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This is the tenth episode of the fifth season of Breaking Bad. It is an episode that basically shows Hank trying to beat time to take down Walt. It is not as high-stakes as previous episodes, but the episode is still entertaining. There is one scene in particular that I liked, and that involves Lydia trying to perfect her meth supply with the help of Todd.

In this episode, "Buried," Hank reaches Skylar before Walt, but she refuses to speak to him. Marie also confronts Skylar, and that does not end well. Meanwhile, Walt takes the money he locked in a storage house and buries it. Jesse, in another state of depression, gets arrested by the police.

Overall, this is an entertaining episode as we see the family being turned enemies. I am definitely curious to see what will happen next as we near the series finish line.

My Grade: A

Once again we get an episode that is carried and remembered for its great drama and acting! We get some truely great and dramatic scenes as we are at a point in the series where every actor/actress are giving it 100%!

As Walt knows Hank knows it becomes a game of who knows what and what can be done to slow down the investigation or further it!

Anna Gun is brilliant as Skyler in this episode and she gets some of the best scene in the episode when she is confronted by Hank and Marie! Its sad and heartbreaking to see it all crumble!

Walt once again shows that money and familly matters more than anything!

The scene near the end with Lydia, Todd and Jacks crew taking control of the business remains memorable as well!

With Breaking Bad, there are a lot of things you just can't predict, and having one of the most hilarious and rememberable moments of the entire series appear in the final eight episodes is indubitably one of them. The scene I'm referring to is – what else could it be? – Huell and Kuby's Scrooge McDuck impersonation, which is actually my favourite moment of "Buried", another episode of the series not exploiting the full potential of the current storyline, by far.

Jesse, having not a single line of dialogue over all 47 minutes, sinks into one of his all too frequent depression states once again, which wasn't exactly a brilliant or original idea, but at least serves as a half-decent reason to get him involved in the big plot currently going on. This big plot is, highly understandably considering the occurrences in the previous two episodes, still centred on Walt and Hank and the increasingly different situation their families are facing. But while Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt, and Dean Norris share some intense and well- acted scenes, there isn't anything to special about them in this episode and I wouldn't have minded if one or two minutes of their screen time were reduced. One really good part about "Buried" comes most unexpected, as Lydia, with a little help of Todd(ler, in comparison to his colleagues) and his evil-looking gang, employs her trademark mixture of unscrupulousness and sensitivity in an enthralling and entertaining scene.

Walt takes a slight step back in this episode and also has fewer lines than usual, but participates in a beautifully looking desert scene that has Breaking Bad proving yet for another time how creative one can be with cinematography. Those are the aspects of "Buried" I care to mention as the remainder doesn't serve much a greater purpose than establishing future story lines, which I'll discuss in future reviews.

'Breaking Bad' is one of the most popular rated shows on IMDb, is one of those rarities where every season has either been very positively received or near-universally acclaimed critically and where all of my friends have said nothing but great things about.

Very few shows in recent memory had me so hooked from the very start that before the week was over the whole show had been watched, especially when for a lot of shows now airing watching one episode all the way through can be an endeavour. 'Breaking Bad' had that effect on me, and its reputation as one of the best, consistently brilliant and most addictive shows in many years (maybe even ever) is more than deserved in my eyes. Its weakest season is perhaps the first season, understandable as any show's first season is the one where things are still settling.

Actually everything is established remarkably from the very start, but once the writing and characterisation becomes even meatier the show reaches even higher levels.

"Buried" is another fine 'Breaking Bad' episode, it's tense, taut and emotional even if it is not quite one of the season's best

Visually, "Buried" is both stylish and beautiful, with photography and editing that are cinematic quality and put a lot of films today to shame, where there are a lot of visually beautiful ones but also some painfully amateurish looking ones. The music always has the appropriate mood, never too intrusive, never too muted.

The writing in "Buried" is a fine example of how to have a lot of style but also to have a lot of substance. The dialogue throughout is thought-provoking and tense, while also have a darkly wicked sense of humour, nail-biting tension and heart-tugging pathos. The story is texturally rich, intimate, tense and layered, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but taut.

Can't say anything bad about the acting. Bryan Cranston is phenomenal as one of the most fascinating anti-heroes, or even of any kind of character, in either film or television. Aaron Paul has never been better and Anna Gunn is affecting. The supporting cast are both intriguing and entertaining, Dean Norris and Bob Odenkirk are wonderful in support. The characters are compelling in their realism, likewise with their chemistry, and the episode is superbly directed.

Summing up, enormously compelling and high quality. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Thus begins the beginning of the end... that is the beginning of the end's beginning... of the end of Breaking Bad, after Hank... like all of us... simply needed some reading in the john and found out all about Walt and how Walt is the kingpin named Heisenberg...

Hank has always been the heart of the show, and technically the most important since Walt's been hiding things from Hank more than Skyler, who at this point is the kind of moll that Saul said Walt needed...

So no one wanted to get to the point where Hank might actually die, but what the writers seem to be doing is making Hank such an obsessive sore winner, you have to choose NOT to root for him... and not just in that Hitchcockian way of rooting for the bad guy since it's his ride and we're all riding on it...

At this point we know things are summing up and we know Walt's not going to win... But what's happening here and what started here was that Hank's not the person we want to win... and it works because, by the time the Nazis appear after... several episodes later... Hank gets Walter out by his money, I was rooting for them like when Burt Reynolds showed up to help Jon Voight and Ned Beatty in Deliverance...

Hank's insanity begins here and he pulls it off as good as he pulls his entire character off, who starts out a kind of obnoxious boob but then is revealed as a good man with a great soul who is vulnerable even more than he wants that revealed, but...

Again, not to be a broken record, but... this episode marks the end... at least for me... to root for the good guy.

Walt wouldn't have left that book in the bathroom for Hank to find at the end of episode 8. The people behind this show are trying to tell us that crime doesn't pay. I can tell you first hand that it pays a lot.

Walt won as far as I'm concerned.

Review by: Black Noodle Enterprises.