Breaking Bad

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
5-8 Recap	Gliding Over All Gliding Over All - Walt ties up all his loose ends, gets quickly richer than he's ever imagined of being, seemingly quits the business to regain his family, and gets discovered by Hank. All in an hour's work.	2012.09.02 2012.09.07	B+	Joe R
5-7 Recap	You Acting Kinda Shady Say My Name - Walt finds himself back in the game, Jesse gets out, and Mike gets really out.	2012.08.26 2012.08.31	B+	Joe R
5-6 Recap	Queen of the Harpies Buyout - Walt and Skyler put on some Edward Albee dinner theater for Jesse. Jesse and Mike make a plan to sell their share of the methylamine. Walt strenuously objects to such a plan.	2012.08.19 2012.08.24	A-	Joe R
5-5 Recap	The Less-than-Great Train Robbery Dead Freight - After Lydia comes up with a plan for the boys to steal methylamine from a moving train, Walt, Jesse, and Mike recruit Landry from Friday Night Lights to help them pull it off. All the foreshadowing about leaving witnesses means somebody's gonna die.	2012.08.12 2012.08.17	B+	Joe R
5-4 Recap	The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Fifty-One - Skyler takes a more active role in her breakdown, while Lydia's jumpiness at Madrigal threatens the business.	2012.08.05 2012.08.10	A-	Joe R
5-3 Recap	Just Like Jesse James Hazard Pay - Walt comes up with a solution to the team's search for a new place to cook, but it's the economics of dividing the spoils that puts a major wedge in between him and Mike. Plus Skyler flips the heck out on Marie.	2012.07.29 2012.08.03	A-	Joe R
5-2 Recap	"I Guess I'm Coming to You" Madrigal - Mike's plans to sit back, drink his Ensure, and stay out of the business get invaded by all fronts as the DEA puts the squeeze on his underlings.	2012.07.22 2012.07.27	B+	Joe R
5-1 Recap	Magnets, Yo Live Free or Die - Walt and the Gang have one last loose end to tie up from last season's coup, and they plan to use a giant-ass magnet to do it.	2012.07.15 2012.07.20	B+	Joe R
4-13 Recap	Winning Face Off - So...Walter White won. He had to poison a child, co-opt the services of a bitter old murderer, blow a man's face clean off, and manipulate poor, lost Jesse Pinkman to do it, but he did it. He won. Who wants to congratulate the winner?	2011.10.09 2011.10.14	A	Joe R
4-12 Recap	Whoever Did This End Times - Somebody poisoned Brock, and however it happened, the important part is that Walt and Jesse decide it was Gus. Which means it's time to make some homemade explosives!	2011.10.02 2011.10.06	A	Joe R
4-11 Recap	It Is to Laugh Crawl Space - Gus and Jesse return to the states, where Gus pink-slips Walt, but not before threatening to kill pretty much everyone. Walt's panicked efforts to enter Meth Cook's Protection gets stymied by Ted having his money. Which is pretty funny, now that Walt thinks about it.	2011.09.25 2011.09.30	A	Joe R
4-10 Recap	Salud Salud - Walt accidentally exhibits human qualities in front of Junior. Skyler learns that Ted Beneke doesn't know a good thing when it dies in Luxembourg and leaves him all its money. Gus finally avenges his lost pollo hermano. And Jesse does really well on his study abroad program before having to shoot his way out of it.	2011.09.18 2011.09.23	A	Joe R
4-9 Recap	Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Bug - Gus wants to outsource Jesse to Mexico, Walt bugs Jesse's car and gets proof that Jesse met with Gus and didn't poison him, Walt and Jesse get into a physical altercation, and their friendship appears to be dunzo. Meanwhile, Skyler has to put the girls on display if she's going to get the IRS to drop their investigation into Ted goddamn Beneke.	2011.09.11 2011.09.16	A-	Joe R
4-8 Recap	Partners Hermanos - Walt finds out Hank is on to Gus and properly freaks out, while we get to know an important part of Gustavo Fring's past.	2011.09.04 2011.09.09	A-	Joe R
4-7 Recap	Putting It Down Problem Dog - Walt cooks up some ricin so Jesse can dose Gus and the next opportunity, only Jesse's loyalty to Mike keeps him from doing so. Meanwhile, Hank connects the dots from Gale to Gus and takes his case to the DEA.	2011.08.28 2011.09.02	B+	Joe R
4-6 Recap	The One Who Knocks Cornered - Walt manages to alienate most of the people in his life this week, as he frightens Skyler with an admission of how deep he's into the business, and then offends Jesse by correctly guessing that last week's heroics were a sham. He also gets Junior to hate Skyler some more, and is really pretty racist with the nice ladies at the laundromat.	2011.08.21 2011.08.26	B	Joe R
4-5 Recap	Bang! What's Up With That Thang? Shotgun - Mike takes Jesse out on a field trip, where a "chance" encounter with a shotgun-wielding thug gives Jesse his groove back. Meanwhile, Walter, despite some reunion sex with Skyler, suffers a few body blows to the ego, so naturally he gets drunk and tells Hank that Gale wasn't the mastermind he thinks.	2011.08.14 2011.08.19	A	Joe R
4-4 Recap	Bullet Points Bullet Points - While Skyler and Walt try to sell Hank on their cover story, Jesse's descent into catatonia has caught the wrong kind of attention from Mike and Gus.	2011.08.07 2011.08.14	A-	Joe R
4-3 Recap	The Devil is in the Details Open House - Skyler proves her worth by doggedly pursuing the car wash via a well-planned ruse, while Jesse's home life is becoming sadder and more populated by the day. But the real story is how Marie is not only back to stealing, but also making up intricate fake identities and lies about her life so she doesn't have to face the reality that her crippled husband hates her.	2011.07.31 2011.08.05	A	Joe R
4-2 Recap	.38 Special Thirty-Eight Snub - If you ever thought illegal guns and enormous stereos could ward off fear and depression, this episode is here to prove you wrong.	2011.07.24 2011.07.27	B+	Couch Baron
4-1 Recap	Taking One for the Team Box Cutter - Jesse has committed murder, and while he and Walt wait for Gus's rage and retribution, they find out with some dread that Victor learned how to cook. Then Gus and his box cutter go and flip the script. Season 4 is off to a bloody start.	2011.07.17 2011.07.21	A-	Joe R
3-13 Recap	Leverage Full Measure - Gus allows Walt to live, though only long enough for Gale to pick up his cooking process. Walt catches wise and figures if Gale goes, he's got leverage. Unfortunately, that task falls to Jesse. Because he's not broken enough.	2010.06.13 2010.06.18	A	Joe R
3-12 Recap	Conflict Resolution Half Measures - Jesse decides Combo's killers need to go down, and Walt needs to make sure Jesse doesn't bring the whole operation around him. Tuck in for an hour of betrayal, revelations, death, and murder. ...You know, this show seems kind of dark, right?	2010.06.06 2010.06.10	A	Joe R
3-11 Recap	Oh Danny Girl Abuiquiu - Skyler jumps into Walt's criminal enterprise with both feet, while Jesse stalls out on a seduce-and-destroy mission (and finds out the disturbing truth about what the local kids get up to these days). All this sounds grim, but hey! Badger and Skinny Pete are working the steps!	2010.05.30 2010.06.04	A-	Joe R
3-10 Recap	Contaminay-ay-tion Fly - It's making Walt and Jesse's batch of meth late, you see. It's keepin' them waitin'. A fly buzzes around America's Meth Kitchen, Walt goes crazy trying to kill it, and he and Jesse have a sleeping-pill-aided long, dark night of the soul.	2010.05.23 2010.05.28	B	Joe R
3-9 Recap	The Gambler Kafkaesque - Skyler knows when to hold 'em, knows when to fold 'em, and knows when to spin an elaborate lie about how Walt got all his money so they can use it to pay for Hank's medical bills.	2010.05.16 2010.05.21	A-	Joe R
3-8 Recap	I See You I See You - Walt gets made by the surviving cousin, but when Gus makes his big move, it fails to really matter anymore.	2010.05.09 2010.05.14	B+	Joe R
3-7 Recap	One Minute One Minute - Um. Wow. WOW! Come for Aaron Paul's Emmy reel. Stay for the INSANE parking lot shootout.	2010.05.02 2010.05.07	N/A	Joe R
3-6 Recap	Sunset Sunset - Hank is closing in on the RV, which leads Walt to scramble to get rid of it. But when Jesse leads Hank right to the RV (with Walt inside), some big-city lawyerin' and a heartless prank call let Walt and Jesse live to squabble another day.	2010.04.25 2010.04.30	A	Joe R
3-5 Recap	Mas, Mas, Mas! How Do You Like It? How Do You Like It? Mas - Just when it starts looking like Skyler is thawing on the whole "wife of a drug dealer" thing, Gus convinces Walt to start cooking again in his fancy new kitchen.	2010.04.18 2010.04.25	B+	Joe R
3-4 Recap	Walt Gone Wild Green Light - Skyler's infidelity has driven Walt ever-so-slightly totally nuts, and so he burns various bridges, particularly with regard to Jesse. Meanwhile, Hank gets really damn close to finding Heisenberg.	2010.04.11 2010.04.16	A	Joe R
3-3 Recap	I.F.T. I.F.T. - While Tio expresses his rage that Walt is still alive, Skyler expresses her rage that he's back in her house. Only the bell she rings is named "Ted."	2010.04.04 2010.04.09	A-	Joe R
3-2 Recap	There Ain't No One For to Give You No Pain Caballo Sin Nombre - Saul helps Jesse screw over his parents but good, while Walt spends the episode alternating from fits of rage to moments of blissful ignorance.	2010.03.28 2010.04.02	B+	Joe R
3-1 Recap	Do You Know the Way to Santa Muerte? No Mas - Walt's lost his family, as Skyler (kinda) correctly guesses he's a drug dealer. With Jesse off drugs but still broken, and Flynn begging for someone to tell him why Dad had to move out, Walt takes a big step away from the meth game. Too bad the Patron Saint of Skulls has sent the Mexican Badass Coalition his way.	2010.03.21 2010.03.26	B+	Joe R