Watching a series that started in 2008 in 2020 and writing about seems too late. But I am only following the path of the protagonist of the series who finally arrives after he is 50 and is about die (of cancer) As a friend indicated the series did get more interesting as seasons went by. I liked Season 4 and Season 5 in particular. It is as though all knots were slowly undone in Season 5 for me.
If there is only one scene that I am allowed to pick and keep to integrate into me then that would be this: Walt is living secluded after his name change and with almost no human contact. He requests Ed Galbraith to stay for 2 more hours and is willing to pay him 10,000 dollars and gets 1 hour of playing cards for that money. But then there are many more scenes which are worth going through again in the entire series. For instance, this one: Hank Schrader is on the other end of the gun, wounded and it is only a matter of minutes before death will break the doors of his house. Walt is pleading the owner of the gun and is willing to pawn all that he earned in lieu of Hank's life. Hank chides Walt by saying that "You are the smartest man I have ever met in my Life but right now you are too stupid to see that he made up his mind 10 minutes ago."
Unlike House of cards where the protagonists get away with everything they do, Breaking Bad ensures that their protagonists get back for everything that they do/did. However, the real world is much more complex than the world of fiction. For instance, Walter doesn't allow Bogdan to take with him the dollar bill he has kept in his car wash as memento. Instead, he breaks it and uses that money to buy a drink from the vending machine as a revenge. Bogdan was harsh(disrespectful actually) with Walt when the later worked for him. Does that mean that the car wash was not critical to Walt in paying his bills when he needed money the most?
