Breaking Bad Season 3 Episode 10 'Fly' REACTION!!

[@robertwhite3584]

Fun Fact: The fly was nominated for an emmy.

[@garabaterodiaz5288]

robert white it also was the first non human actor to ever get nominated for an Emmy.

[@loveoffilm4327]

Surprised it didnt win, there was a lot of buzz around the performance

[@RebornVengeancex]

Gatorade me bitch!

[@jordandrake9822]

During my first watch of this show on Netflix, i accidentally skipped this episode. When i found out i missed an episode i wondered how i didnt notice. Since this was a bottle epusode it was the perfect episode to accidentally skip. Years later when i watched for the first time it felt like a bonus reunion episode. Lol

[@66RainySuper]

Gerardo Diaz tough to top Jeff Goldblum

[@naloub3091]

it's such a great metaphor for Walt's life/soul being "contaminated." He has dirty secrets and issues that are driving him nuts. He even talks about how he wished he died at a better time, before things got messy.

[@CahzinarX]

Nà LOub Like with Bill Cosby, if he died sooner people would say shh in response to rape accusations.

[@bendover-bz4bc]

Oh common man. Seriously 🤣🤣🤣 like i am also die hard of of the show but how can you come up with such weird metaphors 🤣🤣🤣🤣 everyone's like best episodes of the show blah blah 😂😂😊😂😂nope not best but funniest one. That's it

[@johnp.smithasimpleman7281]

@@bendover-bz4bc Dude come on, this episode is purely based on symbolism and metaphors and that is a fact. Maybe not exactly THIS. And I do agree fans come up with some weird shit, but anyone who has knowledge of layered character-driven storytelling will appreciate this episode. In fact it’s one of the best written episodes on the show

[@dr.k8610]

@@bendover-bz4bc I... I don’t think you get it

[@Skullzrapper]

@@bendover-bz4bc It's definitely not one of my fav episodes (albeit a very good one) but man, if you think that's some kind of wildly out there metaphor a writer wouldn't use, you don't understand the writing process at all.

[@elisabethlarsen4282]

I've been excited about this episode! I view the fly as a symbol of Walt's bad concience, the constant guilt he feels, that keeps "buzzing" and nagging. I think the reason it doesn't irritate Jesse is because he has come to term with the whole thing, and as he said "accepted who he is". Let's go!!

[@AWSVids]

It's definitely open-ended and can be applied to various things, but I think the intended message of the episode is stated when Walt says "It's all contaminated." The fly represents everything Walt views as being wrong in his life. Not just guilt, but his failed dreams, his mistakes, his strained relationships, etc... Primarily in this episode, it represents the immediate problem of Jesse stealing meth, but on the scale of the whole series (in which this episode is somewhere around the mid-point), it represents the "contamination" in Walt's life from what he views as being a pure life. His whole life is contaminated because his life has become so impure, past the point of no return, which as he surmises, was the night Jane died. He can never come back from this. It's almost like he's dead already and is decomposing. Attracting flies.

[@brijrajmanishtiwari4757]

Every episode is a master piece in itself, I have two favourite episodes. This is the first, other being deserted one.

[@pearljammies]

AWS Vids So interesting! Even his body is contaminated by cancer cells!

[@erathebratt9427]

This is the perfect explination

[@ghenry4513]

Good summary and analysis. I like to think the fly is Jane's soul, and Walt wants to rid himself of the guilt of that experience because other than that moment, now that he has dove deeper into the business with the contract extension from Gus, despite his renewed million dollar contract, his experience in the business in his eyes has been "perfect". But he can't shake that experience that is haunting his conscience. Jesse puts it to rest, despite Walt almost coming close to confessing, for the time being by ending the nuisance so Walt doesn't need to discuss it any further. But then it shows up at the end anyway to show that Walt still can't escape it and it is still on his conscience.

[@johnglue1744]

Funny after all this time Jessie still calls Walt, Mr White lol.

[@coolbreez1214]

I think there's one moment in the series, when he doesn't, just one.

[@coolbreez1214]

@Drake Lang yeah you're right, season 2, I said season 3, my bad...thank you

[@movieman175]

" we make poison for people who don't care." Great line xD

[@FulciLives]

I like the line when Walter says, "It's all contaminated"

[@Bartlebycs]

I really like this episode. Bottle Episodes are hard to do right, I think they really got it with this one.

[@stktenioudakis]

whats a bottle episode? another word for filler?

[@izzardclips9350]

@@stktenioudakis A bottle episode is an episode that uses pre-existing sets and avoids using guest actors. In this case, it was done to save money, because they were going over the budget. Also they are sometimes produced because an earlier script has fallen through and a bottle episode can be shot quickly. Because of their nature they often are quite filler-like with little plot progression, but it's not what the word means. The term itself came into use, because the Outer Limits producer Leslie Stevens producer explained how making a bottle episode is like pulling it out of a bottle like a genie.

[@humanbeing418]

This Episode is like "4 Days Out" to me.

[@johnp.smithasimpleman7281]

They are both character driven episodes. They both have comedic moments, they both have Walt and Jesse stuck in a hard situation (in their labs). They both have a moment where the main character reflects about his life and his choices, telling those things to Jesse. They are both very two important episodes in Walt’s character development. They both end in the same place they started. They both revealed important things about the character’s psychology.

[@johnp.smithasimpleman7281]

They’re both masterpieces

[@ImNotLuthien]

You must be on drugs. 4 days out actually has a meaning and a purpose and drives the story further. This is just arrogant and pretty basic symbolism. I never understood the need of making this episode. No wonder why is the lowest rated.

[@wholelottagangshid]

The controversial episode that has fans split 50/50 they either love it or hate it

[@AWSVids]

I kinda hated it when it first aired, but I've come to appreciate it over time. Still think it's a bit too on the indulgent side, but I at least get what it's doing more than I initially did. And it's not a bad thing to have a different kind of episode in the grand scheme of this show. At the time, though, when it was airing and you only got one episode a week, from 13 episodes a year... it felt like a waste of an episode to me and I wanted to get back to the main drive of the story. But now that I've seen the whole show, I'm more at ease with this episode existing in the mix.

[@wholelottagangshid]

Personally, I love the episode because it's shows a great insight about walt and Jesse's mental state. They talk about what it's like to die, and what it means to live all because of a fly. It gets real deap and it's one of the funniest episodes in my opinion

[@brijrajmanishtiwari4757]

It is one out of my two favourites, other being the deserted one.

[@user-zo5jo3ox5g]

The controversial comment that appears on every video related to this episode that has fans either agreeing or annoyed that someone always brings this up

[@rocketcon]

I hated it when I first saw it, but it has grown on me with subsequent viewings. The plot is irrelevant, but there is some excellent character development in this one.

[@Ian-jj9fc]

"Beating cancer while becoming cancer." You just nailed it succinctly. Cancer is dangerous because it keeps growing in a way the body can't control...just like Walt's career in crime and its effect on the rest of his life.

[@hiurycastro3620]

Some fans hate this episode, saying at the time "what Gilligan was thinking?" a lot of people hated the episode saying it was "slow". the fact that at that moment Breaking Bad was reminding you of the kind of series it was, creating one of the most striking and important moments in all of its 62 episodes. "Fly" is important within several aspects, its context and what it represents for Breaking Bad and Walter's famous metastase theory

[@BIGxBOSSxx1]

Hiury Castro sorry if it’s a dumb question but what is metastase ?

[@hiurycastro3620]

BIGxBOSSxx1 is the formation of a new tumor lesion from another, but without continuity between the two.

[@BIGxBOSSxx1]

@@busimagen thank you both for the info. i'm assuming the overall theory is like what Jesse was implying - that the cancer had spread to his brain and was making Walt lose his mind a little?

[@CST1992]

Cranston himself directed this episode. It's like, the deeper you go, the deeper you find you can still go.

[@Utonian21]

This might be my favorite episode of the entire series! I found it very entertaining the first time I watched it.

[@ThePete1081]

This episode is the equivalent of the scene in Shakespeare's MacBeth, where Lady MacBeth just can't seem to get her hands clean. It's all a metaphor for the contamination on the soul, which can not be cleaned.

[@guillegarcia7146]

@@fatimasalakovic9985 dude wtf, calm down

[@Quixotic1018]

People think I'm crazy when I say this is my favorite episode of the show. Imagine being in the writers' room and your job is to keep the tension just as high, the characters just as interesting, but no action, no guns, no gangsters, not even a shot of meth.... You can have a fly though.

[@kuhpunkt]

One more episode and you're at the halfway point of the show :)

[@PP-zi8he]

Woah! Livin’ on a prayer

[@bawling4soup]

half measures

[@hunterlee3353]

Mr PaddyThePug take my hand 🤚...

[@miscellaneous_man756]

@@hunterlee3353 we'll make it I swear

[@AlanHoey86]

I love this 'bottle' episode, lots of things can be interpreted from it. The Fly represents Jane Margolis. The last few minutes, when Walt is almost about to tell the truth he says the Fly is going to stay up there forever, meaning its a lie he won't ever let go. Because of the damage it would cause.

[@xajaso]

Always felt the fly represents the "contamination" of Walt's conscience. Jane's death, betrayal of Skylar, Hank's injury, the plane crash, further corruption of Jesse...it's all beginning to pile up. These episodes/moments with Jesse & Walt alone are so solid. Like the time they were stranded in the desert, the tension is so high! And it's just them, isolated. No big effects or violence, just amazing writing & acting. Wow. 🐜😴 ☕

[@doccreed7182]

Yeah, that's what I think, too. I always looked at the fly as a metaphor for both the "contamination" and the incremental stages of Walt losing control.

[@arthurmorgan5309]

I’m confused to as when he betrayed Skylar?

[@xajaso]

@@arthurmorgan5309 He's been betraying her since S1 E1 when he began cooking meth & lying about it

[@miscellaneous_man756]

@@arthurmorgan5309 ARTHUR !!!!! I HAVE A PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

[@C0LDWiR3]

11:47 funny cause this EP was released in May 23, 2010 and filmed before that but the Ebola outbreak that allot of us know about happened in like 2014-2015

[@twistedshananigans]

I'll never forget the first time I watched this episode; what a treat. This episode encapsulates so much of Walt's mental state at this point. He's cracking at the seams and he knows it. One of the things they've always made clear in the series is that Walt is paying attention to everything. He understands the absurdity and insanity of what's happened since he made the choice to cook meth; first trying to burn his money after the plane crash, and now telling Jesse about meeting Jane's dad in the bar. Walt is a man of science, and its always implied that he doesn't give any weight to the idea of fate or god. The entire series he's justified his own greed and pride by saying that he's doing all this to help his family. But now he's starting to come around to the idea that a higher power is watching him and guiding the chain of events. That was the idea behind the car scene after he talked with Gus. He's starting to believe that he's no longer in control of what's happening to him; how could he be? It's so fucked up. He's starting to believe that maybe, just maybe some force greater than him has taken the reins and is making all this horror to happen around him. It's like the universe is forcing him to see the true depravity inside himself and face the reality of what he's done. So in that way you could look at the fly as god itself.

[@bettygreenhansen]

The Fly Is God Theory. Church

[@ChrisPBacon-xn9up]

Interesting interpretation

[@porkfrog2785]

well, it could be Socrates reincarnated to remind Walt about social responsibility: he did call himself 'the gadfly of God'...

[@johnp.smithasimpleman7281]

Omg I love this comment. The Eye of the teddy bear can also be represented as Walt feels he’s being observed and judged, and that SOMEONE or SOMETHING is a witness to everything, and it can see the truth.

[@farimer1232]

This episode is a good test to see if a viewer really "gets" Breaking Bad.

[@bloybob5108]

This episode was also made because they were low on money

[@limjahey5528]

@@bloybob5108 Save money on this episode to spend more on a bigger episode.

[@fatimasalakovic9985]

Stupid episode written by untalented morons. They should have stayed bagging groceries at Sprouts in Silver Lake instead of giving a chance to write for major show! Disgusting 🤮🤮🤮

[@mrshamf3484]

@@fatimasalakovic9985 boo hoo, I don't have an attention span 😢

[@samcarroll6210]

@@fatimasalakovic9985 You know this same director and writer also did Ozymandias?

[@markc4008]

Jesse is earning 1.56% of the money the meth is bringing in. If I had earned 1.56% of the money the company I work for made last year, I'd be a multi-millionaire.

[@SARGEHALO666v2]

Something something... you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

Great Harvey line!!

[@WintaAssefa]

I said that in my reaction video too!!!

[@pearljammies]

Podcast notes: Guests: Bryan Cranston, Director Rian Johnson; visual Effects Supervisor Mat Beck (he is in the same position for GoT!) 1. The fly we saw was mostly computer generated, but there was a model of a fly on set that was used to do everything. It just didn’t look quite alive enough so they had to manipulate it with some graphic editing. The model was made by a guy who had previously made flies for fly fishing but then started making highly realistic ones for the film industry. 2. It was a stunt performer (Ed Duran) who did Walt’s fall. But there isn’t a single frame where it switches from him to Bryan...they changed a leg in one frame, an arm in the next, and so on, so it looked seamless. 3. Though there is some humor in the episode and in Walt’s behavior (here and always), Walt would never think of himself as a funny person...especially not due to his mistakes/foibles. 4. Vince loves it when the audience comes up with theories/takes on the show he didn’t think of. He wants people to talk about it in depth, and even argue about it. So we’re basically doing exactly what he hopes! 5. They found the footage of the fly they used in the cold open on KZbin & had to track down the creator & buy the rights to use it...so it was footage they didn’t shoot themselves. Editorializing: I was bored with this one, possibly bc I loved the last one so much?

[@kuhpunkt]

Bored? Bad Jessica. Bad :(

[@elisabethlarsen4282]

Jessica. Me and some other people were worried about you because we didn't see the podcast notes on the last BrBa upload. Was everything alright? You okay?

[@pearljammies]

kuhpunkt haha...just to be clear, it was the podcast, not the episode, I was bored with! It’s just hard to follow Bob’s amazing storytelling with a regular pod talking about production. And the wind was kinda taken out of my sails when I was soooo excited about the notes from last ep & put a lot of time into it, but I don’t think the comment got a single like? Probably my fault for gushing so much and being unable to edit myself bc I am so passionate in my love for Bob Odenkirk!

[@jay2moe]

I love these podcast notes

[@pearljammies]

Elisabeth Larsen Ohh, maybe that’s what happened? they‘re there! I posted 19 minutes after the upload! I can see them, but maybe KZbin buried the comment bc of length? Also ❤️

[@kenadams8944]

the fly represents guilt or loss of control in walt's life

[@rayraygunner]

LOL @10:22 I was eating a Pizza Pop and I damn nearly choked because I started laughing

[@insrtcowjoke]

This show is just so full of realistic and believable emotion. That's part of why I love it so much.

[@adambialecki3162]

Steven: Wussup YO! Nikki: *screams internaly*

[@doccreed7182]

I love the line when Walt says, "How can that be random?" Good question.

[@romans5-811]

The fly is representative of the corruption and contamination Walt introduced into his life when he made the fateful decision back in S1 to do something immoral for what he tells himself are justifiable reasons. The batch-his life-has been corrupted by his decision; His marriage is over, his son is distant and bereaved over his parents’ split up, he’s suspended from his legit job, Hank is shot up and gravely injured, Jane is dead, etc. I know this particular episode is divisive, but Ive always loved it as an extended metaphor for the corruption Walt has introduced into his life and that is by degrees ruining everything he spent 50 years building.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

never seen it like this. interesting

[@Jamie-kv9eg]

Incredible episode. Amazing directing and dialogue. Great comedy as well. Criminally underrated. Many people don’t understand the episode.

[@mikechandler4958]

Far from an Incredible episode

[@coreyburkeen9455]

Breaking bad can make an episode about a fly interesting

[@NikkiStevenReact]

right? and make you really think about things. not just interested but deep.

[@coreyburkeen9455]

Nikki & Steven React for real. You guys are awesome

[@therebellion96]

I turned the channel to AMC in the middle of the night and it was showing a couple reruns of BB. At this point I had never watced the show; only knew what it might have been about. So I said "Screw it! It's midnight, there's nothing to watch so I might as well watch this." *Fly* was my first episode of Breaking Bad I've ever watched. And it's still my favorite to this day!

[@NikkiStevenReact]

It is really good

[@primary2630]

"... Jesse didn't break anything" LMAO it goes to show how childish walt can be

[@miracle_grrrl_mira]

Hey Nikki and Steven, love your videos! I just wanted to point out that the title of this and the last episode are actually linked. "Kafkaesque" is probably alluding to Franz Kafka's story "The Metamorphosis" in which a normal man transforms into a huge insect, and his family is initially sympathetic but eventually repulsed by him, and he decides to commit suicide to stop burdening them. The "fly" in this episode is probably a metaphor not only for Walt's guilt and paranoia, but also Walt himself and his entire process of "breaking bad" and becoming a criminal. He now feels like he's burdening the family that he originally wanted to help, and that he's "contaminated" his own life with his lies and criminal activities. Him failing to kill the fly is representative of him "failing" to die at the moments when he felt it would have been best for his family. Him holding Jesse up on the precariously positioned ladder probably reflects that his relationship with Jesse is now the only one he feels like he has any control over, but it's only being supported by Walt continuing to manipulate and lie to him, for which he feels guilty and almost ends up confessing the truth to him in this episode. Jesse on the precarious ladder being supported by Walt might also allude to Jesse being in danger of being found out, and Walt having to lie for him and protect him. The end of the episode showing the "red light" on the smoke detector and the fly, beyond just indicating that his guilt, paranoia, and feelings about himself still persist, is probably another indicator that he just wants everything to come to an end.

[@TheJokerAkaCirque]

"I trust Walt knows what he's doing." "No I think he's losing his shit." Why not both?

[@edgcrushr]

One of my favorite things about this episode is the meaning of the cold open. Walt thinks the night Skyler was singing to Holly would've been the perfect time to die because things hadn't been contaminated at that point. The fly in the cold open shows that was too late; things were already contaminated.

[@jmwild1]

Fun fact: Dean Norris was 43 when they started shooting Breaking Bad season 1. When they were shooting season 3, he was 45. He just looks a lot older than he is.

[@themolecularman9312]

was just going to comment on that. he was 45-46 while filming that episode (born in 1963, filmed around the summer of 2009)

[@YourDadYoda]

The writing is on point in this episode. And I love good writing in shows. Which is why I love this episode.

[@cocomelonenthusiast3101]

yoda

[@homerorosso2638]

this is what I love about this, I found this episode so boring when I saw it, but now I enjoyed it so much watching it with you guys

[@BangTanPrettiNikki]

Homero Rosso I hated with first watch myself. After view several more times I put it in my top 5 favorites of the show.

[@StevenBEaster]

Remember Walt said "it's all contaminated " meaning everything is corrupt

[@adambialecki3162]

I think you are right. I think the fly is a metaphor and so is the lab. It's all contaminated. Walt's life, it's all contaminated and Walt finally accepted that.

[@QuickLern818]

I think what we're seeing in this episode is someone who needs control feeling out of control, so they're finding whatever they can--however small it is--to regain some control.

[@overdosarN]

I allways thought he used the Fly as an issue that wasnt there, just to protect Jesse. As he said the lab might’ve been bugged and so he needed Gus to believe there was a reason some meth was dissapearing. Walt obviously understood that Jesse was stealing so he made it look like the Fly was contaminating everything. Thats my interpretation atleast

[@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565]

I know your comment is 2 years old, but I just wanted to say that I actually think I like your interpretation a lot better. Its less metaphoric and more on the nose, which I appreciate. I'm just tired of everyone saying "the fly means this," or, "the fly represents Walt's...blah blah blah." But perhaps its as simple as Walt was just killing time, protecting Jesse.

[@overdosarN]

@@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565 Hahaha, good timing on the answer cus i just started rewatching breaking bad

[@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565]

@@overdosarN I'm watching it for the first time, and I totally understand why everyone is saying that it's the best show they've ever seen. I just saw the part where (spoilers) Walt runs over those two drug dealers and then shoots the dude in the face without even hesitating. That has got to be the most shockingly badass ending to an episode of any show I've ever seen. And Gus is easily one of my top villains of all time. Giancarlo is such a badass with his line delivery. If you can't tell I'm still reeling from the ending of the episode titled "Half Measures".

[@CaptainDansWanderings]

To me, this episode was like taking a breather from all the previous action-packed episodes, and the action that's to come. It's never explained why Walt nearly crashed head-on into that truck. Best I can figure is he was super-stressed and zoning-out was how his body reacted to that stress. Hank's reaction to severe stress is panic attacks. Walt's reaction was to blank out, unfortunately he was at the steering wheel when he did. Chemotherapy can cause fatigue, nausea, loss of appetite, sleep disruption, and many symptoms of depression and anxiety. Maybe that contributed along with the stress.

[@lethaldose2000]

I always thought of this as a throw-away episode. But listening to you guys discuss the meaning of the fly in the lab and referring it back to Gus. Made me see this in a whole new light.

[@Sylviala2009]

Ep 9 and 10 are linked together by title of episodes and I think story ( Kafkaesque - Franz Kafka wore the short story The Metamorphosis, about a man who wakes up one day and has turned into an insect)

[@AdrianStJames]

🦟😴☕️ The way I see it, the cold open is your biggest hint. Skyler singing a lullaby to the baby juxtaposed with the image of the fly. The fly represents the moment Walter was chasing after. The perfect moment for him to die. A moment before skyler found out about the meth, but after having made enough money for his family. The moment was the night Jane died. Before Walter left he was watching that nature show about elephants as skyler sang the baby to sleep. There was $1.2Million in the walls of his garage, skyler didn’t know about the cooking. But that moment escaped him much like the fly does in this episode. This also explains the moment in the previous episode when Walt nearly killed himself driving. He wanted to be done with it all, but this was not the perfect moment to die. So he didn’t go through with it. That’s my take! Keep up the great reaction vids!

[@doccreed7182]

Is anyone else going to lose their minds when they get to the last three seasons? LOL. I'm delirious (sorry if I got the Prince song in your head) thinking about Nikki and Steven going through all the crazy upcoming moments. The comments section is going to be on fire.

[@TheWunWhiteWolf]

This is what is considered a “bottle” episode. A episode that occurs mostly in one setting without much happening due to either a lower budget, saving money for the next episodes, or for story and pacing.

[@kjaime7030]

I think the fly represents losing control and how one bad decision can lead you down an obsessive path to other, worse, bad decisions until you "can't get out" any more. And part of this relates in large part to Jane, as he's apologizing about her without revealing everything, because he's now stuck with that poor decision and the guilt he can't ever reveal, for life now. And I think it does loop back to the FLYing airplane that crashed, since Jane's father was brought up by him again. I don't know if she ever said if the character she drew for Jesse, Apology Girl, could fly or not, but tht seems woven in on a symbolic level, too.

[@joeblack982]

“It’s all contaminated...” - sleepy Walt. I believe he was talking about himself. He was trying to purify himself but realized he’s all bad now

[@Jeremy-jm3fe]

Fun fact: The director of this episode, Rian Johnson, also directed an episode in season 5 that is wildly considered to be the greatest hour of television history. I won't say the title of it, because looking up what the name means is spoilers.

[@bruhmomento6691]

15:02 could that whole dialogue about Jesse talking about a possum living under his aunts house be connected to that one scene from Better Call Saul’s episode 6 of Season 5 where detective Roberts was on the phone with someone having an issue with a possum…. living under the house? 😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@AH-yu2pi]

How great is this show that they pulled off an episode with just Walt, Jesse and a fly.

[@siddhantdixit6843]

Its more like walt is like the fly trapped in that lab for the moment. Deep meaning right here.

[@JohnSlopReacts]

Watching this 2 years after posted. Honestly your analysis and attention to detail and appreciation of said details are appreciated. Hope you're doing well!

[@shannontaylor7236]

🦟😴☕️ my favourite moment was when the fly landed on Walt’s face. Hit it.... hiiiit iiiiit... 🤣

[@iannieves5346]

The Fly's also Walter helping Jessie yet again. He essentially told Jessie he knew about the theft. The fly's Jessie's chance for re-set. If the theft stops now, the loss can be attributed to contamination from the fly and all's good.

[@henrique-3d]

I just like this episode because it's funny AF

[@aegon1targaryen208]

If I remember right, I do know I can be wrong, this episode won an Emmy if I recall.

[@elbruces]

This is what they call A "bottle episode," usually something shows do when they need to save money. Just the lead actors in one location for the whole episode, nobody else, no other sets used. Done well (and this one is) it's like watching a really good stage play.

[@OG_Fernando]

Is "botttle episode" same as a "filler episode"? If so, I agree.

[@kuhpunkt]

No, Fernando. It's not the same at all.

[@OG_Fernando]

@Drake Lang I get you...not sure about the last statement, but to each there own. LoL.

[@elbruces]

" Four Days Out" was also a bottle episode and it was pretty great too. It's only "filler" to people who only care about plot and can't grasp things like character studies, relationship development, deep metaphors, and great dialogue.

[@briangonigal3974]

From your recap of last week's ep: Hank was definitely *not* lying in the test to see if he was feeling anything in his legs, there would be absolutely no point to it. Lying would just result in a course of therapy that would be inappropriate to his needs and would hurt him. I could see if he had "given up" and wanted to just lay there & die rather than try to get better he might claim not to have felt anything when he did, but there's just no line of thinking where it makes sense for him to lie the other way. As for the question of why Walt "zoned out" & let his car drift into oncoming traffic on the way back from his meeting with Gus; that scene will forever be ambiguous & open to interpretation (hell, even multiple contradictory interpretations could simultaneously be true, these characters are that complex & fully developed) , but I believe the glimpse we get this ep. into Walt's state of mind does help shed some light on it.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

lying would make Marie feel better about things... sometimes putting the people close to you at ease can sometime be most important.

[@coolbreez1214]

This is definitely one of my favorite episodes. A lot of people have called this one boring, because it's considered to be a "bottle" episode (1 set/act). But I was on the edge of my seat (just like y'all). It was so fun watching you guys. 🐝🛌💤🍵

[@danny1844_]

Its been forever since we got a new breaking bad reaction video from you guys!🦟😴☕️

[@danny1844_]

Drake Lang not even a day ago and it feels forever!

[@Shockwave99999]

I only started watching this show like a few months ago so I wasn't a fan during the height of this shows fame, but once I started watching this episode I had a feeling that it started controversy. Reading the comments, I was right. I for one really enjoyed this episode.

[@fevienkayfloreta5410]

This is one of my favorite episodes of Breaking Bad. And its directed by Rian Johnson. I'm enjoying rewatching BB with you both.

[@erinvandenberg5616]

This episode is so polarizing because of how much of a bottle episode it is, but I think it might be my all-time favourite episode. Nothing big changes, it’s not necessary, but it gives the writing its time to really shine and Bryan Cranston gives such a beautiful monologue. Also the parallel of the Fly being Walt’s guilt?? Gorgeous metaphor. (Also... the line “there’s no room to breathe, not with these people”...... CHILLS)

[@ilidiocarmona4827]

for me the fly is a metaphore for walt´s subconscious telling him that something is wrong....he knows jesse is stealing meth but he can´t accept it....

[@MattMajcan]

take a shot everytime nikki thinks walt is gonna accidentally tell jesse

[@PickleBread355]

Nikki's nail polish sweater combo! 💜💜💜

[@jacquelinelaface136]

Actually Dean Norris (actor playing Hank) is only 55 now...so this season was like 2010/2011...so he would only may been 45 when actually filming this season he just looks older lol

[@MothproofKT]

I think the fly was a metaphor for Walt’s conscience. He needed to get some of it/the guilt and the truth out, otherwise it will all drive him to the edge, like the fly did. He was trying to quash some of all that so he can get back to being more balanced and “cleaner” for apologising.

[@ericschuster2680]

When the episodes writing is sooo good that even Steven shuts up for once^^ Btw I'm here because of the movie hype, love your reactions so far :)

[@Francis-Kanja]

8:49 10:19 ... Have you guys noticed Walter and Jesse have amazingly hilarious "attack" scenes!! Jesse once attacked a phone when he lost his house and WW was not listening to him. I keep rewinding this over and over again while watching Nikki's reaction .... Hilarious!!!

[@MaxResolve]

This is my favorite episode of the series (I think... some of those in the final season are pretty up there). Glad you made it this far.

[@evn2787]

lmao am i the only one that loves the feeling of walt alone in his big super lab chasing down a fly and gearing up for it is just fun

[@adrianezzo1696]

😴☕💊🐝 Walt hit the🎯with what was up with the numbers, now he fears that he may have to give Jesse up in a situation where they figure out the numbers are off. There's so much more to the episode than the surface dialogue but i don't wanna spoil any conclusions you may not have come to. Thanks for another great reaction. Have a great Valentine's day together💝

[@phillipb1723]

I rewatched this episode a few days ago (staying ahead of you guys), and I forgot how incredibly tense those moments were when it looked like Walt was going to spill the beans about Jane. 🦟 😴☕️

[@frankparoots2980]

Dude I could take a whole show that would be the 2 of them in one room. they are amazing.

[@hjv2612]

I VE SEEN THIS EPISOE MANY TIMES, THE MORE I SEE IT THE MORE I LIKE IT! ITS A JEWEL INSIDE AN ALREADY AMAZING SHOW!

[@littlelewis329]

Watching your reaction to this episode for a second time, definitely one of the more unique stand out episodes of BrBa.

[@dansreviews5574]

27:15 were the milers 😂

[@gregorloebel7992]

I just noticed the parallels between the shots in this episode after the opening credits: bed - outside lab - Inside lab - outside lab - bed

[@bawling4soup]

walt goes heisenberg now and then but he be mad goofy the other times lmao

[@batnick7230]

This is one of the funniest episodes of breaking bad 😂😂😂

[@SidPhoenix2211]

This may be a controversial episode, but goddamn, I love it. The director of this episode is Rian Johnson. he directed The Last Jedi and also other (upcoming) episodes of Breaking Bad... Including arguably the best BrBa episode.

[@NikkiStevenReact]

ugh Rian Johnson... don't get me started. - S

[@SidPhoenix2211]

@@NikkiStevenReact well I hope you love the upcoming episode

[@NikkiStevenReact]

@Ívarr hinn Beinlausi I'm a massive Star Wars fan and I'll probably get into it when they drop the episode 9 trailer but I really hate the direction he took this trilogy.

[@ghenry4513]

@Ívarr hinn Beinlausi - It's also worth noting that a big reason why Johnson even got the Director's job for the Star Wars gig was because of his acclaimed directing on Breaking Bad just a couple of months before....He was the "hot hand" at the time.

[@Justinhomii]

It's based of the plot to the 1986 Jeff Goldblum movie The Fly. The Fly is the reason for his downfall that's why Walt takes the fly so seriously, as if it's deadly.

[@ChristopherJ0884]

One of my favorite episodes, it cracks me up every time

[@grumpyboomer61]

Nikki in full mom mode while Jesse was up on the sketchy ladder was priceless.

[@masonr1666]

@1:10 What Jesse fails to consider is that his salary is 100% profit. He doesn't have to: 1) invest time in selling/ distributing the product. 2) invest time gathering the raw ingredients to cook. 3) invest and maintain equipment Those things together makes up a lot of cost that Jesse & Walt don't have to worry about. (Also security of their workspace & home, now with this new contract terms.)

[@sallyatticum]

Fly in the ointment, fly on the wall, fly off the handle, it will never fly, fly under the radar, fly in the face of... choose your idiom. sleepy face, bug, coffee

[@thaddeus_maximus]

fun fact: this episode was directed by Rian Johnson who also directed The Last Jedi and Looper

[@tucci06]

Still one of my favorite episodes, if not my favorite. So well done.

[@garyglaser4998]

I took it as a metaphor for the corruption of Walt's soul. He tries to keep it away in vain. No matter how hard he tries to kill the fly he can't get at it. He then talks about how he wishes he could have frozen is life the moment before he showed up at Jesse's house that night (because he somehow knows when he let Jane die and went down a path there is no returning from) When he finally says, "It doesn't matter anymore. Everything's contaminated." (paraphrasing) Jesse immediately kills the fly. Walt sees the fly again at home and is no longer tries to fight it because he has accepted his path. He knows he is now fully corrupt and has accepted who he has become.

[@spawncampe]

Walter thinking about the perfect moment it would've been to drop dead is my favorite scene in the show

[@allyourmoney]

When Walt gives up on the fly he's finally giving up on his delusion of moral purity. He accepts that he's tainted now. He also accepts that there will always be things beyond his control & he'll just have to live with it.

[@kjaime7030]

When it comes to whether he should have taken the year deal or not after the 3 months, Walt of course doesn't know this part, but at the time of the original 3 month deal, Gus had told the twin cousins that they could kill Walt when his business dealings with Gus had concluded. So whether it was smart of Gus to take the $4 million deal or not is one thing, but if he had NOT, Gus would not have set up his plan to remove the twins from the equation.

[@thefatman2780]

WHAT? SLEEPY FACE FLY IN MY COFFEE? HUHH? ☕😴🐝

[@JoshSweetvale]

What people overlook, is that the writers needed to establish a "new normal." All hanging plot threads are resolved, Walt and Jesse working for Gus is looking to be a long-term thing... So you set up an episode that would fit in an old-school TV series, one without obvious storylines that connect to other episodes. And then next episode, the slow descent into madness begins.

[@jamesmmcgill]

Plot twist: the fly is actually a reincarnation of Lalo Salamanca

[@prp2]

Dean Norris in 2006 actually *was* 43. Born in 1963. What blew my mind was learning that when filming Starship Troopers, he was only five years older than Casper Van Dien. 🤯