Half Measures is the best episode of Breaking Bad to this point in my opinion. It has a lot of great elements to make it good. Mike gives us a fantastic monologue that was really well acted and reacted to in addition with some very good camera work throughout the scene and the entire episode. The episode is also very well directed and written with an impressive plot shifting process. Like the way it introduces us to the poison plot but immediatly shuts it down to create another plot. And it doesn't even stop there, it shifts the plot again with the kid's murder evolving into Jesse's breakdown only to then bring Walt in the middle of everything! Just when we are at the highest amazed state, Walt delivers one of the most effective cliffhangers of all time by saying: Run.
With its great thriller elements, its intense dialogue sequence, its menacing acting and its fast shifting plot, this episode has everything to be remembered.
With its great thriller elements, its intense dialogue sequence, its menacing acting and its fast shifting plot, this episode has everything to be remembered.