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Breaking Bad season 5
16 episodes · 2012
FLICKFEEL
84
from 83 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Walt is faced with the prospect of moving on in a world without his enemy. As the pressure of a criminal life starts to build, Skyler struggles to keep Walt’s terrible secrets. Facing resistance from sometime adversary and former Fring lieutenant Mike, Walt tries to keep his world from falling apart even as his DEA Agent brother in law, Hank, finds numerous leads that could blaze a path straight to Walt.
how it went
Left to right is the season — its first episode to its last. Each remark sits in the episode it was made about.
FUN
45
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
75
how much it moved you
Read from 83 comments — 34 said when · across 13 episodes.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Pulled both ways throughout — never simply one thing. In the first half it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves.
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
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➖ steady — holds one level all the way
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.
Reddit24 read
“I really wasn't expecting to have so many warm feelings after the finale.”
DayWalkerRunner▲ 3,265about 75–100% inread it ↗
“That buildup of the opening theme at the end was absolutely chilling.”
Sweet_Tooth_VII▲ 2,736about 90–100% inread it ↗
“Heisenberg spray painted on his wall made me feel sick.”
blink5694▲ 2,385about 80–90% inread it ↗
“stress level through the roof when walt was looking around elliott and gretchen's house”
dealaus▲ 2,229about 85–95% in
episodes
5 of 16 with a scoreEvery episode has a page — its synopsis, who was in it, and a place to rate it. A number appears when discussion or ratings support one; where there is neither, the dash is the honest answer.
