While I started watching Breaking Bad reluctantly, at first, I was eager to see what would happen in the second season. Off the bat, this season is even more incredible than the first! Remember that our main character is Walter White, a 50-year old chemistry teacher diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. He’s calculated that it would take $725,000 to get his two kids through college, pay for mortgage and support his wife. To make so much money fast, he’s teamed up with his former student Jesse, a small-time drugs dealer, to sell the highest quality crystal meth. To hide his identity in his new-found criminal venture, Walter goes by the pseudonym “Heisenberg.” When we last saw Walter and Jesse they were selling their merchandise to this crazy, crystal snorting, paranoid, psychotic gangster Tuco Salamanca.
Now Tuco is planning to kidnap them so that they can work for him in his Mexican lab. Walt has a poison on him with which they are planning on offing Tuco. When they offer the powder to him as some new kind of meth, he dislikes the smell; then Walt sprinkles it over Tuco’s burrito, but it falls on the ground. When they finally get a chance to kill Tuco, they only shoot him once in the stomach and walk away. Meanwhile Walt’s brother-in-law, Hank, a DEA officer, has been slowly inching in on Jesse and Tuco, never realizing who this “Heisenberg” actually is. He happens upon Jesse’s car only to find a bleeding and stumbling Tuco. After a tense shootout, Hank is able to take out Tuco – and is received at the office as a heroic killer.
Walt has to enact a moment of amnesia to cover for his whereabouts, walking into a supermarket and stripping off his clothes. He has to go back on chemo, with sickness as a result. Hospital bills are piling up – amounting to tens of thousands of dollars. For Jesse things are possibly going even worse when his drug money is confiscated by the DEA. Walt and Jesse decide to return to business but this time arrange distribution themselves. Jesse sets up a few of his friends as dealers on the street. Soon, one of them is mugged, and Walt forces Jesse to find the thieves and scare them. In so doing, one of them is accidentally killed, which gives Jesse the necessary street-cred. Then another one of their dealers gets arrested and they need some dirty, sleazebag fake-Jewish lawyer to avoid the dealer to snitch. But this crooked Saul Goodman figures out that Walter is “Heisenberg” and blackmails them into sharing their profit with him.
In Walt’s family things continue to unravel. His wife Skyler almost finds out that Walt’s former partners Elliot and Gretchen never paid a dime for all of his medical treatment. Hank starts to get panic attacks after the shootout and another violent experience near the Mexican border. Walt returns to teaching and Skyler goes back to an old job to earn some extra money. As he’s afraid he’ll die soon and hasn’t been able to save enough money, he takes Jesse to the desert to produce a vast quantity of meth. Even though they are able to sell again, Walter misses the excitement of his secret double life. Then another one of their dealers is killed by rival dealers, sending Jesse into a guilt-ridden depression. With his sometime girlfriend Jane, he starts shooting heroin. In desperate need to get rid of the remaining crystal, they turn to crooked Saul for help, who gets them into contact with a very discreet distributor. Walter has only a short time to deliver the product. He rushes to Jesse’s place, who’s passed out on heroin with Jane. Walter finds the meth. Rushing to the location of delivery, Skyler goes into labor. Although he missed the birth of his daughter, he just made himself and Jesse one point two million dollars!
Through it all, Walt has been lying through his teeth to his family – precisely because he loves them. What was bound to happen finally does, as Skyler asks Walter to leave her. She can no longer tolerate his lies – she has uncovered so many, but is afraid to learn the truth. She just wants him to leave. I don’t think it’s possible for me to explain how good this show is. Every episode grabs your attention with incredibly intelligent plot twists. But what really pulls me in is the way the show keeps things real, dealing with real life issues surrounding cancer and drugs. I can honestly say that I warmly recommend the series.
Now Tuco is planning to kidnap them so that they can work for him in his Mexican lab. Walt has a poison on him with which they are planning on offing Tuco. When they offer the powder to him as some new kind of meth, he dislikes the smell; then Walt sprinkles it over Tuco’s burrito, but it falls on the ground. When they finally get a chance to kill Tuco, they only shoot him once in the stomach and walk away. Meanwhile Walt’s brother-in-law, Hank, a DEA officer, has been slowly inching in on Jesse and Tuco, never realizing who this “Heisenberg” actually is. He happens upon Jesse’s car only to find a bleeding and stumbling Tuco. After a tense shootout, Hank is able to take out Tuco – and is received at the office as a heroic killer.Walt has to enact a moment of amnesia to cover for his whereabouts, walking into a supermarket and stripping off his clothes. He has to go back on chemo, with sickness as a result. Hospital bills are piling up – amounting to tens of thousands of dollars. For Jesse things are possibly going even worse when his drug money is confiscated by the DEA. Walt and Jesse decide to return to business but this time arrange distribution themselves. Jesse sets up a few of his friends as dealers on the street. Soon, one of them is mugged, and Walt forces Jesse to find the thieves and scare them. In so doing, one of them is accidentally killed, which gives Jesse the necessary street-cred. Then another one of their dealers gets arrested and they need some dirty, sleazebag fake-Jewish lawyer to avoid the dealer to snitch. But this crooked Saul Goodman figures out that Walter is “Heisenberg” and blackmails them into sharing their profit with him.
In Walt’s family things continue to unravel. His wife Skyler almost finds out that Walt’s former partners Elliot and Gretchen never paid a dime for all of his medical treatment. Hank starts to get panic attacks after the shootout and another violent experience near the Mexican border. Walt returns to teaching and Skyler goes back to an old job to earn some extra money. As he’s afraid he’ll die soon and hasn’t been able to save enough money, he takes Jesse to the desert to produce a vast quantity of meth. Even though they are able to sell again, Walter misses the excitement of his secret double life. Then another one of their dealers is killed by rival dealers, sending Jesse into a guilt-ridden depression. With his sometime girlfriend Jane, he starts shooting heroin. In desperate need to get rid of the remaining crystal, they turn to crooked Saul for help, who gets them into contact with a very discreet distributor. Walter has only a short time to deliver the product. He rushes to Jesse’s place, who’s passed out on heroin with Jane. Walter finds the meth. Rushing to the location of delivery, Skyler goes into labor. Although he missed the birth of his daughter, he just made himself and Jesse one point two million dollars!Through it all, Walt has been lying through his teeth to his family – precisely because he loves them. What was bound to happen finally does, as Skyler asks Walter to leave her. She can no longer tolerate his lies – she has uncovered so many, but is afraid to learn the truth. She just wants him to leave. I don’t think it’s possible for me to explain how good this show is. Every episode grabs your attention with incredibly intelligent plot twists. But what really pulls me in is the way the show keeps things real, dealing with real life issues surrounding cancer and drugs. I can honestly say that I warmly recommend the series.
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