no way walter white watched whats therapy

"The unfortunate thing about Tuco is that he doesn't seem to have been reformed from his time in the prison system" I laughed so hard I had to pause the video to catch my breath lmao

It's so funny how Better Call Saul made Walt look like such a buffoon side character and more and more people genuinely don't like him despite him being what started it all

I think a sad recontextualisation of Breakimg Bad after Better Call Saul is that Saul may have thought of his relationship with Walter as another chance at a relationship with someone like Chuck. Walter and Chuck share many traits, and Saul looks for approval from Walter in similar ways that he did from Chuck.

Skyler was a badass in her negotiation for the car wash.

Skylar is such a tragic character, it's absurd that people hate her so much. I think she and Howard are good mirrors of each other.

It sucks that there was such a backlash towards Anna Gunn's portrayal of Skyler that chances were dashed for her inclusion in El Camino and BCS. She made an Op-Ed on the criticism if you weren't aware. At least we got Marie in BCS but I always wonder what could have been.

Jesse’s emotionality at the end of BB was because he escaped nazi meth jail, not because he didn’t kill Walt. BB showed the “final” outcome for Walt, as does EC for Jesse and BCS for Saul. Walt dies, Jesse gets away and Saul faces justice. I would have liked more of the other characters too but like you said, there was so much still left of Jesse’s story Look forward to your BB videos!!

Gale is a libertarian. You can tell this by how he justifies manufacturing meth in his talk with Walt. Owning and reading a book doesn't automatically make you that thing. Also, Skyler cheats on Walt so that he will divorce her. It just didn't work. At least that's my interpretation of her motivation.

Yes, another Marie fan! I thought she was really funny too... and generally had the most moral clarity in the show. If she was a bigger part of the Walt story, she would have figured more of it out. Marie being in the BCS finale was probably the best and most surprising cameo they could have done.... I did not expect it, but it makes perfect sense.

LOL you were like "I don't know, it might take me a while to finish watching... don't expect much..." and then BAM

As a kid, Gus slowly tortured a wild animal for several days because it stole his fruit. That's telling.

Gale was an intellectual who read Marx and Lenin but didn't subscribe. He was a libertarian--a Ron Paul fan. He also justified his work for Gus by saying people, not the government, should decide if they want to take drugs. One of my favorite scenes was that video of Gale singing that Major Tom song.

What’s interesting about your take on Walter and Jimmy are the fact that you said that “Saul has no redeeming quality.” and “Walter has more humanity than Saul.” Which proves how the franchise is successful in overglorifying Walter while also overdemonizing Jimmy to the point that even a therapist still consider Walter to be a better human being than Jimmy. Just look at the reasons why. 1. The show doesn’t have a constant reminder to make us realize that Walter is evil even in case of Skyler, they somehow managed to frame her in the most unappealing to the fans as much as possible so that nobody will root for her. Meanwhile, BCS bombarded us with people keep saying “Jimmy is evil. Chuck is right.” with Chuck, albeit more villainous in motive towards Jimmy than Skyler towards Walter, still have disadvantages that make people care about him like his EHS and his divorce with Rebecca. 2. The show brainwashed the audience into thinking that Walter is an altruistic “anti-hero” by bombarding us with the mantra about “What Walter did, he did for his family” which told us that at least, Walter has something to fight for and made us want to see him succeed even though all of his actions kept pushing his family in danger and ended up killing Hank. Meanwhile, Jimmy in Breaking Bad had nothing to fight for and he blatantly said that he did it for money (while in fact, he didn't really want money. He did it because he felt empty.) so it’s hard to make anyone sympathize with what he did even though it’s not half as bad as Walter. Jimmy, even in his most evil version is more of an anti-hero than Walter could ever be. Walter is a straight-up villain. 3. Walter lost everything only in the final 3 episodes of Breaking Bad while Jimmy lost everything BEFORE Breaking Bad. Seeing people around Jimmy either die or left him a long time ago gave us the impression that Jimmy is a failure while Walter barely losing anything until the end of his story gave us the illusion of his “coolness” and “badassery”. Not to mention that Walter barely had to live with the consequences of his actions. He died in his own terms like a great warrior, a “winner”, while Jimmy is condemned to be in jail for his (and Walter, Jesse, Skyler and Kim) sins until the day he die which reinforce his “loser” status. 4. Kim is a main character. Gretchen isn’t. What Jimmy did to Kim are not half as bad as what Walter did to Gretchen. In fact, Jimmy had so many restraint in his actions and his anger towards Kim was justified too, considering how Kim was the one who started the Howard scam, omitted the truth about Lalo which put everyone in danger then dumped Jimmy when things went wrong. Meanwhile, Gretchen never did anything wrong to Walter at all. It’s all about his insecurity but he responded by lying about her paying cancer bills to Skyler, saying “f*ck you” to her, then went to terrorize her and her husband in their own house to get them to provide blood money for his family. Framing is important. We see Kim as a fully-realized character. That’s why Jimmy’s actions towards Kim look million times worse than Walter’s actions towards Gretchen, who is just a side character nobody really care about.

The entirety of Kim’s character is a course correction for the public’s reception of Skyler’s character, which in my opinion, doesn’t need to be “corrected” at all.

This might sound like a shitpost but I unironically believe that the walt jr "why don't you just fucking die already" from the first season (I think episode 4 but don't quote me on that) is the best scene in the show, the way it's shot with jr's crutches sitting next to him, up against the chair, shows his anger at the idea that his father who he clearly loves would just give up when there's a real possibility he Could get better when jr's been strugglingwith something with a illness that Can't be fixed, I get the anger behind that, the idea of "I'm struggling every single day to even get dressed by myself but you're just going to lie down and fuckin die?" Really hits, you know? (Edit: as I was typing this comment you brought up the scene and I think that's just neat)

you talked about Walter's motivation, I think he essentially has a "mid life crisis" after being diagnosed paired with the toxic masculinity that he clearly shows. It reminds me of Brendan Gleeson's character in the recent movie Banshees of Insherin. I think his mortality has pushed him to try to be remembered for something, or at least feel like he has accomplished something. It clearly isn't about the medical bills, because he is offered a payment plan through his old business partners, Elliot and Gretchen, to pay for his medical treatments. I think it's just a man who feels he has to prove how manly he is and now that he's going to die this is the way he has to do it. Or he feels he has to do it.

That’s not true the reason the guy gave for why Tuco was killed off early. Raymond Cruz just got a big role on another show. It’s true that his wife said she was scared by his acting, but it didn’t cause “marital problems.”

In my experience with crime media, there tend to be three fates for characters in 'the game'. They either wind up dead (Walter), in prison (Jimmy), or they get rich and get the hell out (Jesse), and I am glad that the protagonists illustrate all three outcomes of such illicit ventures, plus the ways they got there are suitably all dramatic and twisty and turny. Plus it's not exactly like Jesse got away scot-free. Essentially all of El Camino, in present and flashback scenes, are Jesse paying physically and emotionally in every way conceivable to earn his escape to Alaska, and it's clear by the end he's glad to get away but also will carry this with him forever.

I like to imagine that Walter's bald head and choice of Heisenberg as an alias might have helped ingratiate him to Jack's gang, even though it's never implied anywhere in the show.

Sorry, Todd is the worst. He killed a child without a thought. He enslaved Jesse and killed Adrian to punish him. And in EC, he killed his housekeeper merely because she found his money. He is soulless. He didn't break bad. He is bad. Walt showed some self-realization in the end. That would never have happened with Todd. With Gus, it's strictly business. I don't care that he wanted revenge on Hector and the cartel. They deserved it.

pls don’t fire the editor the out of nowhere animal clips made my day

I think Gus would just look down on Chuck's high-strung-ness and act indifferently, similar to when Mike met him lol

i am the one who knocks is the most cringe scene. i cant believe people think that shit is "sigma" and cool, when i find theres plenty of scenes where walter actually manages to be cool and badass outside of this one (especially in season 2 imo) but instead people point to the scene that gave me second hand embarrassment. its pathetic walter at this point is cornered by all his enemies and he lashes out at his wife to reassure himself hes the real threat

I’m so happy you finally watched it! I consider BB and BCS all one big show in a way :) one giant important story about actions and consequence.

I just remembered having an assistant coach in HS who introduced himself as “Tod, with one D. It’s German for death.”

Walter killing lydia is justifiable, she literally tried to kill him, sent Todd and the others to scare Skyler and threaten her so as she doesn't say anything about Lydia to the cops. Mike warned them about Lydia, he knew she had to go. So why would you hate Walter for giving her the Ricin?

The introductory content was the best part. Thank you so much!!

That AI article had me actually crying from laughing. The random ass picture of Nacho Libre, the idea that this "Laura Girl" is just some insane person writing nonsense daily is so funny to me I'm dyinnnngggg

I was in tears watching your reaction to the clips your producer prepared...lmfaooooo

I don't think the show was primarily intended as a critique of the US health care system, since Walt is given many options to solve his economical situation pretty easily.

Walter is cool in the most uncool, uncommon ways.

What the show missed about the health care system is that government employees--like Walt and Hank--have the best health care. There is no way they would have an HMO unless they chose it.

"A goatee? In this economy?"< You are a gem, sir. Oh! and you've helped draw more parallels: Walt takes on the characteristics of the people he's killed (Gus: a towel on the floor, Krazy8: cut the crust off of sandwiches, etc.) "And that's fine." < You use this expression a lot. Didn't notice so much, but when you said Mrs. Gomez wasn't Gretchen, "and that's fine" my Linguist brain took over.

Skyler cheats on Walt not to hurt him but to make him leave her so she doesn’t have to be a wife of a meth dealer.

I’d suggest for the title “Watching Breaking Bad having only watched Better Call Saul”

Loved this video, thanks! Big pay off to the BCS series 😊

TV on the Radio is awesome. Discovered them through NFS Pro Street.

Sad I missed this live but I work way too early for that :P least I can listen to it for the first couple hours of work.

1:39, El Camino is not supposed to be a sequel to breaking bad in its entirety, just a bookend to jesse's story. He only had two scenes I think with Skyler in all of breaking bad, and it wouldn't make sense for her to appear in his movie.

Can you do videos on characrters from red dead redemption. I think Dutch Van Der Linde would be great material for you to analyze. I belive the whole series covers ideas that you would interested in.

great stream,, love it!

I think one of the things that made Werner Heisenberg rather different from Walter White was that Heisenberg's scientific career was not in a dire state like Walt's career as a chemistry professor was. The real Heisenberg was a very successful scientist, and his work in the nuclear weapons program was probably just a consequence of him being among the probably dozen people in the world at that time who knew the inner workings on the atom, as well as political pressure. There's nothing about Heinsenberg that suggests he ever was a nazi or shared any of their views, but being a government scientist means you do what you're told or risk losing your job (as the best case scenario), or more likely in a regime like that, lose your life. We must also remember the concept of Deutsch Physik and how the Nazi Party targeted and harassed scientists, including Werner Heisenberg up until his research would help the party with the weapons programme, of course.

I wasn't enough of a Chad to watch the whole series in 9 days. But I did watch the entire series within a month. And I loved every second of it

I bet they got rid of tucos goatee for bcs to make him look younger

Wait, he watched Saul first?

the Dog with angel wings digging a stream of water is a Creation myth

Didn't even start the video but I'm so excited lol

Succession needs what’s therapy

Now that you are watchin breaking bad please consider doing an analysis of marie shrader she has a very interesting arc that doesn't have much alaysis

i am so glad you like lydia she's my favorite. wearing loubotins to tour the new lab location in the middle of the desert and then literally closing her eyes tip-toeing around the dead bodies. like she's so slay i am obsessed with her

I think Todd is the perfect encapsulation of something Dan Harmon once said: “innocent is not the same as harmless.” I would consider Todd “innocent” in that he doesn’t seem capable of understanding or being at all affected by the suffering he inflicts on others. He’s seemingly incapable of empathy, or even of comprehending morality as a concept. Can someone be considered morally culpable for their actions if they are incapable of understanding the morality of their actions? I’m not saying he’s not RESPONSIBLE for his actions, just that I would view him more like an animal or a child who simply follows his instincts and doesn’t know any better. For that reason, I say Gus and Walter are worse because they know better.

KZfaq definitely seems better than twitch I’ll say that

I gotta say Gale was deffo a libertarian and not a marxist, I think he literally says that at one point lol

serval is its own kind of lynx-like creature!

32:44 I remember watching this scene and cringing throughout specially because I thought the crowd would be uncomfortable at the end, but they all clapped and then the scene ended. I was confused that her coworkers seemed to be okay with it.

Blueballing with a Half Life cat video is the best thing I could ask for

12:00 to get past the cat vids

in reference to the discussion around 1:04:00 about walt starting his own business. that's a thing you made me start wondering about... Walt demonstrates great aptitude for doing new things, he's got a great work ethic, he knows a broad range of science--not limited to just chemistry. A simple google search is showing the average chemist job in New Mexico is around 59-66k and according to science journal, the top highest paying field of chemistry is Research Scientists, which Walt is one of them. Maybe Walt gets off having a chip on his shoulder? As a therapist, have you seen this self destructive behavior often?

how come his voice is different on livestreams

Can you do more animal content? I really wanna see if the coyote are the badger. All I know is that I definitely more weed for your intro content.

I’m not sure if I agree with your assessment on Breaking Bad’s ending for Jesse in it being unsatisfying or unfinished. It wasn’t as simple as Jesse getting emotional over not killing Walter, it was an emotional breakdown built up over the massive back and forths Jesse has had with Walt throughout the show, and him finally being free from not only the servitude he was sold into for six months but also the manipulation and emotional strain he experienced ever since he started working with Heisenberg. The last shot of him at that point is purposefully left ambiguous, it’s up to us the audience to wonder now after all that where he goes and what happens with his life, only that we know it was something better than it was when Walt was around, he’s free from all of this. That’s what I really got out of their final moments, because there were so many layers of complexity with their relationship, it wasn’t simply black and white, it wasn’t just Walt purely manipulates Jesse, there are many scenes in Breaking Bad that indicate Walt cares about Jesse genuinely despite the terrible acts he has committed to him. In the end even after 6 months of reflecting on himself and having ‘regrets’ about it all as highlighted in the Better Call Saul finale, Walt ultimately decides to save Jesse. So that final look between the two really just carries the weight of everything they had been through, and now Jesse is free from all of that. Now this is not to say El Camino was a downgrade on the more ambiguous ending Breaking Bad gave to Jesse, I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily required to get the entire picture of Jesse since it leaves him off in a similar but better place than where he was at the end of Breaking Bad, we as an audience now just have less imagination to think as to where he goes from now, which means we lose a bit of the magic of that aspect of storytelling.

Was it bluey?

el camino?

thanks, i love you

22:55 easier to understand when you watch bcs first

Todd is so scary to me, and easily the worst person in the show, because of how banal he treats his horrific acts. I've actually met people like Todd. Not murderers of course, but in high school I knew plenty of guys who were totally chill dudes until you found out they were grooming middle schoolers, or beating their girlfriends, and it just didn't register to them that they were doing anything wrong. There are some people for whom victimizing people is just a normal, mundane part of life. That scares me to death.

I like BrBa more but i pirated BCS and had no Spanish subtitles 💀 i know like a very small amount of Spanish so i got the gist of it but ya know..😭i do like BCS characters more but i like BrBa overall more AT THE MOMENT.. will rewatch BCS and revaluate

Lies and slander! Laura is obviously from an alternate universe where what is described the articles takes place in the show.

30:14 Not sure if this is a meme or just a detail I missed in the show but I don’t think Gale is a ML; he labels himself a “libertarian” in a conversation with Walt when discussing their reasoning/rationale for making meth.

Todd looks like a budget Matt Damon

thanks for watching breaking bad

not a sequel, bcs is a prequel breaking bad came out before bcs

I love to eat nachos Varga style.

Breaking Bad is extremely depressing, I almost quit the show at season 2 because it made me feel so miserable. Extremely well written and acted but the constant bleakness beats you down. Better Call Saul's lighter tone makes it a much better show

The office had mass psychosis. That s why they were brainwashed into not seeing the absolute cringe of the birthday scene

I think he might have misunderstood the conversation Walt had with Skylar by phone after he took Holly. He said, "You are never going to see Hank." He mentioned it did not matter if he was family. Walt was doing that entirely to give his wife some deniability.

Why would anyone but Jesse be in El Camino?

This came way earlier than expected

LETS FUCKING GO

Bro kinda looks like abraham lincoln

0:55 how

I agree with your comments about “personality disorders” - it is a horrible label/diagnosis, it implies that the correct way to be is to have an ordered personality which is a scarier concept. It also implies that who you are as a person is wrong, is unacceptable.

1:30 don’t speed through *unless it’s one piece* those arcs aren’t gonna finish themselves

There is a replacement medication for meth: ADHD medication. And I'm willing to bet a lot of people with meth addiction have undiagnosed ADHD. I'm lucky I live in a country with a public healthcare system or I would have never gotten my diagnosis.

i gotta give props to you for opening this cam of wombs that is the brba fans. Some are just unbearable.

Ricin beans, rice and beans. It is funny and makes sense. Why do you say it doesn't make sense?

you look like Andrew Garfield :) Great content, greetings from Serbia

Wait, did you really not understand that Max and Gus were implied to be in a relationship?

imo the biggest thing i see demonstrated in breaking bad is how much shit american drug policy causes (albeit it doesn't show that that's completely intentional)

1:50:34

I'm a big fan of your channel but not going to lie, it's more than a bit eyebrow raising to me that you are a therapist yet have admittedly little knowledge or interest regarding personality disorders. Curious to know more behind your thought process.

Wasn’t Gale a self-proclaimed libertarian?

How was Skylar cheating on him morally ok lmao? Just bc they were having marital issues and Walter was lying about other things? That has nothing to do with cheating...i really don't get how that's just ok to you. You also tried to justify her smoking while pregnant...but if anyone disagrees with the things she did that were wrong, they're a misogynist? If you wanna say Walt is terrible and caused her to act out then ok, but you basically said she did nothing wrong...how? Just wanna say too that i watched the entire stream and i like your videos and appreciate your insights, so im not really trying to like be aggressive or anything, just genuinely wondering why you think those things. Respect. Also i totally agree about Marie, she's amazing and hilarious haha severely underrated character on the show.

walter white shows symptoms of ASD, not ASPD

finally lol

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I'm no psychologist, but saying on a livestream that Marxist-Leninism is preferable to capitalism should be grounds for a personality disorder diagnosis.

now watch something good aka The Sopranos👍🏻