The Basics

Program:Supernatural

Network:The CW

Starring:Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles

Last aired:Thursday, February 21 [3.23 million viewers, second-highest of season]

Return date:Thursday, April 24

Number of episodes remaining:4

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Most shows are on their way back finally, after they’ve produced a few episodes since coming back to work from the strike. Therefore, this blog should have much more action in the coming weeks.

Additionally, for the next week, I’m going to get people ready for new eps of some of their favorite shows. Each day, I’ll cover a different show: what we’ve seen, what we will see, when it’s back, etc.

Here’s the approximately schedule of programs I’ll be covering in the next few days:

Monday, 3/31: Supernatural
Tuesday, 4/1: House
Wednesday, 4/2: Smallville
Thursday, 4/3: Reaper
Friday, 4/4: LOST
Saturday, 4/5: Scrubs

So please, come back and check out overviews on each of those programs over the next few days! Things are finally going to be awesome on TV yet again. Unless you watch NBC.

So, the writers’ strike is hurting our TV content posthumously now. This “season finale” of breaking bad is actually just another episode. Due to the 3 month long writers’ strike, the season was cut short by two episodes, which will hopefully be aired at the beginning of the next season. Therefore, if you were expecting lots of plot twists, action, or suspense, you’re not going to get it with this “finale.”

The episode starts off with parents expressing their anger about the chemistry lab break in during a PTA meeting. Walter seems upset at first, seeing as how he’s the man who stole the chem equipment, but a shot underneath the table shows us his real motivation: feeling Skylar up and down. Later, they have sex in their car in the parking lot. When Skylar wonders aloud why it was so damn good, Walter say, “Because it was illegal.”

Although Walter made a deal with Tuco for 2 lbs. of meth a week, he quickly learns that this impossible, given his short ingredient supply. He gives Tuco 1/2 lb instead of 2, but promises to bring more during their next meeting. To fix the problem, Jesse and Walter break in to a chemical supply warehouse using thermite to melt the locked doors. Once they have everything they need, they begin using it to cook in Jesse’s basement, since the RV has broken down.

At Skylar’s baby shower, Marie presents her with a baby-tiara, incrusted with diamonds. The thing is utterly hideous, although it IS expensive. When Skylar tries to secretly return it, she is apprehended by the security guards and told that it was stolen. She barely makes it out without being prosecuted. She later confronts Marie, but Marie denies stealing the tacky jewelry.

At their next meeting, Jesse and Walter give tuco 4.6 lbs. of meth, and, although it has a blue hue, it is the same wonderful product. Tuco hands over $140,000, and promises them that they will make a lot of money together. When one of his guards makes an offhand remark, Tuco beats the man unconscious and possibly to death. This shows what kind of man that Jesse and Walter work for now.

The End. Yeah. I know. Kinda disappointing, eh? Well, I’m not sure when the next season is scheduled to air, but I’ll post it on here if I found out. Right now, AMC will be airing the first season all over again, starting with Episode 1, Sundays at 10:00 (9:00 Central).

I’m not really given any info about how many hits I get on this blog page every week, but to those of you who do actually read it, I give you my thanks. It’s been a good time, and hopefully we’ll be able to enjoy more seasons of Breaking Bad in the future.

Until then, good luck, and goodbye.

Tonight, the basic premise was for Jones and Garcia to take a day long trip down to the US-Mexico border to help construct a fence. The fence would be built in eight feet sections by the hands of two cops from every county in every state. This would be enough to build a fence long enough to protect the entire border. Dangle thinks it will just be a good excuse for them to have a day off, sit around with their redneck friends, and drink beer.

When the show cuts to their arrival at the construction site, Garcia is wearing a shirt that says “Speak English” in bold letters. The rest of the team they’re working in conjunction with have on shirts with American flags or hard hats with old glory on them.

Introductions are made and they get to working on the fence. The work only lasts a few moments before it cuts to all of them standing in a line with semi-automatic and automatic weapons pointed at a rusted out abandoned car. After their barrels are emptied, Jones sets up a gas can to shoot with a beast of a machine gun. He misses completely- all four hundred rounds.

Officer Johnson is shown next giving her opinion on the fence building. She says she doesn’t care if your back is wet as long as your money is green. Jones and Garcia give an opposing view. They say they want to build the fence to keep out all the Mexicans so the next time they’re in a restaurant they’ll have white people for waiters.

The show ends with the arrival of a pair of men trying to illegally cross into the US. Garcia offers them forty dollars if they’ll finish building the fence for them. When it cuts to the final scene, one of the American men takes the last celebratory whack on a fence post and cheers resound. But, the Mexicans are on one side and the Americans are on another side. The camera pans to the Mexicans and follows a flag pole up- there’s an American flag. Jones, Garcia, and the rest of the men are on the Mexican side.

Garcia pulls the bottom of the chain-link fence up and says, “Come on boys.” Jones slips under first and a border patrol car immediately pulls up. “What are you fellas doin’?” the officer says. Jones takes off and it shows the rest of the men’s faces. They grimace and one of them says, “That boy must’ve had some military training. That was a sliding side tackle.”

LAST WEEK: Tim visited everyone’s families and homes so that we could make fun of them. All was well. Chris and Rami runwayed for the last spot at Fashion Week. Rami won. Christian, Jillian and Rami go on to Fashion Week!

The challenge this week: Have an awesome collection. “Be fierce.” etc.
10:04 p.m.: Now that we’ve finally reached the true finale, let’s look at our fair contestants, with some odds…

Jillian – 3/1. Great variety and innovation, but I worry about the collection’s cohesion.

Rami – 2/1. I like his work the most from what we’ve seen, and he even has some exciting colors.

Christian – 2/1. I think he was the clear favorite, but the pieces that we’ve seen from his collection don’t thrill me or Tim. Changed very little from Tim’s visit and the over-confidence seems toned down.

There isn’t nearly as much cattiness in this final room as there may have been in previous seasons.

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Just as I’ve called previous episodes comedic, suspenseful, and dramatic, I’ll go ahead and call the last Bad episode “action packed,” and for good reason.

The episode begins with Jesse and Walter reaching an agreement: Walter will cook the meth and be the silent partner only. Jesse is responsible for dealing with the buyers of the product. Walter also insists that violence is never used. Meanwhile, his chemotherapy is continuing. Walter comforts Skylar in telling her that his old and rich college roommate, Elliot, has payed for most of it, when in reality, he’s struggling to cook enough meth to pay for the treatment. Because Skylar knows nothing of his underworld criminal mischief, she tells Walter at a family counseling session that she’s frustrated and curious about the long hours he spends away from home. He tells her and his son that sometimes it feels better to be alone.

While cooking meth, Walter becomes exhausted because of the treatment, and asks Jesse to finish the batch for the day. Jesse immediately recognizes the chemo burn on Walter’s chest, saying that he had an aunt who died of lung cancer. From this he is able to piece together Walter’s entire motivation for cooking drugs: his family.

Meanwhile, Hank’s DEA partner discovers that the gas mask that was found in the desert belongs to Walter’s school chemistry lab.

The effects of chemo begin taking an effect on Walter at school as well. He excuses himself from classes to throw up in the teacher’s lounge, where a janitor named Hugo often helps him. Jesse stays up all hours of the night selling meth, but when he returns with only $2600, Walter is disappointed. Jesse explains that selling to individual people takes time and if they want to sell their entire batch to one person, they must sell it to a distributer. They decide to plead their case to the criminally insane Tuco, the main distributer of meth in New Mexico.

Hank visits Walter in school, during a particularly gut wrenching scene, and questions him about the gas mask. He assumes that someone has stolen the materials, and advises Walter to keep the room under lock and key.

Jesse and his friend, Skinny Pete (who has connections with Tuco), are granted a meeting with Tuco in which he expresses his admiration for such high quality meth. Tuco agrees to Jesse’s price of $35,000 a pound, but expects Jesse to sell the meth to him in confidence that he will pay him later. When Jesse refuses, Tuco beats him with a bag of money, sending him to the hospital. Tuco keeps the pound of meth.

Hank’s DEA agents return to Walter’s school and arrest Hugo, who has a couple of prior drug charges, for stealing Walter’s equipment. Walter ponders Hugo’s innocence, and feels responsible. He meanwhile hears about Jesse, and visits him in the hospital, furious about his partner’s injuries.

After deciding to shave his head due to hair loss, Walter pays Tuco a visit. He demands $50,000 from the distributer–$35,000 for the meth that he stole, and $15,000 for Jesse’s pain and suffering. A laughing Tuco wonders why Walter would return with another pound of meth for Tuco to steal. Walter replies that the bag he’s carrying doesn’t hold meth, but fulminated mercury, a primary explosion that is sensitive to friction. He takes a piece out, throws it against the wall, and the windows are blown out of Tuco’s office. Everyone in the room is knocked off their feet.

Threatening to launch the whole bag on the floor, which would kill them all, Walter states his demands again, to which an intimidated yet impressed Tuco agrees. He agrees to be Walter’s distributor and to buy two pounds from Walter for the price of $70,000 a week.

Walter takes his money to his car, where he screams in what seems like pain, but what is actually fear and amazement of how he keeps surprising himself with power.

My mouth dropped open at the end of this one. Acting: amazing. Action: edge of your seat. Show: getting better and better.

This is why “LOST” is the best show on TV.

I decided to wait on the recap for 405 “The Constant,” because I wanted to think about the episode a little longer. And after doing so, I still believe that this episode was one of the top five eps in the history of this grand series.

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