Why would anyone try to kick this habit? Well I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but this show has gotten pretty heavy lately. I’m considering the option of acquiring a prescription to anti-depressants just so I can watch next week’s finale without the impending certainty of an anxiety attack. “Granite Slate” continued the all out assault on your heart and felt like the perfect first chapter of an “epic television event.” In the final moments of the episode, with the score pounding and the camera zipping through the bar as police burst through the door, it truly felt like the scope of what is ahead of us is greater than what any other television show has set out to do in its conclusion. We are watching the Beatles make Abbey Road knowing full well they’ll never produce another record. Is it worse seeing the gun? Todd continues to be completely unsettling. He’s the soft voice in a balaclava, the dead eyes behind some free Ben and Jerry’s. He is the special kind of evil that you’d unknowingly unlock your door for. I never thought I could get over Jesse Plemons being Landry on Friday Night Lights, but Landry has forever been erased by the evil that Todd is doing on this show. The intimidation scene between Todd and Skylar was arresting and suspenseful, the quiet voices only adding to the tension. The scene with Lydia was awkwardly fascinating to watch Todd please the object of his affection with his drug peddling prowess. But better than both moments is when the camera pans away from the two and we see Todd picking lint off of the back of Lydia’s shirt. Little things like this are what Breaking Bad is all about. Ever since the show first introduced Grey Matter and the characters of Gretchen and Elliot, I had been waiting to hear more about the subject or more form the people. I knew the writers would figure them back into this somehow. Ever since we first heard the story, I’ve suspected that Walt’s falling out with Grey Matter was the real motivator for his quest for an empire. Whatever scorn he felt propelled him into the underbelly, and it was nice for him to face those demons right before he marched back into hell. The television interview of Elliot and Gretchen was a perfect moment, a reminder that things could have turned out very different for Walter White had he not been pushed to things. Gretchen says that Walter White is gone, and something tells me that this other guy, Lambert, he’s not going to be here for much longer. The Best of the Rest Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. And Google+, if that’s your thing!
