As I've said before, it would have been much, much better to have fewer episodes per season, than to stretch things just to fill a quota. But I guess that is for commercial purposes, so that is never going to change.
This is, for the most part, another filler, and just a bit better than the previous episode. Right form the start things are not looking good. We are forced to watch cringey pseudo intellectual babble from Jesse's girlfriend, who is a junkie, but is actually a sensitive, artistic soul, caught in the hell of drugs. And she "gets it", you know, the modern art and all that. Wow, that is certainly not a trope that has been done to death. Then there is Jesse, who is turning form a likeable loser into one of the most despicable characters in the show, trying to sell drugs to people in rehab. But he has a change of heart when he finds out that his intended buyer has a child.
And then there is Skyler. Her personality seems to be attached to a chandelier that is hanging in a ship caught in a storm, that's how wildly it swings from one extreme to the next. Now she has decided to became a full on partner in crime, if not even the mastermind of Walter's criminal enterprise. And this seems to be the recurring theme now - characters changing their personalities to suit the current whim of the writers.
Add to all of this the fact that the world of Breaking Bad is, apparently, so small that every character is connected to every other character in every way. The newest "brilliant" idea is that the kid brother of the girls Jesse is now dating and (not) selling drugs to is Combo's killer. Wow, that should impress us, right? Didn't see that one coming, yeah? Boy, those writers are such geniuses.
This is, for the most part, another filler, and just a bit better than the previous episode. Right form the start things are not looking good. We are forced to watch cringey pseudo intellectual babble from Jesse's girlfriend, who is a junkie, but is actually a sensitive, artistic soul, caught in the hell of drugs. And she "gets it", you know, the modern art and all that. Wow, that is certainly not a trope that has been done to death. Then there is Jesse, who is turning form a likeable loser into one of the most despicable characters in the show, trying to sell drugs to people in rehab. But he has a change of heart when he finds out that his intended buyer has a child.
And then there is Skyler. Her personality seems to be attached to a chandelier that is hanging in a ship caught in a storm, that's how wildly it swings from one extreme to the next. Now she has decided to became a full on partner in crime, if not even the mastermind of Walter's criminal enterprise. And this seems to be the recurring theme now - characters changing their personalities to suit the current whim of the writers.
Add to all of this the fact that the world of Breaking Bad is, apparently, so small that every character is connected to every other character in every way. The newest "brilliant" idea is that the kid brother of the girls Jesse is now dating and (not) selling drugs to is Combo's killer. Wow, that should impress us, right? Didn't see that one coming, yeah? Boy, those writers are such geniuses.