I am a recovering addict. Jessie Pinkman is very realistic addict to me.

Gus Fring is driven by revenge.

This was great. I'd love to see you take on Saul Goodman, including what we know from Better Call Saul. And there's always Kim Wexler. There are lots of "Gilliverse" fans who would enjoy this. I'm gonna sub, hoping you do. Thanks.

Just explaining the plot of the show 💀

Walter's first kills (Emilio & Krazy-8) could be said to be in self-defense. But after that, it was just to further his own agenda.

I really hate how successful he could've been with Gus alone, Gus even gave him a week off after finding out what happened to Brock. Walt really manipulated him to get what Walt wanted.

Because it’s a script lmao

Yes, of course he was Jesse had no real connections to his family, his family didn`t wanna help him or had given up on helping him. and Jesse`s "friends." were drug addicts, wanna be gansters etc. so Jesse really had nothing, and as Walt reveals, Jesse had no academic future either, and Jesse was clearly ambitious, but Jesse didn`t want a dead end job, so that only really left him with an option of either homelessness and starvation or suicide, if he didn`t lead a life of crime to make his money. Walt did most likely know this. which is why i think it was important for Walt to "protect." Jesse as Jesse was easy to control and belittle, and that gave Walt some sense of control in the very unstable work of a criminal.

All all the brother and father need to do is look at their own damn mistakes nobody has the right to judge

In professional work environment this is crucial

It's multifactorial. Walter lived a life far below his own potential which is not unusual for highly intelligent people. He has a job below his qualifications, even his wife doesn't really fully recognize his potential and tries to surpress him in some ways. Trapped in the family dynamics he is in, Walter has in fact a weak role. But keep in mind. Hank only knows Walter in this context and never sees what emotions Walter really carries because he surpresses it in the family context. In this hierarchy Hank is above Walt because he is better at socializing and is more extroverted. Had he known Walt from a different context his job might have raied more suspicion and he would have caught on to Walts drug dealing

Whatever this guy say , it’s needed to be done or you would loose control of an empire . Live good and short or live long and be poor

Incredible video

I’d love to see your analysis about the Sopranos! Great vid btw

i feel like hank saw the world in black and white, good and bad. walt was already in that “good” category so he didnt even consider him

It's possible that he missed it because it's a movie.

The reason why Jesse's life went to such shit is not because of Walt or anyone else. Sure, Walt manipulated the hell out of him, and Jack's gang put him through inhumane treatment, but it still falls on Jesse, because he put himself in a position where those things could happen, namely entering into the drug world to begin with. Jesse was not a helpless victim. He chose the life that he did and experienced grevious consequences for doing so. When people say: "I want to live my own life," what oftentimes they're really saying is they want to live the way they want without experiencing the consequences. To those people, I say: "You can live however you choose, as long as you're willing to pay whatever price comes with it." One thing I have always found ironic is that of all the grown men Jesse deals with in this show, is how Mike went from originally wanting to kill Jesse, became the one who ultimately had Jesse's best interests at heart, showing it by helping him to see the type of man Walt truly was, and gently encouraging Jesse to get out of the game while he still could.

Manipulation works because lack of integrity

Ive always felt such a strong connection with Jesse more than any other television character. Know I understand why a little better.

Yeah he loved hank but did he respect him?

I love breaking bad and psychology. And I love your videos! Great insight on Jesse Pinkman’s parents and younger brother. For all the analyses on breaking bad I have seen I’d never heard that point. I believe Walt really did care for Jesse. When he ran over the drug dealers that was entirely selfless and for Jesse’s benefit. And also a brilliant scene where Walt leaves his family dinner to go do the deed. Not that it contradicts your points on Walt’s manipulation, just that there was affection and care in the situation. Hank says as much also when telling Jesse about the plan of Jesse meeting Walt while wearing the wire. Very enjoyable and interesting video.

Could it be that Walther was so obsessed with the Heisenberg case because he subconsciously wanted to prove to himself that Walther was not Heisenberg?

Walt was his family. People cant See there family objective.

Early on it was clear Hank felt threatened by Walt’s intelligence and he dealt with that insecurity by creating this distorted image of Walt. That distortion blinded him to any possibility that Walt could ever be a physical threat capable of violence.

Walt's motivation would make sense but given how he appears as a weak 50 year old man with no sense of strength and power and can be a coward at times Kinda makes sense why Hank didn't figure it out right away

Great video, subscribed. Can you cover what Walt’s relationship may have been like with his mother, with the limited info we are given about her, and how it may have contributed to his covert narcissism before he bloomed into the full fledged overt grandiose form throughout the series? As well as traits that Skyler may have shared with Walt’s mother? The fact that they are so unwilling to have contact with Walt’s mother, yet aren’t utterly unwilling to contact her as a last resort, and how the mother seems fine with being approached, is very interesting to me and I’ve wondered a lot about that relational dynamic and its influence on Walt his entire life

This is so good!!!

He had no reason to. Nothing really led to him and there wasn’t any evidence pointing to him.

Totally makes sense

I’m like Jessie. I was vulnerable in my 20s and was easy to manipulate. My ex best friend was a covert narcissist and our dynamic was exactly like Walter and Jessie. I was absolutely devastated once I realized what happened. I felt like I needed her and the cognitive dissonance was hard because I couldn’t believe how cruel she was. She called me her soulmate and sister. 17 years of this. I’m healing now and overcoming the shame!

Or it could just be because it’s a show and not real life

“Jesse ended up being used like the drugs he used to use” - Me

When your channel reaches millions of subscribers, don’t forget me.

Everyone conveniently forgets that in the pilot, Hank is looking for a notorious local who goes by "Captain Cook," which happened to be Jesse's license plate that was parked outside the raid on Walt's ridealong, and that Krazy 8 was apparently cooperating. Or was it Emilio? Same difference.

Walt never lies to Hank

I relate to him so much it hurts to hear this analysis of the character except for me it was escaping a very abusive relationship in every sense of the word, I can’t wait to start my therapy journey. I am not broken and I will heal.

That scene in the Mexican restaurant made me feel as uneasy as the bar scene in Inglorious Bastards. Granted it didn’t end up in a bloody massacre but still you felt the same kind of tension.

I know why. Plot that's why

Pretty sure you mean Isaac shrader

Awesome.

People have kept darker secrets from their family. John Wayne Gacy was an active killer while he lived with his elderly mum. Kept it from the whole community and shook hands with Mrs. Carter until he slipped one time.

Sometimes it's not the poo or piss but the butt in which once was squeezed from, a wise man once said if you leave the anus dirty and unlicked, the anus will act in dirty ways

Hank Schrader, aka Alex Jones

From the outside looking in as a viewer . Many people see him being a detective should have shown him the truth . But in the 1st episode it showed Hanked although he belittled Walt as an older brother would. He did respect Walter’s intelligence as a brother in law and genuinely had love for him. He did not show interest in Walt as a criminal because until Walter had cancer he was a standard model citizen. With a mediocre job , and a typically 4 family home. He was a very boring individual and had no criminal record and he was 50yrs. Old Why would he suddenly start a life of crime. The truth was hidden in plan view and but he couldn’t and wouldn’t put the pieces together. Until him found hardcore evidence of Walters link to all of the crimes.

7:24 WHY DID HE HAVE TO USE THAT PICTURE OF WALT😭😭

I think Walter White is a covert narcissist

While the these insights are valuable, I think it borderlines on being too simplistic, while yes Jesse and Walt's relationship can be seen as a textbook example of manipulation, it's important to not let the nuances dissolve into these labels, while yes Walt's behavior is calculated I think it's unfair to ignore the elements of self-justification that ground characters and people into beliavability, it is also simplistic to frame Jesse as a victim of manipulation only, his character is layered with a lot more than victimhood, it's easy to see Jesse as sympathetic and Walt as evil for a lot of people but from Walt's point of view, he feels justified and it's the same for Jesse, Jesse while being prone to guilt consistently tends to project his problems onto others, he's not a silent victim, he lashes out, can be petty, blame others, so while I appreciate the professional insights, a big part of Jesse's arc is him growing to be a more responsable/reliable person with reel agency (El caminon). Jesse's a man child at the beginning of the series, stuck into his teenage phase of rebellion and blaming authority figures, Jesse's starts to find his way within the criminal world through Walter, his mentor here (his literal teacher) he starts to be somewhat successful but it is directly tied to the presence of Walter. Jesse is seen as pawn by Walter because in this world that's what he is and he'll never be anything else, he's the typical teenage dealer, at the end of the day he followed a wrong path for the sake of rebellion and finally learned his lesson through trauma.

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why would the mild mannered kent be superman?

dude what kind of a doctor are you. This is a TV show. In reality you know how many people these DEA agents meet each day? He must have hundreds if not thousands of possible suspects of course he's not going to consider his brother in law who's dying of cancer to a suspect.