Breaking Bad Season 3 Episode 1

That show no one knows, the one that's so good and yet still unknown that it's a crime, the Arrested Development complex show?
It's called Breaking Bad, and it's about Bryan Cranston's cancer ridden high school science teacher Walter White who goes into manufacturing methamphetamine to pay for his medical bills, with an old pupil turned dealer/user Jesse.

Almost automatically we had a car chase, a man in his underwear holding a gun and a sense of being completely out of time and place, and as the next 20 episodes went on, we saw the family life of Walter White, his pregnant wife, cystic fibrosis afflicted teen son, DEA agent brother-in-law and kleptomaniac sister-in-law, with Jesse's pals, dealers and users.
With each week it wasn't a clear cut case of having the show end with it's logical closure point, instead it's hard to differentiate episodes, even seasons, as it's all over the same period of time and absolutely everything carries on, no end of an arc in sight.

The best thing about the show? It still feels like we're in the early stages, no sign of an end in sight.

So in we jump with season 3, some serious stuff happened near the end of season 2, people OD-ed, and a culminating airplane crash giving us a sense of anything can happen.

We open the third season with Mexican people crawling on the ground, two men in a stylish car pull up and join them, before we jump back into the Walter/Jesse storyline.
This episode felt rather light in story, yes we're just sorting out the odds and ends with Walter admitting to his wife what he's been up to, but still, whilst there will be a lot to get through, the two stylish men turn out to be real badasses by the end of the episode, it's a shame that it felt more like an episode in the middle of a season, which I guess you could say it kind of is, but it still doesn't account for a lack of real plot with some characters, Walt really didn't seem to have much to do, and Jesse in rehab, well, at least he's out.

Still, Walt's speech about airplane tragedies was right on the money, and you can't REALLY badmouth this magnificent beast of a show, so why bother?
4/5