whats with the episode numbering? the title says episode 11 and the description talks about âthe final 8 episodesâ
Brian and Trent appear to be running the same malware.
I guess AMC realise eight episodes is a pretty stingy excuse for a season, so they figured they could pretend itâs not the case by adopting the ridiculous posture that itâs possible for a season to span two years; more than an entire year.
According to AMC, in 2012 you had the first half of season five, and this year we have the second halfâŚ
Iâm annoyed the torrent uploaders went along with it instead of denoting âS05E09â as S06E01.
Another callback to season 1: the most potentially damning part of Waltâs confession is the implication that Hank took meth money to treat a serious injury that insurance wouldnât cover. This brings us full circle to the original healthcare situation that âforcedâ Walt into becoming Heisenberg.
I literally burst out laughing when I saw the place where the four family members had the tense dinner was Gardunos. Thatâs the cheesiest place, sharing a parking lot with the mall, Iâve only been there once with my nerdiest old friendâs parents. As a native Albuquerqueian gone for almost half my life now, I get all kinds of special joy watching this show 
âBreaking Badâ, as dark as it gets, really is at times one of the funniest shows Iâve ever watched.
Best line of the hour; âWhatâs this country come to?â
Throughout Marieâs rants and bouts of indignation and condemnation of her sister and Walt, nobody has reminded her that it was her little shoplifting hobby that almost got Skyler arrested. Hank also had to use a little leverage to clean up that situation, so his hands arenât perfectly clean, either.
When it comes to crime, Marie had her career long before Walt started his.
I think at this point, the real issue is who is going to end up with all the money. Since bad things are going to happen to Walt no matter how it plays out, and he is the only one who knows the significance of the numbers on the lottery ticket at this point.
I wouldnât put it past Saul to have Huell to put a tracking device in one of the barrels since we know he is more than willing to do more than just bodyguard and intimidation work for Saul. Pickpocket and possible accessory to poisoning., as two examples. Heuell probably got to take a little off the top for himself when loading the barrels as compensation, and even Waltâs âmostly hereâ response to Saulâs question about it being âall thereâ shows even he knows about the short count.
I look forward to these recaps every week. I have a nit to pick however.
The article states, âsince Walt was capable of letting a child die after the train robberyâ
Did Walt let the child die any more than Jesse? If I recall correctly, neither Walt nor Jesse had any control over Toddâs actions. The only question after that milk was spilled was what to do with Todd (i.e. kill him or let him live). Walt chose to let him live.
A little detail that Todd left out of his description of The Great Train RobberyâŚ
Yeah, I donât think Todd was shooting his mouth off there; he probably figured it was only fair to share the provenance of the methylamine his uncle and co. were taking possession ofâŚ
Itâs hard to know if heâs writing off having to kill the kid as âwent without a hitchâ because heâs ashamed and hoping it wonât be relevant, or if he really is as cold as he is polite, and just figured itâd spoil the anecdote.
Help me out here, please. I know Jessie suspected Walt used the ricin on the little kid, but once the doctor determined it was actually lily of the valley that made the kid sick, why would Jessie now think it was the ricin again? I donât really follow that line of logic, I guess.
It also has to do with production numbers. All of this season (what we saw before and what we are getting now) was ALL produced as Season 5.
I initially thought the same thing. Jessie is hyper-aware of Waltâs machinations at this point. The only real explanation I can think of is that we are expected to believe Jessie realized the ricin snatch was part of Waltâs ongoing manipulations. The ricin situation was a bit of a low point in Waltâs manipulation of Jessie and Walt employed his usual tactics (tactics of which Jessie is now all too aware).
These âleapsâ I donât find troubling. Iâm more troubled when writers feel they need to spell everything out.
In the first season, Jesse chided Walt about doing his drug deals in the middle of a desert rather than a taco place.
I guess Walt, sort of, finally took his advice, although he still does his drug deals in the desert.
Jesseâs not the brightest bulb, and heâs on the verge of a total breakdown, but he knows something is horribly wrong and is trying to get to it; makes a nice contrast to Hank. Their flaws are complementary, which made the interrogation scene interesting. Theyâd actually do pretty well if they teamed up against Walt, but of course thatâs never going to happen.
Basically, itâs an unreliable narrator.
My read on this was that when Jesse was squeezing past Huell on his way out of the office, Huell pickpocketed the dope from him (which Saul admitted to first), and then Jesse realized the LAST time Huell got all handsy with him was also the time when he âlostâ the ricin cigarette. And Jesse was already suspicious about that in the first place, and Walt just happened to help him find it, and click click click it all fell into place. Still a bit of a leap, but thatâs what theyâre hoping weâll believe.
My nitpick about this review - âafter a terse and delightfully awkward dinnerâ - they didnât even have dinner. 
Jesse realized Huell was a pickpocket. When Jesse fetched his cigarettes, he remembered the last time he lost a cigarette. That time, he thought he had accidentally poisoned Brock at first. Even after he realized the ricin wasnât responsible, he was desperate to find that cigarette. And who helped him find it?
Walt.
At that moment, it all crystallized for Jesse. I donât think he was really sure until Saul started giving it up.
