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.
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.
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”.
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.
"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."
Everyone knows the goat Breaking bad reactions are Nicki and Steven and Also James V cinema has an amazing one 🙃 but if cinebing go through all of em theirs will prob end up being my fav
@@alejandrovelazquez3448or Nikki and Stephen a lot of people myself included dropped vkunia after she was exposed as a horrible person creating fictitious lies to protect an abusive partner. Who she is still with to this day after her best friend at the time confronted him about beating and apparently according to vkunia emotionally manipulating and abusing her. Where she then said the best friend + a mod of hers was a stalker and that he spread her private images (which in reality it was her boyfriend blackmailing her so she would get back with him) which worked. Her mod was then fired and after vkunia labelled him a stalker harassed and called a stalker and a creep so he exposed the truth. Theres wayyyy more better to watch the expose as it is a well made hour long video.
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.
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...
According to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the average cost of cancer treatment in the United States is $150,000. How much of that falls on the individual to pay depends entirely on the particulars of their health insurance, which may or may not cover significant portions of the bills. And with so many new treatments out there to extend one's life (and quality of life) after a cancer diagnosis without actually _curing_ the cancer, those costs can go *much* higher. It wasn't cancer, but my father passed away several months ago after suffering from Alzheimer's for some time. I was able to provide home care for all but the last couple months of his life, and he had _excellent_ health insurance as a retired federal worker, but the out-of-pocket costs for just over two months of hospital visits and stays in elderly care facilities ran about $10,000 (and that doesn't include the $20,000 we paid for his "long term" hospice care, which wound up only being 5 days before he passed; long-term care requires additional, separate insurance). I don't recall the exact numbers as I was obviously focusing more on what we owed vs. what they charged, but I'm quite comfortable estimating that the $10,000 would easily have surpassed $30k if he hadn't had insurance. The medical system in the United States of America is basically designed to ensure that most people die penniless.
I'm sorry to hear that! I don't know the costs when my family went through theirs because I was too young to be in those conversations. I do know that my wife's grandmother was just in a regular nursing home that cost $8k/month. The sad thing was that they had to sell the family land (over 200 acres) to pay for it. The medical/pharmaceutical industries in this country are fu.
@@richcheckmaker9789 Cool story but that's gotta be a tiny amount of people, to never need a dentist or a broken bone or car accident or something. Even if you're so lucky that you never need it, someone in your family surely will. Or a friend. But I would gladly pay more in taxes to make sure my neighbors and friends and family would never have to worry about deciding between eating or paying for a treatment 🤷♂️
@@richcheckmaker9789 What a dumb comment. Almost everyone will have some kind of medical emergency at some point in their lifetime. You don't just live a perfectly healthy life and then suddenly fall over dead. And that's to say nothing of debilitating accidents.
@@matthew6427 The craziest thing is that while taxes under a public health insurance system would go up, working people and businesses wouldn't have to pay out of their payroll to the insurance companies. They add no particular value are just useless middlemen that syphon money out of the system. Taxes might be higher, but overall cost to most citizens would be lower, while substantially increasing access. We choose to pay more for worse service.
I was diagnosed with cancer nearly 10 years ago and was lucky enough to have decent healthcare. My deductible (what I pay before insurance covered 100%) was only 4K. I would still received FYI notices on what my insurance covered. After hospital stays, chemo, major surgery, ICU stay for almost 2 weeks came out to more than 7 figures. Healthcare here is so broken
@@_DZ_ Well yeah, the rest of the civilized world (and most of the uncivilized world for that matter) see it for the exploitative, cruel and crazy system that is is.
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.
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.
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).
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".
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.
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.
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.
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...
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
I was working in Toronto one day, years ago, and this mother with her 2 children were walking/skateboarding by us. We heard a scream and the 12 year old just stepped off his board sharply and ended up compound fracturing his leg. turns out they were from the U.S visiting and the hospital ended up $30,000 or $50,000...i think it was 50. My brother had 3 stents put in here(free) and I think it is $50,000 each in U.S
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.
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.
My girlfriend just began rewatching this show on Netflix and I love all of it and love even more that you both are discovering it for the first time. I look forward to the journey you're about to enjoy!
Oh wow! I'm so glad you two are reacting to this Iconic TV Series!!! I first watched it a couple of years ago on a free streaming sight. I then knew why they won so many awards. You'll love the secondary and recurring characters!!! They Drive the show!!! I'm sure Simone will do a LOT more OMG counts as the series goes on! You're both in for a Ride!!!
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! 🤓🤙🏼
My first job when I was 16 around summer 2001 was a cart pusher/mop jockey at the local grocery store. I remember flyers on the bulletin board in the break room advising don't sell more than 5 boxes of cold medicine to ANYONE, imagine my confusion way back when... 🤣
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 realized we have to wait a while to catch the season 2 on RU-vid, 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
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
From what I understand, the reason they put dollar bills in the dryer is to make the bills worn and used. Crisp clean bills tend to raise more eyebrows than used crumpled up bill.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
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 grew up in Albuquerque, and now after forever I am back here. They actually have a tour here to see the different places in the series. Their home isn't far from me.
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 👌
90% of the shows issues are caused by his pride & ego. My love for Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) knows no bounds. His character has one of the saddest lives in television history in my opinion. Sooo excited to see y’all watch this show ❤
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.
Ya what I love about this show is there is always some situations throughout the seasons that are soooo close to disastrous and almost ruining everything like when Mrs White shows up at the RV.
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
1:01:00 - that's not why he was called Heisenberg in the show. Its b/c of the uncertainty principle. Kinda like its either Walt is a chem teacher with cancer, or he's a drug dealer, but not both.
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.
Pot is a gateway drug my ass... I never smoked pot... but after my older brother died at 23 (I was 19) I ended up trying and getting hooked on meth (My first drug ever) ... it was in fact Pot I turned to... just to get off of meth... and it worked.. I am 43 now.. and I have been clean off of meth for over 20 years .. thx to pot! Mary Jane sure was a blessing to me! So yeah.. it's life that does it... not pot!
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.
39:33 I'm from the UK where we have nationalised healthcare, but ours is cool because we have just refused to fucking fund it properly for 14 years now, so basically instead of paying $5000 for an ambulance ride and a hospital bed you get to die on the street for free because the ambulance took 4 hours to arrive, or die in the hospital coridors because there aren't any beds available because we also refuse to fund care services so we have a bunch of infirm elderly people taking up hospital beds because there's nowhere else to put them and no one to look after them at their homes
It always blows my mind when someone says something like, “healthcare here is free,” or “I only paid $30 for surgery.” Do people not realize they’ve already paid for those services through taxes? Extra taxes. That’s why it’s “free.”
I’m actually from the place this show was filmed Albuquerque New Mexico. This is a cultural staples for us locals in the 505, I’ve got the luxury of meeting Bryan Cranston, and Jessie numerous times there real down to earth people. And the show hits to close to home what the show depicts is not so far fetch from the reality here in Albuquerque. Much love from the your neighbor here in the states. Love your channel. And I love Samone’s name one of my all time favorite names my sister is named Samone but she spells it with an a instead of an I ❤
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 think one of the best things about this show is that it's actually quite debatable whether this could "only" happen in the U.S. Technically, it's true that the individual cost of cancer treatment is exponentially higher in the U.S. than in most other developed countries with more comprehensive health care systems. But it's debatable whether the cost of his cancer treatment is REALLY why Walter White goes on this journey.
Well ... I dont know. He wanted to leave stgh for his family (debateable if that is the true reason or it stays the reason, but whatever). But in the US, the diagnosis is his final last humiliation. Walter has to decide if he wants to ruin his family and maybe die, leave his family in the status quo and die, or take someone elses money, hurt his ego and maybe die and be remembered in a (for him) unfavorable way. So I think this financial issue is maybe the catalyst, or like the wood that gets the pot boiling. In germany, these humiliating (or for him humiliating) choices he would not have to make, so this catalyst is missing, because walter is choosing death (before being talked out of it against his will) and now is focused on his legacy. I dont know if there is a strong enoigh catalyst if he would not have to make up his mind about whether saving his life sould be responsible towards his already struggeling family. Also, the issue of explaining to people where he gets the money for the treatment would be missing, eradicating a huge plotpoint.
@@rmnffxhe starts off making meth to pay for his medical bills so as to not leave his family in crippling debt. He continues to make meth because if his pride. The show makes this abundantly clear
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 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.
I love the barrel heist scene because it’s hilarious how they lock the guard in the porta poddy, but more importantly it shows how brilliant yet stupid they are when they carry it
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’m from the US and have Leukemia. The government covers my medical expenses in the form of Medicare (federal ) and Medicaid (state of Colorado). I also have private insurance to cover prescriptions that cost $12.00 monthly. We don’t have national health coverage but we’re not thrown to the wolves.….however, it’s important to note that I live in a liberal state. I get state government funding citizens in other states don’t get…there’s also private funding and resources available for people in need (cancer society). People don’t have to turn to meth. It’s a drama.
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.
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
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.
Walter White had health insurance as a public school teacher. I think his chemo was basically covered as well. IMO he went into selling meth because of the news that he woudln't live very long even with treatment. He wanted to leave his family a nest egg before he died. So I think BB could happen in countries with nationalized health care as well, especially if they don't have life insurance.
Exactly. He didnt do it for money for treatment. He did it to be able to leave money for his family. And double yeah, the whole socialised healthcare argument is just people who dont understand how bad socialised healthcare can be. Everyone still pays massive amounts of money for their healthcare, they just pay for it through taxes and then evebtualy the systen fall apart. The nhs is a mess right now. People dying waiting for treatment. Massive amounts of money being wasted.
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.
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.
In France we pay almost nothing for healthcare. You are reimbursed for your medical expenses within approximately 5 days (via direct bank transfer). But it's better to avoid hospitals when you can because most of the time you must wait hours at the ER.
I was a little unclear on that actually. I think the plaque was for supporting research that won a Nobel prize, not being awarded it himself. I checked the Wikipedia for the character and it seems to agree, although I admit I don't know how the award actually reads so maybe I'm overthinking it. Anyway yeah I thought it was funny how they missed the word "Nobel" haha. "Some kind of award" yeah actually I think you've heard of it...
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
