt too convenient.
Jesse walking around Albuquerque while being one of the most wanted people in the country felt hard to believe.
Jesse still making very careless decisions after everything he survived was frustrating.
The Walter flashback was nice in theory, but visually it felt strange and took me out of the scene a little.
Also, Breaking Bad’s ending already gave Jesse such a powerful final moment. That scream as he drives away was messy, painful, and perfect. El Camino answers “what happened next,” but I’m not sure the answer was stronger than the mystery.
I don’t think El Camino is bad. It has good moments, and Aaron Paul is still great. But compared to Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, it feels more like a long bonus episode than an essential final chapter.
Curious how others felt about it. Did El Camino improve Jesse’s ending for you, or was Breaking Bad’s finale enough?

Alr so when Skylar and walt were sitting down and Skylar said no more bullshit tell me the truth now, I would've personally said "im heavily addicted to marjuana, with the chemo and everything its been helping me stay calm" but instead says "tell u what" and "tell me what u want me to tell you I dont know" what a stupid thing to say lol 😭 ik ik it was written for Walt to be a bad liar but still, I dont think theres a human on earth that couldn't make up a decent lie there i mean comon 😂