No Más

"Who's here for self improvement? ... See, that's your first mistake; you should be here to learn self-acceptance."

"Self-hatred, guilt. It accomplishes nothing. It just stands in the way (of) true change."

I won't go into unnecessary personal details, but I needed this episode, right here, right now. I suppose I have a character limit to meet, so here goes a little story about why this episode means so much to me.

I started watching Breaking Bad about two weeks ago to fill a void in my life that was growing by the day. This is unusual because I hardly watch TV shows at all. After entering that low point, I knew that I needed something to clear my mind. Based on glowing reviews and friend recommendations, I decided that I might as well give it a shot. What could I lose? I was immediately hooked, watching episodes per day, sometimes upwards of five or six! Then I began to become busier and more overwhelmed by, well, everything. I felt like I needed the numbness more than ever, to completely escape reality. Then I hear the quotes that began this review. Again, I will spare the personal details, but I needed that so badly. This review does no justice to the impact "No Más" just had for my outlook on life.

I suppose all of this goes to say, "you never know what might change somebody's life" or "sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until you've found it." Those match how I'm feeling now.

This was a great way too start season 3! It serves as the aftermath of the season 2 finale, while also setting up future storylines, with the introduction of The twins/cousins! These two are some of the coldest bad guys i have seen! The fact that they don't speak is iconic! Makes them unpredictable and intimidating!

The episode shows where Walt is right now and what his character is going through! We know what is going on with him.. not because he says how he feels, but we can tell how he feels from his actions! Him making toast goes back to season 1 and his speech about the planes shows how far he is from the man he once was! This is great storytelling!

Bryan Cranston did great as a director! Some iconic scenes and shots! Shows how invested he is in the show!

Having nearly loved the first two seasons of BREAKING BAD they made me want to watch more of it, so I started the third season and again, it was a nice beginning.

When the show begins we see two twins dressed nicely that go in a temple dedicated to the cult of the goddess of Death and put near her a drawing of Heisenberg. Walter White is forced to take his things and going to live alone while his wife Skylar met a lawyer for discussing about the divorce. Jesse Pinkman is continuing re-hab in the building where he was taken in the previous episode, where he learns to accept himself and encouraged to never change but accept himself the way it is. Skyler has further reason of divorcing Walt after he reveals to be a producer of crystal meth. When Jesse is released from re-hab he is still in depression for what happened to Jane and for the plane accident, and Walt goes to Gus Fring for discussing the fact that he doesn't want to be a criminal but Gus asks him to continue his production for other three months.

I loved more the Jesse Pinkman storyline because it was nice seeing him return to a normal state and also accept himself the way it is. The Walter White story tho is kinda depressing for folks who witnessed their parents separate and divorce just like me. Still, despite this, another promising beginning of another successful season.

After climatic explosive finale of Season 2, Season Three stars very strong. Bryan Cranston is a fantastic director and very great actor. I love Tv Show The Shield and like in my previos comment I love Michael Chiklis a lot in The Shield. He is great actor, but he is not a good director. Bryan Cranston is an awesome director and awesome actor. Since I finished The Shield I start watching Breaking Bad end of October.

Anna Gunn never heard about the actress, but watching her performance I would have married her right away. I am starting becoming a fan of her. Now the first two seasons I am not a fan. I have read and heard so great stuff about this show, like it is one of the best shows ever and I don't see it that way, I think it is overrated. In my opinion it is not the best one but it is a really good one. Best Tv shows I would say The Shield with Michael Chiklis, The X-Files, Prison Break, Smallville, Lost, Alias, Arrow and more shows I have enjoyed. Breaking Bad is a really good one.

Now the finale of Season 2 I still don't know how Anna Gunn figure it out in this episode that Walter is a drug dealer, is beyond me. Maybe they left clues in Season 2 finale, who knows maybe it will be explained later in the show. This is the first time me watching this show "Breaking Bad" so I don't know a lot. In this episode we found out that two planes crashed in the explosive finale Season 2 caused by this guy air traffic controller Donald Margolis (John de Lancie) because his daughter was killed over an overdose of heroin played by Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones).

I hope this Season will be a lot better than the first two seasons vere. Dean Norris from Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Total Recall is a bad-ass as DEA Agent Hank Schrader. I love the guy so much in this show. He is a good guy and a hero I love him in Season 2 he was a bad-ass in the first episode once again directed by Bryan Cranston. Episode 7 when a mine blow up and a FBI agent has been killed and three wounded one lost his leg. Hank helped them out. And Episode 8 when he was in shock and in trauma. Huge fan of Dean Norris great actor.

So that's my review on Breaking Dad Season 3 Episode 1 No Mas.

"No Más", Spanish for "not anymore", is the start of Breaking Bad's third season and surprises with one of the weirdest pre-credits sequences to ever be on television. The two tortoise-mimicking Hispanic fellows we get introduced to there also don't get much clearer in the two other scenes they have in this episode, however, it's still very interesting to watch them.

With the characters we know already, there's of course the troubled situation between Skyler and Walt after she commanded he move out at the end of season two as the last resort. That decision issued in a lot of confusion with the whole White family, but sadly didn't make for any good scenes. RJ Mitte overacted his part a bit and Dean Norris and Betsy Brandt had a sub-par script to work with. As Skyler and Walt then sat down and had a talk, it managed to awake my interest, if only in terms of plot and acting.

Fortunately, "No Mas" also included appearances of Jesse and Gus, which were both remarkably good. Aaron Paul just gets better and better in his role and seeing him in rehab was one of the show's deepest moments yet. Giancarlo Esposito on the other hand, may have even been more impressing as he succeeded in outshining Bryan Cranston in the scene they shared together. Never has calmness felt as intense as in his mostly wordless and unblinking acting.

That's about it for this episode – one that works perfectly well as an introduction for a new season, but easily could've been more thrilling. As he wrote a screenplay himself again after quite a while, Vince Gilligan seems to not have had the best of days, but that's excusable as long as the story is as great as it currently is.