5-sentence review of Breaking Bad: Hazard Pay

Season 5, Episode 3: “Hazard Pay”

5. What a magnificent bastard Walt (Bryan Cranston) has become.

4. He sits next to the little boy he poisoned in Season 4 in order to manipulate Jessie (Aaron Paul) and looks at him like a scientific curiosity rather than a child he nearly killed.

3. He twists Skylar’s (Anna Gunn) breakdown into an elegant lie as Marie (Betsy Brandt) tries to pry truth out of a man who doesn’t have any left in him.

2. Finally, Skylar awakens to see Walt and their son watching “Scarface” and the pair pleading, “Join us.”

1. Season 5 has the feeling of fingers tightening around a throat, slowly squeezing the last bits of life out of someone, but it’s unclear if it is Walter or everyone else who is being choked out.

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About Daniel P. Finney

A misanthrope, iconoclast and general grouch since the late 1980s, Daniel P. Finney has been a professional paragraph stacker since 1993. He reports. He writes. He blogs. He tweets. He beats deadlines. He amuses (himself, at least.) He informs. He adapts. He keeps moving forward. He eschews gatherings. The highlights of his week are Sunday chicken wings, new comics Wednesday and naps during televised sporting events. He does not wonder if there is a player to be named later in his life and spends most of his waking hours desperately trying to be left alone.

Posted on July 29, 2012, in Breaking Bad, Popular Culture, Reviews, Television and tagged , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.

  1. You forgot to mention that Walt is a magnificent, greedy Bastard. He still ended up with over 100,000$ off of one cook, you’d think he’d be pretty happy about that.

    Btw do you have the option to follow you by email? My blogroll on wordpress is a bit full but I do a smaller selection for email notifications and I’ve been looking for a good TV review blog like this one.

    Cheers :)

  2. Sure. There is a subscribe button on the bottom of the posts. Left side I think.

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