Open House

Main question of the episode : how do we buy the car wash station ? Wow that's really a thrilling question, don't you think ? No ? No. Not really.

Too long scenes with too few arguments, only one conflict outside of the family (Mary strikes again too) This episode relies a lot on our memories, much more than the previous one. I think we miss events and action.

The characterization is really brilliant, the actors still great, and many interesting plots are put on... but it is still a promising beginning.

I hope next episode will be more consistent.

Season 4 is amazing one of the best seasons of tv of all time, but this episode is a little weak for breaking bad standards. Honestly this might be the most forgettable episode of the show. Really I can't think of much that I like of this episode, besides when Saul is on. He's one of my favorite characters and Bob is an astounding actor like rest of the cast, just not anywhere near top tier braking bad episode.

Significant events. Marie is picked up for stealing from real estate open houses. This takes her back to her shoplifting days. Only Hank's connections keep her out of jail. Meanwhile, Skyler uses shady means to get the carwash guy to sell to them. She goes practical on Walter. They now are richer than rich but have to watch themselves constantly. At the end, one of Hank's former colleagues brings him something that is certainly going to bring about trouble.

Great episode. Only thing that has managed to make Go Karting sad

It's only the third episode in this season of Breaking Bad, but it already feels as if we've been served the same plot for ages. Besides more and more character development in Skyler and Jesse, "Open House" is sparse on new ideas and difficult to enjoy.

As Jesse's parties grow bleaker and bleaker, Aaron Paul impresses me even more through his almost wordless, yet still so deep acting – especially the go-kart scene near the end of the episode was a small, but mentionable gem. The bigger part of this episode was definitely focused on either the Schraders or the Whites though, and while these also had some nice parts here and there, the average was rather low. Especially Marie bringing out the kleptomaniac side of hers was overly long and resulted in a ridiculous and redundant crying scene of Betsy Brandt.

Skyler got a tad more interesting in "Open House" as she is willing to passively participate in Walt's crime by becoming a (different sort of) criminal herself, yet that doesn't say a lot for a character that bored and annoyed me for pretty much all three seasons up to that point. This story part had some blatant stupidities in it, such as the "It's been six hours, he won't call – he calls" and the "Giving a random guy instructions over headphones so he can manipulate someone else in your favor" clichés. At least Bob Odenkirk was able to uplift both the humor aspect and the quality of it with some trademark stupid jokes.

As you see, there really were only few things for me to appreciate in "Open House", an episode that proves yet another time that Breaking Bad is weak when the story is evolving slowly.