Breaking Bad 5x11 ''Confessions'' Full Reaction

Sure, but we all have a job. Just cause you are the police or fbi or whatever, doesnt mean that u have to rat out your family. Walter and Jesse did a lot of messed up stuff but its not like they murdered innocent people. They were all the same and criminals and played their drug game. I was never cheering for Hank 😆 I wanted Walt to get away with it. I love him as the vilian. 😆 if I was Hank I would quit and take a few millions and live life 🤣🤣

SylMyl

scary stuff! this Walter reminds me alot of Hitler.. none other. probably bcuz i studied him wayyyy too much! i was obsessed at some point about his character.. unlike Walter.. Hitler was a real deal, who curved many lives... but they both have something in common.. and is not Greed or devil minds.. but reasoning.. their reasoning is what makes them think ''ohh but i am not the bad guy.. cuz look! i am doing this bcuz of this!'' Walter is protecting his family and himself from going to jail... Hitler was protecting the purity of the races from Jews and Gypsies.. i believe that if Walter had Hitler's power he could have done the same.. i mean look at him! the amount of audacity that he has to manipulate everyone around him just so he can get where he wants to.. the greed for control even when everyone is aware of him.. Hitler knew his troops will die trying to defend Berlin.. but what was his order? ''you duty now is to die defending the last stand'' just like Walter.. his duty until the end is to protect his assets... his money.. his kids.. himself and Skyler as long as she is with him.. Jesse is the only one that he has weakness for outside of his family circle.. like you said.. he could have killed him waaaay to many times.. but no... why? bcuz he knows deep inside how Jesse was the only one who helped him get where he is now.. so Jesse is part of his success.. and he wants control over him too! if Jesse is out of Walter's reach.. maybe everything will collapse after him

Walter has the upper hand bcuz he knows what can incriminate him.. on the other hand Hank is playing this wrongly... well of course he does.. he is a law-abiding citizen.. or a law-protective officer.. can't think like the devil himself ''Walter White'' who manipulates everything around him to do his biding..

quite the most detailed explanation of Walter White! his Greed consumed him beyond recognition! for us, the observers.. we are witnessing way better than ''fictional victims of Breaking Bad'' but this show is not too far from the real deal.. way too many times I've seen this in real life situations.. not at this scale of course.. but still.. myself been a victim of my own greed also! not by money of course.. but by ''self-righteous or self-lawmaker'' i was judging the world around me with my unique set of rules and never ever questioned if they are good or bad.. that was of course until i failed big time.. and God stepped in.. literally! and i know a lot of people will not agree or believe me.. but i was beyond gone.. the amount of hate that i had in my heart was... no words can describe it.. still can't believe how i managed to forgive everyone in my past.. God is Great!

i knowww! i mean ''Whooww!''

is like selling ur soul!

I agree about Hank. He's saturated with pride.

Sam Johnson

Confessions is Walt's most cerebral, clever chess move since the Lily of the Valley/Face Off scheme at the end of season 4. What a fucking twist! I'm still dumbfounded by the audacity of the blame Hank plan to this day. I also respect the strategy (ala 309 Kafkaesque). It's an incredibly well thought out, non-violent plan that only Walt could come up with. I'm sure Skyler helped where she could with the story. But the best thing about the flipping of the script to paint Hank as Heisenberg is that objectively, there is just enough evidence that it rings as a possibility. And then came Hank's medical bills. At this point I was worried that they wouldn't broach that topic again--I was ready to be disappointed by that loose end. But of course this is Breaking Bad. And this episode reminded me of why I still am obsessed with this show. I don't care what anyone claims...NO ONE could have saw this epic chess play coming. In the cold open, when Todd is bragging to Jack and Kenny about the train heist--he reminded me of Gale in a way. Don't get me wrong, Todd is ruthless and leaves out the fact that he shot a kid when retelling the story--but like Gale I feel that Todd idolized Walt in a way and saw his experience with him as fun and gathering tales worth telling out of school. When Walt sits down in front of the camera and begins I couldn't help but be reminded of the video Walt shot in the pilot. I kept expecting to hear "for all law enforcement entities this is not an admission of guilt." Even when they cut away I was convinced it was a suicide note and that Walt would fake his own death or something like that. Boy was I off. In the midst of one of the most dramatic points of the series (the face to face meeting of a family fractured) came yet again, the fantastic BB trademark of juxtaposing incredible tension with "table side guacamole" hilarity. Then came the "WYRUP" meeting of Walt and Jesse with Saul out in the desert. And of course the still ambiguous intentions of Walt or Heisenberg. A)Was Walt actually concerned for Jesse and therefore proposing that he start somewhere new? B)Was that hug an authentic one? A goodbye? or C) Or another manipulation knowing that if Jesse stays and continues to display volatility that he would eventually be forced to send him to Belize? IMO, I think it's all of the above! Isn't it possible that Walt genuinely was concerned for Jesse and was proposing what was in both their interests? I mean, if he really didn't care about Jesse, he could've easily killed him and not think twice about it. Then came the intense conclusion. Jesse's epiphany while waiting to disappear in front of the wall of tombstones--and Jesse unraveling the sausage finger ricin lifting plot and knocking the shit out of Saul was amazingly satisfying. And the last shot being Jesse ready to burn it all to the ground--finally, seemingly embracing vengeance over lament. Though I still contend that having Huell lift the weed from Jesse's pocket seemed not too clever a plot device. I have read before and have always liked the idea that Jesse's ricin discovery should have been him in his constant depression letting a cigarette drop on his floor and then hearing a horrible, abrupt belt mechanism noise--Jesse looking down and realizing that his Roomba can't in fact pick up cigarettes. If you think about that "confession" tape--it's Walt coming as close as he ever would to telling Skyler the truth about the details of his criminality--even if it was under the guise of blaming Hank. It was as much an admission to Skyler as it was counter to Hank.

Joe Lazarus

Walter just showed Hank, that you can just say anything and make up storys about anyone. Hank doesnt have proof. He could just let it go but its Hanks pride that doesnt let him. Personally I do understand Walter. He wants to save himself of course. Its human nature.

SylMyl

I agree with Marian. Walter's a psychotic in an imaginary world -- like a game -- the game of Greed. The game made him psychotic. I guess I’m seeing things with Walt through a narrow, opinionated lens, and there may be more to Walt than just greed. I just know the way Walt acts now is familiar to me… I have alcoholics, narcissists, and obsessive compulsives in my collection of family and friends. I've known greed similar to the way Bryan Cranston plays Walt’s greed in my own people. It takes them over, makes it so those around them feel they don't know who they really are when they are at the height of their greed. Bryan Cranston does a great job portraying this greed in Walt. Greed can distort reality and keep you playing its game with its own rules: (1) possess at all costs (2) lie, cheat, steel, destroy even the ones you care for, whatever it takes to possess (3) live to take, to consume, to always want and never be satisfied with what you have. That's part of the nature of greed, perhaps the most dangerous part — greed can never be satisfied. Greedy people can't easily get themselves out of the game. To solve the problem of greed takes tremendous will from the one who bears the greed, and often times takes intervention from people outside the greed stricken person. To people who don’t know the dominance greed has, they can think the greedy people are just wicked, vengeful, arrogant people. They see only the pain the greed causes in the victims of the greed. And, they find the greedy people to always be just “wrong” and "unpredictable". In fact, greedy people are actually quite predictable, as Walter is predictable. Once you understand how insidious and mind bending greed can be, you can always tell what all of a greedy person's actions will be. They always protect and act on behalf of what they’re greedy for. They do whatever it takes to covet the source of the greed. Once you understand Walter is controlled by his greed, consuming him like his cancer, all his actions make perfect sense, and his behavior is predictable. I have sympathy for Walt, but not empathy. I’m so sorry he has suffered, but I see him now causing so many others to suffer and die, as well as bringing his own cancer back psychogenically and psychosomaticly. He made the choice to be the way he is instead of letting Elliot and Gretchen help him, or to walk away much sooner like Mike and Jesse did. Walt has decided, and now must fulfill his destiny. Walt’s killed, inflicted pain, manipulated others, even in his own family. And though he’s walked away from the meth, he doesn’t give up the very thing greed made him bake meth for in the first place — the money. But in the end, psychotic with greed and needing help or not, Walt has to be stopped! That, as he has foolishly and inadvertently decided, is his destiny. Yoda-like voice: “Destroy the Walt we must! The Walt you knew, gone he is…. consumed by Heisenberg.” ;-)

Sam Johnson

So Hank was the actual mastermind. What a plot twist! Jk, Hahaha.

Ravi

When Saul is that scared, things are really bad. Never hug the devil.

Ellie Miller