5/16/10
Breaking Bad’s 10 Tensest Moments
Counting down the nerve-racking scenes that go on for what feels like forever.
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Breaking Bad Recap: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
The season's penultimate episode.
Breaking Bad Recap: Down in the Hole
Walt ends up deep in a hell or a grave of his own making.
Breaking Bad Recap: Tequila!
Jesse didn’t kill Gus. Jesse didn’t even let Gus die (at least not yet).
Breaking Bad Recap: No Holds Barred
Walt and Jesse's partnership comes to fisticuffs.
Breaking Bad Recap: Paid the Cost to Be the Boss
Don Draper and Gus Fring: secret-identity hermanos?
Breaking Bad Recap: Conference Table Theater
Gus's outlook is not good.
Breaking Bad Recap: The One Who Knocks
Is Walt officially a sociopath?
Breaking Bad Recap: Mojo Working
Meth is not the most dangerous drug on this show. Mojo is. And Walt’s an addict.
Breaking Bad Recap: All In
Walt still hasn’t adjusted to the reality that everyone else has moved onto a whole other game.
Breaking Bad Recap: Ladies’ Night
But no one's feeling all right.
Breaking Bad Recap: Turn It Up!
The first three seasons have leaned heavily on Western motifs. Will the new season become more noir?
Breaking Bad Premiere Recap: Somebody’s Watching Me
And we're off to a very bloody start.
Breaking Bad Season-Finale Recap: Why Be Cautious?
Walt throws you-know-what to the wind, and Jesse gets dragged along behind.
Breaking Bad Recap: Groundhog Day
Everybody sees their shadow.
Breaking Bad Recap: I’ll Be the Danny
Skyler gets in on the game, and Walt cooks (food, that is) with Gus.
Breaking Bad Recap: Bug Repellent
One hour. One bug in the meth lab. Great episode.
Breaking Bad Recap: The Chicken Brothers
Jesse makes more bad decisions, and Skyler finally gets in on the deceit.
Breaking Bad Recap: All Shiny Up in Here
Walt, Jesse, and Gus hurry up and wait.
Breaking Bad Recap: RV Life Isn’t Always Relaxing
With Hank and the cousins closing in, Walt and Jesse reteam to get rid of the camper.
Breaking Bad Recap: Regression Therapy
Exploding the myth of "he did it for the family."
Breaking Bad Recap: Dirty, Damp, and Deep
We’re so glad to see Jesse and Walt bickering again!
Breaking Bad Recap: Home, Alone
Hank calls Skyler's bluff on turning him in, and she finds a different way to get even.
Breaking Bad Recap: The Home Front
Walt gets his disenfranchised white male anger on.
Breaking Bad Season-Premiere Recap: Double Trouble
“I’m not a criminal — no offense to any of those that are.”
Breaking Bad Finale: Walt’s in the Doghouse, Jesse’s in a Meth Den
The second season ends on a positive note. Just kidding.
Breaking Bad: Back to the Lab Again
People aren't necessarily who you think they are.
Breaking Bad: The Supermen From the Boys
The further Walt drifts from the drug-dealing life, the more unhappy he gets.
Breaking Bad: Riding Through the Desert on a Horse With No Name
Walt and Jesse get stuck in the desert during a meth-making marathon, and come very close to death.
Breaking Bad: Word Is Bond
We get a little romance, as well as an exploding head atop a turtle.
Breaking Bad: Breaking the Bank
Walt is morphing into a total jerk.
Breaking Bad: Back on the Grind
Walt's pissed! And better yet, cooking again.
Breaking Bad: Family Matters
This episode focused on the unraveling of both Walt and Jesse’s personal connections, and boy, was it a depressing hour.
Breaking Bad: Walt Goes for Broken
If anything, it seems like he’s getting off on the danger.
Cranston's got his eye on you.
You'll get four Sundays between Mad Men's season-five closer and Breaking Bad's final season's start.
Calvin Klein only wishes his ads could look this good.
Or: How to Make the Best Show on TV 101.
It appears to be a networkwide edict that children be abandoned and ignored.
Eight episodes this year, eight next year, says Heisenberg.
Obviously! And officially.
RJD2 does it again!
Counting down the nerve-racking scenes that go on for what feels like forever.
"It's probably human nature to want to top yourself."