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Breaking Bad 4.13 “Face Off”

I always used to assume this show would end with Jesse’s death (suicide, for guilt over all their actions over the course of the show) and Walt being caught / dying of cancer, but now I imagine that Jesse will find out what Walt’s done and kill Walt himself.

But whatever. I always love this show best when they’re working together and of course this tugged at my heartstrings, right before the final shot ripped them all in half.

Here is a thing about the Emmys, a week late: I worried that Steve Buscemi would win the trophy for best actor in a drama. With Cranston not nominated, I assumed Buscemi would triumph (but others thought Jon Hamm, and the point is valid either way), which is fine, but then the next year, who would the voters go for? It was a cause for concern. But then Kyle Chandler won and as he can’t be nominated for Friday Night Lights next year, the pattern of all Cranston all the time can continue. Or so I thought.

But really, I needn’t have worried in the first place. There is no doubt in my mind Cranston’s already got the strongest reel. I thought he was a lock when Walt broke down to Walter Jr., but then in the last episode the urgency of “Skyler, where’s the money?” and the laughter echoing as she walks to the phone while Marie leaves her message made me wonder if I had gotten it wrong, that he was now truly a lock, or if he managed to become even more of a lock. Can that even happen? It can’t. But this show has redefined so much that I don’t doubt this could be another thing to add to that list.

On the subject of having watched five episodes in a row last night—I would recommend doing that. I hadn’t watched new-to-me episodes of Breaking Bad in a row since I first started watching the show in 2009 and plowed through the first nine episodes in a day and had to wait around for the tenth to air, although back then it seemed as though no one was watching it, because I had to wait until Tuesdays for the episodes to show up on Sidereel, and as the season went on and my blood pressure rose every week that Jesse fell more in love with both Jane and heroin, I started to watch Sunday night’s episodes late on Tuesday, and then follow them up a shot of Tuesday night’s Reaper as a stress reliever before I went to sleep, so I could go to sleep, to give the Breaking Bad adrenaline time to wear off.

If I had been watching this season week to week for the last five episodes, I don’t know that I would like it as much as I do. I always like the show best (I remember even writing this last season) when Walt and Jesse are working together, so this season has been a nightmare, but that’s definitely the intention. Weekly, I think the nightmarish aspect to the whole season would have overwhelmed me. In five episodes straight, I had the time to settle into that world and prepare myself for the last two in the season, and now I’m ready to take them on.

Sometimes I forget they both won the Emmys last year and then I come across the photo saved on my desktop and I remember and I get giddy all over again.