Breaking Bad: Season 5 (Episodes 1-8) (2 Discs Blu-ray + UltraViolet Digital Copy)

Yes, I am a fan of Breaking Bad, however, there are major flaws in the story that just have to be addressed. Here are a few:l. Walt Jr. is far too cooperative for a 16 year old boy. When asked to do chores, he always says, "Sure, Mom!" like he is soooo happy. Most 16 year olds are sassy, self-centered, sleep all day-up all night, talk back, spend 99% of time with friends, NEVER do housework, and more. His grades would tank, too, if his dad was as much trouble as Walt Senior.2. Jesse's teeth are too perfect. A heavy meth user's teeth ground away with the constant use and gums are red, bloody, soft. Other users on the show have bad teeth, but not Jesse. NOT believeable.3. There is hardly any mention of DNA. At all murder scenes in which Walt just walks away, his DNA would be everywhere. BOTH their DNA and fingerprints were all over Uncle Tio's house--case over.4. At Tio's when Tuko throws Jesse and Walt's phones into the back yard, police would have found them, found their fingerprints and case over. Law enforcement searches at least one mile radius of a crime scene--inch by inch.5. Jesse is not that attractive that super hot chicks would be after him. The actresses chosen to play his love interests are way too pretty for a guy who is a big loser. They are also too tall and too big for him. He seems overpowered by them.6. The theft of lab equipment would have been noticed. Other teachers would have complained that things were missing. Schools keep up with stuff better than that. Each teacher uses the equipment, so someone would have noticed. There is always a bitchy person on the staff who keeps up with stuff right down to pencils and erasers.7. No one ever seems to be looking out a window to see murders and kidnappings. Just not realistic.8. Mike would have immediately killed Walt when Walt killed Gus. Mike would know he had to get to Walt before Walt got to him.9. Killing 9 in prisons? Come on!! Prisons have cameras everywhere. Someone would have seen something. NOT believeable.10. When Hank was driving by the laundry, he would have seen Walt's car. We cannot believe that a skilled detective would rely on one person to drive him by that place only one time. He would have driven by at all hours of the day and night.11. Walt would have spent his money all along for basic household needs. They were barely getting by, so he would have been buying groceries, new shoes for Walt, Jr., baby clothes, gas, etc. He would have always had a pocket full of cash, to make Skyler's life smoother. She would have liked that and he could have eased her along better.12. Why did Walt make a pass at the principal? Does not make sense for him, logically. We are to believe he does all things out of logic. This would only harm him.13. We are told over and over how he does this for his family. All right-----we get it. You do not have to remind us....enough already.14. Jesse throwing money away would not happen. He would be doing his best to show that he is a winner to his parents. He would have been buying things for his parents, sending his mom flowers on all occasions, and spending the cash on the girlfriends for diamonds, clothes, etc.15. Jesse would not drive a beat up car. He would have a Lexus or Mercedes. All drug dealers drive the best cars in town. The local car dealers rely on them to spend their cash and everyone turns a blind eye.16. Someone with the DEA would be on Walt and Jesse's side. The money is just too much of a temptation. They could have paid off their own informant.17. Jesse and Walt's DNA would be in the UHaul Truck that did the magnet thing. The magnets would get traced back to the junk yard and case closed.18. All junk yards have to give account for cars that are smashed. Even though they got rid of the RV, there would be enough left for DNA, even fingerprints. Case closed at that point.19. Someone would notice that Walt was visiting Jesse in the hospital. Case closed.20. The mask found in the desert would have had fingerprints or DNA from Walt. Case closed. It did lead them back to the school. DEA would have put in cameras and found Walt stealing more property. Most schools have cameras inside anyway. Case closed.21. Once Walt gets all that money, women would be after him.22. There are not enough female characters in this show. Women are always around where money is being made. Walt would have been tempted with plenty of 15 to 20 year olds. Hot chicks can sniff out cash.23. Walt would have been using cough drops with all that coughing.24. There is a mouth wash that cancer doctors prescribe for lung patients because of the dry mouth and odors. Walt would constantly be using mouthwash and cough drops.25. NO one with lung disease can run up and down steps. He would be on oxygen therapy with the air tanks needed at all times. Uncle Tio has them and he is sitting. Walt would not be that active with real lung cancer. Lungs determine all movement of the body. He would not be able to move like he does. Even driving a car is difficult with lung cancer and chemo.26. Nothing is said about the raids on Gus's delivery trucks. Law enforcement would have been involved, this would lead to Gus; case over.27. Ted would not be all goo goo over a 40 year old pregnant woman. He would have a long line of 20 year olds in his bed.28. Once Skylar found problems with Ted's books, he would have fired her. Men do not like bad news.29. They can pay $800,000 cash for a car wash with no questions asked????? How is that money laundering????30. Walt would have been traveling to the Caymen islands or other sites that will launder money for him. He could afford to hire a private plane.31. Walt would have an alternate plan of escape. With 80 million he would have many options.32. He would have been sending the family on long vacations, as in Europe or Australia. People with new money travel. He would keep them out of town and out of his way and out of harm.33. Most people who live in the West do speak Spanish. A person with Walt's intelligence would pick it up easily.34. Walt would buy diamonds and expensive shoes for Skylar. Woman can be bought off. Logically, he would appeal to her ego. As Ron White says, "Diamonds, that will shut her up."35. The baby does not seem to grow very fast. Most children will not fit into a bassinet at age 6 to 9 months. Is that a real baby? Looks fake. Why is it always wearing a hat? In New Mexicto with heat in the 100's to 110's?36. Skylar would have followed Walt to the laundry. case closed.37. Friends of Crazy 8 would have gone to see Jesse as he was last seen with him. Why was his family never shown as interested in his disappearance. Too many people disappear with no one seeming to care. Not realistic.38. The police are portrayed as bunbling fools. Not so. They are generally very thorough. Not believeable that no police officer can put two and two together.39. There would have been a police report filed when Walt crashed the new car he bought for Walt Jr. No one gets away with that kind of damage without someone noticing. case closed40. Hank has plenty of chances to bug Walt's home or car. He would have in order to find out the truth, then, he could have built his case.41. Gus's operation was way to big for him to rely on one person to cook. He would have had cooks all over the place. He could have set up labs in his trucks. He was too smart to put all his eggs in one basket.42. Tio would not pee in a pool in front of the Don--never happen. Pee on flowers or people, but not the pool where gals are gonna be swimming.43. Walt Jr. never changes. A kid at age 16 changes in many ways. His hair style is not modern. His clothes are like circa 1995.44. Jesse's shirts never get dirty. The white stays the whitest. He sleeps in clothes, but they do not wrinkle and he does not smell. Not believeable.45. Hospitals film all visitors. Hank would have reviewed the tapes to see who was visiting Jesse. case closed46. All in all, too many things just are not believeable. Police are not that bad at their jobs and criminals are not that lucky.

First let me say that Breaking Bad is simply the best TV drama ever. I can't say enough good things about it. And, yes, I am a big fan of The Wire, and on a given day might give that one the nod for different reasons. But no other show ever has embedded such moral complexity within an urgently explosive narrative. Walter White's character arc is meteoric; he turns weakness into strength and fails to realize the weakness of his own ambition. It's the closest we have to Greek tragedy, and at its best evokes what Joyce called "the terrible emotions of pity and awe."All this is the more stunning when you realize that it's from AMC, the network that brings you bowdlerized versions of Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski ("This is what happens when you meet a stranger in the Alps!"). Realizing that AMC brought you Breaking Bad is like one day discovering that Lithuania has landed an exploration party on Mars and brought it back safe--and you didn't even know they had a space program!Okay, let's talk about Season V now. In a way it's the calm before the storm, everything leading up to Season VI, which will be the final conflict and the resolution of the series. Naturally, this could have been just a waiting period, and we would have been okay with a lull. Walter White has just won a major victory (and lost his soul into the bargain), but now he's broke. How he gets back on top in "the game"--and what that costs him--is what Season V is all about. There is plenty of action, but what is riveting is the growth of Walter's moral disaster and his hubris. He has become a god in his own mind and in the minds of many others. His inevitable fall in Season VI will be horrifying and riveting.Already we see that Vince Gilligan, the show's creator and best writer, is giving us intimations that there is a big final confrontation to come: in the first episode of V we see Walt a year older and he is in a Denny's buying an M-60, for what reason we don't know. My immediate thought was: here comes the "Say hello to my little friend!" bloodbath. And then Gilligan underscores that by having Walt watching exactly that part of Scarface with Walt, Jr. Still, all this could still be misdirection on Gilligan's part. He's fooled me before when I thought I knew what was coming. That is one of the joys of Breaking Bad, in fact. It's so good and builds up such tension that you can't stop trying to figure out what will happen next. And even when you're 100% sure what *has* to happen, Gilligan makes something else happen that is not only different but surprising and better than you imagined it could be.I can't recommend this show enough. My friends who haven't seen it I nag incessantly about how good it is and they tell me I'm overselling it--until they get hooked themselves. "It's even better than you said," one of them confided. "I thought no show could possible be as good as you were making this one out to be, but in retrospect everything you said now seems like understatement."Watch it. Watch it all. Best on Blu-Ray, but any way you can get it.