To say that Breaking Bad is lazy is absurd. Breaking Bad is one of the hardest working shows on TV, from the acting, pacing, story telling, cinematography and serious tone of the show. But the last few episodes have left me feeling like the show is just treading water.
Tonight’s end of the first eight episodes is just an example of this stagnate feeling the show is emitting. By all means, it wasn’t bad. Breaking Bad is never flat out bad. Every episode is filled with visual brilliance but when an element of the show doesn’t match the same perfection that the rest of the show attains it is a let down.
Now to talk about the ending. Spoilers below.
Yes, Hank finding the Walt Whitman book on the back of the toilet fits in with the show’s world that has been carefully created. But in all the ways for Walter to be caught by Hank, this seems to be the laziest way for the show to set up the finale chase. Attentive fans (most of the viewers) will know that Gale gave Walter the book in season 3 and in season 4 Hank asked Walter about Gale’s notebook that gave thanks to a W.W. I’m all in favor of the show going back and pulling small details and using them again at a later date, but this is not the dream way of Hank finding out Walter’s dirty little secret. Again, it works but it is the least gratifying way for Hank to discover that Walter is behind “Sky Blue” Meth.
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