Breaking Bad: Cat's in the Bag...

Breaking Bad: Cat's in the Bag...*
AMC
January 27, 2008
Crime Drama
DVD
C+

Things get darker and grosser here, with Walter advocating murder of one man (Krazy-8) and the destruction of the other man (Emilio)'s corpse.  It's not even self-defense, like it arguably was in the pilot.  Also, Walter is so stressed that he's hostile to his wife, including right after they find out about the health and sex of their expected baby.  I didn't find much funny here, although Skyler's sleuthing is good.  Note that it feels off that Walter hasn't heard of WonderBras and Skyler hasn't heard of MILFs, and this is, to take two mainstream examples, eleven years after Spice World and nine years after American Pie.  Still, I'll probably stick with the rest of the (very short) first season and then see how I feel about the series after that.

The Three Stooges appear in the background, "taking a powder" while Jesse gets high.  Jason Byrd's Chemistry Student character is here named Ben.  Creator Gilligan again wrote, but this time the director is Adam Bernstein, who had directed the B-52s videos for "Love Shack" and "Roam," and more recently some of the first season of 30 Rock.


*Ellipses in the title.