I've been going back through Breaking Bad after finishing the series in 2014. I was looking forward to this episode in particular.
Dean Norris (Hank Schraeder) never won the supporting actor Emmy, and it's very difficult to understand why. His acting is difficult and executed flawlessly, in this episode in particular. At least four distinctive and intense emotional displays in one episode (anger, despair, hope, fear), which is one of the very best of the series and of all TV.
The final scene is, I believe, the best shootout ever on TV, perhaps even in a movie. Vince Gilligan calls BB a modern western, and the shootout here rivals the climax of High Noon. Every second, every shot, every edit thought out in painstaking detail, and tied to superb writing so in a completely watertight storyline. Not as visually spectacular as the climaxes in GOT's The Mountain and The Viper, or The Battle of the B*strds, but more thoughtful and intense.
One of the great hours of TV history, probably second in the series to Ozymandias. Burned in my memory, that's the testament to its greatness. Bravo.
Dean Norris (Hank Schraeder) never won the supporting actor Emmy, and it's very difficult to understand why. His acting is difficult and executed flawlessly, in this episode in particular. At least four distinctive and intense emotional displays in one episode (anger, despair, hope, fear), which is one of the very best of the series and of all TV.
The final scene is, I believe, the best shootout ever on TV, perhaps even in a movie. Vince Gilligan calls BB a modern western, and the shootout here rivals the climax of High Noon. Every second, every shot, every edit thought out in painstaking detail, and tied to superb writing so in a completely watertight storyline. Not as visually spectacular as the climaxes in GOT's The Mountain and The Viper, or The Battle of the B*strds, but more thoughtful and intense.
One of the great hours of TV history, probably second in the series to Ozymandias. Burned in my memory, that's the testament to its greatness. Bravo.