Luke Kirtley ’15 | Staff Writer

In the hit television show “Breaking Bad”, Walter White struggles to make money and provide for his family with his low paying job as a chemistry teacher. As a result, he starts to cook methamphetamine with his ex-student Jesse Pinkman. As he struggles with the risks of being a drug dealer, he also deals with the struggles of terminal lung cancer.

Season 5 has come to halt, holding off on the last half of the season until the summer of 2013.  The season opened up with Walt, hair grown back and matured, pulling out an M60 machine gun out of the trunk of his car.

Since his main supplier, Gustavo Fringe, is dead, he decides to start his own business with Jesse and Mike. They change the operation from the mega-lab in season 4, which has now burned down, to a portable lab. This portable lab is set up in various houses while a fumigation company is fumigating.

Mike soon realizes that the DEA is following behind him too closely, and leaves the operation in fear of being caught. In season 4, Jesse’s girlfriends son was killed after he was excommunicated from his former gang, and Jesse, still feeling bad, also drops out of the operation.

In the end of the eighth episode, which was the last until next summer, Hank, the DEA agent, notices something intriguing. In Gale’s, the now-dead meth cooker, notebook, there was a note that said “To my other favorite W.W”, and that’s where it ends.

This was the appropriate way to end the half-season, it left all the loose ends untied, leaving so much suspense for the next and last eight episodes. Ending it with Hank finding the note basically revealing Walt is the drug lord. It leaves so many questions for the year-long wait.

In the new season, I expect some intense action, due to the tensions that were all left. I imagine Walt might even get caught, but probably die before anything happens. I imagine Jesse will end his drug use habits, and live happily with his girlfriend. Hank will catch on to Walt, but be a tad late.

In the meantime, I would personally recommend watching the series and give it a B+.