syncing the dopamine…
S4E9
Bug
Breaking Bad · 2011-09-11 · 48 min
FLICKFEEL
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from 11 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Skyler's past mistakes come back to haunt her. Gus takes action to thwart his rivals. Jesse seeks Walt's help, with mixed results.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
37
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
36
how much it moved you
Read from 11 comments — 5 said when.
Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.
Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
openingending
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
Reddit11 read
“My body was not ready for that last scene, what a fucking ending.”
no-change▲ 94about 90–100% inread it ↗
“Fuck the next episodes are going to be great”
FappingtoScience▲ 61about 75–100% inread it ↗
“It just got real.”
Jooshbag▲ 57about 80–90% inread it ↗
“almost overwhelmingly hard to watch? And I don't mean the violent shoot out with Terminator Gus. I mean the sense that these characters are getting further and further away from redemption, that they are losing their souls.”
CockForAsclepius▲ 55about 0–100% in
who made it
- directed
- Terry McDonough
- written
- Thomas Schnauz, Moira Walley-Beckett
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Rob Brownstein as CID Special Agent- SScott Sharot as Car Wash Customer
Maurice Compte as Gaff
Ray Campbell as Tyrus Kitt
Christopher Cousins as Ted Beneke
Eric Steinig as Mike's Security Team Member