`Breaking Bad’ Season 5 Review Roundup: Granite State; What Did The Critics Think? As If You Had to Ask; `Breaking Bad’ Season 5 Spoiler, Who’s the Ricin for?
“Breaking Bad” Season 5 spoilers, Granite State Review Roundup. Its coming down to the last episode.
Before I go on to my recap of Breaking Bad’s Season episode Granite State, let me just say, or ask, without giving away my own “Breaking Bad” Season 5 spoilers, Who is getting the Ricin that Walter White went back to his house for? I think he’s going after Todd’s uncle. And I think Walter White is going to save Jesse Pinkman in the process.
Mr. White doesn’t even know Jesse Pinkman’s down there, locked with the grating over him but, `Breaking Bad’ Season 5 spoiler, well, prediction, Walter White isn’t that bad he’s doing to let Jess Pinkman suffer. For long. He’d kill Jesse Pinkman before he let someone do that him.
I love this show and am so upset that I won’t be seeing Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul in my living room any more, except on Netflix.
Anyway, that out of the way, here is the `Breaking Bad’ Season 5, Granite State Review Roundup.
Let’s start with Huffington Post. Their `Breaking Bad’ Season 5, Granite State Review said that "Granite State" felt like something of a reprieve.” The review pointed out that "’Ozymandias’ certainly deserves a slot in the top tier of `Breaking Bad’ episodes. "Granite State," though it was as well-made and well-executed as any late-era `Breaking Bad’ hour, didn't quite have the drive and impact of "Ozymandias" or "To'hajiilee," which had epic scope, huge developments and more than their share of emotional sucker punches.” The reviewer went on to say "`Granite State’ had its moments, but it was mostly about lining up the pieces and getting us ready for the mayhem that will no doubt erupt next Sunday.
TV Fanatic said, "Granite State" “didn't feature the non-stop intensity of last Sunday's utterly bonkers `Ozymandias,’ instead giving viewers a chance to take a breath and take note of just how far Walt has fallen.” As to the Heisenberg? “There's no redemption for Walter White. He may have left the reservation here against orders, but he flew off it a long time ago - and there are too many bodies in his wake. But I'll be damned if Bryan Cranston can't still make you feel for his iconic character in small moments of begging for company or pleading with his son.” And the show “Breaking Bad can tear you apart with a gunshot (RIP, Andrea* and, my goodness, what is there to even say about the agony of Jesse's life at this point?) and also with a phone call. It can air an episode full of one jaw-dropping action scene after another... and then it can turn around and make you gasp through the sheer quietness of a remote cabin. This series has been a character study in one individual, famously going from Mr. Chips to Scarface, but having seen Walt at both those extremes, this was the first time we saw him as simply defeated.” TV Fanatic concludes: “No matter what (or who) goes down next Sunday, and no matter how many times AMC keeps telling us All Bad Things Must Come to an End, it's been clear throughout this run of Season 5 that Breaking Bad will live forever.”
The Mirror’s Breaking Bad’ Season 5, Granite State Review focused more on Todd, saying “Evil has a new face. And it looks like Matt Damon’s seen through some frosted glass. A deluded psychopath with a chilling professional drive, Todd has been quietly driving some of the cruellest atrocities in Breaking Bad since his arrival.” The Mirror concluded “There’s just one episode left and a great deal of loose ends to tie up. So many people need to get their dues. But whatever happens, it’s going to be good. Shocking? Definitely. Heartbreaking? Probably.”
Newsday’s Verne Gay said “Breaking Bad” “resonates for so many because it tracks so many of the themes of modern American cinema and literature, from Steinbeck to Elmore Leonard -- that depth of isolation and aloneness, of failure, of economic personal failure in a time of plenty, of remaking oneself, of adapting, of changing, of becoming something that you never thought remotely possible (the stuff of great comic books, too) and in the end, the tragic consequences of that psychic journey from selfhood.”
Nick Harley from Den of Geek US wrote “Breaking Bad will not go quietly. Breaking Bad wants to break your heart in the worst way, sever the ties like the world’s worst ex-lover imaginable. Breaking Bad wants to crash your car, burn your house down, and leave you awestruck in the ashes. Other shows end, but this show leaves you. Breaking Bad is preparing to leave you behind like an ABQ meth head, either begging for just one more batch of the blue, or saying, “stop this ride, I want to get off.” The reviewer says Jesse Pinkman “has officially become Vince Gilligan’s personal whipping boy. Aaron Paul didn’t win an Emmy tonight, but to be fair, the voting panel didn’t see this episode, I guess. If they had, maybe we would actually get to see Paul cry tears of joy for once. His scene after Andrea’s shocking murder was utterly devastating.”