How BREAKING BAD Cleverly Hides Religious Symbolism in Every Season

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Breaking Bad is a show filled with layered symbolism. Even the color of someone's shirt is loaded with hidden meaning. But did you know that the show is secretly about creator Vince Gillgan's religious faith? Gilligan was raised Catholic, and his beliefs permeate every corner of the show.
The characters' names, the inversion of scripture, and even methylamine have a direct symbolic relationship to Biblical events.
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Written by Ryan Arey and Jose Santana
Hosted by Ryan Arey ( / ryanarey )
Edited by Antonio Polito
Works Cited:
The Take: • Breaking Bad: Jesse Pi...
NPR Vince Gilligan Interview: www.npr.org/transcripts/14011...
Objects in Breaking Bad: the-artifice.com/breaking-bad...
New York Times Vince Gilligan Interview: www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/ma...
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@ScreenCrush 3 года назад

Anything you'd like to add?

@pig_cakes1368 3 года назад

@ThelastShepherd. 3 года назад

First

@Buckfever517 3 года назад

When Walt is caught finally, he walks over in the Christ cross pose.

@user-Pulse1147 3 года назад

If you look closely in Season four, episode five, you'll see a hexagon prominently displayed as Aaron Paul and Brian Cranston walk into the primary building. This was foreshadowing to the hex that we see in WandaVision.

@i0anniz 3 года назад

@@user-Pulse1147 no ps. For the record I laughed 👍

@martontinkovay5024 3 года назад

Breaking bad has the most symbolism I have ever seen in a series.

@gregbasore2108 3 года назад

If you ever want another good crime series with lots of symbolism, the comic/graphic novel series 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso is a good one.

@bookeblade Год назад

Yeah, it’s insane.

@Michael-ld2np Год назад

Facts

@timtimslimjim Год назад

It's so cool because you can go the whole show without noticing it and it's still amazing, but when you do notice it it's even more genius

@mariod2890 Год назад

Sons of Anarchy....

@AdamAfandi 3 года назад

TIGHT, TIGHT, TIGHT, YEAH!! Featurette, clip, breakdown, whatever man. Just keep bringing me that!

@daguv2137 2 года назад

This is a slept on reference

@dreamfever2572 2 года назад

That is a slept on comment my man

@oblivionfan345Tony 2 года назад

Underrated

@colekoenning6995 2 года назад

Lmfaooooooo

@docchicken245 Год назад

I say the same

@koray5011 3 года назад

I watched Breaking Bad 6 times, I never thought of that... I might need to rewatch it

@lapacesiaconvoi 2 года назад

now i'm getting all paranoid. like ricin is rise sin

@ettena93 Год назад

All the characters who made a deal with the "devil" either ended up ruining their life or dead. Nothing Walt did came without a price. Even when Jessie begged him to stop "working him" and be truthful, Walt never eased up. Walt pretty much hit all the seven deadly sins besides infidelity, but I guess meth was his true mistress.

@maikkniss3971 Год назад

He tried with carmen

@timtimslimjim Год назад

Honestly i feel like Skyler got off a little too easy

@ettena93 11 месяцев назад

@@timtimslimjim How did she get off too easy? Her life was ruined at the end of the show.

@NateS917 10 месяцев назад

Skylar was infidelity

@timtimslimjim 10 месяцев назад

@@ettena93 yeah you're right, i wanted her to get arrested or something, but she's so miserable that honestly her life itself was enough punishment

@luisguerra8852 3 года назад

I see Hank discovering Walt is Heisenberg as some sort of divine intervention: he finds out at a point where Walt has retired from his drug empire, and wants to spend his remaining days happily with his family. But Vince Gilligan believes in karma, after all, meaning Walt has to pay for his sins. The problem is Walt is always one step ahead, covering his tracks, never caught by the authorities nor brought to justice. The way I see it, some divine force uses Walt's biggest weakness against him: his pride. He leaves the book Gale gave him in his bathroom, in plain sight, where anyone can read it, because he doesn't think someone would read it; so Hank is sent to the bathroom, to read that book, because Walt has to face justice someway or another, and if Hank hadn't picked up that book at all, Walt would've never payed for his sins.

@gregbasore2108 3 года назад

It shows how fallible Walt is, despite his efforts to cover his tracks. He doesn't even care about the book, which was a gift from a man he loathed and despised. He put it in the bathroom, as potentially frivolous reading material, or in a worst case scenario as back up toilet paper if he ever ran out of the regular stuff on taco night. Just as he's ready to let go of his criminal lifestyle and walk away, Walt is undone by an act of negligence born of contempt that he didn't even remember.

@The_Jumping_Box Год назад

Hank is forced to shit instead of piss by the hand of God

@timtimslimjim Год назад

@@gregbasore2108 i don't think he despised gale at all

@theskyybay420 Год назад

"Paid" for his sins. : )

@Chip_Fuse Год назад

I'm kinda a bit mad coz divine intervention, as spiritual as it sounds, came when Hank had to take a dump.

@dukeofdisastr9015 Год назад

There’s an interview somewhere that Gillian said that he enjoys writing because he can sort of play god. I audibly gasped at the end of the video because I think y’all 100% hit the nail on the head

@todangtall 3 года назад

Not in the last season, but there's the list he made in season one when contemplating the killing of Domingo aka Crazy Eight. He lists Judeo-Christian values as a reason not to go through with it. This being one of Walt's first murders, marks a real moral turning point for him.

@Immolator772 2 года назад

his moral turning point was when he killed Jane. He killed those guys because they were threatening him, Jane did the same but she was innocent compared to those 2 guys.

@marcowulliampopirers2216 Месяц назад

@@Immolator772yeah but walt didn't directly kill her besides she was threathening to give him to the authorities

@misspeachtails Месяц назад

@@marcowulliampopirers2216 jane was an addict, she knew full well she had the risk of overdosing and therefore knew to sleep on her side, that's why she taught jesse to. when walt broke in he shook jesse, in turn that shook jane off of him and she started overdosing and walt chose to do nothing. choosing to do nothing is still an action and walt knew that himself

@AlebReborn Год назад

Very insightful analysis. I do think that this show has intentional religious undertones. I love how the integration of it is very subtle. I say this as a Christian who loves Breaking Bad

@awesomo411 Год назад

hearing walt call jessie his son while being so horrible to him made me so sad

@hadookin47 11 месяцев назад

Abusive father figure who wanted Jesse to be exactly how he wanted

@Robin-bv4es Месяц назад

The son of god....

@Buckfever517 3 года назад

When Walt is caught, he walks over in the Christ cross pose.

@saadasif 3 года назад

What scene are you talking about? I can't remember

@ThatMendezGuy 3 года назад

@@saadasif when he’s handcuffed by hank

@srivathsonsam2416 3 года назад

Just like Gus fring walked out when his enemy sniping on him

@user-tx5bx3wq4g 3 года назад

Finally someone does a video on this..iv had a theory like this for years. Not just the last season. In the first season when they dissolve the body in acid. They cut back to Walt talking about the missing ingredient to a person being the "soul". The one that stuck out to me the most is the plane crash. The episode after the crash opens with news anchors saying "167" people died in the crash. They focus on this number multiple times. Look up what 167 means..."The number 167 signifies using your creativity, inner wisdom and adaptability to find new ways to materially provide for yourself and your family." Which is exactly what Walt does. Theyre are a ton more I'm not gunna list but rewatch the series with this in mind. It's pretty mind blowing. P.S. I'm not religious, so I don't think I'm trying to shoe horn this theory in!

@srmatrong 3 года назад

I’m currently sitting in a hospital chair carrying my brand new baby boy and he got to watch half of this video with me before falling asleep in my arms. Thank you for your soothing voice Ryan, you put my baby Malachi to sleep

@juliananthony1226 2 года назад

Malachi. Worst. Baby. Name. Ever.

@noahreyna76 2 года назад

@@juliananthony1226 shut up Malachi is a good name.

@noahreyna76 2 года назад

Congratulations on your baby!!

@juliananthony1226 2 года назад

@@noahreyna76 lol naaaaah pimp. That baby had his chances of being possessed by a demon at least 7%.

@noahreyna76 2 года назад

@@juliananthony1226 I don’t know what you mean because Malachi is the name of a prophet in the Bible. The name means “my messenger”

@Michael-ld2np Год назад

IM SO GLAD YOU MADE THIS VIDEO. I’m rewatching the series rn and have been catching all these symbolic scenes!

@stepanpytlik4021 2 года назад

The sheer amount of details put into this show is incredible.

@aod9910 3 года назад

The keys that drop from the visor have a "Just for Today" keychain. Just for Today is part of the 12 steps of recovery in Narcotics Anonymous. It's a sort of prayer that just for today thoughts will be on recovery without drugs, faith in others, following a program, getting better perspectives through the program and living without fear. The angle of the car shot shows the keys coming from above down to Walt, as a sort of divine intervention when he prays for God to get him out of there.

@gregbasore2108 3 года назад

It also means that Walt stole a car from someone who was likely a believer in a higher power, who's path brought him and his car to a place where it needed to be.

@DJFNaFMan 5 месяцев назад

Ok so through the series Walt loses weight because of his cancer whilst his wife gains wait because of pregnancy which is basically separating them in some way

@MrJayateabug 3 года назад

Ryan is just too damn good at these analysis videos. Almost as if he was sent here by a higher power to explain things to us. And thus, The Church of Ryanism began...

@FrNSICs Год назад

I thought walt was talking to the car when he said “just get me home”

@jmillz666 3 года назад

These BB breakdowns are so phenomenal. Thank you Ryan & crew for all your hard work! 🙌🖤

@Pwn3dbyth3n00b 3 года назад

Wow this video came out almost a decade late

@DJFNaFMan Год назад

This should be a film theory episode

@devincreislerstudios Год назад

As pitch meeting says “wow wow wow wow wow… wow”

@brendanrodriguez5111 Год назад

Something I’m disappointed you didn’t mention is that in the middle of the show, Hank is investigating the waribouts of Jessie and Walt’s van. They reveal that combo’s name is Kristian Ortega. He is dead. Think about that.

@shadowdancer3888 3 года назад

Damn it…. Now I have to watch Breaking Bad again with new eyes.

@Bonesph Год назад

We know the killer twins pray for death with a shrine full of lit candles. In Better Call Saul when Lalo shows up unexpected the wind blows and the candles in the room flicker. We know that this universe has supernatural powers looming in the moment.

@guitarshred32 11 месяцев назад

I’ve always thought that Walt is the devil, Jesse is Jesus, mike is archangel Michael, Gus is God, and hank is man

@ziqaustin 3 года назад

As if I needed another reason for BB being the best show ever! Great job as always Ryan!

@LeeLooDM 3 года назад

I love this type of essays!! This one is so good! Thank you!!

@jubjub7101 3 года назад

Well researched and beautifully put together. Great job! A+

@davidarussellii 3 года назад

You are amazing at your craft! This blew my mind but it makes perfect sense! Thank you!

@tammygant4216 Год назад

Wow!! So thoughtful and insightful. Well done!

@SDSypher 9 месяцев назад

Tuco repeating “Tight!” Is in reference to Walts butthole before going to prison

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers Год назад

Outstanding. Time to watch this series again with a greater understanding of the underlying religious significance.

@jeffycease9099 3 года назад

Brilliant video...and kudos to you for the smooth transition into the sponsor

@mjgoodson 3 года назад

Good work! Lots to think about!

@historiadelaciencia6860 2 года назад

Being bilingual es lo máximo!!

@AndyFelbab 3 года назад

Great video, you're making me feel the need to rewatch

@CaptainFahim 3 года назад

Now I need more videos like this. Keep it up, Ryan!

@ginocochino2131 2 месяца назад

Wow I have watched both series multiple times, I have been obsessed with this show.... And I never caught most of this! Dude amazing video❤

@torontoclarinetist 3 года назад

Thank you for this, Ryan!

@welej7168 Год назад

Vince Gilligan is an absolute genius.

@fillphd 2 года назад

interesting idea but if you look hard enough youll find religious symbolism in almost any text. Most names have a religious route so its not hard to shoe horn the meaning into the show

@Chip_Fuse Год назад

Mike, or Mighael, being the guardian angel for Gus and Jesse doesn't seem a coincidence though.

@trecsyuh729 3 месяца назад

You representing your walking around Paris with that clip is very hilarious🤣

@chadcognac5626 3 года назад

Great video. Thx

@jonathanblanco8729 3 года назад

Nice vid.....great insights!

@Buckfever517 3 года назад

I love finding Christian themes/values in secular shows. Only thing is that Water doesn’t wash away sins, it’s the belief that Jesus died for our sins and asking Him to come into our lives in relationship. Jesus is the living water that washes away our sins. But overall, great job guys.

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers Год назад

Well said.

@JynDameron Месяц назад

Good response. My pastime is truly finding the logical Christian themes underlying good stories, but it's important to analyze accurately. We are saved by grace alone through Christ alone, not by any action or prop.

@rikasoft 2 месяца назад

The religious names thing at 13:43 is literally genius, I don’t know how I didn’t notice that wow

@CatJabZ 3 года назад

This breakdown was fantastic! This and the use of colors in the show make me want to rewatch it. What are everyone's favorite episodes? Ozymandias is mine.

@jakecooper9733 Год назад

Never thought I’d hear a C.S. Lewis Quote in a Breaking Bad video

@JynDameron Месяц назад

It fits... I wrote a whole essay using C.S. Lewis' writings (particularly The Problem of Pain) to expound upon the themes woven through the series. With a show so logically and carefully written, its themes naturally align with the Christian worldview. It's a story of every person's capacity for sin and the need to die to oneself and repent. Powerful stuff, but Lewis puts it so much better than I do.

@tedrohe9048 3 года назад

Great video!

@Dandylion30 2 дня назад

When you realize that John is also known as "The Beloved." Jane being the female John blew my mind.

@N-Lee Год назад

14:55 The shows underlying philosophy is very Christian. I've heard a few Pastors speak out against this show. I don't quite agree with them. The show is simply an Allegory Morality Play of a man who had a problem (Cancer) and he chose to deal with it his own way instead of seeking help from God. (That never ends well.) But such behavior can be applied to just about any TV show or Movie. After a while you start seeing symbolism in the symbolism and for me, that just ruins it. Just enjoy BB, stop looking deeper.

@ventsudouestfan Год назад

In the Bible, Jesus offers wine, his blood, and bread, his body, to poor people. In season 5, Jesse throws his money in the street at the middle of the night. I was asking myself why Jesse doesnt use the money he won since the 1st episode to pay the vacuum guy in El Camino, but I remembered he had given everything

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers Год назад

5:00 I love how the Tenacious D movie (released in 2006) has way better effects than the Thor clip right after.

@Jethro7e 10 месяцев назад

With every day that passes my RU-vid Premium subscription becomes more and more pointless. But let's jump right into this.

@luiszapata6864 3 года назад

wow man... you really know how to analyse series, awesome!

@novichader 3 года назад

I love you bro but Duolingo is for free. Así es como aprendí español

@jnort95 11 месяцев назад

Great Video!

@cimnimtheawesome Год назад

Walter seems to be a parallel to Sampson. They both commited dozens of murders and other evil acts throughout their lives. In the end, they pray that God will allow them to destroy their enemies, knowing that they will die too. God answers the prayer, and the two die because of their own power, taking their enemies with them.

@rchai433 Год назад

Dangggggg breaking bad is even more deep than it already is

@jamesstinnett06 3 года назад

"Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"

@filmontheeyes 3 года назад

It’s also implied that Gus is the true Jesus. He says to Walt, I hide in plain sight. Walt pleads with him for Wisdom. Jesse says, when at Gus’s personal medical facility, Jesus...He thought of everything. He also allows Walt, an antichrist, to enter his house with his version of Jesus and bring the flies into the ointment so to speak. Also, his demand for perfection and loyalty is constant.

@whatno3145 Год назад

Nah, just like every other villain, Gus represents the evil of revenge and how it destroyed him on the inside. Him being the true Jesus makes no sense.

@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers Год назад

@@whatno3145 Agreed. Your name checks out too haha.

@roberthoward5015 9 месяцев назад

Fine job sir

@Immolator772 2 года назад

Just like TWD this show also has many christian symbolism. Also i believe that fly we saw twice could symbolise the devil, the fly does a comeback when he was sitting in that office, as a symbolism of him going insane. When Walt saw the fly for the first time, was in it's own episode about it. The fly lands over them and then Walt says "He won't come back, he'll just stay there" which i believe that was towards God, and how we won't save them from the mess. Walt then confesses about Jane and he finally falls asleepm which is really similar to the movie "The Machinist", i won't spoil it, anyone who have seen this movie will understand what i'm reffering to. Beside why else would they made an episode just about some fly.

@dani.munoz.a23 22 дня назад

sort of unrelated but while the spanish language plays an interesting role in breaking bad, knowing spanish ruins the immersion in some scenes because its very easy to tell that Gus's actor isnt fluent, yet his character is supposed to be a chilean native. Similarly with Hector, which was only important in a couple of scenes but still stood out to me.

@theskyybay420 Год назад

@ 14:42 when Walt and Jesse are fighting, Jesse is made to look like a fly with the way he is wearing his gas mask. Coincidence?

@rebelstasia 3 года назад

Excellent :)

@ChunskieFartFilms 4 дня назад

Walt is not redeemed at all in the final episode. He went back purely out of spite against Gretchen, Elliot and uncle Jack. In the finale of Saul, you can tell Walter regrets nothing. Saul however I think did redeem himself.

@hamdinger7145 3 года назад

I missed the video store. Very cool

@rapperbest131 2 года назад

I'm going to be a great writer because of this

@LazyGyro 3 года назад

A video explaining new breaking bad symbolism... from screen crush :o And it's 20 minutes :0

@Andy7781 3 года назад

wow!!! i love this channel

@danstrator 3 года назад

Fantastic!

@Itsdamere 3 месяца назад

Damn great breakdown

@CalebNathanaelNettles Год назад

John referred to himself as “the disciple Jesus loved” which always made me think that John was the “favorite”

@t221000 3 месяца назад

Jesse was the most moral character in the show. Every bad thing he did was because Walt manipulated him into it. The comparison makes sense.

@big1dog23 8 месяцев назад

It definitely takes a second watch, at least, to pick up on the symbolism. However, like any good literature much of it is left to the individual to interpret in a way that makes sense..

@FreddyMacT 3 года назад

I really liked this, makes me want to rewatch the series.

@thebrandolorian9037 3 года назад

I heard you mention Chuck Klosterman and my first thought was Coco Puffs.

@Labyrinth1010 2 года назад

Holy crap this is well done. Amazing.

@kevinsalmador739 Год назад

Either you made these corelations even when creators don't even meant, maybe just to show some perspective Or maybe it's the genius of the creators in such subtle message delivering

@thelostpawn 3 года назад

In my best Taneleer Tivan impression- “MAGNIFICENT! MAGNIFICENT! MAGNIFICENT!!!”

@michaelblaine6494 4 дня назад

Wouldn’t Granite State be the 40 days in the wilderness?

@jcup77 3 месяца назад

Cool video... maybe next time, have the ads every 5mins vs. every other, though...

@chawla1126 3 года назад

That's why Breaking bad is my favorite show of all time

@AdamJasper18 2 года назад

I noticed as I liked the video, RU-vid changed the liked like button from blue to white. Personally I prefer this as I always found the blue distracting whenever I liked the video before it was over.

@NuggyPoundy1 3 года назад

all of this was beautiful

@jasonstuart2815 Год назад

This is incredible. I'm mind blown

@christopherdavis8248 3 года назад

excellent.

@ssamuel649 3 года назад

That's it. Just a week more for Loki , then we'll get theories & breakdown episodes.

@isacbello7164 Год назад

Make a video about El Camino and religious symbolism

@terrifictomm 3 года назад

"Acolyte" simply means Vince Gilligan was an altar boy. Some altar boys take it seriously, making it a part of their identity. But, more often than not, it's just something they do because it makes their mother happy, lets them look cool and important in front of their friends and neighbors, standing up there on the altar, wearing those medieval robes, sort of, helping the priest transubstantiate the bread and wine into the Body of Christ. Neighborhood cool. But take that cassock and surplus off and they're just like any other 10-18 year old boy going through puberty and adolescence. You know...nasty. Obnoxious. Rebellious. Normal. That said, there's no doubt that as a writer Gilligan would draw on that knowledge and mythology to add depth to Walter's character. So says a former Senior Knight Commander of the Knights of the Altar ( Boy, does that bring back memories!)

@dfailsthemost 3 года назад

Yeah, he was just non-specifically praying. Like "please don't let me embarrass myself" in Hot Rod.

@lordkingsauce4218 7 месяцев назад

Dayum now I got a whole new perspective wth indeed

@DeadlyLazer 2 года назад

Never thought in 2021 I would learn something new about Breaking Bad

@shugochara9909 8 месяцев назад

so good.

@DoubleRaven00 Год назад

Excelent video Ryan. Small correction: James is not Jesus’ favorite Apostle. John is. The rest is on target. Great interpretation!

@TheMobsta602 3 года назад

Lucifer translates to falling star. Not the name of the devil. And he didnt fall from grace, he took the payout to help his struggling family so his intentions from the start were noble