The final episode of season 2, and through this the whole season, has been a banger. I believe this is the season that sets in motion what become a feature film on the character of Jesse Pinkman, and a TV show on Saul Goodman. Every season begins with a dramatic scene, returning back to White's swimming pool. You do not know and you always presume that something big is going to go down at the end, and it does. The whole plot is so intricately meshed here in the final episode, and not for nothing, all the events relate back to Meth. Meth affects two relationships here, rather three. Skyler makes the decision to leave Walter, Jesse and Jane can never be together, and Jane's father will never see her daughter. Although, this whole season, a lot of people have been killed due to Meth, and the finale speaks to it when two plane crashes, because Why? It is Meth, and anyone who followed the story well throughout these seasons know pretty well why.
This season also brings out the best acting by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. Walter White is slowly easing into his role of the cook, the architect of all that is. He is just brilliant, the scared dad and husband who want all of it for his family but just cannot go out in the world, but a caring partner and friend, who realises he cares for Jesse as his son. He is angry, sometime pompous, but he is tough in the core and he knows when to keep his head down. Jesse has been amazing throughout this season, vulnerable from before, making his life's decisions, standing upto Mr White, but also falling in love. The best part is that you feel for Jesse when he slows down and thinks about the life ahead, you feel it when the realization hits hard on Jesse.
But the masterplot, was the crash and how it comes down in White's swimming pool. Who would have thought, but it is clearly an imaginative thinking.
I would rate this season and especially this episode near the top.
This season also brings out the best acting by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul. Walter White is slowly easing into his role of the cook, the architect of all that is. He is just brilliant, the scared dad and husband who want all of it for his family but just cannot go out in the world, but a caring partner and friend, who realises he cares for Jesse as his son. He is angry, sometime pompous, but he is tough in the core and he knows when to keep his head down. Jesse has been amazing throughout this season, vulnerable from before, making his life's decisions, standing upto Mr White, but also falling in love. The best part is that you feel for Jesse when he slows down and thinks about the life ahead, you feel it when the realization hits hard on Jesse.
But the masterplot, was the crash and how it comes down in White's swimming pool. Who would have thought, but it is clearly an imaginative thinking.
I would rate this season and especially this episode near the top.