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Breaking Bad: Felina [5x16] β¦ Watchalong Reaction & Review
Added 2023-08-17 14:57:59 +0000 UTCAnd we're here, the final episode of an incredible show that I released my reaction for the pilot to way back on December 7! Has it really been that long? I could have sworn I started it later than that. π [Direct link here.]
It's very satisfying when shows have proper conclusions and endings that make sense and this show is tied with Mr. Robot for best ending of a live-action show for me. (Speaking of Mr. Robot, this is a show that I'll be doing watch parties for in Discord once myself and some others in the community are done watching Gotham which will be around the end of March.)
I'm looking forward to chatting with you all about this and like I said in the last post, there'll be a small break while I work on some other stuff and then we'll jump right back in.
Thank you SO much for watching, especially if you have watched every single episode with me. I cannot express enough how much I appreciate your support and company while going through this show, discussing all the details and characters and just sharing general excitement. Thank you!!
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kaiielle
2023-08-19 21:47:42 +0000 UTCGreat ending to great series! I loved that schwartz mansion scene. For some reason i absolutely hated Gretchen and Elliot from the very start, they are so dislikeble characters, even more than Ted Beneke. I know Walt sneaking into the house was creepy and wrong and everything, but when those lasers lit up, i jumped in joy when they almost shat themselves. Perhaps i'm a terrible person, but i think i'm not the only one who disliked these snobby bastards. Also i was very happy when Jack and his crew most of all psycho Todd and jittery Lydia got what they deserved. Not to forget Heisenberg who flew too close to the sun...Good that Jesse who really was deepdown a good hearted guy, even though he did murder Gale, cooked meth and sold it to the people in rehab actually was deepdown a good hearted guy made his escape with Todd's El Camino. Great Reactions btw i really did enjoy :)
Veli-Jussi Hirvonen
2023-08-19 21:06:31 +0000 UTCThanks for watching along! Glad you had a good time!
kaiielle
2023-08-18 00:37:35 +0000 UTCThanks for watching with me! I'm glad you had a good time and it's nice to know I'm not putting in all this time and work for nothing. π Even just knowing there's a small group of us makes this 1000% more enjoyable and I'm so grateful. Can't wait for BCS! I'm eager to see which show I like more.
kaiielle
2023-08-18 00:37:23 +0000 UTCThanks Rhys! I really like that Walt was able to wrap up every loose end at the very end. Makes for a super satisfying closure for us viewers. Yeah I think I mentioned how, if he had stayed in Grey Matter, he probably would have acted the same way. Also, I saw an interesting comment on YouTube as I've started looking up some behind-the-scenes videos on the show. Someone commented that the end of Crawl Space was the death of Walt and the end of Felina was the death of Heisenberg. Both endings were filmed in the exact same way - Walt on the ground looking up and the camera pulling away and slightly rotating. I really love that, to be honest.
kaiielle
2023-08-18 00:36:19 +0000 UTCIt's been great joining you on your Breaking Bad journey, keen for El Camino. And I will definitely be joining you for Better Call Saul too!
Methampheminist
2023-08-18 00:15:38 +0000 UTCI've really enjoyed your reactions for the entire Breaking Bad series. Watching it all again, full length with a first-time watcher was super cool. I can't wait for your Better Call Saul reactions. BCS is a bit of a slow build up at first but it quickly becomes a completely enthralling story. Honestly, I don't know which I personally like better. And I think it says a lot about Better Call Saul that there's even a debate; it's not easy to follow up on Breaking Bad and have a lot fans say the prequel series is as good or better than the original. Thanks for what you do!
Trey Williamson
2023-08-18 00:04:00 +0000 UTCHas been awesome watching you experience this masterpiece! Glad you loved it. I love how the show ties every loose end up, at least for Walt's story. Also kinda sad but cool that Walter essentially wins in the end. He did everything he set out to do, and the police only got to him when he died. Lucky again. And i have seen a lot of theories about when Walt becomes this awful person, and i think you actually brought it up earlier, but i think he always was, or at least he was always going to turn out like that. He's driven by ego, the meth stuff was just the worst possible option that he took. He was always this ego driven awful person under the surface.
Rhys
2023-08-17 23:17:36 +0000 UTCAll SUPER good moments!!
kaiielle
2023-08-17 22:36:29 +0000 UTCI can't pick a favorite anything with this show ^_^ Just too damn good. There are so many great acting moments, though: - Jesse in "ABQ", sobbing his face off to Jane's death in the heroin den - Jesse in "Problem Dog", working through his murder of Gale in rehab - Walt in "Gray Matter", during the intervention that got us rooting for him - Skyler in "Fifty-One", arguing with Walt about the children's safety - Skyler in "Felina", her many reactions to Walt confessing to his own ego - Hank in "Blood Money", confrontation with Walt - Mike in "Half Measures", the speech - Gus in "Half Measures", being the fair-but-scary drug overlord and HR dept. - Saul in "Better Call Saul"... the whole damn episode
Dan
2023-08-17 21:34:03 +0000 UTCHonestly for me the pure gold includes "The Fly" ESPECIALLY. That was such a tense episode from the moment when Walter became tired. I wonder if people think that's a bad episode or something?
Pan
2023-08-17 21:05:56 +0000 UTCLoke there the evil one shows up and saves the day. Thank goodness Walt taught Jesse how to cook or they would have killed him before Walt saved the day. LOL Ok I'll stop. 62 Episodes of pure gold and yes that includes "The Fly" Loved the way the keep intertwining the story lines. The ricin cig. shows up in season 1 and gets put to use in the final show while referring to it thru out the series. BCS will hook you for 63 more episodes. After the pilot you will have that we're back home again feeling. I do recommend rewatching the first time Walt meets Saul and the following scene in the desert were Saul becomes their lawyer. Saul drops some names that come up. Ok here is a tough one Fav scene? Mine is when Hank had Walt and Jesse trapped in the RV in the salvage yd. A close 2nd is when Mike lays into Walt about screwing everything up, just so right on the money. Watched the whole series with you looking forward to BCS. Take care
Pacmule
2023-08-17 20:39:40 +0000 UTCGlad you had a good time and totally agreed with you!
kaiielle
2023-08-17 17:35:42 +0000 UTCThis was awesome. This entire show was. Pretty much one of if not the greatest TV show I have ever seen. Such a well-made, intricate story. Everyone who Walt ever came into contact with is either dead, got their life ruined beyond repair or, at the very least, in the most minor cases, is severely traumatized. All because he developed a severe Ego because he was good at something. Such an experience to watch this show for the first time with you, Your commentary was always super interesting! I'm really looking forward to Better Call Saul, I've heard some people saying that that show is even better. If that's true or not remains to be seen, but at the very least I expect it to be incredible.
Pan
2023-08-17 17:14:03 +0000 UTCYou know, I was never in earshot of conversations like Gretchen and Elliott's much in my career. Believe it or not, the wealthiest clients I ever dealt with across the entire 10+ years were some of the most humble and nicest people ever, but we're also talking low millionaires and not ultra-wealthy billionaires. The clients with the most money I've ever seen were especially nice. My first time helping them, it was when the mother brought their three children in to open their first bank accounts. Each kid had like $40-$60 with them to make their first deposit with - Christmas/birthday money from relatives. The kids were all under 10 years old. The family lived in a neighborhood in the city that a lot of, I would say, $150k-$250k earners lived in, but this couple earned literal millions. When I noticed just how much $ this couple had sitting in self-directed accounts, I recommended that they meet with a wealth and estate advisor, which they agreed to as (shockingly) it was something they had never done before. We're talking like $60 million between this couple, they had in their accounts and that was just at the bank I worked for at the time. I still don't know if they had money elsewhere. The husband was the CEO of a smaller oil and gas company that had some larger contracts in the province, which helps explain the earnings, but when I dug a little deeper I learned that the particular company was the fourth company this man had started in his life and he was in his late 30s at the time. He had sold the previous three companies, which explains the nest egg. π Anyway, they were really awesome people and you would never know how much money they had unless you saw the accounts. The kids were extremely well-behaved and no different than any other kid from a regular low class family.
kaiielle
2023-08-17 16:55:23 +0000 UTCStarting off with the Marty Robbins song was perfect especially since it basically mirrors the episode. It's such a small thing but I love how perfectly they nailed the rambling rich people banter at the beginning. You worked at a bank so I'm sure you've been forced to sit through that a few times. It's fascinating that in the end all these moves are really Walt just trying to limit the damage before he's gone. Kind of like, "well things will still suck but hopefully this makes it easier."
Brian Settles
2023-08-17 16:25:41 +0000 UTCLOL love that description.
kaiielle
2023-08-17 16:18:12 +0000 UTCI'm watching this episode somewhere other than Netflix and here the short Episode description is "All bad things must come to and end." I think that's pretty funny. Anyway time to finally get into this episode I'm super excited.
Pan
2023-08-17 16:13:19 +0000 UTC
