syncing the dopamine…
S5E4
Fifty-One
Breaking Bad · 2012-08-05 · 48 min
FLICKFEEL
—
from 5 comments
COMMUNITY
—
nobody yet
YOURS
—
…
what happens
Walt celebrates another birthday. Skyler contemplates her options, and an associate puts a crimp in Walt and Jesse's business strategy.
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
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
0
how much it moved you
Read from 5 comments — 4 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.
Reddit6 read
“Every moment Skyler is on screen I just feel impending doom.”
MasterChimp▲ 1,324about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The scene where Walt shoots down every single one of Skylar's plans and scenarios felt like a horror movie starring Anna Gunn; stuck in a horror house with a monster with no hope, no escape.”
distantkorean▲ 802about 40–60% inread it ↗
“And that ticking at the end obviously must be a forshadowing(or maybe possibly a misdirect, but most likely not) that Walt's time is running out”
distantkorean▲ 802about 90–100% inread it ↗
“My heart just stopped. Wow that is a huge nail in the coffin.”
who made it
- directed
- Rian Johnson
- written
- Sam Catlin
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Steven Michael Quezada as Steven Gomez
Todd Terry as SAC Ramey
Laura Fraser as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle
Russ Dillen as Ron Forenall
Melissa McCurley as Secretary