...And the Bag's in the River

Acting: 9/10 Pace: 8.5/10 Story: 8.5/10 Writing: 9.5/10 End: 10/10

The third episode of season 1 brba is much better than the previous one. In this episode the acting of the character is enjoyable tho not perfect with room for improvement while nothing significant happened to their developement on the first half of the episode. The pacing is much better than the previous episode keeping you interest throughout the whole episode with some pretty good build up in the first half and amazing developement in the second half. The story isnt much different than the previous one tho a bit weaker, yet when you have watched better call saul the story of this episode is much more interesting and you can see how it shapes the characters and how much detail was put while making it. The dialogues between the characters are amazing, the recognition of walter being manipulated by domingo even tho i have already watched the show gives me chills, on the last 10 minutes of the episode there is so much character developement to our main character from early on in the series how his personality also is changed to someone else. The end of the episode was simply amazing without much to be said about it it. I cant close off without saying what an amazing, funny and well perfomed character hank is

Overall this episode is a massive upgrade from the previous one and if the plot didnt feel so forced toward the end and all this plot armor surrounding walter it would be an easy 9/10 but as of now i give it an 8.8/10

Best scene is the moment of realization of walter.

'Breaking Bad' is one of the most popular rated shows on IMDb, is one of those rarities where every season has either been very positively received or near-universally acclaimed critically and where all of my friends have said nothing but great things about.

Very few shows in recent memory had me so hooked from the very start that before the week was over the whole show had been watched, especially when for a lot of shows now airing watching one episode all the way through can be an endeavour. 'Breaking Bad' had that effect on me, and its reputation as one of the best, consistently brilliant and most addictive shows in many years (maybe even ever) is more than deserved in my eyes. Its weakest season is perhaps the first season, understandable as any show's first season is the one where things are still settling.

Actually everything is established remarkably from the very start, but once the writing and characterisation becomes even meatier the show reaches even higher levels.

Season 1's previous two episodes, especially "Pilot", were both extremely good. So is "And the Bag's in the River", closer to the quality of "Pilot" than the wonderful-but-not-quite-as-good quality as the previous episode.

Visually, "And the Bag's in the River" is both stylish and beautiful, with photography and editing that are cinematic quality and put a lot of films today to shame, where there are a lot of visually beautiful ones but also some painfully amateurish looking ones. The music always has the appropriate mood, never too intrusive, never too muted.

The writing for "And the Bag's in the River" is a fine example of how to have a lot of style but also to have a lot of substance. The dialogue throughout is thought-provoking and tense, while also have a darkly wicked sense of humour and heart-tugging pathos. The story texturally rich, intimate, tense and layered, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but taut. Also involving the season's most intense scene up to this point of the season and show, involving Walt and Krazy-8. The direction couldn't be better.

Can't say anything bad about the acting. Bryan Cranston is phenomenal as one of the most fascinating anti-heroes, or even of any kind of character, in either film or television. Aaron Paul has never been better and Anna Gunn is affecting. The characters are compelling in their realism.

Overall, brilliant. 10/10 Bethany Cox

The first two episodes of BREAKING BAD were surprisingly great so I went on with the series. This third wasn't on the same level of those two but still very good.

Walter White and Jesse Pinkman (Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul) clean the hallway from the decaying organs of Emilio, and when Walter discovers that Jesse told Krazy-8 informations about him Walter berates Jesse while he started to smoke their own produced meth, and then Jesse flees. In the meanwhile Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) took Walter Jr to a motel mostly inhabitated by junkies and prostitutes for showing him what damages are caused by drugs. Down in the basement Krazy-8 is still alive and Walter takes him some sandwiches and water, and then they start to discuss about their own lives. Soon tho Walter will end up killing Krazy-8 strangling him with the locker when Krazy-8 was trying to hurt Walt with a piece of broken glass. When Jesse returns home he finds it clean and without Krazy-8, a sign of relief.

My summary refers to the fact that Krazy-8 was one of the villains in the pilot, then when Walter saw he was still alive he decided to lock him in the basement of Jesse's home and in this episode, he finally kills him. So, it must have been a story arc that the writers wanted to use in the first season.

The acting and writing are good, the occasional funny moments worth of some chuckles and it was nice how it ended with Krazy-8. Another one in a series of winners.

Walter is busy still trying to decide what to do with Krazy-8 (Max Arciniega), and even starts a list of the pros and cons of either letting him go, or killing him. In the especially riveting conversation between the two of them, Walter learns more about the guy, and we think that it's possible to like him, but Walter still has his doubts. He wants Krazy-8 to *sell* him on the idea of letting the prisoner go. What was fun was seeing them bond over learning that Krazy-8s' father runs a furniture store from which Walter once bought a bassinet, and hearing both of them laugh over the fathers' obviously cheesy late-night commercials.

While talking with Skylar, Marie (Betsy Brandt), Hanks' wife, comes to the mistaken belief that Walter Jr. Is smoking marijuana, and convinces Hank to talk to the kid. Hank relents, and one of the standout sequences here is seeing him take Walter Jr. To a notorious hotel that is a hang-out for meth heads and other lowlifes. (Hanks' conversation with a hooker (Julia Minesci) is interesting, since she won't come clean about her drug usage until he convinces her to show him and Walter Jr. Her teeth.) One of the best things about this entire excellent sequence is the revelation waiting back in a hotel room.

Things get off to a great and visually interesting start as Walter and Jesse clean up the big mess left at the end of the previous episode. It made for great entertainment the way that they went for each others' throats (figuratively), with Walter even threatening to flush a stash down a toilet. But the ending is powerful stuff, leading to what will be a critical revelation in the next episode.

This is definitely one of the best TV series that this viewer has seen over the last two decades.

Eight out of 10.

The third episode of Season 1 is just as good and perhaps a bit more dramatic than the two previous episodes. This episode is really the first time we see Walt reach his breaking point and it's a dandy to watch. The acting is good as ever and I'm glad we get to see Hank, the DEA agent again because I like he brings some over-the-top acting to his character.

This episode, "...And the Bag's in the River" has Walt deciding on whether or not he should kill his prisoner, Krazy 8. Meanwhile, it's believed that Walt Jr has been on pot, so Hank is asked to have a little chat with him.

Overall, this is an excellent episode that continues the high quality this series is bringing to television. It's more intense and there is a shocking twist. I am now officially addicted to the series. I rate this episode 9/10.