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I'm definitely with Seph on this, season 5 of breaking bad in general left a slightly sour taste in my mouth. the premise is wonderful but the characterisation feels flat to me - lydia is never interesting, the nazis feel like ludicrous cardboard villains after gus, and I find walter's a much more compelling character in earlier seasons when he's actually wrestling with his decisions and not just embracing his darkness.

there are a lot of great moments in there - the cinematography remains wonderful, the tension throughout is pretty masterful and ozymandias is obviously a landmark episode - but it falls into grotesqueness and action movie silliness a little too much for me

all that said, I never unconditionally adored the show even in what I consider to be its better seasons, so maybe that's not all that meaningful. clearly I'm in the minority anyway!

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