This week: the rights and wrongs of Skyler’s family intervention; our multiple imagined backstories of Walt’s possible relationship with Gretchen; and Badger’s contribution to one of many meth-cook montages.
In this episode: a rather unknowledgeable discussion of the difference between US and UK chemotherapy service; the heavy emotional toll brought on by the laying of a table; and the physics of blowing up a car with a moist metal squeegy.
In this episode: the devastation (for us, as well as Walt) of Walt’s first murder; Hank’s dubious theories of marijuana as a gateway drug to meth; and some rather long rambling about the geography, fictional or otherwise, of Albuquerque.
In this week’s episode Ethan and Talia discuss episode 2 of the first season of Breaking Bad, ‘Cat’s in the Bag’. Including: how the humour of Breaking Bad is so necessary in offsetting the horror of Walt and Jesse’s tragic situation; the greatness of Aaron Paul’s acting; and Skyler: victim of awful viewer misogyny or wifely nag? (Apologies for the sound quality of this episode – recording teething problems and fixed for future episodes.)
In this week’s episode: how does a writer convince us that a high school chemistry teacher will take up life as a meth dealer before the first credits have even rolled?