Please do not miss this series; it's as good as TV gets. Well it's as good as any form of entertainment gets, actually. Suspense, surprises, action, horror, pathos, revenge, science, crime capers, Faustian bargains, disabled actors, and all the way through there are laugh-out-loud comic moments. Just off the top of my head from this episode is the clumsy way Walt clambers over the fence of his own house in order to retrieve $25000 in a hurry - but the scene with Saul Goodman's PA 'Honey T*ts', as Walt doesn't at first grasp what she's getting at when he wants to pay for the glass door he's just smashed is priceless.
***SPOILER*** And you need LOL funny in this show, because the darkness is pretty dark. Anybody who's seen 'Eating Raoul', a black comedy from 1982 might be reminded of the electric-fire-in-the-hot-tub scene when the Mexican cartel drop like flies around the swimming pool. But you won't forget the way Gus is bumped off here. This, and the superb plot device it's based around, makes the finale of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' look like 'Wallace and Gromit'.
What a shame to lose Gus in this episode - he's the Prince of Darkness in Walt's Faustian bargain with the Devil; but as Walt says, 'I won', and there's only one way Walt can go now, especially as we see from his houseplants that he's even more evil and scheming than we thought he could possibly be, just like Gus when he wielded the box-cutter on Victor.
So over season 5 expect Walt to get bad, bad, and even badder, and my money's on Jesse being the one to finally put Walt out of his misery. But with the brilliantly involved plotting evident in this episode, I wouldn't put it past Vince Gilligan to put in the mother of all twists at the end.
***SPOILER*** And you need LOL funny in this show, because the darkness is pretty dark. Anybody who's seen 'Eating Raoul', a black comedy from 1982 might be reminded of the electric-fire-in-the-hot-tub scene when the Mexican cartel drop like flies around the swimming pool. But you won't forget the way Gus is bumped off here. This, and the superb plot device it's based around, makes the finale of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' look like 'Wallace and Gromit'.
What a shame to lose Gus in this episode - he's the Prince of Darkness in Walt's Faustian bargain with the Devil; but as Walt says, 'I won', and there's only one way Walt can go now, especially as we see from his houseplants that he's even more evil and scheming than we thought he could possibly be, just like Gus when he wielded the box-cutter on Victor.
So over season 5 expect Walt to get bad, bad, and even badder, and my money's on Jesse being the one to finally put Walt out of his misery. But with the brilliantly involved plotting evident in this episode, I wouldn't put it past Vince Gilligan to put in the mother of all twists at the end.