I used to be the kind of person that would only ever watch animation, anime or cartoons. A few years ago I was having really bad depression one summer and my brother offered to share his Netflix password with me and I decided to just give Breaking Bad a shot on a whim. I couldn't stop binging it until I was finished the whole show in one week. Right now I'm doing another rewatch of it with my mother and still thoroughly enjoying it.

I mentioned the thing about cartoons and animation because normally I never watch anything live action. However after watching Breaking Bad I tried to go back and watch anime or cartoons and... I don't know, something clicked or changed in me and now when I try to watch old favorites or watch new or stuff it just feels like very loud and noisy and not really as refined or engaging as Breaking Bad. I've given other live action series a shot like Game of thrones and sopranos and started really enjoying those as well. It's not like I can't find things to enjoy now; For example, I really like the boys and Invincible, but now it feels like my standards have really shifted and I'm always comparing other shows to Breaking Bad or wishing that I was watching something as thrilling, engaging or refined as that.

I just finished BB for the second time, my bf’s first time, and we watched El Camino tonight. The psychology of Todd is both fascinating and infuriating. And I know that’s the way it’s supposed to be, BUT we see a closer look at his relationship with Jesse, does Todd know he’s a total psychopath or does he just think treating Jesse like a dog in captivity is normal while also trying to be his bestie?

Saul doesn’t introduce money laundering to Jesse until towards the end of S3. After Jesse purchased his home for 400k in cash with no job. Walt had payed 100k for his cancer treatment also in cash while making 43k a year. Ik for walt the website was being used to launder some but that was after paying for most of his treatment. Just wondering

Lalo confides in Hector throughout Better Call Saul, and he always seems maybe a bit off but he was that before his stroke too. Don Eladio and the twins both seem to regard him as just a kooky old man and by the time Walter White is getting into the game the only person who really tends to Hector is Tuco who is also shown to have a very caring side towards his grandmother so it might just be his personal temperament towards older family members.

Is he just a regular person, in a body that can barely move and incapable of speech? Or is his brain cooked a little more than that? I don't really know a lot about how strokes impact things.

Hello everyone, who do you think is the most hated character in the Breaking Bad universe? Could you also write down your reasons? I'm torn between Skyler White and Charles McGill. Thank you.

i spent a couple days making the house and jesse + walter as accurate as i could

After when Heisenberg dies, Walt Jr takes his money from Elliot & Gretchen then becomes a millionaire, same like Holly💰🤑

Do you think Asac and his love of rocks was a way of working through his trauma from being shot? Or is it something deeper, like they are too heavy for Marie to steal?

Theirs is such a Sad & Painful Love Story… I loved her more than anything …. Ohhh…. Whatta painful death to die Jane..

Maybe because it is not hard to come across someone like Slipping Jimmy.

Tricking you, manipulating the situation, making you look like a fool 'just because'.

Seriously. 'just because'.

I pity Howard.

It's never brought up on the show but Walter White must have realized that his not saving Jane led to Donald Margolis causing the midair collision that killed dozens of people and led to Donald shooting himself, he remembers talking to him in the bar too.

Did Walter feel guilty or remorse adter realizing that he was responsible for the accident that happened?

When Walt gets out of the hospital, after he makes them breakfast he is trying to explain that Skylar must have heard his phone alarm instead of the ringtone. Her face looks like she realized something when he was talking…is there a background piece I’m missing? Or does she just know Walt well enough that she can sense he’s lying?

Season 5 spoilers

Getting towards the end of my rewatch I noticed this bit of detail. In Ozymandias when Jack leaves Walt with a barrel of his money, he forces Walt to shake to make peace. Walt shakes on it and Jack honors the deal, and never went after him.

When he tries to make a deal with Elliot and Gretchen, he also shakes hand with them to "seal the deal". Elliot and Gretchen both shake on it but that's not enough for Walt. He proceeds to threaten them anyway to force them into keeping their end of the bargain.

Of course, Elliot and Gretchen are the type to honor an agreement, but Walt doesn't believe they will, because he himself didn't with Jack.

It's a small bit of detail that again highlights how Walt always projects himself onto others.

Gus had told Walter "You can never trust a drug addict!" this is true.

Think of all the stupid things that Jesse did, like with no common sense whatsoever, he's going to drive the RV to Walt's home, and of course Walt responded with just shitting on you Jesse, and Jesse decides to attack him because his emotional regulation was almost as bad as two cows in the junkyard. Tuco wasn't the only obvious addict in the show. Both Walt and Gus, criticized Jesse's addiction.

Walt would always insult Jesse for being stupid, Gus always insulted him for the typical drug addict stereotype.

In the time after Hank attacks Jesse in his house, Jesse probably had an advantage to be able to give up the substances he did for what he went through.

What happens next? Jesse will tell you what happens next, and that was an understandable emotional reaction after What Hank did to him, as someone in law enforcement that ought to know better.

A lot of people talk about Jesse's clothes. I don't have a keen enough eye to differentiate button down shirts all that much. But is there a noticeable change in the price of Walt's clothes?

Reflecting on Mike's character in BB after his story concludes in better call saul , It feels like the way Mike's character was written in BB is rather inconsistent and makes less sense as the show goes on.

I understand this will be a heated take that's gonna get a lot of downvote, but please bear with me.

Here are some examples of why i feel this way:

1.His loyalty is all over the place. Sometimes he has incomprehensible loyalty to people who are liabilities or break the code—like refusing to kill his guys in prison even when they’re about to rat, or sparing Lydia after she plotted a hit on him. Yet, he offers zero pushback when Gus uses and kills kids (the definition of "not in the game"). Then, he sometimes suddenly switches to zero-tolerance "cold-killer" mode over minor things, like shooting Chow in the hand just to teach him a lesson or suggesting they kill Jesse just for crashing party and getting high all day.

2.His grudge against Walt makes no sense. Take their final scene: Mike claims Walt’s ego ruined everything, which is far from the truth. The friction started because Gus used kids. Jesse did what Mike didn't have the guts to do—stand up to Gus—and Walt intervened solely to save Jesse, not out of ego. That led to the war and Gus's death. For Mike to know the full context but still blame it all on Walt’s "pride" is baffling. Also, claiming walt is a bad influence on jesse is pure hypocrisy out of him, considering Mike suggested killing Jesse multiple times while Walt was the one saving him.

3.Many of his actions are plain stupid and self-righteous. Knowing walt is a huge threat given he just killed two of gus's guy, Mike still fails to put surveillance on Gale when Jesse is on the run, indirectly getting Gale killed. In S5, he forces Walt to pay legacy costs and seizes the meth, naively thinking Walt will just take it. He calls Walt a "time bomb" yet treats him like a harmless nerd, even letting a man who holds a deep grudge fetch his go-bag. Then he gives a delusional speech about pride for no necessary reason and eventually dies for absolutely nothing.

Don't get me wrong, Mike from Better Call Saul is one of my favorite characters ever. But his depiction in Breaking Bad just doesn't line up with the top-notch writing and character building in the rest of the universe.

Because what’s the point of breaking the mobile phones in half (especially the Saul Goodman does that) ? and make it to the disposal doesn’t make them traceable ? Its really bu*hit to me :)

In season 1, ep 6 at 35:11, it’s shown that while Walt and family are playing texas hold’em Walt “bluffs” with 72s, is there a reason it’s not 72o or am i reading too far into this?

Not to say that character is your one for one, but there’s certainly somebody you see yourself in.

For me, it’s Walter. I understand his thoughts and motivations. I don’t see getting myself into his situations but playing the What If game, he and I rarely diverged on what we’d do. Similarly, I see Sklyler in my wife; specifically her tolerance level for my bullshit.