Written and directed by Peter Gould (“Hazard Pay,” “Problem Dog”), last night’s penultimate Breaking Bad episode, “Granite State,” was one in which Walter seemed more sinned against than sinning, but only if you hadn’t been paying attention. After removing himself to the semi-safety of Saul’s makeshift version of witness protection — courtesy of the previously alluded to but never seen vacuum cleaner salesman played by the great Robert Forster, who was once a vacuum cleaner salesman! — Walter holed up in snowy New Hampshire, a state previously alluded to in the season five, part one opener “Live Free or Die.”The title of this episode, “Granite State,” was another New Hampshire reference, but the phrase did double-duty as a comment on how Walt’s prospects had hardened. As critic Daniel Walters wrote, the second half of season five has been all about the hero declaring himself “out” of the...
- 9/23/2013
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
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