Ozymandias
- Episode aired Sep 15, 2013
- TV-14
- 47m
IMDb RATING
10.0/10
215K
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Walt goes on the run. Jesse is taken hostage. Marie forces Skyler to tell Walter, Jr. the truth.Walt goes on the run. Jesse is taken hostage. Marie forces Skyler to tell Walter, Jr. the truth.Walt goes on the run. Jesse is taken hostage. Marie forces Skyler to tell Walter, Jr. the truth.
Bob Odenkirk
- Saul Goodman
- (credit only)
Laura Fraser
- Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
- (credit only)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe flashback of Walt and Jesse at the beginning of the episode was the final scene that was shot for the series.
- GoofsWhen the shooting first starts, Walt dives down in the back seat towards the floor and his glasses fall off. After the shooting stops and Jack begins talking to Hank, Walt appears in the back window of the SUV with his glasses on. With his hands cuffed behind his back, there is no way he could have retrieved and put on his glasses back on.
- Quotes
Hank Schrader: [to Walter, as Jack has a gun pointed at him] You're the smartest guy I ever met... but you're too stupid to see... He made up his mind ten minutes ago.
- Crazy creditsWhen the opening credits begin after the first commercial break, the names of the first three actors appear in the normal sequence with normal timing. At the moment when the name Dean Norris would normally appear, the camera shows Walt looking at his own reflection in the rear view mirror. The name does not appear, and Walt turns the mirror to the side. The camera focuses in on the mirror's new reflection, an empty spot in the New Mexican desert. We then see Walt pause for several moments. Finally, as Walt begins to move on, the name Dean Norris appears on the screen.
- ConnectionsEdited from Breaking Bad: Pilot (2008)
- SoundtracksTake My True Love by the Hand
(uncredited)
Written by Eugene Raskin and Oscar Brand
Performed by The Limeliters
Featured review
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'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.
"Ozymandias" (referencing the poem by Percy Byssche Shelley) is another incredible 'Breaking Bad' episode, perhaps the best episode of the fifth season and one of the show's biggest achievements. The sizzling tension and emotional impact are only a couple of truly great things and even more the rich subtlety and story advancing twists that will leave one reeling.
Visually, "Ozymandias" 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 "Ozymandias" 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, nail-biting tension and heart-tugging pathos. The story is texturally rich, intimate, tense and layered, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but taut.
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 supporting cast are both intriguing and entertaining, Dean Norris giving one of his best performances perhaps of the show. The characters are compelling in their realism, likewise with their chemistry, and the episode is superbly directed.
All in all, another episode that is difficult to find fault with. 10/10 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.
"Ozymandias" (referencing the poem by Percy Byssche Shelley) is another incredible 'Breaking Bad' episode, perhaps the best episode of the fifth season and one of the show's biggest achievements. The sizzling tension and emotional impact are only a couple of truly great things and even more the rich subtlety and story advancing twists that will leave one reeling.
Visually, "Ozymandias" 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 "Ozymandias" 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, nail-biting tension and heart-tugging pathos. The story is texturally rich, intimate, tense and layered, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but taut.
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 supporting cast are both intriguing and entertaining, Dean Norris giving one of his best performances perhaps of the show. The characters are compelling in their realism, likewise with their chemistry, and the episode is superbly directed.
All in all, another episode that is difficult to find fault with. 10/10 Bethany Cox
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