![]() ![]() Looking at ratings, reviews, and internet forums, "Crazy Handful of Nothing'" is often regarded as the best episode of Breaking Bad's first season. Tuco Salamanca: That's a brilliant plan, ese. Tuco Salamanca: Let me get this straight: I steal your dope, I beat the piss out of your mule boy, and then you walk in here and bring me *more* meth? Walt: 35 for the pound of meth you stole and 15 for my partner's pain and suffering. Tuco Salamanca: 50 G's! How do you figure that? Why don't you start talking and tell me what you want? Tuco Salamanca: No? All right, be that way. Overall, great.Walt: I don't imagine I'll be here very long. The characters are compelling in their realism. Aaron Paul has never been better and Anna Gunn is affecting. ![]() Bryan Cranston is phenomenal as one of the most fascinating anti-heroes, or even of any kind of character, in either film or television. The direction couldn't be better and the final scene is unforgettable. The story is texturally rich, intimate, tense and layered, with the pace of it consistently deliberate but taut enough. The dialogue throughout is thought-provoking and tense, while also have a darkly wicked sense of humour and heart-tugging pathos. The writing for "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal" is a fine example of how to have a lot of style but also to have a lot of substance. The music always has the appropriate mood, never too intrusive, never too muted. Visually, "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal" 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. Having said that, it's still a great episode in its own right and does nothing to diminish the consistently high quality of the season and the show in general. It perhaps doesn't necessarily feel like a season finale, and there is a sense that it was not initially intended to be the season finale which apparently it wasn't. "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal" is not one of the best episodes of a very high quality first season, in the way "Pilot", "And the Bag's in the River" and "Crazy Handful of Nothin" are. Actually everything is established remarkably from the very start, but once the writing and characterisation becomes even meatier the show reaches even higher levels. ![]() Its weakest season is perhaps the first season, understandable as any show's first season is the one where things are still settling. '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. 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' 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. ![]()
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