Breaking Bad is my favorite show of all time (FWIW, Better Call Saul also makes the top 5, as do Six Feet Under, Andor, and Tales from the Loop), but I would call "Fly" easily the show's weakest episode. Walt's monologue at the end is excellent, but the rest of the episode doesn't do it for me. 🤷♂️
You and @jowrotethis.bsky.social rightly lauded the desert vistas, which are nowhere to be found in "Fly" because it was made on the cheap due to a production budget shortfall.
Not that simple and cheap can't be brilliant, mind you: another show in my top 10 is HBO's In Treatment, which is just literally just people sitting in a room talking. But watching Walt obsess over a fly and his on-the-nose concerns about "purity", really?
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