Review of Hazard Pay

Breaking Bad: Hazard Pay (2012)
Season 5, Episode 3
10/10
Breaking Bad is shaping up awesomely!
30 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
This episode of Breaking Bad is great. Simply because a lot of ground has been covered in the minimal of time. It feels like a bunch of episodes rather than a single one and it has all been seamlessly joined together.

To start with, Walt and Jesse start cooking again in the most unexpected of locations. Thanks to Walt's genius and eye for detail. Meanwhile, tension grows between Skyler and Walt as the former gets increasingly irritated and fearful of Walt's presence in her house.

The alliance between Walt, Jesse and Mike is also getting strained because of Mike's increasingly controlling ways which don't sit all that well with Walt, who perceives himself as the sole emperor of his 'drug empire'. Walt fails to understand that he is no longer they "key member" of the trio. Mike is.

A noteworthy scene in this episode is when Walt and his son are watching the climax of "Scarface" (the shooting scene) and Walter Jr. remarks "Everybody dies in this movie, don't they?". This warrants a bit of thinking. Is this how Breaking Bad is going to end or is this just a misdirection? You tell.

All in all, I really enjoyed this episode of BB and can't wait for next week. I doubt Breaking Bad will ever disappoint.
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