To answer your question about the accuracy about the meth making process, the production team actually worked with the DEA to make it authentic, however in the show, they purposely skip steps and do things out of sequence to obscure the process.
Cranston’s always such a great actor. Howard Stern asked if Breaking Bad had financially set him for life - Cranston replied “no I was set after Malcolm in the Middle”.
Exactly. Hubris is the classical word for it. Walter is a failure despite his brilliance so when he accomplishes something which cultivates respect/fear/recognition he leans fully into it.
Your outrage at Hank stating “I’ll always take care of your family” to Walt is misplaced. As a father I can tell you that is the foremost thing in Walt’s mind. Knowing his family will be alright is the best thing he can be told.
@@NewsofPE Initially it would have probably reassured him, as soon as he got a taste of the respect he was desperately craving though I believe you are right.
The guy playing Tuco has talked about how he doesn't like playing the character because he has take himself to an awful place to do the character justice. Amazing acting by him.
Didn't he say he became so intense during filming that his wife was scared to be around him? I remember him saying he never wanted to go to that place again after that for the sake of his family.
My dad had bone marrow cancer, stayed in hospital in London for about a month, was treated, had a transplant from his sister and has been in remission for 3 years. Didn't spend a penny. I'm all for taxes when it comes to the NHS knowing its helping people. It seems to be on its last legs now but it does save lives.
In the US, the political cult has people scared of better healthcare because they feel that would curtail their "rights". And paying taxes for social care to them is becoming communist and they're horrified of that, but their really biggest boogie man is these social nets, God forbid, might help an immigrant, especially one of different language, religion or skin tone. They rather perish than dare accept others as human
UK here too. Been a literal lifesaver for many members of our family with no costs to even think of. Things are and will continue to change for the worse now.
My father battled with cancer three times over the course of about a decade (and in the end didn't recover from the third chemo). Same here (Germany) - didn't spend a single penny on the treatments (basically just the fuel for the drives to and from the hospital). And yeah, that's part of why I'm so much in favour of a good tax system, and why I have only few issues with paying taxes (the actual distribution is still an issue, as is the relative ease of evading taxes when you're rich "enough", but the overall idea is absolutely worth it)
YOU didn't spend a penny, but lots of other people did. Cost of living inflation, which means life was just a little bit harder across the board, in some cases too hard, because foods, services, gas, and propety cost more.
Writer Vince Gilligan says the episode where Elliott offers Walt the job is the most consequential episode in Breaking Bad because it very much establishes the idea that Walt enters the crime life not out of compulsion, that he had an excellent out but he refused to take it out of pride. This episode establishes Walt as an inherently flawed man.
My daughter stopped watching initially because she was so furious with Walter after this episode. She understood in the beginning that he was in a horrible situation and why he chose to go in that direction. He loves his family and does not want to leave them destitute and the time he has left is limited. It's a case of, the ''Make Hay While the Sun Shines'' type of scenario. Now Walt has a legal way out and what does he do next? He turns down his friend's offer of a well-paying job with excellent insurance and the offer to cover his entire medical bill all because of pride and ego. And I don't see Gretchen and Elliot abandoning Walts's family after he passes on. I see them as the types who would make sure that Walts's family doesn't end up financially destitute and would pay tuition so both the children could attend college. I finally talked my daughter into watching the entire series and even though she did enjoy it, she always came back to this episode.
@@prettybullet7728Valid! I remember trying to watch BB 5 times. I dropped it fast the first time, it didn't hook me. The next couple I made it up until S4, somewhere around there. The last two times I finished the show. Once being on the side of the internet - about Skylar hate and seeing Walter as a good man, the man the first 4 minutes of the show set him up to be. I was younger then... I rewatched the show and saw what Walter really was. I was happy I had educated myself and could see it. Sorry if my comment's a little out of left field, but I understand your daughter's viewpoint
Almost 15% of American Cancer Patients go bankrupt, and almost 50% struggle to pay or have to borrow money. A lot of people loose a family member to cancer AND go bankrupt in the process - a good chunk of homeless in the US is related to medical debt. It’s a highly unethical and obscene system
And in the uk you just dont get treated, either because the treatment is not a proven treatment the nhs will fund, it took you six months to get grt a gp appontment and a year to get a referral and you die waiting to be seen, or you will get treatment thats not the best because the nhs wastes so much money on middle management, overpaying for everything, except for paying for the best doctors, and so theres many reasons why even with socialised healthcare, you still die, unless you can afford to go private. And the governmrnt pay for this garbage system by taking money from you by force. So you were saying something about "unethical"? No one owes you a cure for cancer. To claim its unethical to not give every citizen whatever medical treatment they happen to need is nonsense. It has nothing to do with ethics.
And socialised healthcare is so garbage you get terrible treatment that takes months or even years to get, and the government pay for it by taking your money by force and then wasting most of it. So you still have to be rich to have a good chance of surviving something like cancer. But sorry, you were saying something about morality?
My cousin died of cancer at the age of 30 because he didn't have medical. It would have costed somewhere in the 6 figures just to even think about starting any meaningful treatment that might help. So yah, America pharmaceutical companies are evil...
Heisenberg is famous for the Uncertainty Principle, which is the idea that when observing quantum particles, the more precisely you measure their position, the less you know about their velocity, and vice versa. I don't know if this was ever confirmed by the writers of the show, but there does seem to be a parallel to Walt as a character, especially with the uncertainty of his future with him having cancer and playing a dangerous game in the meth business. Additionally, Heisenberg was a professor and also had cancer, another parallel to Walt.
"To break bad" is a regional term in southwestern Virginia where Vince Gilligan, the writer, is from. When he pitched the show, he was unaware that the term was local and was shocked he had to explain the title.
Actually it's quite common across the south. I have heard it a lot growing up and I live west of the Mississippi but below the Mason-Dixon. It is more used in rural areas than cities though. My country cousins all used it. My city cousins didn't have a clue. It might be generational though. Our parents used it more than us. "You break bad with me and you won't sit for a week."
I went to the ER with kidney pain. After the MRI, it turned out I was passing a kidney stone. Released same day with prescriptions for pain. I received a bill for over 3k. That is the part my insurance didn’t cover.
i had a very similar situation. Even though i already knew i had a kidney stone prior to my ER visit to the hospital, that i also work at mind you, i was charged 2k for essentially 3 percocet and 10 minutes of filling out paperwork
@@GiveMeTheRice Here in Denmark, we pay that kind of money... at the dentist or the veterinarian. Most of the people healthcare is covered by public health care system. Although you still have to pay part of costs for more specialized practices like kiropractors or psychologists. You also have to pay part of the costs for your prescription medicine, where the public health care system will pay the rest. For adults eg. over 18 it's: < 155 dollars a year on prescription medicince, you pay 100 percent yourself. Between 155 dollars and 261 dollars, you pay 50 percent yourself. Between 261 dollars and 566 dollars, you pay 25 percent yourself. Over 566 dollars, you pay 15 percent yourself. Over 3079 dollars a year on prescription medicine, then you have to pay 661 dollars and the public health care will pay the rest. However, it's iirc. a requirement that you do pick the cheapest equivalent medicine at the pharmacy to receive these subsidies. There's probably an exception, if you're eg. allergic something in the cheapest one.
Last year I went to the ER from work feeling dizziness thinking I might be having heart problems. I had lots of tests run CT scan, blood test, MRI, etc. The doctor came to the conclusion that it was vertigo after all that. I was discharged from the ER after only a couple of hours. The final bill $17,000. My out of pocket was $5,000. Never had another bout of vertigo since then and there was never any treatment given at the hospital other than tests. U.S. healthcare…
Same thing, had back pain that was a kidney stone. Walked out with a prescription for pain killers. Had an MRI, IV painkiller so I could lay back for the MRI, 23K out of pocket. I know they tell you never to drive yourself when in a distressed health state but the ambulance fee would have added another 500 to 700 dollars which is wasn't covered by insurance at all. I hate the U. S. Healthcare philosophy of "The more it hurts OR the more you need it, the more it will cost you".
Sudafed is made with (and gets its name from) pseudoephedrine, which can be processed into methamphetamine. Radiation therapy is shot in 3 beams so they meet where the suspected cancer is. Light is a wave phenomenon (for this purpose), so the waves are all shot at the same frequency (amplitude and wavelength) so that the waves all peak where they intersect at the same point in the body, amplifying as well. Less damage is done to the body that is not cancerous, while maximum damage is done at the beams' conjunction. The plastic wrap is called Mepitel Film and is used to reduce the risk of skin issues or problems both during and after radiation therapy. Mostly used for breast cancer, but here as well, I suppose... I also want to point out that at the beginning of the series, the audience is supposed to be grossed out by melting a body in acid. But by the end of season 1, the audience is cheering to "melt the body!" The Heisenberg look was all over t-shirts and even posters. Really enjoyed this! Thanks for giving us a taste while hoping we will pay for more of your product)! Looking forward next time!
Heisenberg came up with the uncertainty principle, now known as the Heisenberg Principle, which mathematically proves that (at the most granular level) the more you know about one property of a thing, the less you can know about its other property. That's the overly and broadly oversimplified version of it anyway, and it's a core principle of quantum mechanics.
Theoretical physicist here. Heisenberg is one of the most important physicists in history, one of the founders of Quantum Physics. And one of the closest people to Niels Bohr, until WW2 happened. In the physics world, he is regarded in much higher regard than Oppenheimer (which is also regarded highly).
About the color tan. There are numerous articles about how the show uses colors to represent different things and characters throughout the series. Each character has a color scheme or palette that they are in throughout the entire series, and it is also used in rooms associated with the character. This is especially noticeable in the kitchens . You will also notice that the colors of a character change and get darker as the character does.
Alright, after being a subscriber for a while this made me become a Patreon member. I’ve never had this experience where I watch an episode of it on tv and have y’all playing on my tablet next to me, it’s kinda cool! I got into watching reaction channels during the pandemic lockdowns and watching your channel for a year or so now kinda feels like I’m watching a show with friends and I laugh along with you both, nod my head in agreement, sometimes respond out loud lol. Now a fellow Patreon! Looking forward to seeing how the rest of this journey goes for you guys! 🤓🤙🏼
I feel like people forget that it's not JUST American healthcare that allows this show to work, it's also our criminally low pay rates, especially for teachers.
Vince Gilligan had an idea about having a character who was a straight arrow turn to crime and get deeper and deeper into it. He locked himself away and worked for months developing the show making what he thought was totally unique premise for a serious. The person he finally pitched it to said, "oh, just like 'Weeds'". Gilligan said, Weeds? Weeds? What the fuck is Weeds! He had never heard of, let alone watched that show. He was really crushed, but pressed on and came up with one of the masterpieces of TV history.
It's a good thing too, as Breaking Bad is so much better than Weeds. The writer for Weeds really had no direction after a few seasons and just went downhill, whereas Breaking Bad is well structured from beginning to end and wrapped up exactly when it needed to.
@@Narcissist86 I'm glad that Breaking Bad stopped after five seasons. Once you go past a certain point, the storylines start to suffer. I cannot recall there being a bad episode in that series. It's like when a good horror film starts having parts 2, 3 , 4 etc. Part 2's are usually decent and still follows to a degree the original storyline. After that, everything starts going downhill.
@@prettybullet7728Oh yeah. I dropped the show several times around S4, because the tension slowed down and became less interesting? It's the last low tension moment before the final season
Somthing id recomend watching is a video about how the director used colour in this show. Every color has a meaning and is always used in certain shots to represent somthing. Worth a watch and completely changed my second viewing of this show.
Im from the US, so private Healthcare. I actually used to work in radiology, but I got out of it because of the kind of personalitys and kind of greed in that world. Example: They would actually charge patients more for more detailed scans. The scans are used to make diagnosis and recommend treatments. I tried my best to inquire about what resource was being spent to justify the price hike, but it was genuinely just an upcharge (to cancer patients sometimes) for the radiologists to use a superior computer program to clean the image. It was already a freely available resource, but unless you paid more we'd have to use the old tech. Wild.
And are the more detailed scans actually more useful to the doctors or are the regular one plenty good, but they offer the detailed scan for people that are unaware and scared so they think the detailed one will help them more?
@@Arjay404 From what they said it seems the detaiked scans are definitely the best to be used, and there's no extra cost for using those machines so it would be obvious to use them for an improved image, but hospitals will still have an upcharge on using the newer detailed equipment, even though there is no real rise in cost for usage and it would make the doctors jobs easier.
I'm from WV in the US and my son got a T12 level spinal cord injury from a fall at home when he was 6 and the debt made us lose our home. It all ended up OK in the end. He's 20 now and still paraplegic and in his third year of college. It came to my husband wrongfully losing his job (which we didnt find out about until 6 months later) for us to qualify for any kind of assistance, even though we then had a two story home with a paralyzed child whose bedroom was upstairs. You have to figure out how to work a system that works against you.
I'm from the US. People here frequently go bankrupt from medical bills. Breaking Bad is definitely an American story. In fact it's based on a real event.
So frequently that in several decades I have never known a single person to do so and have only heard of a slight few. It does happen, but not nearly as much as people think or want to believe.
Thank you go putting this edit together George!!! I know it's a ton of work and I hope it pays off with views. Watching each entire episode with you guys isn't possible for me right now and this is perfect.
In my opinion, Breaking Bad is one of the greatest television shows ever made. I know you're on season 3 and about to start season 4, but im most exited for you to watch the final season as no other show sticks the landing in its final few episodes as hard as Breaking Bad does. IMDB has a rating list of almost 27,000 TV episodes, and one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad occupies the top and it damn well deserves to occupy the top spot with a perfect 10 score from 212k votes!
Someone going in blind getting to watch BB + BCS is in for such a treat. I began watching BB during season 3 so I had to wait many years to finish them all. I'm kind envious of getting to experience it all in a binge
I recently re subscribed to Netflix so I could watch BB for the millionth time. Then yesterday I noticed you had been watching it on Patreon so I joined up there so I could watch it with you. I have Cinebinged through season 1 and part way into season 2 already. Loving the full reaction, and knowing the show so well I’m thrilled to join in with your excitement as it all unfolds.
@@dragonhunterx5929absolutely. My family doesn’t get why I enjoy watching reactions. TBH I didn’t either when someone told me about it. It wasn’t until I watched one myself (starting small, like music video reactions) that I started to get it: you can’t watch a movie for the first time again, so this is the next best thing.
I have stage 4 cancer and my chemo is $23,000 a month. But insurance pays 100%. My max deductible is 2500, so I usually only spend about $3000-$3500 for all specialist care, 4 CTs, and 8 MRIs a year. All meds, everything.
As an actual chemist, I both love and hate this show. There's a lot they get right, a lot they get wrong but the worst part is that I get asked about this show everytime I meet someone new and they ask what I do for a living.
Oh my God, this is brilliant. I can't believe you guys are doing a whole season at once... Best idea ever I hate waiting for people to go one at a time Specifically with this show. Because you know it's fun to watch along with people cause it's that good...
See it from Walt's perspective, he helped that man win the Nobel prize and the company he helped him start ended up making him obscenely wealthy. Then he was cut out, left to be a impoverished school teacher. Then for the first time in a decade he sees this man surrounded by his posh friends getting million dollar gifts, and he's acting like there was never bad blood. I don't think it was as much a pride thing as it was a dignity thing. It's very easy to see that as him grovelling at the feet of the rich friend who betrayed him, further giving up any semblance of control he has over his own life when he hasn't had any since the start of the show, and now he's a dead man walking after building a life of mediocrity, he can't even control how it's going to end. Guarantee if Elliot hadn't slipped up, Walt would've taken the job offer because he loves the chemistry and he would've felt in control. Walt is a prideful man but that scene to me never seemed like "I'm too much of a man to take charity" to me. That doesn't come until later.
I’m American and I live in terror of the possibility of being diagnosed with a terrible disease like cancer, primarily because of the obscene costs. You’re going through the absolute worst time of your life, and you have to go into incredible debt just for a shot at survival. Even something like a car accident, or even just giving birth, can devastate you financially. Additionally, if any Canadian ladies are looking for a nerdy wife, hit me up lmao.
UK here so National Health Service. Treatment is free, prescriptions cost £9. There is also the option to pay for private healthcare if you choose and can afford it.
12 years ago I had “my cancer talk”. Leukemia. In the cancer world I refer to it as “my minor inconvenience”. 12 months of chemotherapy and I’ve been in remission since. Out of pocket was I think a couple hundred dollars. But side effects made it impossible to go back to work. At the same time a close friend was going through a much more serious experience. Worse than Walt’s. I remember him when I watch the chemo scenes.
Heisenberg is kind of a big deal. "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" ring a bell? Dude was so crucial to quantum mechanics. He won a Nobel Prize for "the creation of quantum mechanics," per his Nobel page. EDIT: Oh yeah, Oppenheimer was an American, not an immigrant. Born in NY City.
@6:33. LITERALLY TENS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. There are people who refuse treatment and don’t even try to apply for health insurance because of “pre-existing conditions” which is just a MEDICAL HISTORY. I’ve personally been walking with a limp and have no way to afford any kind of doctor to exam it. It’s terrible in the U.S. It’s easier and better to just die from any ailment.
I know it's hard for anyone to hear this, the but the government is the REASON that prices are so high here. Before 1965 (Medicaid / Medicare), doctors basically came to your home. Nobody went broke paying for health care. Now it's highway robbery. My dad was on Medicare. He did 5 visits to get radiation for a small spot on his lung. Each visit was 45 minutes long. The bill (paid by the taxpayers) was $155,000. That's over $30,000 per visit. I guarantee the 2 radiologists didn't get more than $50 per hour each. So that's $100 in labor. Where did the rest go? It's not insurance that's doing this. It's the fact that our government has an open checkbook to their cronies in pharma and hospitals. Anyone who is not part of the program is getting reemed.
American here! I believe one of the reasons this show resonates so strongly with audiences is because 1. It's incredibly well written, acted and directed and 2. It's a scenario that anyone without nationalized healthcare could VERY easily find themselves in. Anyone can understand why Walt would decide to "break bad" to avoid leaving his family in dire circumstances.
I watched on AMC where it ran originally. AMC did a marathon of ever BB episode 12 hours a day just before the premier of Better Call Saul. I love that the producers stayed true to AMC with Saul. This is really the show that popularized the streaming series format, this and True Detective on HBO.
We have a weird half-subsidized, half-market based medical system here. It can get very expensive. However, the best high-end healthcare here is the best there is. World leaders leave their own countries to get treated here. Hospitals are required to treat anyone who shows up to an emergency room and if you receive substandard service you can sue the hospital, so that helps quality control and wait times are shorter than Canada and England. Sometimes much, much shorter. We also produce most of the new medicines in the world, despite our nightmarish regulation process. It gets expensive for us but it also gives the rest of the world leading edge drugs and treatment facilities. Kind of like how our new technology filters down to other places. If you're curious you can read up on the process of creating new medicines and how ridiculously expensive it is. It's very interesting. ~
@@IXSICNESS State a contrary fact or 2, but please don't troll. Trolling just makes the atmosphere worse for everyone and confuses the issue for people who might want to know something new. Thank you.
I'm from the U.S. and I can't remember what my last hospital visit cost but it was a lot and it wasn't covered. The ambulance bill to get to the hospital was 1000 dollars out of pocket and I was less than 2 miles from the hospital. The emergency room visit was also out of pocket. It took me almost 5 years to pay the whole thing off.
If I could put gifs in youtube comments, I would definitely put the gif of Jesse excitedly shouting "Hell yeah" and high-fiving Walter So excited you guys are uploading this to youtube
As an Italian who lives in the UK, I think I am very lucky as both countries offer free healthcare, including cancer treatment. The system is not perfect but I can sleep at night knowing that the people of this country have my back as I have theirs if anything shitty like cancer happens. I am really sorry for people in the US. I cannot imagine how many people have died that could have been saved.
I'm from the US. I had a kidney stone in 2022. I was in the hospital less than 24 hours, got a minor surgery & didn't need an ambulance. I got a scan of some kind as well. It was about $4,000.
Medical costs in the US are no joke. Typically Americans get their insurance via their job. For those that are unemployed and can not afford the very expensive insurace payments, bankruptcy is their destiny if ANYTHING happens. The medical and insurance industry pays off our politicians to keep nationalized health care from happening.
This is America: I'm 54, a veteran, with 5 kids, 6 grandkids and more a'coming. I 'retired' from a company that a virus retired. Treatment is 10 times the $250k I've saved and I would rather leave that to my kids and such. No regrets, my life experience was so much better than it could've been.
I mean if I'm sick and death is a definite possibility, hearing that my brother will take care of my family would be extremely comforting. Edit: 50:48 Cmon, hank made an excellent point..in his way of course. Sure getting bedridden is a possible result of the treatment. But you might also get back on your feet. That's what i understood when hank said walt needs to keep putting his bets.
I really like having TV series done in chunks like this. It covers all of the big moments that get the best reactions. With some other reaction channels, I tend to 10 second skip through a lot of the video just to get to the good parts. All meat, no fluff 👌
Outside of US Perspective. I live in Poland. We complain about our public health system all the time. Long lines, old equipment, ugly buildings. But when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2022, she was on chemo 3 weeks later. Had a surgery 4 months later. And she's completely fine now. We didn't pay a dime. So yeah, when it has to, it works. In fucking Poland. US is so backwards in this regard, I can't even fathom it, the richest country in the world and shit, and not only they treat their people like that, they also brainwash them to think it's fair. Unbelievable.
The US actually feels like 3rd world country for Europeans like me. They’re so “remained behind” (idk how to phrase it better). I don’t even wanna start on the 90k vor cancer treatment. Even the 30 bucks for a couple days in the hospital is unusual for me. My grandma got blood cancer TWICE a couple of years ago (thankfully she’s still alive today). She was in the hospital for months and she didn’t paid a single cent. She most likely would’ve been dead or our family deeply in debt when we would’ve had to pay almost 100k for her treatment. First she got chemo, beat the cancer. Then like a little less than 2 years later the cancer came back, she got chemo again but it didn’t really worked so she needed spinal cord transplant (I hope this is the right term for it in English). All in all she was in the hospital for months. And she wasn’t just in any hospital. She was in a hospital specialized for cancer treatment in Berlin. Here in Germany in most cases the health insurance even pays for things like a wig, after you lost your hair because of the chemo. Sorry to all Americans for insulting you but to us it feels like the whole of the US is literally mentally r*tarted. Why tf are you still paying tens of thousands of dollars for just being healthy while the governments spend over 700 BILLION dollars of tax money on the military. It’s enough money to make healthcare completely free. Here in Europe there would’ve been riots until the politicians change that. There would be millions of people on the streets there would be this situation. It’s absolutely mind blowing
I realized we have to wait a while to catch the season 2 on UA-cam, but since I'm no financially capable of patreon due to my own health problems (maybe I should start cooking LOL jk) But I'm so happy to see this. This is my favorite reaction Channel and I've been watching BB on another Channel but I'm super happy to have experienced this with you two. Thank you for this
I believe the reason the first season is only 7 episodes long was because there was a writer's strike back then too. Since you already watched the show I can tell you guys that it was thanks to that Jesse was able to survive, since he was supposed to die in the first season, but due to that pause between the strike and the other season they realised how much people loved the character
Now that you've started this show you have locked yourself into like 10 seasons of programming.. not only will you be compelled to see all of this, you'll also need to see the full spinnoff of "better call saul", about a character and how he came to be involved, later to be seen in this show.
I don't think that this story could only happen in the US. Many countries don't pay teachers amazingly well, and in most countries you'll need money if you want to pick your own field-leading consultant to treat you as opposed to whatever generic insurance/subsidised/single payer healthcare will cover. Which isn't to say that the US healthcare market isn't particularly messed up.
I mean, even if you're homeless in places like the UK, you still get free access to healthcare and the right to choose your doctors: it kinda is something that can almost only happen exclusively in the US or a country with a really under-developed health service.
@@1215298 Walt isn't homeless. He has health insurance, it just doesn't cover the consultant he wants. In the UK you don't get to choose any doctor you want on the NHS.
Except the treatment would also be lower cost as technology improves. So that specific treatment will be cheaper but the most recent most advance treatment might cost similar to or more than this treatment cost back then.
This is a top 10 TV series of all time. Good Choice to watch this show. Sons of Anarchy is a top 5 series of all time you should definitely put it your list of shows to watch too.
As someone who lives in New Mexico and has spent plenty of time in Albuquerque... nobody would think twice about seeing some random dude in the desert with no pants on.
Upload one episode at a time. This is the greatest show of all time. Don't do this injustice. I know you want to hold on for the patreon, but this show can bring you way more viewers than anything else. Upload edited versions of every episode and people will still want to watch the whole episodes with you. If you attempt to make only 5 videos for 5 seasons, this could just hide "under the rug" and people wouldn't even be hooked with you two. You have to pay more attention to this. Breaking Bad is a masterpiece.
This is how ridiculous healthcare bills can get. I was a nurse at the time this happened. We just got off work and the Charge RN had a motorcycle accident while attempting to leave the hospital campus. The on-site ambulance came and took him to the ER. He was charged 700 dollars for that ambulance ride across the hospital parking lot. Told me that he would have crawled on his hands and knees to the ER had he known that they were going to slap him with a bill like that. I was primarily a medication nurse and the hospital would periodically send out price lists of drugs and equipment and the prices were staggering. They were charging nine dollars for one plain Tylenol tablet.
USA is expensive, but also has around the 2nd to 1st highest cancer survival rates (depending on types) in the world. Also, we DO have free healthcare for low-income people in 40 states these days. I've been on it before. Country Breast Cancer Survival Stomach Cancer Survival Lung Cancer Survival Prostate Cancer Survival 1 Cyprus 90.6% 26.3% 15.4% 93.1% 2 United States of America 88.6% 29.1% 18.7% 97.2% 3 Brazil 87.4% 24.9% 18% 96.1% 4 Mauritius 87.4% 40.7% 37.2% 77.3% 5 France 86.9% 27.7% 13.6% 90.5% 6 Finland 86.8% 25.2% 12.3% 93.2% 7 Israel 86.7% 28.6% 23.8% 94% 8 Australia 86.2% 27.9% 15% 88.5% 9 Italy 86.2% 32.4% 14.7% 89.7% 10 Sweden 86.2% 23.2% 15.6% 89.2% 11 Norway 85.9% 24.1% 15% 86.3% 12 Canada 85.8% 24.8% 17.3% 91.7% 13 Switzerland 85.5% 30.4% 16.5% 88% 14 Belgium 85.4% 33.4% 16.6% 92.6% 15 Germany 85.3% 31.6% 16.2% 91.2% 16 Iceland 85.3% 32.3% 15% 83.5% 17 Qatar 85.3% 27.3% 13.2% 55.3% 18 Netherlands 85% 21.4% 14.8% 85.8% 19 Japan 84.7% 54% 30.1% 86.8% 20 New Zealand 83.7% 26.7% 12.4% 88.7%
I'm from Denmark, we have higher taxes than the US, but all our schools, hospitals and doctors are free 🙂 If you get sick, calls 911 (well here it's 112) get picked up by an ambulance and spends 3 months (or what ever time is needed) in the hospital, you don't have to pay for any of it..
Having watched this series front to back at least 5 times, all I can think is how much you two have to experience as you see this for the first time. The hype is real... this is a great show!
Haha me too, I've rewatched it with several family members too. Back when it was airing I was like a breaking bad spokesperson running around trying to get everyone to watch it lol. I think I know it by heart now but still can't resist a good reaction video
In case no one else has pointed this out, the car wash owner Bogdan was played by Marius Stan who's a real-life chemist and physicist. As a chemist, I just think that's neat :)
I like how Simone characterizes Jesse's family: "it's a nice house and they are very well off and they're talking about clarinets or oboes or whatever the fuck."
Walt's insurance covered his cancer treatment. Literally says so in the show. He just didn't have access to the absolute best cancer treatment which the vast majority of Canadians also do not have access to.
I’m from the United States. My mother was diagnosed with brain cancer in August of 2022. She had surgery, radiation treatment and many hospital visits until she died in February of 2023. I don’t know how much it would have cost because she had Medicare supplement. I imagine it would have been an amount that would no one of average means could afford without REALLY good insurance in the U.S…. By the way, huge fan of your content.
In the late 90s I had a stomach flu. My thermometer was faulty and my temperature read 94.7 so I freaked and went to the hospital. They ran some tests and said stomach flu. My bill was $35,000. I really wish I was born in a more sophisticated country with free health care like Cuba, or Kyrgyzstan instead of the United States or Corporate Evil.
Wait... Wait what? You haven't seen this?!?!?! I'm from the USA and have had type 1 diabetes for over 25 years. Healthcare has gotten so much worse since I was first diagnosed. I'm only given one month of insulin at a time. The amount of work just getting insurance to talk to the pharmacy or the doctor is ludicrous. I can't live without insulin... I'm literally living month to month.
Yeah, the UK remake of Breaking Bad is about a schoolteacher who gets cancer, goes to his GP, gets referred to a consultant and starts treatment within a week, all for free on the NHS. It won a BAFTA.
I'm from the US. I had an ear infection in my 20's. 8 hours in the hospital waiting room, 2 minutes of seeing an actual doctor followed by a $500 medical bill in the mail weeks after. Your dad's surgery story winkles my brain.
The US may have some of the best healthcare in the world, but it certainly does have the most expensive healthcare system, even if you have private insurance, and a corruption problem as well. The pharmaceutical companies send their sales reps to pitch their drugs and other products to the doctors directly, or ply their wares during 'conventions' in popular vacation destinations(Las Vegas, Miami, New York and the like). They'll take the doctors out to high end restaurants, supply them with free samples, create fake consulting contracts to pay off doctors to use their products, or simply offer doctors direct financial incentives using a graded scale payout according to the volume of their drug a doctor has prescribed. Here in the US, people need to be concerned about the motivations of their primary care physicians(which should NEVER be in question!), and whether or not they are prescribing to meet a quota or if there are equally effective generic forms of the prescription available at a tenth of the cost, or whether the drug even needs to be prescribed at all. The pharmaceutical companies also advertise their drugs and products directly to the consumer in ads, rather than to physicians, in the hopes that consumers experience a correlating symptom and demand the drug be prescribed by their doctor. To give an idea of how troublesome this is here in the US, here's a pertinent stat. About 2/3 of all bankruptcies declared in the US are the result of medical bills. Before accepting a prescription, we need to know how to do research on these things, and most of us don't. So, we just play into the system, and take a huge financial hit for it, for the most part. The top 10% of wealth holders might get by with the financial burden of a serious medical issue, but the rest of us can just shut up and die, or spend the rest of our lives paying off hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, for all they care. The US healthcare system(not what healthcare is available, but rather the ability of the average person to access it) really is one of the most shameful aspects of American society.
From Denmark here. My mother in-law had breast cancer, and the doctors removed what they thought was all the cancer, but JUST to be sure, they had her go through chemo. All and all it cost her nothing. I'm really greatful to live in a country where doctors can take that decision for you and not put you in massive debt.
Costs depend a lot on your insurance. My husband's insurance seems pretty basic, but my extended hospital stay, c-section, and a baby in the hospital for 6 months (constant supervision, meds, transfusions, surgeries, tons of specialists), plus regular follow-up appointments with cardiologists, pulmonologists, optometrists, and developmental pediatricians, only cost $15k.
The leading cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical debt. I'm fully insured through my employer for around $200/mo. and STILL have to forego routine medical procedures/tests because they cost too much out of pocket. Example: I got a back x-ray taken as ordered by my family doctor. Total cost: $700. My out of pocket cost: $300...for an x-ray. The US healthcare system is a joke. It's only the greatest system in the world if you can afford it (most can't). Otherwise, the only thing you're entitled to is emergency care, but they still charge you after the fact and are only legally required to stabilize you before kicking you out.
Thanks for doing the full season edit for us non Patreon plebes. The idea that Walt as a teacher wouldn’t have insurance that covered most of his cancer treatment (chemo, tests etc) is not very realistic. In states where teachers are in an insurance pool with other state workers, they tend to get the same Cadillac plans that state workers get (I was sort of embarrassed by how good my plan was when I had a state job - my wife was a C suite executive in a multinational company and making 5x my salary as a senior staffer in the state kegiskature but my health insurance was 10x better than what she would be able to get working in the private sector). Even if New Mexico didn’t do it that way, and the Albuquerque school district had its own less high end plan, it would certainly cover the bulk of his treatment. His surgeon being “world renowned” according to Marie and out of network is more feasible. But the chemo, tests, radiation etc should be covered. Along with most of his surgery if not the surgeon. So…take it all with a grain of salt. Not to minimize folks who have no insurance etc but the teacher with insurance that’s doesn’t cover cancer treatment is just not believable.
I live in the US and my mom is currently battling Stage 4 lung cancer. Her last year of immunotherapy was around $500,000. Thankfully insurance is covering a sizeable amount, but she’s got thousands out of pocket that’s due. The cost of medicine and healthcare in the US is absurd.
I live in California and I had to pay just under $3,000 just for some lab work on my lungs while I was sick for a week and a half. Because of how expensive it is I've done my own dental work. I've taking care of my own broken bones unless they are compound or needing to be set. Unless unless I needed more than two stitches, I take care of that stuff myself. I've actually had a dental assistant compliment the dentist who did some removals. When I told her that it was me who did it not only was she shocked but also amazed at what a good clean job I did.
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To answer your question about the accuracy about the meth making process, the production team actually worked with the DEA to make it authentic, however in the show, they purposely skip steps and do things out of sequence to obscure the process.
No wonder it didn't come out right.
YEAH THAT’S WHAT I WOULD SAY. If I had a show to finance.
not stopping me, the feds are trying to keep a guy from getting rich
Yeah the spirit of the process is accurate but the actual process isn't.
I heard and also that one of the producers of the show or one of the showrunners was a chemistry teacher too
Cranston’s always such a great actor. Howard Stern asked if Breaking Bad had financially set him for life - Cranston replied “no I was set after Malcolm in the Middle”.
"Oh, it's his PRIDE."
Yeah, that sums up the entire series.
Exactly. Hubris is the classical word for it. Walter is a failure despite his brilliance so when he accomplishes something which cultivates respect/fear/recognition he leans fully into it.
Your outrage at Hank stating “I’ll always take care of your family” to Walt is misplaced. As a father I can tell you that is the foremost thing in Walt’s mind. Knowing his family will be alright is the best thing he can be told.
@@kennethfharkinknowing walter, another man taking care of HIS family wouldn't please him
@@MichaelJordanGoat2324 You're a bad person.
@@NewsofPE Initially it would have probably reassured him, as soon as he got a taste of the respect he was desperately craving though I believe you are right.
The guy playing Tuco has talked about how he doesn't like playing the character because he has take himself to an awful place to do the character justice. Amazing acting by him.
Didn't he say he became so intense during filming that his wife was scared to be around him? I remember him saying he never wanted to go to that place again after that for the sake of his family.
Iirc it was more that Tuco was very intense and high energy, so it took a lot out of him. @@natsinthebelfry
@@lorettabes4553 yes that's what it was, people always want to twist everything into something more dramatic.
My dad had bone marrow cancer, stayed in hospital in London for about a month, was treated, had a transplant from his sister and has been in remission for 3 years. Didn't spend a penny. I'm all for taxes when it comes to the NHS knowing its helping people. It seems to be on its last legs now but it does save lives.
In the US, the political cult has people scared of better healthcare because they feel that would curtail their "rights". And paying taxes for social care to them is becoming communist and they're horrified of that, but their really biggest boogie man is these social nets, God forbid, might help an immigrant, especially one of different language, religion or skin tone. They rather perish than dare accept others as human
UK here too. Been a literal lifesaver for many members of our family with no costs to even think of. Things are and will continue to change for the worse now.
My father battled with cancer three times over the course of about a decade (and in the end didn't recover from the third chemo). Same here (Germany) - didn't spend a single penny on the treatments (basically just the fuel for the drives to and from the hospital).
And yeah, that's part of why I'm so much in favour of a good tax system, and why I have only few issues with paying taxes (the actual distribution is still an issue, as is the relative ease of evading taxes when you're rich "enough", but the overall idea is absolutely worth it)
Fight for it!!!!!! You DO NOT want to be like the USA!!!!!!!!!
YOU didn't spend a penny, but lots of other people did. Cost of living inflation, which means life was just a little bit harder across the board, in some cases too hard, because foods, services, gas, and propety cost more.
Writer Vince Gilligan says the episode where Elliott offers Walt the job is the most consequential episode in Breaking Bad because it very much establishes the idea that Walt enters the crime life not out of compulsion, that he had an excellent out but he refused to take it out of pride.
This episode establishes Walt as an inherently flawed man.
My daughter stopped watching initially because she was so furious with Walter after this episode. She understood in the beginning that he was in a horrible situation and why he chose to go in that direction. He loves his family and does not want to leave them destitute and the time he has left is limited. It's a case of, the ''Make Hay While the Sun Shines'' type of scenario. Now Walt has a legal way out and what does he do next? He turns down his friend's offer of a well-paying job with excellent insurance and the offer to cover his entire medical bill all because of pride and ego. And I don't see Gretchen and Elliot abandoning Walts's family after he passes on. I see them as the types who would make sure that Walts's family doesn't end up financially destitute and would pay tuition so both the children could attend college. I finally talked my daughter into watching the entire series and even though she did enjoy it, she always came back to this episode.
@@prettybullet7728Valid! I remember trying to watch BB 5 times. I dropped it fast the first time, it didn't hook me. The next couple I made it up until S4, somewhere around there.
The last two times I finished the show. Once being on the side of the internet - about Skylar hate and seeing Walter as a good man, the man the first 4 minutes of the show set him up to be. I was younger then... I rewatched the show and saw what Walter really was. I was happy I had educated myself and could see it.
Sorry if my comment's a little out of left field, but I understand your daughter's viewpoint
Almost 15% of American Cancer Patients go bankrupt, and almost 50% struggle to pay or have to borrow money. A lot of people loose a family member to cancer AND go bankrupt in the process - a good chunk of homeless in the US is related to medical debt. It’s a highly unethical and obscene system
American society is riddled with parasites
And in the uk you just dont get treated, either because the treatment is not a proven treatment the nhs will fund, it took you six months to get grt a gp appontment and a year to get a referral and you die waiting to be seen, or you will get treatment thats not the best because the nhs wastes so much money on middle management, overpaying for everything, except for paying for the best doctors, and so theres many reasons why even with socialised healthcare, you still die, unless you can afford to go private.
And the governmrnt pay for this garbage system by taking money from you by force.
So you were saying something about "unethical"?
No one owes you a cure for cancer. To claim its unethical to not give every citizen whatever medical treatment they happen to need is nonsense. It has nothing to do with ethics.
And socialised healthcare is so garbage you get terrible treatment that takes months or even years to get, and the government pay for it by taking your money by force and then wasting most of it.
So you still have to be rich to have a good chance of surviving something like cancer.
But sorry, you were saying something about morality?
As evil as Walter becomes and as evil as many of the other characters on the show are, they'll never be as evil as the pharmaceutical industry.
My cousin died of cancer at the age of 30 because he didn't have medical. It would have costed somewhere in the 6 figures just to even think about starting any meaningful treatment that might help. So yah, America pharmaceutical companies are evil...
Heisenberg is famous for the Uncertainty Principle, which is the idea that when observing quantum particles, the more precisely you measure their position, the less you know about their velocity, and vice versa.
I don't know if this was ever confirmed by the writers of the show, but there does seem to be a parallel to Walt as a character, especially with the uncertainty of his future with him having cancer and playing a dangerous game in the meth business.
Additionally, Heisenberg was a professor and also had cancer, another parallel to Walt.
He was also a nazi
Oh, you beat me to it, you fascist. 😁
Walt does meet Badger and Skinmy Pete in a WW2 section of a museum.
Walt being a chemistry teacher, I'm sure he was familiar with Heisenberg, so I could see him choosing that name for that reason.
bravo vince
George answering Skylar’s question of “What’s a milf?” with “You’re a milf” was perfect. Exactly what I said to the TV screen when I first watched it.
George you’re the best for editing this, we all appreciate your work!
"To break bad" is a regional term in southwestern Virginia where Vince Gilligan, the writer, is from.
When he pitched the show, he was unaware that the term was local and was shocked he had to explain the title.
If it had been called going darkside everybody woulda got it.
Seems pretty self explanatory to me.
Actually it's quite common across the south. I have heard it a lot growing up and I live west of the Mississippi but below the Mason-Dixon. It is more used in rural areas than cities though. My country cousins all used it. My city cousins didn't have a clue. It might be generational though. Our parents used it more than us. "You break bad with me and you won't sit for a week."
@@ptrckhgn89 yes, I hear it's quite common in rural areas. Yet, I live in Virginia and I never heard it
Yep, 54 year old West coaster here. Never heard the term before the show.
I went to the ER with kidney pain. After the MRI, it turned out I was passing a kidney stone. Released same day with prescriptions for pain. I received a bill for over 3k. That is the part my insurance didn’t cover.
i had a very similar situation. Even though i already knew i had a kidney stone prior to my ER visit to the hospital, that i also work at mind you, i was charged 2k for essentially 3 percocet and 10 minutes of filling out paperwork
@@GiveMeTheRice Here in Denmark, we pay that kind of money... at the dentist or the veterinarian.
Most of the people healthcare is covered by public health care system.
Although you still have to pay part of costs for more specialized practices like kiropractors or psychologists.
You also have to pay part of the costs for your prescription medicine, where the public health care system will pay the rest.
For adults eg. over 18 it's:
< 155 dollars a year on prescription medicince, you pay 100 percent yourself.
Between 155 dollars and 261 dollars, you pay 50 percent yourself.
Between 261 dollars and 566 dollars, you pay 25 percent yourself.
Over 566 dollars, you pay 15 percent yourself.
Over 3079 dollars a year on prescription medicine, then you have to pay 661 dollars and the public health care will pay the rest.
However, it's iirc. a requirement that you do pick the cheapest equivalent medicine at the pharmacy to receive these subsidies.
There's probably an exception, if you're eg. allergic something in the cheapest one.
Last year I went to the ER from work feeling dizziness thinking I might be having heart problems. I had lots of tests run CT scan, blood test, MRI, etc. The doctor came to the conclusion that it was vertigo after all that. I was discharged from the ER after only a couple of hours. The final bill $17,000. My out of pocket was $5,000. Never had another bout of vertigo since then and there was never any treatment given at the hospital other than tests. U.S. healthcare…
Same thing, had back pain that was a kidney stone. Walked out with a prescription for pain killers. Had an MRI, IV painkiller so I could lay back for the MRI, 23K out of pocket. I know they tell you never to drive yourself when in a distressed health state but the ambulance fee would have added another 500 to 700 dollars which is wasn't covered by insurance at all. I hate the U. S. Healthcare philosophy of "The more it hurts OR the more you need it, the more it will cost you".
Love how you guys spliced it all together instead of drip feeding.
Sudafed is made with (and gets its name from) pseudoephedrine, which can be processed into methamphetamine. Radiation therapy is shot in 3 beams so they meet where the suspected cancer is. Light is a wave phenomenon (for this purpose), so the waves are all shot at the same frequency (amplitude and wavelength) so that the waves all peak where they intersect at the same point in the body, amplifying as well. Less damage is done to the body that is not cancerous, while maximum damage is done at the beams' conjunction. The plastic wrap is called Mepitel Film and is used to reduce the risk of skin issues or problems both during and after radiation therapy. Mostly used for breast cancer, but here as well, I suppose... I also want to point out that at the beginning of the series, the audience is supposed to be grossed out by melting a body in acid. But by the end of season 1, the audience is cheering to "melt the body!" The Heisenberg look was all over t-shirts and even posters. Really enjoyed this! Thanks for giving us a taste while hoping we will pay for more of your product)! Looking forward next time!
Heisenberg came up with the uncertainty principle, now known as the Heisenberg Principle, which mathematically proves that (at the most granular level) the more you know about one property of a thing, the less you can know about its other property. That's the overly and broadly oversimplified version of it anyway, and it's a core principle of quantum mechanics.
Theoretical physicist here.
Heisenberg is one of the most important physicists in history, one of the founders of Quantum Physics. And one of the closest people to Niels Bohr, until WW2 happened. In the physics world, he is regarded in much higher regard than Oppenheimer (which is also regarded highly).
Yeah, I was about to correct George that Heisenberg is far more important.
@@lapislazuli5035 Someone still has a very hyped Chris Nolan movie on their mind methinks.
Every time Simone says "Jesus" should count in the "OMG counter"
About the color tan.
There are numerous articles about how the show uses colors to represent different things and characters throughout the series. Each character has a color scheme or palette that they are in throughout the entire series, and it is also used in rooms associated with the character. This is especially noticeable in the kitchens . You will also notice that the colors of a character change and get darker as the character does.
My dad was in the hospital for about a month. The final bill was 1.4 million. Insurance covered all but about 5000, but he had great insurance.
Alright, after being a subscriber for a while this made me become a Patreon member. I’ve never had this experience where I watch an episode of it on tv and have y’all playing on my tablet next to me, it’s kinda cool! I got into watching reaction channels during the pandemic lockdowns and watching your channel for a year or so now kinda feels like I’m watching a show with friends and I laugh along with you both, nod my head in agreement, sometimes respond out loud lol. Now a fellow Patreon! Looking forward to seeing how the rest of this journey goes for you guys! 🤓🤙🏼
I feel like people forget that it's not JUST American healthcare that allows this show to work, it's also our criminally low pay rates, especially for teachers.
I'm really ready to watch you two getting slowly blown away with the progression of the plot and the characters of this masterpiece.
The guy that owns the car wash (Marius Stan) is actually an accomplished chemist at Argonne National Laboratory.
Vince Gilligan had an idea about having a character who was a straight arrow turn to crime and get deeper and deeper into it. He locked himself away and worked for months developing the show making what he thought was totally unique premise for a serious.
The person he finally pitched it to said, "oh, just like 'Weeds'". Gilligan said, Weeds? Weeds? What the fuck is Weeds! He had never heard of, let alone watched that show. He was really crushed, but pressed on and came up with one of the masterpieces of TV history.
Weeds! Another great show
It's a good thing too, as Breaking Bad is so much better than Weeds. The writer for Weeds really had no direction after a few seasons and just went downhill, whereas Breaking Bad is well structured from beginning to end and wrapped up exactly when it needed to.
@@Narcissist86 I'm glad that Breaking Bad stopped after five seasons. Once you go past a certain point, the storylines start to suffer. I cannot recall there being a bad episode in that series. It's like when a good horror film starts having parts 2, 3 , 4 etc. Part 2's are usually decent and still follows to a degree the original storyline. After that, everything starts going downhill.
@@prettybullet7728Oh yeah. I dropped the show several times around S4, because the tension slowed down and became less interesting? It's the last low tension moment before the final season
What a nice surprise! This is my favorite show of all time.
Enjoy the ride!
Somthing id recomend watching is a video about how the director used colour in this show. Every color has a meaning and is always used in certain shots to represent somthing. Worth a watch and completely changed my second viewing of this show.
Im from the US, so private Healthcare.
I actually used to work in radiology, but I got out of it because of the kind of personalitys and kind of greed in that world.
Example: They would actually charge patients more for more detailed scans. The scans are used to make diagnosis and recommend treatments. I tried my best to inquire about what resource was being spent to justify the price hike, but it was genuinely just an upcharge (to cancer patients sometimes) for the radiologists to use a superior computer program to clean the image. It was already a freely available resource, but unless you paid more we'd have to use the old tech. Wild.
Nahhhh it isnt greed at all.
@@hcaelBBleachLol, telling a radiologist actually no I know better than you hahahaha
@@hcaelBBleachBad look my friend
And are the more detailed scans actually more useful to the doctors or are the regular one plenty good, but they offer the detailed scan for people that are unaware and scared so they think the detailed one will help them more?
@@Arjay404 From what they said it seems the detaiked scans are definitely the best to be used, and there's no extra cost for using those machines so it would be obvious to use them for an improved image, but hospitals will still have an upcharge on using the newer detailed equipment, even though there is no real rise in cost for usage and it would make the doctors jobs easier.
Literally the best TV series ever made. So glad to see you guys react to this. Just you wait until you get to later seasons, this ain't nothing!!
I'm from WV in the US and my son got a T12 level spinal cord injury from a fall at home when he was 6 and the debt made us lose our home. It all ended up OK in the end. He's 20 now and still paraplegic and in his third year of college. It came to my husband wrongfully losing his job (which we didnt find out about until 6 months later) for us to qualify for any kind of assistance, even though we then had a two story home with a paralyzed child whose bedroom was upstairs. You have to figure out how to work a system that works against you.
Love that you’re doing this in binge-able format by season! Best show ever, can’t wait for you guys to experience it!
I'm from the US. People here frequently go bankrupt from medical bills. Breaking Bad is definitely an American story. In fact it's based on a real event.
So frequently that in several decades I have never known a single person to do so and have only heard of a slight few. It does happen, but not nearly as much as people think or want to believe.
Thank you go putting this edit together George!!! I know it's a ton of work and I hope it pays off with views. Watching each entire episode with you guys isn't possible for me right now and this is perfect.
In my opinion, Breaking Bad is one of the greatest television shows ever made. I know you're on season 3 and about to start season 4, but im most exited for you to watch the final season as no other show sticks the landing in its final few episodes as hard as Breaking Bad does. IMDB has a rating list of almost 27,000 TV episodes, and one of the final episodes of Breaking Bad occupies the top and it damn well deserves to occupy the top spot with a perfect 10 score from 212k votes!
Someone going in blind getting to watch BB + BCS is in for such a treat. I began watching BB during season 3 so I had to wait many years to finish them all. I'm kind envious of getting to experience it all in a binge
Season 3 was the best.
The ending sucked 🤷
Practically perfect in every way.
@@themanhimself4796 trying to be different
I recently re subscribed to Netflix so I could watch BB for the millionth time. Then yesterday I noticed you had been watching it on Patreon so I joined up there so I could watch it with you. I have Cinebinged through season 1 and part way into season 2 already. Loving the full reaction, and knowing the show so well I’m thrilled to join in with your excitement as it all unfolds.
Those reactions are the closest way of getting the feeling of seeing it for the first time again.
@@dragonhunterx5929absolutely. My family doesn’t get why I enjoy watching reactions. TBH I didn’t either when someone told me about it. It wasn’t until I watched one myself (starting small, like music video reactions) that I started to get it: you can’t watch a movie for the first time again, so this is the next best thing.
I have stage 4 cancer and my chemo is $23,000 a month. But insurance pays 100%. My max deductible is 2500, so I usually only spend about $3000-$3500 for all specialist care, 4 CTs, and 8 MRIs a year. All meds, everything.
The youtube violence guidlines covering over the viscera had me laughing for a solid minute
As an actual chemist, I both love and hate this show. There's a lot they get right, a lot they get wrong but the worst part is that I get asked about this show everytime I meet someone new and they ask what I do for a living.
One of my favorite shows of all time! Thank you for the edit, George! Your work is appreciated!
Oh my God, this is brilliant. I can't believe you guys are doing a whole season at once... Best idea ever I hate waiting for people to go one at a time Specifically with this show. Because you know it's fun to watch along with people cause it's that good...
See it from Walt's perspective, he helped that man win the Nobel prize and the company he helped him start ended up making him obscenely wealthy. Then he was cut out, left to be a impoverished school teacher. Then for the first time in a decade he sees this man surrounded by his posh friends getting million dollar gifts, and he's acting like there was never bad blood.
I don't think it was as much a pride thing as it was a dignity thing. It's very easy to see that as him grovelling at the feet of the rich friend who betrayed him, further giving up any semblance of control he has over his own life when he hasn't had any since the start of the show, and now he's a dead man walking after building a life of mediocrity, he can't even control how it's going to end. Guarantee if Elliot hadn't slipped up, Walt would've taken the job offer because he loves the chemistry and he would've felt in control. Walt is a prideful man but that scene to me never seemed like "I'm too much of a man to take charity" to me. That doesn't come until later.
I’m American and I live in terror of the possibility of being diagnosed with a terrible disease like cancer, primarily because of the obscene costs. You’re going through the absolute worst time of your life, and you have to go into incredible debt just for a shot at survival. Even something like a car accident, or even just giving birth, can devastate you financially. Additionally, if any Canadian ladies are looking for a nerdy wife, hit me up lmao.
UK here so National Health Service. Treatment is free, prescriptions cost £9. There is also the option to pay for private healthcare if you choose and can afford it.
Let's just hope the tories don't get to fulfill their plan of destroying the NHS and replacing it with a US-type system
12 years ago I had “my cancer talk”.
Leukemia. In the cancer world I refer to it as “my minor inconvenience”.
12 months of chemotherapy and I’ve been in remission since.
Out of pocket was I think a couple hundred dollars.
But side effects made it impossible to go back to work.
At the same time a close friend was going through a much more serious experience. Worse than Walt’s. I remember him when I watch the chemo scenes.
Guys, please, this series deserves a separate reaction for every two episodes. I will absolutely watch them all. Please.
Ya. The details are pretty important in this show and with do many good episodes it deserves it.
Heisenberg is kind of a big deal. "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" ring a bell? Dude was so crucial to quantum mechanics. He won a Nobel Prize for "the creation of quantum mechanics," per his Nobel page. EDIT: Oh yeah, Oppenheimer was an American, not an immigrant. Born in NY City.
thanks for releasing it also in this format , really appreciate it
You can't watch the whole season in 1 hour.
An ambulance ride in America is around $5,000.00 minimum and most insurance companies do not cover an ambulance ride PERIOD!!!
@6:33. LITERALLY TENS AND HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. There are people who refuse treatment and don’t even try to apply for health insurance because of “pre-existing conditions” which is just a MEDICAL HISTORY. I’ve personally been walking with a limp and have no way to afford any kind of doctor to exam it. It’s terrible in the U.S. It’s easier and better to just die from any ailment.
Yes,l think the American people would be much better off if they had a single payer,Medicare for all healthcare system like in Canada.
Can't you get a video consult from a different country?
86% of Americans have health insurance through their employment. 🤷♂
@@tamberlame27No idea what you’re talking about. Is that affordable? Do you know any websites? I would love to explore that option.
I know it's hard for anyone to hear this, the but the government is the REASON that prices are so high here. Before 1965 (Medicaid / Medicare), doctors basically came to your home. Nobody went broke paying for health care. Now it's highway robbery.
My dad was on Medicare. He did 5 visits to get radiation for a small spot on his lung. Each visit was 45 minutes long. The bill (paid by the taxpayers) was $155,000. That's over $30,000 per visit. I guarantee the 2 radiologists didn't get more than $50 per hour each. So that's $100 in labor. Where did the rest go?
It's not insurance that's doing this. It's the fact that our government has an open checkbook to their cronies in pharma and hospitals. Anyone who is not part of the program is getting reemed.
American here! I believe one of the reasons this show resonates so strongly with audiences is because 1. It's incredibly well written, acted and directed and 2. It's a scenario that anyone without nationalized healthcare could VERY easily find themselves in. Anyone can understand why Walt would decide to "break bad" to avoid leaving his family in dire circumstances.
This show is the reason I subscribed to Netflix several years ago. One of the best shows ever.
And followed up with an equally excellent show: Better Call Saul.
@@hbk314 I watched the first season of Better Call Saul and didn't continue. does it get better?
@@loganshang1155 Yes it gets better, but imo it's still a bit overrated.🤔
I watched on AMC where it ran originally. AMC did a marathon of ever BB episode 12 hours a day just before the premier of Better Call Saul. I love that the producers stayed true to AMC with Saul. This is really the show that popularized the streaming series format, this and True Detective on HBO.
@@alphajava761 I envy these two, I wish I could watch it again for the first time.
We have a weird half-subsidized, half-market based medical system here. It can get very expensive.
However, the best high-end healthcare here is the best there is. World leaders leave their own countries to get treated here. Hospitals are required to treat anyone who shows up to an emergency room and if you receive substandard service you can sue the hospital, so that helps quality control and wait times are shorter than Canada and England. Sometimes much, much shorter.
We also produce most of the new medicines in the world, despite our nightmarish regulation process. It gets expensive for us but it also gives the rest of the world leading edge drugs and treatment facilities. Kind of like how our new technology filters down to other places.
If you're curious you can read up on the process of creating new medicines and how ridiculously expensive it is. It's very interesting.
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This is pure propaganda not based even slightly in reality
@@IXSICNESS State a contrary fact or 2, but please don't troll. Trolling just makes the atmosphere worse for everyone and confuses the issue for people who might want to know something new.
Thank you.
I'm from the U.S. and I can't remember what my last hospital visit cost but it was a lot and it wasn't covered. The ambulance bill to get to the hospital was 1000 dollars out of pocket and I was less than 2 miles from the hospital. The emergency room visit was also out of pocket. It took me almost 5 years to pay the whole thing off.
If I could put gifs in youtube comments, I would definitely put the gif of Jesse excitedly shouting "Hell yeah" and high-fiving Walter
So excited you guys are uploading this to youtube
Seasons 3-5 are the pinnacle of television…nothing’s close. 1 and 2 are incredible also.
*YEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH BABY! In for a ride. Greatest series of all time imo. Seems like a lot of people are catching onto this masterpiece*
As an Italian who lives in the UK, I think I am very lucky as both countries offer free healthcare, including cancer treatment. The system is not perfect but I can sleep at night knowing that the people of this country have my back as I have theirs if anything shitty like cancer happens. I am really sorry for people in the US. I cannot imagine how many people have died that could have been saved.
I really hope these reactions come out quickly...loving this
I'm from the US. I had a kidney stone in 2022. I was in the hospital less than 24 hours, got a minor surgery & didn't need an ambulance. I got a scan of some kind as well. It was about $4,000.
Medical costs in the US are no joke. Typically Americans get their insurance via their job. For those that are unemployed and can not afford the very expensive insurace payments, bankruptcy is their destiny if ANYTHING happens. The medical and insurance industry pays off our politicians to keep nationalized health care from happening.
This is America: I'm 54, a veteran, with 5 kids, 6 grandkids and more a'coming. I 'retired' from a company that a virus retired. Treatment is 10 times the $250k I've saved and I would rather leave that to my kids and such. No regrets, my life experience was so much better than it could've been.
Stargate SG1 is my alltime favorite show... but this series almost took the #1 spot. It's beyond good and each season is better than the last.
Indeed
I mean if I'm sick and death is a definite possibility, hearing that my brother will take care of my family would be extremely comforting.
Edit: 50:48 Cmon, hank made an excellent point..in his way of course. Sure getting bedridden is a possible result of the treatment. But you might also get back on your feet. That's what i understood when hank said walt needs to keep putting his bets.
I really like having TV series done in chunks like this. It covers all of the big moments that get the best reactions.
With some other reaction channels, I tend to 10 second skip through a lot of the video just to get to the good parts.
All meat, no fluff 👌
Outside of US Perspective.
I live in Poland. We complain about our public health system all the time. Long lines, old equipment, ugly buildings.
But when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2022, she was on chemo 3 weeks later. Had a surgery 4 months later. And she's completely fine now. We didn't pay a dime.
So yeah, when it has to, it works. In fucking Poland. US is so backwards in this regard, I can't even fathom it, the richest country in the world and shit, and not only they treat their people like that, they also brainwash them to think it's fair. Unbelievable.
Binged this over winter break and almost done with better call Saul, been waiting for yall to start this
The US actually feels like 3rd world country for Europeans like me.
They’re so “remained behind” (idk how to phrase it better).
I don’t even wanna start on the 90k vor cancer treatment.
Even the 30 bucks for a couple days in the hospital is unusual for me.
My grandma got blood cancer TWICE a couple of years ago (thankfully she’s still alive today).
She was in the hospital for months and she didn’t paid a single cent.
She most likely would’ve been dead or our family deeply in debt when we would’ve had to pay almost 100k for her treatment.
First she got chemo, beat the cancer. Then like a little less than 2 years later the cancer came back, she got chemo again but it didn’t really worked so she needed spinal cord transplant (I hope this is the right term for it in English).
All in all she was in the hospital for months. And she wasn’t just in any hospital. She was in a hospital specialized for cancer treatment in Berlin.
Here in Germany in most cases the health insurance even pays for things like a wig, after you lost your hair because of the chemo.
Sorry to all Americans for insulting you but to us it feels like the whole of the US is literally mentally r*tarted.
Why tf are you still paying tens of thousands of dollars for just being healthy while the governments spend over 700 BILLION dollars of tax money on the military. It’s enough money to make healthcare completely free.
Here in Europe there would’ve been riots until the politicians change that. There would be millions of people on the streets there would be this situation.
It’s absolutely mind blowing
I realized we have to wait a while to catch the season 2 on UA-cam, but since I'm no financially capable of patreon due to my own health problems (maybe I should start cooking LOL jk)
But I'm so happy to see this. This is my favorite reaction Channel and I've been watching BB on another Channel but I'm super happy to have experienced this with you two. Thank you for this
I believe the reason the first season is only 7 episodes long was because there was a writer's strike back then too. Since you already watched the show I can tell you guys that it was thanks to that Jesse was able to survive, since he was supposed to die in the first season, but due to that pause between the strike and the other season they realised how much people loved the character
Now that you've started this show you have locked yourself into like 10 seasons of programming.. not only will you be compelled to see all of this, you'll also need to see the full spinnoff of "better call saul", about a character and how he came to be involved, later to be seen in this show.
One of my favorite shows of all time. The show progressively gives more and more intense and awesome as the seasons go on.
I don't think that this story could only happen in the US. Many countries don't pay teachers amazingly well, and in most countries you'll need money if you want to pick your own field-leading consultant to treat you as opposed to whatever generic insurance/subsidised/single payer healthcare will cover. Which isn't to say that the US healthcare market isn't particularly messed up.
I mean, even if you're homeless in places like the UK, you still get free access to healthcare and the right to choose your doctors: it kinda is something that can almost only happen exclusively in the US or a country with a really under-developed health service.
@@1215298 Walt isn't homeless. He has health insurance, it just doesn't cover the consultant he wants. In the UK you don't get to choose any doctor you want on the NHS.
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cvIt has nothing to do with the consultant, it’s the treatment and the meds.
Skylar is the real villain: vege bacon for your 50th BIRTHDAY?!?!
RN from the US. Remember the $95k is 2008 prices. Probably more than triple that now
Except the treatment would also be lower cost as technology improves. So that specific treatment will be cheaper but the most recent most advance treatment might cost similar to or more than this treatment cost back then.
This is a top 10 TV series of all time. Good Choice to watch this show.
Sons of Anarchy is a top 5 series of all time you should definitely put it your list of shows to watch too.
I would agree with that and I’d add Ozark to the list as well.
You did this entire show? Holy smokes.
Upto season 3 so far, they start season 4 in a few weeks when they finish ted lasso
As someone who lives in New Mexico and has spent plenty of time in Albuquerque... nobody would think twice about seeing some random dude in the desert with no pants on.
Upload one episode at a time.
This is the greatest show of all time.
Don't do this injustice.
I know you want to hold on for the patreon, but this show can bring you way more viewers than anything else.
Upload edited versions of every episode and people will still want to watch the whole episodes with you.
If you attempt to make only 5 videos for 5 seasons, this could just hide "under the rug" and people wouldn't even be hooked with you two.
You have to pay more attention to this.
Breaking Bad is a masterpiece.
Type shi , they needa see this
This is how ridiculous healthcare bills can get. I was a nurse at the time this happened. We just got off work and the Charge RN had a motorcycle accident while attempting to leave the hospital campus. The on-site ambulance came and took him to the ER. He was charged 700 dollars for that ambulance ride across the hospital parking lot. Told me that he would have crawled on his hands and knees to the ER had he known that they were going to slap him with a bill like that. I was primarily a medication nurse and the hospital would periodically send out price lists of drugs and equipment and the prices were staggering. They were charging nine dollars for one plain Tylenol tablet.
USA is expensive, but also has around the 2nd to 1st highest cancer survival rates (depending on types) in the world. Also, we DO have free healthcare for low-income people in 40 states these days. I've been on it before.
Country Breast Cancer Survival Stomach Cancer Survival Lung Cancer Survival Prostate Cancer Survival
1 Cyprus 90.6% 26.3% 15.4% 93.1%
2 United States of America 88.6% 29.1% 18.7% 97.2%
3 Brazil 87.4% 24.9% 18% 96.1%
4 Mauritius 87.4% 40.7% 37.2% 77.3%
5 France 86.9% 27.7% 13.6% 90.5%
6 Finland 86.8% 25.2% 12.3% 93.2%
7 Israel 86.7% 28.6% 23.8% 94%
8 Australia 86.2% 27.9% 15% 88.5%
9 Italy 86.2% 32.4% 14.7% 89.7%
10 Sweden 86.2% 23.2% 15.6% 89.2%
11 Norway 85.9% 24.1% 15% 86.3%
12 Canada 85.8% 24.8% 17.3% 91.7%
13 Switzerland 85.5% 30.4% 16.5% 88%
14 Belgium 85.4% 33.4% 16.6% 92.6%
15 Germany 85.3% 31.6% 16.2% 91.2%
16 Iceland 85.3% 32.3% 15% 83.5%
17 Qatar 85.3% 27.3% 13.2% 55.3%
18 Netherlands 85% 21.4% 14.8% 85.8%
19 Japan 84.7% 54% 30.1% 86.8%
20 New Zealand 83.7% 26.7% 12.4% 88.7%
I'm from Denmark, we have higher taxes than the US, but all our schools, hospitals and doctors are free 🙂 If you get sick, calls 911 (well here it's 112) get picked up by an ambulance and spends 3 months (or what ever time is needed) in the hospital, you don't have to pay for any of it..
Having watched this series front to back at least 5 times, all I can think is how much you two have to experience as you see this for the first time.
The hype is real... this is a great show!
Haha me too, I've rewatched it with several family members too. Back when it was airing I was like a breaking bad spokesperson running around trying to get everyone to watch it lol.
I think I know it by heart now but still can't resist a good reaction video
In case no one else has pointed this out, the car wash owner Bogdan was played by Marius Stan who's a real-life chemist and physicist. As a chemist, I just think that's neat :)
I like how Simone characterizes Jesse's family: "it's a nice house and they are very well off and they're talking about clarinets or oboes or whatever the fuck."
Walt's insurance covered his cancer treatment. Literally says so in the show. He just didn't have access to the absolute best cancer treatment which the vast majority of Canadians also do not have access to.
I’m from the United States. My mother was diagnosed with brain cancer in August of 2022. She had surgery, radiation treatment and many hospital visits until she died in February of 2023. I don’t know how much it would have cost because she had Medicare supplement. I imagine it would have been an amount that would no one of average means could afford without REALLY good insurance in the U.S…. By the way, huge fan of your content.
YOOO BREAKING BAD!!! Recently watched your reactions Harry Potter and other stuff also. Now Breaking Bad. Fantastic!
Hey George. since you asked, I´m from Mexico and we have Nationalized health care.
In the late 90s I had a stomach flu. My thermometer was faulty and my temperature read 94.7 so I freaked and went to the hospital. They ran some tests and said stomach flu.
My bill was $35,000. I really wish I was born in a more sophisticated country with free health care like Cuba, or Kyrgyzstan instead of the United States or Corporate Evil.
Wait... Wait what? You haven't seen this?!?!?!
I'm from the USA and have had type 1 diabetes for over 25 years. Healthcare has gotten so much worse since I was first diagnosed. I'm only given one month of insulin at a time. The amount of work just getting insurance to talk to the pharmacy or the doctor is ludicrous. I can't live without insulin... I'm literally living month to month.
Yeah, the UK remake of Breaking Bad is about a schoolteacher who gets cancer, goes to his GP, gets referred to a consultant and starts treatment within a week, all for free on the NHS. It won a BAFTA.
I'm from the US. I had an ear infection in my 20's. 8 hours in the hospital waiting room, 2 minutes of seeing an actual doctor followed by a $500 medical bill in the mail weeks after.
Your dad's surgery story winkles my brain.
The US may have some of the best healthcare in the world, but it certainly does have the most expensive healthcare system, even if you have private insurance, and a corruption problem as well.
The pharmaceutical companies send their sales reps to pitch their drugs and other products to the doctors directly, or ply their wares during 'conventions' in popular vacation destinations(Las Vegas, Miami, New York and the like). They'll take the doctors out to high end restaurants, supply them with free samples, create fake consulting contracts to pay off doctors to use their products, or simply offer doctors direct financial incentives using a graded scale payout according to the volume of their drug a doctor has prescribed. Here in the US, people need to be concerned about the motivations of their primary care physicians(which should NEVER be in question!), and whether or not they are prescribing to meet a quota or if there are equally effective generic forms of the prescription available at a tenth of the cost, or whether the drug even needs to be prescribed at all.
The pharmaceutical companies also advertise their drugs and products directly to the consumer in ads, rather than to physicians, in the hopes that consumers experience a correlating symptom and demand the drug be prescribed by their doctor.
To give an idea of how troublesome this is here in the US, here's a pertinent stat. About 2/3 of all bankruptcies declared in the US are the result of medical bills. Before accepting a prescription, we need to know how to do research on these things, and most of us don't. So, we just play into the system, and take a huge financial hit for it, for the most part. The top 10% of wealth holders might get by with the financial burden of a serious medical issue, but the rest of us can just shut up and die, or spend the rest of our lives paying off hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, for all they care. The US healthcare system(not what healthcare is available, but rather the ability of the average person to access it) really is one of the most shameful aspects of American society.
From Denmark here. My mother in-law had breast cancer, and the doctors removed what they thought was all the cancer, but JUST to be sure, they had her go through chemo. All and all it cost her nothing. I'm really greatful to live in a country where doctors can take that decision for you and not put you in massive debt.
Costs depend a lot on your insurance.
My husband's insurance seems pretty basic, but my extended hospital stay, c-section, and a baby in the hospital for 6 months (constant supervision, meds, transfusions, surgeries, tons of specialists), plus regular follow-up appointments with cardiologists, pulmonologists, optometrists, and developmental pediatricians, only cost $15k.
I’ve been waiting for the YT version of this! Can’t wait
The leading cause of bankruptcy in the US is medical debt. I'm fully insured through my employer for around $200/mo. and STILL have to forego routine medical procedures/tests because they cost too much out of pocket. Example: I got a back x-ray taken as ordered by my family doctor. Total cost: $700. My out of pocket cost: $300...for an x-ray.
The US healthcare system is a joke. It's only the greatest system in the world if you can afford it (most can't). Otherwise, the only thing you're entitled to is emergency care, but they still charge you after the fact and are only legally required to stabilize you before kicking you out.
Thanks for doing the full season edit for us non Patreon plebes.
The idea that Walt as a teacher wouldn’t have insurance that covered most of his cancer treatment (chemo, tests etc) is not very realistic. In states where teachers are in an insurance pool with other state workers, they tend to get the same Cadillac plans that state workers get (I was sort of embarrassed by how good my plan was when I had a state job - my wife was a C suite executive in a multinational company and making 5x my salary as a senior staffer in the state kegiskature but my health insurance was 10x better than what she would be able to get working in the private sector). Even if New Mexico didn’t do it that way, and the Albuquerque school district had its own less high end plan, it would certainly cover the bulk of his treatment. His surgeon being “world renowned” according to Marie and out of network is more feasible. But the chemo, tests, radiation etc should be covered. Along with most of his surgery if not the surgeon. So…take it all with a grain of salt. Not to minimize folks who have no insurance etc but the teacher with insurance that’s doesn’t cover cancer treatment is just not believable.
I live in the US and my mom is currently battling Stage 4 lung cancer. Her last year of immunotherapy was around $500,000. Thankfully insurance is covering a sizeable amount, but she’s got thousands out of pocket that’s due.
The cost of medicine and healthcare in the US is absurd.
So a whole season in one hour? That's ridiculous.
@SorcerSundry Derp.
I live in California and I had to pay just under $3,000 just for some lab work on my lungs while I was sick for a week and a half.
Because of how expensive it is I've done my own dental work. I've taking care of my own broken bones unless they are compound or needing to be set. Unless unless I needed more than two stitches, I take care of that stuff myself.
I've actually had a dental assistant compliment the dentist who did some removals. When I told her that it was me who did it not only was she shocked but also amazed at what a good clean job I did.