Seven Thirty-Seven

After beating No-Doze, Tuco leaves the junkyard with Gonzo, and Walt and Jesse realize how dangerous the drug kingpin is. Walt calculates how much money he needs to make to provide his family with a comfortable life and concludes they need to cook meth for eleven weeks. Then they may be out of business. Out of the blue, Tuco returns and asks Walt to save No-Doze, but he is already dead. The Christian Gonze asks to bury No-Doze, but Tuco leave him below a car in the junkyard. Jesse buys a revolver for self-protection, but Walt says that this is a stupid attitude. But when he sees a SUV parked near his house, he becomes worried about and plots a scheme to kill Tuco with Ricin in his drug. Meanwhile, Skyler refuses to answer Marie's calls, Hank visits her, and she discloses that her sister is kleptomaniac. However, Hank knows and says that Marie is under therapy. Soon, Hank finds Gonzo and No-Doze dead in the junkyard and concludes that Gonzo tried to move No-Doze's body and his arm was accidentally crushed, and he bleed to death. But Walt and Jesse are not aware and believe Tuco killed them. Walt is with Skyler at home, and he receives a phone call from Jesse, who is parked outside his house. He goes there to talk to his partner, but Tuco is hidden on the back seat and asks Walt with a pistol to enter the car.

"Seven Thirty-Seven" is a good beginning of the Second Season of "Breaking Bad". It is interesting to see Walt calculating how much he needs to provide for his family when he departures and the title is the number he needs. The brutality of Tuco impresses Walt and Jesse, and now they are afraid of what may happen to them and Walt's family. Skyler learns that Marie is under therapy due to her shoplifting problem. The conclusion is an excellent cliffhanger. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Seven Thirty-Seven"

This breezes into the next season. Those crazy drug dealers are led by Tuco, who is psychopath. Everyone is in much greater danger from the inside than the outside. Walter manages to become an appendage by his very presence. Tuco kills one of his own men over nothing and that sets everything off. The guys are on edge. Suddenly, Tuco finds out Walter's residence. We also have the continuous questioning of Walter's disappearances. His family is falling apart. His pregnant, forty year old wife, feels alone. I'm not a person who sees the show as a significant part of my life. I wonder how long I can stand the tension and the guilt that's building every episode.

This is more of a pick-up episode for the next one, kinda like part 1 and part 2, but this was still a great episode and should definitely be higher rated. Just imagine what I rate the next episode, because this episode was so good, man. Anyways, my favorite characters in this episode were Walt, Jesse, and Skylar. My favorite things about this episode were the acting, the Protagonist, and the ending. When I first watched this show, I kinda of thought that season 5 was better than 4, season 4 was better than 3, season 3 was better than 1, and season 1 was better than 2, but at this point, I have high hopes that season 2 might be better than seasons 1, AND 3.

The first season of BREAKING BAD was surprisingly good so that was reason enough for continuing the show and after I saw this I thought that the following season couldn't have started in a better way.

After the events of the previous episode Walter White and Jesse Pinkman notice Tuco Salamanca's (Raymond Cruz) instability and in fact after beating to a pulp No-Doze, Tuco orders to hide the corpse under some destroyed cars in a dump. Walt and Jesse suspect to be under Tuco's target and they have the idea of putting some ricin and hide it in some of the blue meth because Tuco is so ingenue to sniff everything given to him. In the meanwhile Marie Schrader tries to excuse with Skylar because of her thief behaviour Skylar is enraged because while she hasn't a good situation economically and in family Marie always behaves like a primadonna. Walt and Jesse are even more scared when Hank sends a photo of Gonzo (Tuco's other thug) in the dump but in reality Gonzo died crushed under a car while he was hiding No-Doze's body. Walter and Jesse don't know and after a while arrives Jesse's car with Tuco in the backseat that after they pick Walt, they drive in the night.

The writing and the acting as usual are great, and the situations typical if you are already used to the show. And the ending certainly makes you want to see soon how it continues. A promising beginning of season.

'Breaking Bad' is one of the most popular rated shows on IMDb, is one of those rarities where every season has either been very positively received or near-universally acclaimed critically and where all of my friends have said nothing but great things about.

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.

Season 1's episodes were all great to exceptional, such a high standard for so early on that got even better as the show as an overall progressed. Season 2 gets off to a brilliant start with "Seven Thirty Seven", showing signs of even more tension and meat than there already was.

Visually, "Seven Thirty Seven" 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 for "Seven Thirty Seven" 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 tense, while also have a darkly wicked sense of humour and heart-tugging pathos. The story, on top of being one of the show's most tense up to this point, is texturally rich, intimate, tense and layered, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but taut. It also contains a killer ending that one does not expect. Bryan Cranston, as well as being in the lead, directs here and he shows just as much confidence in the director's chair as in front of the camera.

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 Anna Gunn is affecting. The characters are compelling in their realism. Dean Norris is hilarious and Tucco is an absolute psychopath here.

Overall, brilliant. 10/10 Bethany Cox