But to take his obsession to the point where a single fly caused him to do the things he did was just not believable. The episode doesn’t fit with the others.
“Fly” is one of my favorite episodes of the series. It distills everything I love about the show into 45 minutes and change.
Walt is exhausted, and sick, and scared, and obviously mentally unstable. That’s one of the main points of the series.
If I had to pick my favorite, I think it would be a tie between “4 Days Out” and “Peekaboo”.
There’s a poster online for the new season. I don’t think it reveals what will happen, but it looks awesome.
I have a guess as to the setting in that picture.
It might be the upper floor of the car wash.
The fly episode was not our favorite, but we didn’t mind it that much.
Agree. Which is why it didn’t work for me. I’ve known people in similar straits. Walt’s behavior just wasn’t right. Let’s agree to disagree on this. I’m looking forward to viewing all of season four soon!
If you haven’t seen some or all of it yet, or want to watch it again, it looks like AMC is rerunning the whole series to date starting tonight (actually early Monday morning).
It’s late but you can set your DVR. I don’t know if Comcast will have it on demand or not.
If you have DISH, they’re apparently removing AMC from their lineup.
I love this show, and I think I’d even love it if I didn’t live in Albuquerque, about six blocks southwest of the Whites’ house (I found this out one night when cutting through the neighborhood on my way to pick up a pizza - the crew stopped me while they finished filming a scene). I’ve patronized the car wash in the show for decades, and they’ve incorporated a beloved local burger chain and pizza place into the show. Saul’s strip-mall storefront office is in the little corner mall where my pet-food store is located. The blow-up Statue of Liberty stayed up one entire weekend there. I’m going to miss driving by the coded black and yellow signs directing workers to the locations on my way to work. Even though we’ve experienced a filming boom in New Mexico, no one else has ever filmed in the Northeast Heights!
Ahem. It’s also an excellent show, even though I’d obviously watch anything that’s filmed here (I’ve seen every episode of “In Plain Sight”, which is far inferior). I really like the way that the characters have developed over the years, even though I haven’t ended up liking the actual characters in the same way I did the first season. I’ll miss the series, but I really appreciate that it won’t outlive its dramatic arc. This isn’t the kind of story that can keep on going indefinitely.
Wow, that’s pretty cool, InternetLegend!
Soooo, I’m watching it due to this thread… finished season 1 and 2 eps into season 2.
I’m finding it really difficult to watch. There’s no question it’s quality, but the looming doom and the nature of the “protagonist” (as I will loosely refer to Walter) makes it hard to plow through.
IS there an actual discussion thread for this? I don’t want to get into more detail in this thread.
By far the worst episode of any great show.
There are threads on many of the individual episodes, and some general threads.
Season 2 is quite grim, but it’s worth it if you can stick it out.
Okay, I will trust you on this! Right now I’m having to pause at least twice an episode to just walk away from the TV because I just KNOW something awful is about to happen… sometimes, it even does!