Slow-paced, but a very revealing episode, as others have indicated. I'm watching BB from the start for the 3rd time and I realize once again that the first season will always remain the best of the bunch. Walt and Jesse are both still learning the ropes and the audience is developing empathy for them, with this episode providing a lot of reasons to sympathize (at least to the extent you want to sympathize with drug dealers.) In later seasons Walt gets too all-powerful and Jesses perpetual scowl gets to be too repetitive and deeply annoying. Plus personally I get sick and tired of seeing the band-aid in the middle of Walt's glasses. (Bryan Cranston also seems to enjoying acting in his tidy-whities a little too much for my taste!) One thing that does trouble me in THIS episode is how Walt takes revenge upon the hot-shot salesguy who's always talking on his hands-free cell phone. What are the odds that the gas station doesn't have a security camera which would implicate Walt in blowing up the idiot's sports car?
Review of Cancer Man
