questions

why did skylar sleep with ted?

• s3e5 “as wrong as i know it is, as much as i know i’m probably doing it to make walt leave me, it is the only thing in my day where i don’t feel like i’m drowning” it has nothing to do with ted I don’t think

  why was hank disturbed by killing tuco

• s3e7 “i tried to fight it” it wasn’t expected, el paso made it worse

  s1e1 pilot

• walt wakes up, does some depressing chud exercise in the dark whilst staring at a participation award for nobel prize
• 50th birthday, has some veggie bacon. drops off walt jr at school. talm about some chemistry is the study of matter, but it’s actually the study of change. walter changes! illuminati confirmed. has lunch alone i think(?). drives home, messes around with the glove box compartment. does some work at car wash. and is late to his birthday party. he faints at some point and taken to hospital, told he has lung cancer. at birthday party, hank offers him to go on a ridealong, and after the hospital he accepts that offer. he sees emilio getting arrested and that whole arrest scene, sees jesse fall out of a window. goes to jesse house and offers to cook. he brings some lab equipment, and tells jesse to buy an rv. they drive out to the boonies, jesse talm about some cow house, where the cows live. pure science montage ensues where jesse is seen being whimsical and waltuh clutching him with an iron fist. jesse says it’s pure glass grade, and plans out to sell the stuff. takes it to krazy 8 to get that shit sold.
• emilio is bailed and suspects jesse is with the feds, but they go meet walt to take him away from jesse. emilio recognises walt and the cousins think wesse are both with the feds and threaten to kill them. walt comes up with the plan to pack them with phosphine gas. idk how but emilio and krazy 8 get stunned by the explosion yet walt just happens to skeddadle out and hold the door. the whole intro sequence leaves off here. walt puts the gun under his chin and would’ve killed himself if he knew bout the safety on his gun lmao. “we gotta … we gotta clean this up” this has been such an action packed episode 1. episode ends with wylar making love (flashback to a disappointing handjob earlier)
• walt hears the term snitch yet and seems to understand it yet he doesn’t understand it in s1e6 when hank tells him about krazy8 the snitch dying, is this intentional writing to show that walt is a bad liar

  s1e2 the cat’s in the bag

• nuh uh man NOT MY HOUSE!
• “after we clean up this mess we will go our separate ways and never speak of this again” oh lmao
• walt talking about cleavage of senior high school girls to distract from jesse phoning the home line
• krazy8 escapes from jesse and walt runs into him lol

  s1e6 - crazy handful of nothin’

• hank makes a big deal of hugo having weed yet doesn’t make it a big deal when talking to walter jr other than it’s a gateway drug. actually maybe his approach is consistent
• “you bad bad liar” he is right now yeah, i think this season one of the core themes is walter diving deeper behind the veil of lies and maybe getting better at navigating this system, staying hidden from his family/law and skylar most of all
• could be something to explore further, does walt become a better liar by the end as skylar seems to think?
• walt gets his payday from tuco, is he more excited about validating his image or getting the money?

  s1e7 - a-no-rough-stuff-type-deal

• “lemme guess, you picked this place?” suggests jesse has no visibility into the walt tuco partnership at this point, and hasn’t asked to be included either, yet is a big part of their business risk and revenue. it is the reason why walt likes jesse, he does what he says and trusts walter to handle things (thinking of s5 where he vouches for walt to mike). in other words he neatly slots into his world of lies
• jesse wanted to ghost tuco and skip town, but his mind was changed by walter quite quickly, it’s as if he’s being fueled by just walter’s validation

  s2e1 - seven-thirty-seven

• tuco gently puts no-doze’s arm down after checking if he’s dead. maybe regret!?
• i’m confused why walt rapes skylar here. is he that desperate for control? how does this relate to his realm of lies

  s2e2 grilled

• “every time i hit him it’s gonna be like a lesson to yourself, you never never trust the people that you love!” i fucking love this dialogue
• we’re going to make beaucoup bucks says tuco to walter before he gets packed off by hank

  s2e3 bit by a dead bee

• 10:32 is the first time I’ve seen them do a lens zoom in like that, pretty cool
• “your word is bond right?” WORD IS BOND YO
• the whole leaving the hospital scene lowkey makes no sense, he left hospital just to hide the cash for one night? he would’ve been back there the next day

  s2e4 - down

• skylar tries to confront walter and get the truth out of him, at this point she realises she needs concrete proof to bring walter outside of him realm of lies
• “your half?! THERE IS NO YOUR HALF” these guys fight and then make up again a few times in this show, this is first time I’ll count, (COUNT 1)
• plays fallacies at the end (COUNT 1)

  s2e5 breakage

• walt attends the doctor appointment alone, visible signs of conflict within the marriage
• jesse gave his fake name as … jesse jackson. he is incapable of lying, maybe the most honest person in the show?
• “dave said i should express that” shows marie is getting better mentally, whilst skylar is getting worse!!! there’s a lot of systems of opposing forces in this show, walt’s relationship with flynn vs relationship with jesse, uhh can’t think of any more
• jesse says “dbaa mofos, apply yourselves” first part he gets from jane, second part he gets from walt
• walt waits until skylar won’t tell him where walt jr is to bring out the cigarette pack that skylar tried to flush away. manipulative walt not made obvious to the camera
• jazz playing whilst they’re selling meth and then it ends in loss through spooge. lookout for cases of oxymoronic music and actions
• hank’s beer starts popping caps, he flags marie with his service pistol when she comes to the garage to check as well. nearly had breakage of marie

  s2e6 peekaboo

• walt tells a story of the first manufactured diamond, tells a story of hall was victimised by his employer, ge, how they made great sums of money off his hard work. in this scene we can see him try to justify his actions that clearly demonstrate his intelligence and competence, by asserting his understanding of the situation on to others. in this scene it’s a bunch of highschool kids, eventually it’ll be jesse, his wife, all of his loved ones.
• “it’s fidc insured yo” surprising words to come out of spooge’s mouth lol
• “skank ass skank” that’s more like it
• the victim delusion comes again when walt speaks to gretchen about how her and elliot wronged him (not really)

  s2e9 4 days out

• “how are you even alive” fun wesse moment as walt inspects the nutritional information of the food that jesse bought
• “hell yeah come high baby” wesse high five each other, moment of pure elation “haha separate rooms” as if walt had a mild expectation to be sharing rooms with jesse.
• calls skinny pete a retard, bouncing off what walt was saying to him earlier

  s2e11 mandala

• walt delays his urgent surgery so that he can guarantee attending birth of holly, yet we all know how that ends up
• news of combo dying “which one is he”, how does walt not remember the names of his immediate dealer crew
• jane goes to light up some crystal before going out for the day and jesse is seen having a moment of regret behind her back, this may be one of his biggest regrets. wouldn’t say it’s evil but as part of him being spineless and people-pleasing, how much pain and suffering has he caused? if jesse didn’t let walt walk over him all the time… “you need me more than i need you” not sure what episode that was from, … walt to gus “because he does what i say”
• did jesse pay for combo’s casket? “same paint job as a lexus” from skinny pete
• jane comes back with heroin to take with the meth. they clearly didn’t go on their donut trip to (phoenix?). jesse is a bit broken after combo so he kinda just goes with it

  s2e12 phoenix

• “nice job wearing the pants” took walt 2 seasons to score on jesse with that one lol
• “is new zealand part of australia?” jane “new zealand is new zealand” “right on”
• the parallels in this episode are insane, the way donald interacts with meth-addicted jane (you have to go to rehab) vs how walt deals with meth-addicted jesse (withholding his half of the deal money). another one is when walt is show putting a towel behind holly’s back to prevent asphyxiation from vomit or spit and then is seen not doing that with jane

  s2e13 - abq

• skylar beats walt’s gaslighting with a massive combo of confrontations! “you have to leave” > “you told me you had a second phone” > “i asked gretchen whether you were having an affair with her” > “gretchen and elliott didn’t give you a dime, they paid for NOTHING zips bag” > “over $100,000 thousand dollars, out of where, out of thin air?” > “but then, i called your mother whispers in ear yeah, thanks for that too … she didn’t even know you have cancer” > “you were gone for 4 days yet she swears that you were never there” > “lies on top of lies on top of lies” SKYLAR wins

  s3e1 - no mas

• in the starting sequence, the twins put up the childish drawing of walter behind the shrine to the death goddess very quickly lol. what is up with the childish drawing, did the twins draw it?
• walt tries to burn his money, which is probably one of the only signs of his regret over the donald margolis plane crash situation as anywhere else he just gaslights

  s3e2 caballo sin nombre

• horse with no name translated to english ^ what walt is playing when he gets pulled over and then this episode when he’s showering as the twins walk in with a bare axe
• this house buying strategy that jesse used could’ve backfired if his parents just snitched on him for selling meth. but they were made even from the transaction and have no other incentive to get their son arrested aside from teaching him a very time-expensive lesson?

  s3e4 green light

• jesse sells meth to a gas station attendant, this is slightly out of character for him in my mind, i think he’s acting irrationally and trying to fit the mould of a bad character and punish himself more. this would link to his behaviour in rehab how we rejects all notions of forgiving himself for the alternative

  s3e5 - mas

• jesse breaks the windshield of walt’s car. he doesn’t know how to express his anger?

  s3e6 - sunset

• walt signs the divorce papers and hands them to skylar, she seems upset as if it’s not what she wants.
• walt meets gale for the first time, he’s impressed with his credentials and the coffee thingamajig
• jesse asks badger to put in the buzzer, the situation with walt is still being remembered. despite this being his defiance towards walt, walt’s influence on jesse is still felt.
• we hear that goofy ringtone when hank is staking out jesse’s place, next time we hear it is at the hospital. it is a special ringtone just for marie as seen by the call made by francesca to divert from scrapyard
• hank follows jesse to the junkyard where walt was preparing to have it disposed. brutal clash of personal life and his illicit meth manufacturing career, one of the first that remind him of the danger to real people in his life

  s3e7

• “la familia es todo” says hector salamanca after he attempts to drown his nephew, marco, in the beer cooler.
• hank beats the shit out of jesse, kicks off process to get jesse into meth superlab. jesse is so serious, scary!
• just seen the same ball decoration things in walt’s apartment that saul and kim were making fun of
• walt and jesse split fiddy-fiddy for cooking. how it transpired is interesting, walt proposes, then jesse rejects and goes on a tirade. walt, as he’s leaving, says “your meth is good, jesse, as good as mine”. jesse is in tears and has nothing else to say. a phonecall as walt steps out of the car informs him of jesse’s acceptance to his offer, “fifty-fifty? yes, fifty-fifty … okay, partners … good”, walt never says partners back! jesse took a look at the ‘pained’ medical face by his bedside as he shut his eyes, ruminating
• this is jesse’s highest level (maybe less than when he was working with hank and gomey) of conviction against walter and it’s shattered by a few words from walt
• i don’t get what that look at the pained medical face actually means

  s3e8 - i see you

• jesse sings fallacies

  s3e9 kafkaesque

• in walter’s meeting with fring, he doesn’t shortsightedly whinge about hank being targeted, he instead leverages to try get protection for his family. pretty strategic of him
• therapy dude tells jesse to do what he likes to do and jesse interprets that to start selling on his own, this leads him to sell to andrea, which leads him to learn about

  s3e10 fly

• walt is stressed because he’s on his last legs with gussy, is that why he goes so insane for the fly? he’s not anal about the meth output but anything that could affect the yield (such as contaminant) should be taken seriously? or is it because he wants to reassert control which he is rapidly losing from balance of power with gus, could it also be comedic relief from bince, maybe it’s escapism because at the end they uncharacteristically start having deep conversations. walt’s emotions get re-directed by the sleeping medicine into a conversation with jesse, he hasn’t had the chance to tell anyone about this before
• jesse should know that “drops on cold beer” is condensation having bought 2 reflux CONDENSERS for his own cook
• this episode returns the show to the dark comedy vibe season 1 had, walt whacking jesse with the swatter lol

  s3e12 half measures

• why does hank want to stay in the hospital so bad? keeps asserting he’s not well? maybe it’s because the trauma of killing tuco and then running into the cartel again has left him paralysed with fear. he sees the hospital as the safest place he could be, so perhaps it’s not because of the better health services
• wesse kill gus’ top guys, which seems out of character for walt ngl

  s3e13 - full measure

• walt’s advanced planning to kill caught mike completely off guard “just what the hell was that exactly”, despite hearing the phone call. walt caught them completely off guard with his persona

  s4e3

• skylar offering the champagne to walt after chastising him for being irresponsible about keeping up appearances of being broke, “gotta destroy the evidence”

  s4e4

• walt and sky so cute, “it behooves me..” “it behooves you to be a pro.. chop chop” … “don’t chop chop me”

  s4e5 - shotgun

• jesse sings fallacies whilst bored in the car
• they do the fake reaction test with mike doing the drop offs, as mike is running out of the alley they do a batman style shot. very nice
• jesse kind of starts to get validation from mike instead, he tells him about how his “crew” used to do things similar to mike’s method
• flynn takes his coffee black, a shot into how he’s growing up. it’s been like a year since we first saw him i think
• flynn says beaucoup bucks… is he a tuco associate?

  s4e6 - cornered

• skylar builds up evidence before confronting walt, she brings up gale boetticher and the dinner conversation then the black eye then the voice message left on the landline at the end for a combo. she thinks it’s the only way to get through walt’s gaslighting at this point, no love talk, though unfortunately it does not work here as it did in s2e13 abq
• walt please lets both of us stop trying to justify all this admit you’re in danger
• who are you talkng to right now, who is it you think you see?
• do you know how much i make a year, i mean even if i told you, you wouldn’t believe it.
• you know what would happen if i suddenly decided to stop going into work?
• a business, big enough that it could be listed on the nasdaq goes belly up. Disappears, it ceases to exist without me
• no, you clearly don’t know who you’re talkng so let me clue you in
• i am not in danger skylar, i am the danger
• a guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? NO i am .. the one who KNOCKS
• walt meets with bogdan, their interaction is interesting. it’s as if walt is molting his old personality of being beholden to him. bogdan still speaks to him as if he’s the boss and perhaps that’s because he thinks he’s ripping off walt and skylar with the deal due to the fake environmental concerns, walt re-arranges the little box on the counter that bogdan touches and then refuses him the first dollar the car wash made. gradual realisation for bogdan, though we don’t see his thoughts on the matter I assume he reflects on this interactions and concludes the man has changed
• this whole thing, all of it… it’s all about me lmao

  s4e7 - problem-dog

• hank repeats what he says to gus and his boss/gomey, and he lies about where he got the idea from. is he starting to lose his personality

  s4e8 - hermanos

• hank ignores the legalities of putting a tracker on gus’ car which I would agree with but it’s alterior motives

  s4e9 - bug

• skylar lets walt knows he doesn’t have to cook anymore and find an “exit strategy”

  s4e13 - faceoff

• marie thoughts on the proposition of hank going to the dea office to speak with hector salamanca: “it is a ridiculous idea, and there is NO way that you are going to do it, end of story” 4 seconds freeze on her face and then cuts to hank at the dea office LMAO