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: Thirty Seconds Flat
A lot of stuff happened tonight because it needed to happen. The "how"s were not always persuasive.
Breaking Bad Recap: Everybody Wins
After one of the loudest, most visually spectacular Breaking Bad episodes comes one of the quietest.
Breaking Bad Recap: Throw Plausibility From the Train
Eventually, Breaking Bad had to air a disappointing fifth season episode, and "Dead Freight" is it.
Breaking Bad Recap: The Walking Cancer
Thus far, the three most important moments in the four-plus-season run of Breaking Bad involve cancer.
Breaking Bad Recap: A Deal’s a Deal
If Breaking Bad isn't part of the curriculum in business schools, it should be.
Breaking Bad Recap: For the Love of Mike
Jonathan Banks's icy fixer dominates a perfect episode.
Breaking Bad Recap: I Forgive You
One word: magnets.
Breaking Bad Recap: The Man With Two Faces
Walt wins. At what cost?
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.
Step 1: Start with an anti-hero.
Metastasis, con Walter Blanco y Jose Rosas.
Knee-deep in edits for the final season, which premieres in August, the creator of television’s darkest drama talks with Lane Brown.
My auteurist theory of television.
We haven't heard his favorite one yet.
You might think it's just Jesse and Walt. But it's so much more!
How will you be marking the occasion?
For 70 minutes!
Counting down the nerve-racking scenes that go on for what feels like forever.
"It's probably human nature to want to top yourself."