They are the terrified faces of his wife and son as they huddle together on the floor, trying to wish him into the cornfield. They are every illusion Walter White has ever had about himself being shattered. Those seven seconds are what “Breaking Bad” has been building to for the previous 59 hours. “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! WE'RE A FAMILY!!!… We're a family.” -Walter WhiteĪbout seven seconds pass between the time Walter White screams the words “we're a family” and the time he whispers them, and they are an eternity. I can't promise it won't be colored by things that happened in the ensuing “Granite State” or “Felina,” so if you happen to be coming to this review years from now as a person lucky enough to be watching “Breaking Bad” for the first time, you may want to read the semi-coherent original review and return to this later.Ī whole lot of thoughts on “Ozymandias” coming up just as soon as I remind you to put on your seat belt… So the following is an attempt to get right what once went wrong, possibly “Quantum Leap”-style, by writing the review I wish I could have written back on September 15. I watched, and wrote about, “Ozymandias” only hours after surgery, while very high on painkillers, and though my review was not full gibberish, it was gibberish enough that it's nagged at me ever since. Back in mid-September, “Breaking Bad” gave us its best episode ever in “Ozymandias, on the exact same day I wound up in the hospital with a burst appendix and a bad infection.
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