What are your favorite and least favorite Breaking Bad episodes and why?

One Minute and Ozymandias are probably tied for 1 for me.

Hard to pick a least favorite.

Interesting fact: Ozymandias is the only TV episode on IMDB to currently have a perfect 10.0 rating.

In the BB universe? This is easy

For favorite, the answer is "Nippy" because Johnnyblaze gets triggered by it

Ironically they both involve the same director, Rian Johnson, for best episode (Ozymandias), and worst episode (the fly).

Rian Johnson directed ozymandias?

Ghost of Bisbee said:

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Rian Johnson directed ozymandias?

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2301451/?ref_=ttep_ep14

I was referring to Breaking Bad itself, not the Breaking Bad universe, but if people want, they can include their favorite and least favorite episodes of Better Call Saul as well.

Ozymandias with Face off a Close second. Even the latter is currently 9.9 on IMDB I think. Ozymandias is the best single hour of TV ever.
And yeah, the fly sucks. Fight me.

Fly has a 7.8 rating on IMDB, which isn't bad, but it's bad for Breaking Bad standards (49 of the 62 episodes are rated 8.5 or higher on IMDB, and Fly is the only episode with a rating lower than 8.0).

I'm far from a Rian Johnson apologist, and I unironically like Fly.

It has good dialogue.

Half-Measure - Where Mike tells Walter about the guy who beat his wife on the regular so Mike takes the dude out to kill him so he didn't kill her. Last second, with the dirtbag pleading for his life, Mike let's him go. A week later, dude murders his wife. That was Mike's last time he took a half-measure.

Ozymandias - just crazy good TV.

Even gilligan admitted the Fly was a limited episode because of budget Constraints. They were away over budget for the season and had to do a single locale limited characters episode.
The simplest reason I don't like it is that if it never existed, literally nothing about BB would have changed, you wouldn't even know it was gone. It didn't advance anything in a meaningful way, which is the antithesis of what the show was. It was basically a throw away couched in "relationship exposition". And even in that context it was slow and uneventful.
But to each their own.

Anyone here have a least favorite episode besides Fly?

Ozymandias is the greatest episode of any TV show in the history of TV shows. Why? Watch it and you'll know.

IFT

The poem Ozymandias read by Bryan Cranston. The guy who wrote it was the husband of Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

IFT could also stand for I f***ed Tuco or Tio (as in Hector Salamanca), but Skyler wouldn't be interested in a corpse or an old man in a wheelchair.

Know Your Enemy said:

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Ozymandias is the greatest episode of any TV show in the history of TV shows. Why? Watch it and you'll know.

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Ozymandias was the one with the best musical bit of any episode when Walt was rolling his cash barrels. It was either that or granite slate. I think it was Ozy

"Take my true love by the hand…"

Big rock candy mountain in BCS was a close second

https://screenrant.com/breaking-bad-alternate-endings-considered-explained-every/

https://www.looper.com/356820/the-darkest-breaking-bad-alternate-ending-we-never-got-to-watch/

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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You answered a question that wasn't meant for you to show how unique you are for not watching a popular show.

hth

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You've never, ever done this before, right?

The first episode I ever watched was Ozymandias. Just purely accident. It was on the tv and after a few minutes I was hooked. Bought season one and I've watched this series 20 times over the years.

I especially like the last episode. I can watch that over and over.. I also love the one when Walt drives over the dealers and tells Jessie to run. Oh and when Gus poisons the cartel.

My favorite tv series of all time.

I don't like the episode with Hanks wife pretending to be different people. She's annoying.

I can't really think of one but that's good news.

It's one of my favorite shows of all time and I'm waiting until it's been so long that I can give it another binge watch.

I got onboard late and binged most of the show from season long DVDs I bought from Amazon. Probably the last series I did that with.

If you want one more I wasn't. A UGA fan of, I would throw up "cornered".
If for no other reason than hat awful scene of Skylar at 4 corners.

ApachePilot said:

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The first episode I ever watched was Ozymandias. Just purely accident. It was on the tv and after a few minutes I was hooked. Bought season one and I've watched this series 20 times over the years.

I especially like the last episode. I can watch that over and over.. I also love the one when Walt drives over the dealers and tells Jessie to run. Oh and when Gus poisons the cartel.

My favorite tv series of all time.

I don't like the episode with Hanks wife pretending to be different people. She's annoying.

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First scene I ever saw was Gus dying in the old folks home. I was waiting for a movie to start after the show and happen to see it.

Fast forward several years later, and I start binge watching it for the first time. Knowing how he was going to die still didn't ruin a single thing for me as his character was fantastic.

Face Off was my favorite…just incredible Tv

Was it crawl space where Walt was laughing hysterically after he found out Skyler gave all the money to Ted? That was an intense episode and the ending was incredible.

JDUB08AG said:

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Was it crawl space where Walt was laughing hysterically after he found out Skyler gave all the money to Ted? That was an intense episode and the ending was incredible.

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Ask yourself this: Where was Walt laughing hysterically?