Review of Breaking Bad Season Three Episode Two

The Fallout Continues in Episode Two “Caballo Sin Nombre”

If Season Three of Breaking Bad is feeling a lot different than the previous two seasons to you, then you probably have a good sense of why this is happening. While in the past, Breaking Bad came on like a derailed freight train, this year its slithers in like the way the cousins from Juarez did on their bellies. Season Three is a season of consequences and these have to be laid out like a ling winding trail on a road map for us to guess where it is going. While the first two episodes lack the overall bang, they do deliver a serious layer of dark overtones for what is to come.

Spoiler Warning for Episode Two

Let’s face it, Walt (Bryan Cranston) is in a lot of trouble. His wife is leaving him, his drug dealing has hit a plateau, and the brothers form Juarez are hot on his heels for vengeance. Also, Walt’s mental health is slipping into a delusions of grandeur and entitlement. This is seen in the opening moment when Walt confronts a police officer who pulls him over. Walt demands respect for the plane disaster that happened over his house and instead gets a nice dose of tear gas in his eyes. Meanwhile, his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) has become a tough shell, neither bending to her husband’s demands, her boss’s attempts to doctor the books, and her sister’s constant questioning of what is going on with her and Walt.

While things are going bad for Walt, Jesse (Aaron Paul) sees life through a new perspective. Now clean for over 45 days, he goes to visit his family who is selling his aunt’s house. He tries to connect with his father, but his family refuses to have anything to do with him. Over at Saul’s office, the lawyer tries to persuade Jesse to help him convince Walt to start manufacturing crystal meth again, but Jesse has other ideas as he hires Saul to help him get back his aunt’s house.

In the supreme sheisty nature of Saul, he gathers a meeting with Jesse’s parents and offers them about half what they want for the house without exposing it is Jesse who is making the offer. When they refuse, he mentions the fact that they didn’t give full disclosure that the house was used as a meth lab and this fact seals the deal.

Meanwhile, Saul has other plans for dealing with Walt that involve trying to get some dirt on his wife. He sends his private eye, Mike, over to the house to set up some bugs, but while he is there, Walt decides he is entitled to come back into his own house. Walt breaks in and moves all his bags back in. Mike watches from across the street and noticed as the brothers from Juarez pull up to the house with an ax to bear. Literally.

Mike quickly gets on the phone with Saul and lets him know there is a problem. Walt, while taking a shower, is unaware that the cousins sit on his bed and wait for him to come out. As they sit there, their phone rings and it is a single text message, “Pollo”.

When Walt exits the shower, the boys from Juarez are gone, but he notices his “eyeball” has been moved.

Meanwhile, Jesse’s parents await for the new owners at his aunt’s house and are not happy when Jesse shows up. Telling him to stay away from the house because the new owners are coming, he produces the keys and lets himself in the house.

Who Saw The Cousins from Juarez Coming?

When we were introduced to the cousins in the first episode, I was really worried about their impact on the show. They seemed “too over the top” for the overall feel for Breaking Bad. I thought they were going to be a slow roll until the end of the season. But when i saw them show up at Walt’s door at the end of episode two, I was in shock. Are these super villains just a one shot storyline? Is Mike gonna come in all gangbusters and save Walt?

When they received the one word text message, it was a powerful moment, and it also let us know just how much trouble Walt is really in. Gus, the Chicken King, seems to be more powerful than anyone realized. To have the pull to stop a vengeance kill from the maniacs from Juarez is an impressive feat. It also rings as another blade that Gus can swing over Walt’s neck to get what he wants from him. However Walt feels about being a drug dealer, there will be no escape from Gus without a little bloodshed being spilled. Even if Walt redeems himself this season, it will probably at the cost of some family members (I believe Walt Jr. is gonna get it.)

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