An interesting finale (though not as good as some make it out to be) to a very uneven season. On the one hand, in this season we have the introduction of three great characters: Saul, Gus and Mike, and each of them owns every scene they appear in. On the other hand, this season has too many slow and boring episodes in which pretty much nothing happens, and too many slow, unnecessary moments in otherwise good episodes.
This episode has some big moments, the biggest of which, undoubtedly, is the fact that Skylar finds out about the depth of Walter's lies. But what should have been maybe the most impactful scene in the whole of season 2 is completely overshadowed by one of the biggest strings of coincidences in any TV show: Walter's partner moves in next to a junkie girl and starts a relationship with her (a relationship that starts completely out of the blue, by the way); the junkie girl blackmails Walter and gets on his bad side, so Walter decides to let the girl die, but her father just happens to be working in air traffic control, which in turn leads to father being distracted at work, which in turn leads to two planes crashing into each other practically above Walter's house. What??? I mean, can anyone take that seriously? We shall see what will happen in season 3, and why they decided to do the whole plane crash subplot. Maybe it will turn out to be something brilliant, but on its own, that ending is completely ridiculous and unbelievable.
This episode has some big moments, the biggest of which, undoubtedly, is the fact that Skylar finds out about the depth of Walter's lies. But what should have been maybe the most impactful scene in the whole of season 2 is completely overshadowed by one of the biggest strings of coincidences in any TV show: Walter's partner moves in next to a junkie girl and starts a relationship with her (a relationship that starts completely out of the blue, by the way); the junkie girl blackmails Walter and gets on his bad side, so Walter decides to let the girl die, but her father just happens to be working in air traffic control, which in turn leads to father being distracted at work, which in turn leads to two planes crashing into each other practically above Walter's house. What??? I mean, can anyone take that seriously? We shall see what will happen in season 3, and why they decided to do the whole plane crash subplot. Maybe it will turn out to be something brilliant, but on its own, that ending is completely ridiculous and unbelievable.