Review of Abiquiu

Breaking Bad: Abiquiu (2010)
Season 3, Episode 11
5/10
Chef's knife for garlic??
22 December 2011
Warning: Spoilers
I thought this episode was interesting. The only thing I had a problem with and the reason I'm writing this review (and I never write reviews) was that during the scene when Walt was having dinner with Gus, Gus gave Walt a chef's knife to cut garlic with. The only reason the director had him do this was so Walt could see his reflection in the blade. Everyone that has even the slightest bit of cooking know-how knows that if you're cutting something as small as garlic, you don't use a chef's knife which is large and hard to handle with such a small object. You'd use a paring knife if anything. You can see Walt having some trouble with slicing it, especially since Gus wanted it sliced thin! LOL yeah, good luck with that!! Anyone who would even ignorantly start cutting garlic with a chef's knife (and Walt doesn't seem the type) would see it isn't working properly and try to get a smaller knife that does work. The scene made me lose my sense of believability for the episode. The director could have still gotten a shot of Walt holding a Chef's knife up by picking it out from a knife set then putting it back in the holder and picking up a paring knife and start cutting, but left as is it doesn't feel right.
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