Breaking Bad season 5

16 episodes · 2012

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what happens

Walt is faced with the prospect of moving on in a world without his enemy. As the pressure of a criminal life starts to build, Skyler struggles to keep Walt’s terrible secrets. Facing resistance from sometime adversary and former Fring lieutenant Mike, Walt tries to keep his world from falling apart even as his DEA Agent brother in law, Hank, finds numerous leads that could blaze a path straight to Walt.

how it went

Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

Read from 83 comments — 34 said when · across 13 episodes.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the first half it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.

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height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

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➖ steady — holds one level all the way

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“I really wasn't expecting to have so many warm feelings after the finale.”
DayWalkerRunner▲ 3,265about 75–100% inread it ↗
“That buildup of the opening theme at the end was absolutely chilling.”
Sweet_Tooth_VII▲ 2,736about 90–100% inread it ↗
“Heisenberg spray painted on his wall made me feel sick.”
blink5694▲ 2,385about 80–90% inread it ↗
“stress level through the roof when walt was looking around elliott and gretchen's house”
dealaus▲ 2,229about 85–95% inread it ↗

episodes

5 of 16 with a score

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