22 reviews
Shotgun (#4.5)
- ComedyFan2010
- Jan 3, 2014
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Driving with Mike!
This was quite an interesting episode! I really enjoyed the scenes with Mike and Jesse as they captures the state Jesse is currently in as well as fleshing out Mike's character by showing us more of what he is doing for Gus! This also marks the journey where Walt and Jesse are put up against each other!
The episode itself was intense at first as Walt fears what is about to happen since Jesse is gone! Most of the episode plays itself slow but still has great moments! Much like the previous episode, we get an important scene at the end, when Walt's takes over after a little too much wine!
Things are building up to the exciting, amazing secomd half of the season!
The episode itself was intense at first as Walt fears what is about to happen since Jesse is gone! Most of the episode plays itself slow but still has great moments! Much like the previous episode, we get an important scene at the end, when Walt's takes over after a little too much wine!
Things are building up to the exciting, amazing secomd half of the season!
- and_mikkelsen
- Apr 17, 2023
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Better
- Leofwine_draca
- Mar 19, 2021
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Jumped the shark? Hell no. Killed the shark and then revived it? Hell yes.
- ACureforPain
- Aug 14, 2011
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Jesse gets taken for a ride
"since when do vegans eat fried chicken?"
- tylerjonahlorette
- Jul 26, 2022
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Stunning ending
A stunning finale makes up for a stunning episode.
- TheFirst01
- Aug 5, 2019
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Another Enjoyable Episode!
This is the fifth episode of the fourth season of Breaking Bad. It is about on par with the last episode. It's great, but still not on the high level of excellence expected from this series(that's a 10/10 in my book). The episode has a good action sequence in the beginning, and the cliffhanger is brilliant as we get a drunken Walt saying things he is not supposed to.
In this episode, "Shotgun," Walt goes to Gus's restaurant to find out what happened to Jesse, but Gus is not there. Jesse is taken along for the ride by Mike all over New Mexico for pickups and Jesse rides shotgun, but something it not all it seems. Meanwhile, Skylar and Walt successfully buy the car wash.
Overall, this is a very good episode that features some more high-caliber dialogue and this episode shows that Jesse may have more of a purpose in episodes to come. In short, that last scene with Hank and the lab notes sets up the next episode nicely. I rate this episode 9/10.
In this episode, "Shotgun," Walt goes to Gus's restaurant to find out what happened to Jesse, but Gus is not there. Jesse is taken along for the ride by Mike all over New Mexico for pickups and Jesse rides shotgun, but something it not all it seems. Meanwhile, Skylar and Walt successfully buy the car wash.
Overall, this is a very good episode that features some more high-caliber dialogue and this episode shows that Jesse may have more of a purpose in episodes to come. In short, that last scene with Hank and the lab notes sets up the next episode nicely. I rate this episode 9/10.
Shotgun Chewbacca
- Trey_Trebuchet
- Apr 24, 2023
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Ego, ego, ego
- jenni_0214
- Apr 22, 2014
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Another defining Walt episode
- snoozejonc
- Jun 24, 2024
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S4.E5 - Walter is Drunk [9/10]
- panagiotis1993
- Jul 15, 2024
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Not the best, but not the worst.
- evanoquigley
- Aug 17, 2011
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The show jumped the shark in episode 4.5 .
- master-bot
- Aug 14, 2011
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More "Small Arm" than "Shotgun", but still an enjoyable episode.
Continuing the trend of weapon-named episodes, "Shotgun" reveals that the cliffhanger of the previous episode had the sole purpose of misleading viewers and that audiences will have to wait just a little longer for season four to pick up pace. However, the disappointment in the fact that Mike is not about to kill Jesse and that we are not about to see a possibly phenomenal shoot-off between those two, Walt, and Gus turned out not to be of long endurance, as the aforementioned two provide for some of the best bickering scenes the series has had up to that point (and we've had a lot of them, the number of those involving Skyler alone has to be in three figures). Jonathan Banks did an awesome job in reprimanding bored Jesse while Aaron Paul revoked some nice memories of his punk band's magnum opus "Fallacies" with humming the song.
The other major part of "Shotgun" was focused on the Whites' family life, now that all and sundry are aware of the false truth about the origin of Walt's accumulated dinero, but besides the outstanding cliffhanger realization that a much more likable Hank came to at the end of the episode, not a lot occurred that was of interest to me. I also wasn't that impressed about Walt attempting to ice Gus yet another time and the overly dramatic opening sequence that involves the most unlikely race car in television history breaking each and every existing traffic regulation.
That's about it for "Shotgun", an enjoyable episode with at least some rememberable moments here and there that nonetheless leaves one waiting for some real peril in this season.
The other major part of "Shotgun" was focused on the Whites' family life, now that all and sundry are aware of the false truth about the origin of Walt's accumulated dinero, but besides the outstanding cliffhanger realization that a much more likable Hank came to at the end of the episode, not a lot occurred that was of interest to me. I also wasn't that impressed about Walt attempting to ice Gus yet another time and the overly dramatic opening sequence that involves the most unlikely race car in television history breaking each and every existing traffic regulation.
That's about it for "Shotgun", an enjoyable episode with at least some rememberable moments here and there that nonetheless leaves one waiting for some real peril in this season.
- stillworkingfortheknife
- Dec 19, 2013
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Perilous pickup
'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.
"Shotgun" is a lesser 'Breaking Bad' episode for me and one of the weaker Season 4 episodes. Still consider it very good with a good deal of what makes the show so good present. It is not as taut as other episodes before and since and it is a little contrived occasionally (unusual for 'Breaking Bad').
Lots of great things however.
Visually, "Shotgun" 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 "Shotgun" 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. The characters are compelling in their realism and the episode is strongly directed.
Overall, very good but could have been better for a show of such a high calibre. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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.
"Shotgun" is a lesser 'Breaking Bad' episode for me and one of the weaker Season 4 episodes. Still consider it very good with a good deal of what makes the show so good present. It is not as taut as other episodes before and since and it is a little contrived occasionally (unusual for 'Breaking Bad').
Lots of great things however.
Visually, "Shotgun" 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 "Shotgun" 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. The characters are compelling in their realism and the episode is strongly directed.
Overall, very good but could have been better for a show of such a high calibre. 8/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jun 10, 2018
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What Are You Thinking?
Walter needs Jesse in the lab. The guy is a disaster with his partying with his worthless buddies. It is brought to the attention of the big guy that Jesse needs to be dealt with. One day, Mike picks him up and they do dead drop pickups in the desert. He ends up being a hero (or is he?). Walter is stuck doing the whole nine yards. The carwash is purchased and Hank and Maria come to celebrate. Walter has a bit too much to drink and makes a potentially deadly mistake. A rather contrived episode, to say the least.
Mike is too quiet and Walt is too garrulous
The plot slowly unravels.
Riding shotgun
- silverton-37959
- Mar 9, 2023
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Walter White written as a complete idiot...
- jfbbcsjrqg
- Dec 23, 2022
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The show recycling itself. Again