Shows like this cannot be picked up on the fly. You have to go back and watch every single episode in order to really appreciate it. That's part of the reason there are so many interchangeable and utterly disposable Law & Order and CSI clones: it's a lot easier for people to just tune in to a self-contained procedural with little-to-no character development than a brilliant, novelistic series like this or The Wire.

You not only should, but MUST watch from the beginning.

WOW, probably the best of hour of television I've seen in a LOOOONG time.

Riveting.

lol, im gonna miss those crazy mexican ****ers

Love the show...that is a sick clip in post 183, but misses the tension of his bloody fingers fumbling to get that bullet in the gun. That tension was intense. That segment right after Hank got the warning call, and the radio clock wouldn't advance...whooo.

The most intense scene I've watched since "Fish" in Saving Private Ryan as he was struggling one on one with the German that ended up killing him.

Watching him fumble for that shell was the most agonizing yet exquisite scene I've ever had the pleasure to watch.

Good comparison.

Out of curiosity, did anyone else think it odd we never saw a clip of him getting the bullet into the gun? Is this better or worse, in your opinion?

I think it adds to the tension to not see that bullet go into the gun. We don't know if he succeeds until the last last last possible moment. To have it the other way, would be more in the tone of a Bruce Willis Die Hard moment, with a "Whoppie ty yi yay, mother****er".

Thanks for asking the question, because it makes me appreciate that sequence all the more.

I agree. I thought Hank's head was going to splayed open like a f'ing Cornish Hen.

When he blew the vertex of the guys skull onto the camera I almost leaped out of my chair.

So, every climax has to have a dénouement. Here is the dénouement episode. Yet, it sets up another arc, which I think, may eclipse the previous.

I'm excited.

Gus Fring, in addition to being in charge of a cartel territory, is apparently connected to someone high up in the DEA to pull off what he did at the end of this episode. He's one scary man.

I'm hiding in plain sight, same as you.

Gus is Bad Bad man....w/connections WAY up there.....can't wait till next Sunday. Looks like Jesse is thinkin stupid again next week!

Now Thank Me and Shake my hand

Gus Fring is like:

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