It's what Breaking Bad has always been: thrilling, a touch scary, cool, a little funny, threatening, and haunting." "When a great show enters its home stretch, it's impossible not to be nervous about the ending, but 'Breaking Bad' reminds me of 'The Shield,' in that it seems to work harder to satisfy and to earn every single moment and plot twist the closer it gets to the end."ĩ7 "This episode fit perfectly in line with everything we've seen before.
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and it concludes with an extended scene that is written, acted and shot with the kind of magnificence that is at the heart of why the series is so exalted." "The return episode is riveting from start to finish. An awful lot of things happen, but they happen at the same measured pace that makes 'Breaking Bad' great." "It's a piece of showmanship on par with 'Box Cutter,' 'No Mas,' or even the series pilot. "What I found so brilliant and bracing about 'Blood Money,' the first of Breaking Bad's final eight episodes, was the way the show - like its protagonist - so obviously intends to die as it lived: recklessly, fearlessly, and to the fullest." "The long building showdown between Walt and brother-in-law Hank was brutal, expertly crafted and powerfully acted."ġ00 "Even as the plot speeds up, the storytelling is richer than ever." If Sunday's episode is any indication of the quality of the last seven hours of season 5, the show may ultimately have a close-to-perfect run."ĩ1 "The final 10 minutes are so tense, Twitter might crash Sunday night." "As the hour moves forward from long scene to long scene, it goes from strength to strength.
Extremely positive reviewsġ00 "After all the anticipation about how great this was going to be, I'm frankly astounded about how great it is in ways I wasn't at all imaginative enough to anticipate." Reviews/recaps posted after the episode aired are marked with a symbol below.
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Note that if a publication provides a grade or score for the individual episode, it is noted below (converted to our 0-100 scale), though we won't attempt to assign an overall score to each episode.Ĝlick on any linked publication name to read the full review. Reviews for this week's episode are below. The action picks up seconds after the mid-season finale left off (after a short pre-credits detour into the future).
Spoiler warning: Quotes below may contain minor spoilers about this episode (though not future episodes).īreaking Bad's Season 5.5 premiere-the only episode of the final eight that critics had a chance to see in advance-was directed by star Bryan Cranston and written by Peter Gould.
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