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This episode of Breaking Bad aired on April 5, and now 13 days later I’m blogging about it. Hmm. I guess that means I don’t have to worry about spoiler alerts!

DP MiChael Slovis’s credit is still out of whack, periodically speaking. And this episode is directed by Johan Renck. Re is the symbol for the chemical element rhenium, a rare metal, rarer than molybdenum and often found with it. Okay, you know what? I don’t really know where any metal comes from, let alone molybdenum. Oh sure, I’ve heard of mining, but in my tangible life it’s as relevant as alchemy.

On with the show. I noted that the DEA’s office (the excellent Dean Norris plays our main man there), shows an address in reverse lettering on the façade as they leave the lobby of 400 Gold SW. That building is shown here on Google Maps. Nice location scouting: a building without windows could well be a goverment building.

Did anybody else notice the vertical distance between the waist of Jesse (the excellent AAron Paul) with his lowriders and the waist of Jane (played by Krysten Ritter) with her long legs, skinny frame and high pants? I think her pants’ waistline was 2 feet higher off the ground than Jesse’s. It was a weird juxtaposition. But a good scene. I’m pretty sure we’ll be seeing a lot of Jane.

Later in this episode, an extended musical montage thingy. Wha?!?! So not this show! But the unappealing characters therein: so this show.