Abiquiu

When the episode begins we see Jesse Pinkman and his former girlfriend's museum visit when they discussed about a painting of a door, then we cut to the present. Hank Schrader is starting rehabilitation while Walter White checks on the meth doses produced by Jesse, and Jesse and his friends try to sell meth among the members of the support group without success: during this time Jesse starts going out with a woman of the support group named Andrea but when he discovers that she has a child and is already married he leaves her. Gus Fring will give Walter some advice on how to spend the gained money and Hank has a possibility of leaving the hospital but doesn't want to leave it unless he does it on his own legs.

This was an ordinary episode in the sense that continues the events of the previous episodes, and the writing and acting are good. Not surprises but still good.

First Jane, now Andrea, tempting them into using his meth. Both ladies cleaned up before they meet him. No mercy for Jesse.

Skyler continues getting into Walter's business. She already has him by the short hairs when it comes to Hank. She never considers for a moment that she would be in bankruptcy without the money going to Walter's cancer treatment. At the least they would be wards of the state. She continues to prosper on his dime. Now she wants to front him in a carwash business to engender money laundering. Meanwhile, Hank is getting no better and wants to be left out of anything but a significant cure. I just don't know. There is some stretching of reality here that blurs things.

"Abiquiu" is Breaking Bad's third filler episode in a row, so I guess you can't even call it that anymore, can you? Anyway, this weirdly titled episode seems more concerned with the introduction of an unnecessary character than with actually getting the series in the direction of a good series finale. Here's why I continued to not like Breaking Bad at that point:

As Skyler unexpectedly interferes in Walt's business, she meets his lawyer Saul Goodman which serves for an amusing five minutes. Besides that though, her involvement seems a bit out of the blue and changed some character traits of hers. Walt is the complete background man this time around and has inexplicably lost the paranoid side of his he had just one episode ago, while Bob Odenkirk did a great job as Saul as always, but still couldn't make me enjoy the scenes they shared. The more interesting part for a lot of people was Jesse's arc, in which he encounters a new girl and starts a strange relationship with her, following from his initial attempt to sell meth to her. I personally was very bored by these scenes and not even the aha moment at the end could really impress me.

The only parts I considered to be outstanding in "Abiquiu" were the short but well-filmed meth cooking and, more importantly, Walt visiting his boss Gus at his nicely decorated bourgeois home and the two sharing the most homo-erotic moment in the series together. Giancarlo Esposito is Emmy-worthy as always and was even more fun to watch than usual, while their conversation topic could've been a tad more appealing.

This episode was a nice chamge of pace as we qre starting to move forward from everything involving the cousins and Hank!

This episode have two major things going on that sets up how everything will develop from here!

Skyler finally commits to Walt being a criminsl and descides to play an active role in msking sure he doesn't get caught! This means laundring the money!

The scene with Saul, Walt and Skyler is something I always enjoy, and great how it goes back to Bogdan amd the car wash, showing how everything matters!

The stuff with Jessie qlso sets up the finale act perfectly as he learns the truth about Combo!