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Season 05
Episode 08
Gliding Over All

Breaking Bad Recap: Walt, Anonymous?

It's Hank's show now.

Season 05
Season 04
Season 03
Season 02

S.05
Ep.07
'Say My Name'

Breaking Bad Recap: Thirty Seconds Flat

A lot of stuff happened tonight because it needed to happen. The "how"s were not always persuasive.

S.05
Ep.06
'Buyout'

Breaking Bad Recap: Everybody Wins

After one of the loudest, most visually spectacular Breaking Bad episodes comes one of the quietest.

S.05
Ep.05
'Dead Freight'

Breaking Bad Recap: Throw Plausibility From the Train

Eventually, Breaking Bad had to air a disappointing fifth season episode, and "Dead Freight" is it.

S.05
Ep.04
'Fifty-One'

Breaking Bad Recap: The Walking Cancer

Thus far, the three most important moments in the four-plus-season run of Breaking Bad involve cancer.

S.05
Ep.03
'Hazard Pay'

Breaking Bad Recap: A Deal’s a Deal

If Breaking Bad isn't part of the curriculum in business schools, it should be.

S.05
Ep.02
'Madrigal'

Breaking Bad Recap: For the Love of Mike

Jonathan Banks's icy fixer dominates a perfect episode.

S.05
Ep.01
'Live Free or Die'

Breaking Bad Recap: I Forgive You

One word: magnets.

S.04
Ep.13
'Face Off'

Breaking Bad Recap: The Man With Two Faces

Walt wins. At what cost?

S.04
Ep.12
'End Times'

Breaking Bad Recap: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

The season's penultimate episode.

S.04
Ep.11
'Episode 11'

Breaking Bad Recap: Down in the Hole

Walt ends up deep in a hell or a grave of his own making.

S.04
Ep.10
'Episode 10'

Breaking Bad Recap: Tequila!

Jesse didn’t kill Gus. Jesse didn’t even let Gus die (at least not yet).

S.04
Ep.09
'Episode 09'

Breaking Bad Recap: No Holds Barred

Walt and Jesse's partnership comes to fisticuffs.

S.04
Ep.08
'Hermanos'

Breaking Bad Recap: Paid the Cost to Be the Boss

Don Draper and Gus Fring: secret-identity hermanos?

S.04
Ep.07
'Problem Dog'

Breaking Bad Recap: Conference Table Theater

Gus's outlook is not good.

S.04
Ep.06
'Episode 06'

Breaking Bad Recap: The One Who Knocks

Is Walt officially a sociopath?

S.04
Ep.05
'Shotgun'

Breaking Bad Recap: Mojo Working

Meth is not the most dangerous drug on this show. Mojo is. And Walt’s an addict.

S.04
Ep.04
'Episode 04'

Breaking Bad Recap: All In

Walt still hasn’t adjusted to the reality that everyone else has moved onto a whole other game.

S.04
Ep.03
'Episode 03'

Breaking Bad Recap: Ladies’ Night

But no one's feeling all right.

S.04
Ep.02
'Thirty-Eight Snub'

Breaking Bad Recap: Turn It Up!

The first three seasons have leaned heavily on Western motifs. Will the new season become more noir?

S.04
Ep.01
'Box Cutter'

Breaking Bad Premiere Recap: Somebody’s Watching Me

And we're off to a very bloody start.

S.03
Ep.13
'Full Measure'

Breaking Bad Season-Finale Recap: Why Be Cautious?

Walt throws you-know-what to the wind, and Jesse gets dragged along behind.

S.03
Ep.12
'Half Measures'

Breaking Bad Recap: Groundhog Day

Everybody sees their shadow.

S.03
Ep.11
'Abiquiu'

Breaking Bad Recap: I’ll Be the Danny

Skyler gets in on the game, and Walt cooks (food, that is) with Gus.

S.03
Ep.10
'Fly'

Breaking Bad Recap: Bug Repellent

One hour. One bug in the meth lab. Great episode.

S.03
Ep.09
'Kafkaesque'

Breaking Bad Recap: The Chicken Brothers

Jesse makes more bad decisions, and Skyler finally gets in on the deceit.

S.03
Ep.08
'I See You'

Breaking Bad Recap: All Shiny Up in Here

Walt, Jesse, and Gus hurry up and wait.

S.03
Ep.06
'Sunset'

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.

S.03
Ep.05
'Mas'

Breaking Bad Recap: Regression Therapy

Exploding the myth of "he did it for the family."

S.03
Ep.04
'Green Light'

Breaking Bad Recap: Dirty, Damp, and Deep

We’re so glad to see Jesse and Walt bickering again!

S.03
Ep.03
'I.F.T.'

Breaking Bad Recap: Home, Alone

Hank calls Skyler's bluff on turning him in, and she finds a different way to get even.

S.03
Ep.02
'Caballo Sin Nombre'

Breaking Bad Recap: The Home Front

Walt gets his disenfranchised white male anger on.

S.03
Ep.01
'No Mas'

Breaking Bad Season-Premiere Recap: Double Trouble

“I’m not a criminal — no offense to any of those that are.”

S.02
Ep.13
'ABQ'

Breaking Bad Finale: Walt’s in the Doghouse, Jesse’s in a Meth Den

The second season ends on a positive note. Just kidding.

S.02
Ep.11
'Mandala'

Breaking Bad: Back to the Lab Again

People aren't necessarily who you think they are.

S.02
Ep.10
'Over'

Breaking Bad: The Supermen From the Boys

The further Walt drifts from the drug-dealing life, the more unhappy he gets.

S.02
Ep.09
'4 Days Out'

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.

S.02
Ep.07
'Negro Y Azul'

Breaking Bad: Word Is Bond

We get a little romance, as well as an exploding head atop a turtle.

S.02
Ep.06
'Peekaboo'

Breaking Bad: Breaking the Bank

Walt is morphing into a total jerk.

S.02
Ep.05
'Breakage'

Breaking Bad: Back on the Grind

Walt's pissed! And better yet, cooking again.

S.02
Ep.04
'Down'

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.

S.02
Ep.03
'Bit by a Dead Bee'

Breaking Bad: Walt Goes for Broken

If anything, it seems like he’s getting off on the danger.

Schedule

Sundays, 10 p.m.
AMC

Cast

Bryan Cranston:
‘Walter White’
Anna Gunn:
‘Skyler White’
Aaron Paul:
‘Jesse Pinkman’
RJ Mitte:
‘Walter White Jr.’
Dean Norris:
‘Hank Schrader’
Betsy Brandt:
‘Marie Schrader’

Creator

Vince Gilligan

Producer

Mark Johnson

Debut

January 20, 2008

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Fan Sites: Breaking Bad Fan Site
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