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Going back to the first episode of the first season now, it's really amazing. The opening shot first presents a bizarre scene: a middle-aged man wearing a shirt but naked, nervously driving an RV on the wilderness road, his pants have been blown away with the wind; after hearing the police car whistle After rushing to the side of the road, standing alone in the middle of the road, he raised the grab. Subsequently, the title Breaking Bad is spelled out in the periodic table of chemical elements, entering the story in positive chronological order. In the whole series of dramas, a short seemingly mindless scene is inserted before the title is released, which always makes people feel that they have watched one episode less. However, in most cases, it was used as an interlude or a reminiscence clip. Even if there is a flashback, it is not as exciting as the first episode.
Although the first season is short, with only seven episodes, the main characters and many complicated branch lines have been roughly laid out. After Mr. Bai learned the bad news of cancer, he decided to make meth to make money. He met Jesse, his long-term partner, through his brother-in-law, Officer Hank, who worked in DEA. He then bought an RV through Jesse to build a laboratory and intervened in a drug trafficking network. The gun-wielding drug dealer turned his life around and killed the opponent with a chemical weapon. It can be said that the 40-minute story in this single episode is almost the outline of the stories of the first four seasons. If we talk about it in general terms, it is not that Lao Bai and Xiaofen are constantly making drugs and replacing batch after batch of drug traffickers, always. The young and old duo are often the ones who are able to survive unscathed while conducting intriguing trading activities.
Lao Bai is a top genius with bad luck. Jesse, on the other hand, has no ambitions, does not want to go to school and work, just wants to mess around, and is dragged by Lao Bai on a seemingly golden road of no return. It was completely different from the beginning. One was active and the other passive, but he was tied to a rope. Naturally, Lao Bai always complained that Jesse was pulling his legs, and Jessie always thought that Lao Bai was running too fast. Lao Bai poisoned people with his own hands in the first episode of the first season, and Jesse didn't really fire the first shot until the end of the third season.
S01E04 started the family line, Lao Bai's side obviously took up a lot of scenes, I was always dissatisfied with the speed of progress here, and repeatedly entangled with my wife Skyler, it was difficult to understand what Skyler did when dealing with Lao Bai's lies The behavior, especially the brain thinking circuit when connecting to the branch line of Ted, the former boss of the affair, is really strange. Aunt Marie is always carrying out clumsy stealing. It seems too reluctant to say that she can't control herself. So far, the fourth season still does not see any progress in the plot. This pair of sisters is really annoying. Some handicapped sons behaved quite well, the closest to the steady state of ordinary people, neither showing off or stealing the show.
In contrast, Jesse's relationship with the family is much weaker. As soon as he returned home, he was scorned by his parents. After taking the blame for his younger brother, he was quickly kicked out of the house. After that, he was completely homeless for a period of time. But I think, in Jesse's heart, the desire and attachment to home will never be less than that of Lao Bai. At least Jesse is willing to protect his young brother, so that whenever he sees Mrs. Xiaozheng, he will take care of him very patiently and carefully. Hope they grow up to be good people, maybe he sees his past self in Zhengtai.
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Compared with the bloody smell of the first season, the second season began to decrease. There were also dead people (even more deaths), but they were not done by the old and the young, and it became the incentive of chance and coincidence. Often it is by witnessing the death with one's own eyes. Old Bai is more and more revealing the potential of drug lords, but he still fails to take a step in the face of the suspicion of his family; Jesse has love, but because of this, he is even more depraved. The pink puppet and its dropped eye that haunted before the opening credits finally ushered in such a surreal air crash.
For a period of time after Tuco's death, the town became Lao Bai and Jesse's most unscrupulous free zone, relying on Jesse's three friends to weave a drug trafficking system that began to take shape. And this node is also a good time for the two to quit. There is no strong enemy outside the situation. As long as they are not greedy and rash, they may be able to wash their hands. It’s a pity that the good times didn’t last long, and three of Jesse’s friends ran into trouble successively: the thin man was robbed by a drug addict couple, and when Jesse went to collect debts, he saw the wife push the ATM machine to kill her husband, and Jesse temporarily drowned; the tall man was arrested by the police , led the lawyer Saul; the fat man went to someone else's site to sell drugs and was shot and killed by a ten-year-old boy, which eventually led to the collapse of the private system. Not only did the hapless Jesse lose friends, but Jane, the new landlady and girlfriend she met, also tragically died because of the accidental arrival of the old man. Jesse has almost nothing but money at the moment, his parents kicked him out of the house, his friends are in danger because of his involvement, his girlfriend died because of it, whether it is the house left to him by his aunt in the first season or the rented house in the second season. He could no longer tolerate it, so he had to be sent to a drug rehab center by Lao Bai. It's not easy for Lao Bai. Seeing Jane's breathing blockage but failing to help, it has indirectly caused an air crash, which has always become a nightmare that cannot be forgotten; the conflict with his wife has finally come to the brink of divorce. The second season undoubtedly ended with multiple tragedies and tragedies.
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The first season killed the original drug dealer Crazy8, and ended with the new gang leader Tuco. The second season kills Tuco and ends with Gus, the owner of the fried chicken shop. Gus is an extremely cautious and ruthless character, and certainly worth two seasons to portray.
However, before everything is ready, the most commendable thing about the third season is that it summarizes and solves many of the incidents and clues in the first two seasons, and interprets "unexpected, reasonable" well. The RV in the first season was given a background of lamentation, and was eventually destroyed, with infinite emotion; Jesse bought an old house at a low price through a lawyer to demonstrate to his parents, and Lao Bai bought a car wash where he used to work part-time to complete his revenge. The second season The tragedy of drug-addicting parents and their youngest son. Fat Combo was shot and killed by a teenager on a bicycle. The combination of two bizarre incidents prompted Jesse to rekindle his desire to protect another Zhengtai. Knowing the cause of Combo's death, this clue finally became the fuse for the break between the old and young drug production team and Gus. It can be described as a thousand miles of foreshadowing, grass snake gray line. It not only completes the mud gap between the past time and space, but also naturally triggers new contradictions and conflicts, rather than creating a new one out of thin air.
A whole episode of S03E10's slaying of flies, the ability to make a big deal of a fuss to the top. From the plot point of view, there is obviously no progress, and I have seen some people even recommend skipping this episode; but I think this is the most subtle and important point. This episode focuses on the subtle and complex relationship between Lao Bai and Jesse: they are both teachers and friends, both partners and father and son; they attack each other, but they also care about each other; Xiaofan feels from Lao Bai The family is warm, and Lao Bai is ashamed but dare not say it. Although the two are tied together because of their interests, they also make both parties the object of their true hearts.
——“I’m sorry, I hurt you. Forgive me, I can’t say it.”
——“Forget it, you are my only reliable family member.”
And this moment is also the key for them to stop again. It's probably my last chance. The basement and RV that used to make drugs have been destroyed without a trace. Gus, the partner in front of him, has not shown the inevitable threat of silence, and earning three million in three months is enough. The clues about the cause of Combo's death have not yet surfaced. The brother-in-law Hank was temporarily incapacitated after the shootout with the two Mexican brothers, and the foreign vendetta factor was also solved. The option to quit is completely in the hands of Lao Bai, just say "sorry and quit" and it will really end. pity……
The bloody cruelty in the third season has been greatly reduced, and I am afraid that the rating can be lowered from R to PG-13. The absurdity of black humor can often make people laugh out loud, and Jesse is positioned as a bear child: after attending a drug rehab meeting and hearing about accepting his true self, he actually came to the conclusion that "I am a bad person"; After being beaten, you can be discharged from the hospital when you happen to witness Hank being shot and then hospitalized, and his expression can't help showing schadenfreude; when he was waiting for the old white in the laboratory, he could think of using an inflatable device to make fun of himself, you really can! Lao Bai's performance of neuroticism is not too much. When he forcibly sneaked into his house, he just caught up with the Mexican brothers to come to take revenge. Fortunately, Mike still doesn't know about it after he cleared the siege. This part looks funny and scary. Not to mention that whole episode of slaying the flies.
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The fourth season has been upgraded from a small town to a gang confrontation between the two drug cartels, avoiding repeating the central topic of the drug-producing duo in the first three seasons, less dark humor, and more conspiracy calculations. The flip at the end of episode 13 is the finishing touch, raising the level of the last three episodes at once. Mr. White, you've finally become the worst.
The two people that attracted me the most this season were the drug cop Hank and the mercenary Mike. In the previous family line, I skipped Hank and didn't talk about it, because in my mind, Hank's visibility focused on the detective line, and the setting of his inner panic after Tuco was shot seems rather blunt, like an attribute imposed on him. In fact, this kind of problem of strong blocking attributes exists in several family members of Lao Bai. In order to make the characters full, they must have different expressions. Therefore, his wife Sky has an affair, his aunt Marie has a bad habit of stealing, and his brother-in-law Hank has an affair. On the timid side, fortunately, my son's disability is still in school, so he can't do too much. However, in the fourth season, Hank lost his ability to move due to serious injuries, which prompted him to improve his detective thinking. Recalling that when he was working at DEA, he initially showed cynicism and giggling, and rounding up drug dealers was like a game of cat and mouse; the Tuco incident was also caused by various coincidences. Semperge Blue Drugs" as a lifesaver. The investigation of a series of cases progressed in that he was almost passively accepted, and in the fourth season, he finally changed from passive to active, incarnate as a detective: through Gale's eating habits and the abnormal suspicion of the existence of the fried chicken shop packaging bags, the owner of the fried chicken shop was discovered. Gus, cleverly obtained the fingerprints sent by Gus on the paper cup with the help of his physical inconvenience, boldly speculated and carefully checked to find the chicken farm and the laundry all the way, and got the old Bai who was at the same time at a loss.
Throughout the show, my favorite character is Mike, the old hero. Appeared in the second season to clean up the scene of Jane's death, and he was extremely capable. When he was young, he was probably a detective and police officer (I can't remember exactly), but now he is a grandfather with a young granddaughter, and still works as a mercenary for Gus in order to make money. When he was alone in a Chinese factory, he used a balloon he bought for his granddaughter to easily turn off the lights. Before injuring the Chinese boss, he specifically asked his secretary if he could drive to the hospital. When escorting a drug truck, he encountered a carjacking by an opponent, and the truck was beaten into a hornet's nest by submachine guns. He only damaged one ear. At this moment, Mike with a snow cap is called the God of War. After installing an eavesdropping device on Lao Bai's house, he encountered a Mexican brother who came to the door, and he rescued Lao Bai with a phone call, but he never boasted. Seeing that Jesse was in a state of debauchery and chaos, he was determined to forcibly drag him out, so that Jesse could find his purpose in life again, and he could comfort Jesse by saying the words of solidarity with the Mexican gang. Different from the simple and pure violence of the Mexican brothers, also different from the fact that the owner of the fried chicken shop always has to work slowly and slowly, and also different from the indifference and ruthlessness of Gus's other subordinates, Mike adds a touch of chivalrous feelings, and is the most humane in a group of bad guys. that.
As the heads of the two major groups in the north and south of the border are all destroyed, the above two old guys have survived and are bound to play a greater role in the chaos of the fifth season. And Mr. Bai has been completely blackened at the end of the fourth season, and he did not hesitate to use innocent people to save his own life. Use the neighbors to detect whether outsiders have entered the home, use the child poisoning to set up a chain plan to deceive Jesse to kill Gus, and use the old man who lives in the nursing home eager for revenge to detonate the bomb. If the old white in the first two seasons was out of self-defense, after listening to Mike's lesson in the third season, he became decisive, but in the end, it was an eye for an eye for a tooth. By the end of the third season, he killed Gale and gradually chose to sacrifice. Others, by the time he said "I won" at the end of the fourth season, he was completely unscrupulous. As I mentioned earlier, all the stories revolve around the replacement of a group of drug-trafficking bosses, and now that Gus is dead, Lao Bai is the last drug-trafficking boss. Only his own curtain can end it all. everything.
Of course, there are still several unanswered questions: where did Jesse's poisonous cigarette go, what will happen to Mike, the old hero who stayed in Mexico to recover, how will Lao Bai start a new drug trafficking network? What about the investigation that Hank is following closely? Oh, and don't forget, that Ted who hit his head on his own got thrown again. Looking forward to the final season to give a satisfactory answer.
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