by mid-season finale we meant the episodes we watched that night ended with the mid-season finale. we know 5x7 is not the genuine mid-season finale 😉

"No 'sorry for chaining you to a radiator'?" Mike said "sorry" immediately after he chained him to the radiator!!

I like how he says “Gale, and the rest”, only mentioning Gale by name to screw with Jesse even more

"I can't wait to see Walt go down in flames." Two minutes later: "Go faster! You're gonna get caught!"

Poor Kaylee’s last memory of her pop-pop will be him abandoning her at the park 🫤

"You are a time bomb tick, tick, ticking. And I have no intention of being around for the 'boom." Mike should've followed his instincts.. 😢

mike was the ONLY person who knows how to agitate walter, hitting him where it truly hurts, his pride. thats why walter was overcome by anger and killed mike in a fit of rage

You were wondering why Mike didn't just up and leave when he received his $5 million cut. He stayed back to help care for his granddaughter. Also, when Mike lost all his money (other than what was in his 'go bag'), his fate was sealed. There is no way Walt could even think about killing 'Mike's guys' while Mike is still alive. Strap in, you two! The season just gets crazier and crazier from here. Plenty more 'open mouth' moments ahead...

Oh, and as to the idea that Walt “kills everyone in the world”, Fellow AMC show The Walking Dead which believe it or not was at one time running concurrently with Breaking Bad (wow, who knew that show’s title would eventually become so meta-descriptive) included several little Easter egg shout-outs to Breaking Bad which suggested the two shows existed in a shared Universe, which naturally resulted in the fan theory that it was Hiesenburg’s wildly popular Blue Meth which was somehow the source of the infection that led to the Zombie Apocalypse.

17:40 sometimes the silent reactions are the best and I love this one from both. The disgust and the surprise.

The cut to the sunset over the river is such a sweet moment to me. I think Mike gets the send off worthy of his character because in all the violence of BB he is the only one who gets "to die in peace".

This is why Walter is the best. He doesn't let anyone stand in his way.

I really appreciate you got the context with the whole "it's all your fault, we had Gus"-speech. A lot of people completely ignore that fact and just go along with Mike. But Walt was on Gus kill-list from the beginning of season 4. And he was on it because he saved Jesses live by killing Gus dealers. Walt had no chance to "just continue with the good thing they had". So unless we think it's OK that Gus dealers killed the little kid, and therefore Walt should have Jesse been killed, there was no chance to just keep the good thing going. Walt already hat Mikes gun to the head at the end of season 3. And Mike was involved in Gus plan to turn Jesse against Walt during season 4. So even for Mike it must been absolutely clear there was no "good thing" left for Walt. Mike isn't even that different from Walt. He became the muscle of a drug lord, he had no problem to kill Walt when ordered, he wanted to kill Lydia, he had no problem with that. And for what? To provide for his family, esp. for his granddaughter. And this is not at all an excuse for Walt. We should just remember, in that business, everyone has blood on their hands, and morals are more than questionable with all involved. If anyone, Jesse was the only one who at least really struggled with that.

There's a lot more of Mike in Better Call Saul. Hope you guys do a reaction to Better Call Saul when you complete Breaking Bad. Better Call Saul is more than just Saul's backstory.

This show is so good because it's starts with Walt being the good guy. The well-written and subtle way he becomes the bad guy is sublime.

Love the Gomez appreciation. Dude rocks.

"Say my Name". 🔥🔥 Heisenberg was not much more than a meth myth up until today. Once they realize who he is, Declan's actor especially portrays a delicate fear so perfectly. This old bald guy with glasses who dresses like an average American, is the biggest name in the meth business. This show is so good- it's almost surreal. Maybe the best moment in television history.

34:35 Eric gets it instantly: what Mike says isn't exactly true. For a good period of time, Walter was living on borrowed time. It's easy for the guy who was planning to kill Walter in the lab to say it all ran like clockwork and he should have just known his place. A lot of people genuinely fall for Gus' character who seems to be so clean and kind, forgetting what a vengeance driven sociopath he is under the veneer of a polite businessman. So many people miss this order of events.

Thank you for noticing Mike was a bit naive by suggesting Walt just had to shut up and do his part. If so, Jesse would be dead. I still love Mike tho, RIP

As despicable as Mike knows Walter is even he didn't think Walt would stoop so low as to shoot him in the back

20:50 they both made the same face and went "ughh" at the sight of Todd 😂

The sopranos took a break midway through their final season as well. Btw thats a series you should react to. Tony Soprano, the original anti hero.

Remember Lydia's words from the beginning of the season? "I can't just disappear! She has to know I didn't leave her!" So wild how that became the end of Mike's story.

Watching your intro: yeah, this is why I actually count it as SIX seasons! It's the SIXTH season that's my favorite! lol. PS: Yeah, a year totally sucks......but we've been waiting for the second season of Severance for TWO years (and counting)! That one ends on a helluva cliffhanger as well!

You need to watch Better Call Saul to get the full Mike goodness. 😇

Wow, that was the best edit of the Jessie-Walt stand-off; there were some moments that don't usually make the reaction videos, a couple of things I forgot about. Also: love that you guys were pointing out those "western" scenes, they always make me laugh a little. Same thing with the slow-walking, no-talking twins; was glad to see them go! 😆 We traded up to Gale that season; big improvement!) My question is..... what's with all the bald guys in this show? What does that signify? PS: Kailyn, don't you have another channel? About nutrition? If so, could you give me the link? I had a couple of questions for the internet....maybe I can find the answers in your videos!

In early episodes (Grey Matter, when at Elliot's birthday party), it was revealed that Walt's specialization in chemistry is Crystallography - the science of arranging atoms to form crystal structures. I can see how that might be useful in making crystal meth. Probably not as useful in making beer or coffee.

Mike was more than willing to kill Walter in previous seasons. Because Fring wanted him to. He knew the terms when he became a criminal.

Mid-season finales are relatively common. It's been a long time since I watched actual TV, but I remember each season of South Park was split up into two parts with a long gap between.

I just noticed in the scene where Walt shoots Mike, the shoes Walt is wearing are Hush Puppies. IDK, it just struck me as being weird.

Breaking Bad is brilliant & probably one of my favorite shows to watch people react to! These final episodes continue to get darker & more crazy! 🤯 I feel like you both have this really uncomfortable nervous laugh when shi* hits the fan & something really twisted & dark happens, cracks me up! 😭🤣 Excited for BCS next 😁🤞🏼

1. Walt's last statement perfectly captures his strategic capabilities...which is zero capabilities 2. Walt loved CONTROLLING Jesse. This episode shows the depth of his affection for Jesse after Jesse stops allowing Walt to manipulate him...zero genuine affection.

For Mike to end up dying at Walter's hands is just... Tragic. Considering how amazing Mike was all around, and how much of a bizznatch Walt has become... Just tragic.

In cable, the first four seasons are produced mainly by the company that created the series, but in the fifth season this reverses so that the channel airing the show has to pony up the bulk of the production fees. This created a standoff with AMC and their previous series, Mad Men, in which that show went on hiatus for the better part of two yeas before contracts were renegotiated and the show returned in its fifth season. As a contingency, the fourth season finale was written to wrap up most of the lingering plot lines in the series in the event that AMC would not pick it up and Netflix, which at acquired streaming rights to the show, was interested in continuing the series on their end. Eventually, AMC agreed to produce 16 episodes for the final season, but then decided to get crafty and break each half up into their one mini-season of 8 episodes. That way they could continue to milk the series on the network with endless reruns and marathons for nearly a full year, while also weaving them around Mad Men and their next hit series, The Walking Dead, which is pretty much what happened. They knew that viewers would be willing to wait a long time, as Mad Men had demonstrated, and they knew they could be successful splitting the episodes in half and airing them in "seasonal" segments, which is what they did the previous year with The Walking Dead and continued to do until that series ended. They also did the same "wait until the next year" for the second half of the last seasons of Mad Men.

I don't excatly agree with Mike, that Walt blew it up. What got this party started is Walt saving Jesse's life by running over those dealers. Walt & Gus were on good terms before that happened. Everything after that on Walts part was self-defense becuz Gus was trying to kill him at the 1st chance he got

I remember when I saw this episode for the first time, I repeated it like 3 more times. Without a doubt it is in the best 5 of the series.

At this point even the most hardcore Walt can’t defend him

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but Steven Michael Quezada did (still does!) stand-up comedy before landing his role on BB. And you're right, he totally pulls off that goofy smile.

You guys are definitely my favorite BB reactors ever. Every time I get a notification that you uploaded a new video it’s like a Christmas present. Looking forward to the next one!

It’s funny when you guys said what else can happen after the last season. Well what do you guys think about this season?😁 And the best is yet to come!

That's what's great about this show. It's FUN to watch someone build a drug empire vicariously. Vince is like a pro at telling the fun side, but then he tells the truth side like a pro too. Every decision you make in this life has a ripple effect on the people you love & care about. At this juncture, the Walt brilliant enough to routinely outsmart everyone around him stands in STARK contrast to the Walt seemingly "INCAPABLE" of figuring the calculus of how bad this trajectory is for his whole family. THAT was my first thought when I watched this. RIIP Mike 💔

I think Walt liked it that Todd didn't want to get paid until he got it and learned it well enough

bacon banana cookies are surprisingly good. its kind of like a breakfast cookie (its not breakfast people im just making a comparison). sweet and salty with just a bit of salty savory bacon. people have pancakes for breakfast so its not an unheard of flavor profile.

Walt likes Jesse, but always manipulates him because Walt mostly does everything to benefit himself, and no one else. He is addicted to power and his criminal lifestyle, it makes him feel alive, and he likes it.

but i remember the midseason finale was gliding over it all

Been waiting for this episode! Get ready for wild ride rest of the way!

We all pay the price for our sins in this world. Mike for all his qualities was ultimately a henchman who worked for a drug kingpin like Gus Fring and later set up his own drug business with Walt and Jesse. The way his life ended, with him not being able to say a final goodbye to his granddaughter whom he loved very much, is one of the many ways karma works in life.

*In general" it's funny how people are upset about Mike's death. I mean ye, he's a great character, but also a criminal and a murderer. And I know there's a difference between him and Walter, but it is funny how anti-walt people can get while giving other characters a pass lol. Or like with mike's speech in which he wasn't really right about the whole thing falling apart because of Walt - all it takes is to go back to season 3 to see that there was way more to that. Anyway, i wasn't talking particularly about you guys. Just generally 😉

OK, if you ask to say your name: "Kailyn and Eric" 😅

Sure Mike is gone, but at least Todd is there.

Sorry to break it to you, but as someone who grew up near Owen Wilson’s parents and seen his brothers many times in real life, I can assure you that Declan is not one of them 😂

9:20 Imagine if Skyler found out that he was offered 5 mil to quit the business

I was FURIOUS

The show was split into two half-seasons as a way to try and milk just a little more village out of a show that had only belatedly become a real hit. All the way through season three the ratings were only middling at best and it was constantly on the verge of being canceled. It’s only when Netflix acquired the first three seasons in the break before Season four that it gained a huge new rabid fan base that showed up for AMC’s premier of Season Four. Suddenly, AMC had a huge hit on their hands and would have been more than willing to greenlight another five seasons, but now Vince Gilligan was saying no, we can’t drag this out, the story is approaching a natural endgame, this next season has to be the last. …Although in truth, the two halves of “Season 5” ARE two separate somewhat shortened seasons, in that the show did not even begin work on writing the last eight eps. Until the first eight of had already aired. One reason for maintaining the fiction that this way ir saved them from one last big pay increase for the cast & crew, who tend to re-negotiate their contracts on a season-by-season basis. This way Bryan Cranston & company only had one “season” to re-negotiate with the leverage of being part of a massive hit show, so they kind of got screwed a little bit this way.

RIP Pop Pop.

You will see a lot more of Mike in "Better Call Saul".

Mike’s not dead, he went on to become the captain of an independent ice hauler space ship and a criminology professor for a community college. Watch the Expanse and Community, ya’ll

I like your alternate universe theory where Walt and Hank have their own beer empire, sort of how Cranston and Paul have their own mescal empire now.

Want more mike story. Better Call Saul!

"He's the Devil!" not really. It's kind of missing the point of the show saying that. Look at what happened here. Walt didn't mean to kill Mike. It's a man that is still new at the World of crime. He barely know how to handle a gun. I think he acted on instinct in a clumsy manner probably trying to stop Mike and boom he ended up killing him.

I hope you're planning to watch Better Call Saul after this show's done 😅

Mikes biggest regret was talking bad about Walter, that’s why he shot him

Because he knew that it wasn't going to hold up and that Hank would get the search warrant so he got rid of all the evidence so they would find nothing when the search his house

"Even pros make mistakes"

Walt definitely regretted Killing Mike after it happened. Remember, he even said "I could've got the list of names from Lydia"....

I think this moment where he kills Mike, and the moment he watches Jane die are unavoidably coupled together. Because almost every other time Walt kills someone, there is a plan, a discussion, a weighing of the good and bad, and in general a logic behind the move. But with those deaths? None of that. He was just in the moment and totally slave to his emotions. There is no plan, there's no time to make one. What makes Walt scary is that he can make decisions like that instantly. Life and death, up to him and how he happens to be feeling in the moment. He's not in control of himself, he's often shocked by his own self after he did what he did in a fit of rage. A true monster. He'll kill anyone in his way and come up with an excuse for it afterwards. It's not that he did it, it's that he can tell himself he was right afterwards. He ALWAYS finds a way to tell himself he was right afterwards.

Walter is not a psychopath, that’s is a very bad mistake that a lot of people make, thinking a person that kills someone is instantly a psychopath, an example of a psychopath is Todd

Eric & Kailyn, once finished watching/reacting to "Breaking Bad" the plan is to react to "El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie" followed by the prequel Saul and Mike spin-off, "Better Call Saul", right ?

He likes the danger. The business has nothing to do with it. How pride comes over all.. then the danger. Fear and regret come way later.

Yes that's the way I felt about it too that Mike should have had some kind of understanding as to why Walt had to kill Gus Gus did not stick to his agreement after he had to kill the two gang bangerz to save Jesse at the time though Mike didn't care about Jesse he actually wanted to get rid of him he was going to kill both of them on orders but Gus still was going to use Mike to go after Jesse and that's why both of their lives were in danger and they had to kill Gail to save their own lives and we don't know if Mike knows that Gus threatened to kill Walter's whole family the baby and everything because he was still in Mexico recuperating so he might not have even known about that because that part might help him understand a little bit more he thought he just killed Gus to be Top dog i guess but that was not the reason at the time

It sucks that the last thing his granddaughter will remember is him leaving her at the park

my favorite episode

You'll feel better when you start Better Call Saul

It's Walter "Marlo" White.

*"Toe the line Jesse, and cook for me."*

Usually I'd try and make a joke or raise a tidbit of info or my excitement you guys are at a certain point, but I just this the other day and you guys finally getting to the episode reminded me of it. Kind of like an alternate reality to the infamous scene kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mciahs13l66tkqc.html Still excited that you guys are almost through with the series but also really worried to say anything now fo fear of giving something away 😅 I will say this is what I meant by Walt being a spiteful wild card of a man a few episodes/comments back. It really does start to ramp up with this episode, especially with Mike. Nothing but wounded pride behind the wheel at that moment.

Hell Yes! Red Dead 2 is by far my favorite game ever, too.

23:43 - Priceless! Totally agree with Eric: that is my single most favorite Gomez moment in the entire series!

Yeah even after Gail died he could have just taken Gail's little machine and learned how he did the coffee and opened his own coffee business and take credit for it Gale is dead now so it doesn't matter at least it would be legit and it would be his Creation in business

If I was Jesse I would have said at the desert meeting I am out too. And said Mike 5 million and me 5 million

I think that there might have been an industry wide writer's strike at the time and that's why there was such a gap

Of all the things Walt has done I think this pissed me off the most lol

Are we committing to Better Call Saul??!

Every amazing scene with Mike in Better Call Saul and you will be shaking your head in disgust for what Walter did and how cheap Mike’s death was.

Epic thumbnail, looks like waltuh is shooting kaylin and she us shocked with open mouth

Mike didn't have a gun at the end, he had disposed of all of them except for the one in the bug out bag that Walt was bringing him. He was unfortunately completely at his mercy.

As bad is this was, it's not getting any better 😂

Jonathan Banks didn’t agree with writing of Mike leaving his granddaughter.

Can't wait to end this breaking bad stuff reaction and go immediately to Better call saul so bad.

Ahh yes..the episode where Pop-Pop gets popped

Why the year-long break? Double-dipping for those Emmys, I'd say 😉

Buckle up

RIP Mike

*"Toe the line Jesse, or you'll wind up just like Mike."*

But u missed after jesse killed gale then gus killed victor after that for like 6 episodes from s04e02 walt keeps tring to kyll gus n gus stop trying to kill walt after season 3 finale n hank started going after gus n its walts fault so after s04e02 everything happens walt puwhed by trying to kill gus every episode of season 4 even after Mike tells him u won. Walt made up his mind to kill gus in season 4 premiere n been trying gus stopped n tried ukno this

Owen Wilson's brother is Luke Wilson, and he looks nothing like that guy lol.

its only Frings fault that things fall apart, Eric right

RIP Rocky

Rip Mike 🥺

Belize is beautiful this time of year.