I agree 100%. Season 5 is over the top, and basically a cartoon.
As I sat there watching it, I longed for the gritty realism of season 1. When Walt, a geeky chemistry teacher, strong armed Tuco, a local drug dealer, out of $50,000 solely with a bag of fulminated mercury. I actually had to eject the Blu-Ray, like "damn, is this The Wire?". I wasn't sure for a sec.
Or season 2, which featured 2 airplanes crashing directly over Walt's house....a crash he was indirectly responsible for due to his inaction in the death of an air traffic controller's daughter. A common occurrence in real life, I'm sure.
Or season 3, when Jesse, out of all the millions of girls in New Mexico, just happens to date the one girl whose little brother killed his friend in the prior season. I had that happen to me just last week, it was awkward.
Or season 4, which culminated in the aforementioned geeky chemistry teacher blowing up a rival drug lord using a MacGyveresque home made bomb and an old mute Mexican in a wheel chair.
I mean....damn man. Why can't it be realistic like that any more?
LoW key you put him in the bathtub naw fukk it the barrels on this .
Fred.