Okay, lets all take a deep breath. Exhale. Wow.
No matter what happens in these last two episodes, the fourth season of Breaking Bad is the show's best season hands down. We could talk about how Skyler's decision to tell Ted that it was her who gave him the money backfired in a big way. I have to admit, the scene of Skyler demanding that Ted pay off the IRS was actually very enjoyable, Anna Gunn even acted well enough to show us that she was not through with Ted as she walked out the door, brilliant stuff. Her method to get him to pay? Not the best, I would have just forged that check and been done with it but that's me. Now for all we know Ted is now dead and you know that there will be an investigation and you know that Skyler will be investigated. Whether the police will look at the shady accounting or the sending of thugs to Ted's house to sign that check remains to be seen. We can talk about Gus's sheer coldness and planning ability, or his stupidity. He is brilliant in his planning; he set up an emergency site where he, Mike, or Jesse could receive instant (well, almost) treatment for any wounds they could have picked up when obliterating the cartel. He is ice cold when he tells Hector (old man with the bell) about how he killed all of the big players in the cartel, colder still when he informs him that the last of his family is left, and even colder when he presents Jesse to him as the guy who helped Gus do it all. Despite what I just said about the guy, for the first time in the series I am calling him stupid. All he had to do was 'fire' or pay Walt off, guarantee his safety and he would be leading a much less stressful life right now. But we need to have a fifth season, so he had to make a big show to Walt, taking him to the desert just to tell him to stay away from Jesse? Of course Walt figured out that Jesse was still loyal to him and not to Gus and of course Gus (normally calm and collected, even when he finished the cartel off in Mexico) had to snap; threatening to kill Walt's entire family AND telling Walt that he planned to kill Hank!? After many years of being careful, Gustavo Fring has finally made a mistake, a really big mistake (I will discuss this towards the end of the review).
