While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.
- Walter White, Jr.
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- Gus Fring
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- Mike Ehrmantraut
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- TriviaThe title is about the self-destructive ways in which Marie Schrader as well as Jesse Pinkman try to distract themselves from facing their deteriorating lives: Marie by her role playing/kleptomania during actual open houses and Jesse by "opening" his house to derelict meth heads and partying non-stop.
- GoofsWalt & Skyler celebrate the planned purchase of the car wash by drinking from a $320 bottle of Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill Champagne. Skyler asks "How do you, Walter White an unemployed school teacher pay for it? How do you explain it?... On paper we have no money." Yet they are about to buy a business for $800,000.
- Quotes
Saul Goodman: You were smart to call me. Now you just sit back, relax and let a professional take over.
[his bodyguard knocks on the door]
Saul Goodman: That's for me. Excuse me.
[Saul opens the door, whispers]
Saul Goodman: What do you want? I'm in a meeting. Why didn't you think of that before, it's not my prob... I'm in a meeting!
Saul Goodman: [to the Whites] Can Huell use your bathroom?
Skyler White: Huell?
Walter White: Uh... sure, top of the stairs.
Saul Goodman: He'll be quick. It's a stomach thing. So where were we?
Skyler White: Professionalism.
- Crazy creditsBryan Cranston is credited both as an actor and a producer. For his actor credits (Br) is highlighted and for his producer credits (Y) is highlighted for chemical elements Bromine and Yttrium from periodic table.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Vikings (2013)
- SoundtracksSpasm
by Dave's True Story
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.
"Open House" is not one of the best 'Breaking Bad' episodes and there is better in Season 4. Still consider it great with a good deal of what makes the show so good present. It is a slow-burner and could have been tighter at times, but there is less of a filler episode feel than the previous episode and there are touches of light levity that balanced well with the episode's overall tone.
Visually, "Open House" 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 in "Open House" 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 entertaining. The story is generally interesting and absorbing, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but not dull.
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 his and Cranston's chemistry is a delight. Anna Gunn is affecting and Bob Odenkirk provides some welcome levity. The characters are compelling in their realism and the episode is strongly directed.
In summary, great. 9/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jun 11, 2018
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 16:9 HD