Breakage

Pinkman, who doesn't really seem to want to, and Walter start their business, with the help of Pinkman's friends.

This episode keeps the faster pace that it has been having in the last episodes. This is the beginning of Walter and Pinkman's kingdom, and it shows how the business starts.

However, "Breaking Bad" is still more interested in Walter's decision of destroying everything, and you can see how he is trying to control everything and everyone because he hasn't really done that ever. And lost Pinkman is the perfect victim for this violent and repressed man, who is making poor Pinkman his puppet. Walter White is showing a more violent and mean face with every episode, a man capable of everything, now that he is unleashed.

Good acting, focus and interesting plot development. Good episode overall.

After Walter White and Jesse Pinkman made amends at the end of the previous episode Jesse spends some of the money Walt gave him for paying the dockyard owner for the damages he did when he was looking for his RV, and Jesse buys a new car and a new house. Walt and Jesse start cooking again but there is one small problem: now Jesse is filed so he can't sell the drug himself and asks Walt to take Tuco's place and despite some hesitation Walt accepts. Jesse takes a chance of inviting his friends Combo, Badger and Skinny Pete in his new home and assume them as drug dealers and it will go smoothly because after Tuco's death there isn't competition tho Skinny Pete will end up assaulted by two drug addicts in an alley at night. During a family lunch Marie and Skylar will finally make amends after the tiara story just before Hank Schrader throws in a river Tuco's teeth covering that was given by his colleagues as a trophy.

It was nice seeing Walter and Jesse reunite no matter the events and as usual it's another great entry for the series that makes you want to see more and more.

Walt is getting better in accordance with his doctor, but his and Skyler's medical bills scare him. Meanwhile, Jesse pays his debts with Badgers cousin Clovis that increases the value to a large amount and finds a new house to live in, renting from Jane Margolis, who lives next door. Soon Walt and Jess cook meth again in the RV but Jesse is in charge of the distribution through his friends Badger, Skinny Pete and Combo. When Skinny Pete is lured and robbed by a client, Jesse shares the loss with Walt that becomes angry, but Jesse gives an economic lesson to him. Meanwhile Hank is promoted in the DEA, but he is not feeling well and seems to have health problems.

"Breakage" is another interesting episode of "Breaking Bad", where Walt and Jesse decide to produce and distribute meth. It is funny how we viewers cheer for drug dealers in this series, instead of for police officers. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Breakage"

After I was rather disappointed by the previous episode, "Breakage" is a notable improvement in quality while still not coming close to the outstanding episodes at the end of season one/beginning of season two. Maybe this is due to the ever changing writers and directors of Breaking Bad's episodes, but I seriously felt a genuine change of style between this and the last episode – and that as there weren't any major changes plotwise.

Cue plotwise, "Breakage" deals with the new style of drug contribution Walt and Jesse attempt, Hank becoming scatterbrained after a long- awaited promotion, and Skyler still having immense troubles with the lies of her husband and her sister. Of those three parts, I only really enjoyed the first one as Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul once again impressed me with their wonderful on-screen chemistry, one of the show's biggest assets that is additionally promoted by the excellent writing. In fact, the writing was so good that I didn't even mind seeing Badger and Skinny Pete again, which in my opinion are the two worst characters on the show. For the one and only time in all five seasons, my favorite scene of the episode actually involved these two characters: a consummately shot and edited drug dealing montage. I remember writing something similar for my reviews on earlier episodes, but I can't help myself: whenever it comes to scenes like that (or also the drug cooking process), I'm gazing at the television screen in awe.

As with the contras, I was annoyed by yet another puking scene I had to endure in this episode. Of course, it adds to the realism the show wants to convey, but seeing such things is just utterly disgusting and I didn't find any necessity in including that scene. That also applies for a couple of other scenes in "Breakage"; some others weren't executed as well as they could have been (Hank's promotion). Possibly, just two episodes for the episodes 3, 4, and 5 of this season could've helped to sort out some of the really useless parts and would've made them less boring when you watch them for a second time.

Now that Tuco is dead, the easy flow of huge amounts of money is gone. Walter and Jesse need to come to a different method of selling. Walter is hesitant and Jesse is fed up. Walter's hospital stays and cancer treatment are taking everything from him. He also gave Jesse a huge amount of money he didn't earn to keep him on board. Jesse begins to enlist his buddies to become dealers for him, he taking a cut of each sale. Skyler is getting deeper and deeper in her resentment. We know that at some point the big boys are going to move in on the small timers.