Breaking Bad / Season 2
| Season 2 of Breaking Bad | |||
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| Episodes | 13 | ||
| Country of production |
 United States
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| First broadcast | March 8, 2009 - May 31, 2009 on AMC | ||
| German-language first broadcast |
October 15, 2009 - January 21, 2010 on AXN | ||
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action
Gonzo, another of Tucos' henchmen, is trapped by falling car wreckage while attempting to retrieve No-Doze's hidden body from the junkyard for a Christian burial, causing him to bleed to death. The next day, Walter receives a photo from his brother-in-law Hank via MMS that shows not only the knocked-out henchman, but also the dead Gonzo. Given the circumstances of the death, which are not reflected in the photo, this leads Walter to believe that Tuco also killed Gonzo as a witness. Fearing that they might become Tuco's next victims, Walter and Jesse consider getting ahead of him and killing him.
On the run from the DEA, Tuco kidnapped Walter and Jesse to a remote property in the desert. When the two learn that they should continue producing drugs for him in Mexico, they make an unsuccessful attempt to poison Tuco with ricin : Tuco's uncle Hector Salamanca, who is paralyzed and unable to speak due to a stroke, rings Tuco by ringing the bell Walter and Jesse threat alert. Meanwhile, Hank has Jesse's car locations can and thus arrives at the estate. While Tuco is killed in an exchange of fire with Hank, Walter and Jesse flee unnoticed into the desert. To explain his disappearance to his worried family, Walter walks around naked in a supermarket and simulates memory loss after being admitted to a hospital .
Meanwhile, Jesse is arrested by the DEA in a motel. In an interrogation, he claims to have spent the entire weekend with the prostitute Wendy and to know nothing about Tuco or the money that was found in his car. Hank doesn't believe Jesse, but has to let him go after even Tucos uncle apparently doesn't want to cooperate with the DEA.
At a meeting with his parents and their lawyer, who have been informed about the drug lab in the basement, Jesse is forced to vacate his late aunt's house where he lives. After being homeless for a few days, Jesse rents a small semi-detached house and gets closer to his neighbor Jane Margolis.
Walter, who is now posing in the drug scene under his pseudonym Heisenberg, has earned a good reputation for the high quality of blue meth. In addition, Tucos death and the so-called ATM murder, which Jesse did not commit, seemingly have positive effects on Walter and Jesse's business. As a result, their negotiators Badger, Skinny Pete and Combo hardly have any problems with the payments for their drug sales and the sales area can be enlarged.
Meanwhile, Skyler takes on her former job in accounting at her old employer Beneke Fabricators. Hank is promoted to a DEA office in El Paso but feels uncomfortable after learning about Texan tactics. In order to get information from the informant Tortuga, they bribe him with a new kitchen and other goods. During a later mission, the informer's severed head is found on a turtle in the desert. Hank vomits and stays behind. That saves his life when an explosive device attached to the turtle explodes when his head is lifted, killing one officer and injuring three.
Badger is arrested while dealing, whereupon Walter and Jesse hire the shady defense attorney Saul Goodman to avoid being exposed to the DEA. Former inmate Jimmy In-'N-Out, who matches Badger's description of Heisenberg, ends up being voluntarily arrested in his place for a sum of money. Walter and Jesse eventually become Saul Goodman's clients and take advice from him on future drug deals.
Because Walter fears that his health has noticeably deteriorated and that he has little financial means, he cooks a total of 40 pounds of methamphetamine in the desert with Jesse. He pretends to Skyler to visit his mother. When Walter arrives at home, his doctor tells him that the cancer has regressed and his tumor has shrunk by 80%, which brings relief to the family. Despite the high cost of $ 200,000, Walter agrees to an operation to completely remove his tumor.
Meanwhile, Combo is shot dead by a little boy on the street while dealing, causing the dealer Skinny Pete to get out. Saul arranges a meeting in a fast food restaurant with the “Los Pollos Hermanos” restaurant owner Gustavo Fring, a prudent, covered businessman who is interested in Walter's product. Walter takes a short-term opportunity to deliver all of the goods, but also misses the birth of his daughter Holly. Meanwhile, Walter Jr. created the website SaveWalterWhite.com (German version: RettetWalterWhite.com ) in order to collect media-effective donations for his father's operation. With the help of a computer hacker he knows, Saul lets Walter's money flow into his son's PayPal account in the form of " washed-out " donations.
Jesse gets together with Jane. When Jane finds out that Jesse is a drug dealer, she asks him to stop. Jesse agrees. In order to get money for her new life, Jane blackmailed Walter. Out of necessity, Walter gives her the share of Jesse that he wanted to withhold because of his drug problems.
Jane is caught using heroin with Jesse by her father Donald Margolis, who accompanies his daughter to meetings of the anonymous drug addicts. She is forced by him to go into drug therapy the next morning. Jesse and Jane therefore want to go away the next morning and start a new life with the money. Before that, however, both of them take one last shot of heroin. Jane dies the same night after Walter accidentally turned her on her back while trying to wake Jesse. She chokes on her own vomit in her sleep and Walter fails to help her.
While Jesse is undergoing drug therapy , Walter is operated on. In the meantime, Skyler has learned, among other things, that Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz did not contribute anything towards the cost of Walter's therapy and that Walter did not visit his mother either. Donald Margolis, the late Jane's father, mistook an airplane while working as an air traffic controller in the air traffic control center in Albuquerque, calling it "Jane" instead of "Juliet", and was responsible for the collision of two airplanes. Debris falls from the sky, including a pink teddy bear (which was already seen in the opening credits of some episodes of the second season) in Walter's pool.
occupation
Main cast
Supporting and guest actors
Episodes
The first broadcast of the second season was from March 8 to May 31, 2009 on the American television channel AMC . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German pay-TV transmitter AXN from 15 October 2009 to 21 January 2010. The free TV premiere broadcast of the Swiss channel SF two of 30 May 2010 to 29 August of 2010.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast (D) | Director | script | US odds |
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| 8th | 1 | Precautions | Seven Thirty-Seven | March 8, 2009 | Oct 15, 2009 | Bryan Cranston | J. Roberts | 1.662 million |
| Hank looks at a security camera that shows Walter and Jesse break in. When Tuco's second assistant is also dead, the two witnesses fear for their lives. Hank admits to Skyler that he knew about Marie's kleptomaniac tendencies. | ||||||||
| 9 | 2 | In the trap | Grilled | March 15, 2009 | Oct 22, 2009 | Charles Haid | George Mastras | - |
| Tuco kidnaps Walter and Jesse. The two try to escape by poisoning him. Meanwhile, Walter is missing at home. Hank's search leads to Tuco, whom he shoots. Walter and Jesse can then flee. | ||||||||
| 10 | 3 | Amnesia | Bit by a dead bee | March 22, 2009 | Oct 29, 2009 | Terry McDonough | Peter Gould | 1.129 million |
| To explain his disappearance, Walter goes naked into a shopping center and feigns amnesia. Walter tries to be released from the clinic to which he was subsequently admitted. Skyler thinks Walter has a second cell phone. Jesse loses all of his money with his alibi. This is now missing to trigger the mobile drug laboratory that Jesse hid from the police. | ||||||||
| 11 | 4th | At the bottom | Down | March 29, 2009 | Nov 5, 2009 | John Dahl | Sam Catlin | 1.294 million |
| Walter fails to convince Skyler of his stories of lies. Jesse is kicked out of his house by his parents because of the drug lab in the basement. Since he still has no money, he gets the motorhome without paying. | ||||||||
| 12 | 5 | Breakage | Breakage | Apr 5, 2009 | Nov 12, 2009 | Johan Renck | Moira Walley-Beckett | 1.213 million |
| Hank is promoted. Jesse agrees to work again with Walter, who needs money for medical bills. To do this, Jesse is building a sales network with dealers for meth. Jesse moves into a new apartment next to Jane. Skinny is robbed. | ||||||||
| 13 | 6th | cuckoo | Peekaboo | Apr 12, 2009 | Nov 19, 2009 | Peter Medak | J. Roberts & Vince Gilligan | 1.407 million |
| To gain respect, Jesse pays an unannounced visit to the couple who stole Skinny. There he finally got his money back in a roundabout way and involuntarily experienced a murder. Gretchen learns that Walter lied to Skyler. | ||||||||
| 14th | 7th | Negro y Azul | Negro y Azul | Apr 19, 2009 | Nov 26, 2009 | Félix Enríquez Alcalá | John Shiban | - |
| Jesse doesn't feel like doing anything anymore. Walter wants to go on on his own first, but then he tries to lift the traumatized Jesse. Skyler gets a new job - and an admirer. Hank is rejected in Texas and is ambushed. | ||||||||
| 15th | 8th | Hire Saul | Better Call Saul | Apr 26, 2009 | Dec 3, 2009 | Terry McDonough | Peter Gould | 1.035 million |
| Hank is traumatized. Badger is arrested by an undercover agent, whereupon Walter hires the hardened attorney Saul Goodman for him. He advises, however, to incriminate Heisenberg, which Walter and Jesse try unsuccessfully to deter him through bribery and intimidation. Ultimately, Saul becomes Walter and Jesse's lawyer and a professional prisoner goes to prison as a supposed Heisenberg. | ||||||||
| 16 | 9 | 4 days off | 4 days out | May 3, 2009 | Dec 10, 2009 | Michelle MacLaren | Sam Catlin | - |
| Walter thinks he doesn't have much longer to live. His money is running out. So he lies to Skyler and goes to the desert with Jesse, who actually wanted to spend time with Jane, to cook pounds of meth. Then there are problems with the motorhome's battery. Walter learns that the tumor in his lungs has shrunk by 80%. However, the remission does not mean the cure. | ||||||||
| 17th | 10 | Enough | Over | May 10, 2009 | Dec 17, 2009 | Phil Abraham | Moira Walley-Beckett | - |
| Walter isn't coping with his recovery, so he tinkers around all day. A party to improve himself ends in an argument as Walter is transformed. So he wants to sell the meth he has and then stop producing drugs. | ||||||||
| 18th | 11 | Mandala | Mandala | May 17, 2009 | Jan. 7, 2010 | Adam Bernstein | George Mastras | - |
| Combo is shot. On Saul's advice, Walter wants to meet with a new trading partner. When the drug deal for almost 40 pounds of meth is supposed to go through after several problems, Skylers goes into labor and Jesse and Jane are high on heroin . | ||||||||
| 19th | 12 | Phoenix | Phoenix | May 24, 2009 | Jan. 14, 2010 | Colin Bucksey | John Shiban | - |
| Walter misses Holly's birth due to the successful drug deal. He laundered the money through his son's donation website. Jane blackmails Walter so that Jesse can get his share that Walter wanted to keep because of his drug use. Jane dies of vomit after consuming drugs while Walter looks on idly. | ||||||||
| 20th | 13 | Crises | ABQ | May 31, 2009 | Jan. 21, 2010 | Adam Bernstein | Vince Gilligan | 1.5 million |
| Walter is concerned about Jesse, who blames himself after Jane dies. Skyler leaves Walter because he lied to her. Two planes collide over Albuquerque due to a mistake by Jane's traumatized father. | ||||||||
reception
Awards
- Emmy award
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- 2009 : Emmy - Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Bryan Cranston
- 2009: Emmy - Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series - "ABQ" , Lynne Willingham
- Television Critics Association Awards
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- 2009: TCA Award - Best Individual Achievement in Drama - Bryan Cranston
- Satellite Awards
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- 2009 : Satellite Award - Best Actor in a Drama Series - Bryan Cranston
- 2009: Satellite Award - Best Television Series, Drama - Breaking Bad
- ACE Eddie Awards
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- 2010: Eddie Award - Best Edited One-Hour Series for Commercial Television - "ABQ" , Lynne Willingham
- Others
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- 2009: Peabody Award - Breaking Bad
- 2010: Prism Award - Best Drama Series Multi-Episodes Storyline - Season 2
Reviews
At Metacritic , the second season has a Metascore of 85 and a user score of 9.4.
"Walter White is somewhat reminiscent of figures like Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas or the Woyzeck by Georg Buchner , a worker who is exploited by the rulers and to others so long and betrayed, until it reaches its turning point. Walter White's drug career is equally motivated by the midlife crisis and the American economic and systemic crisis. "
Web links
- Season 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode Guide . In: tv.com . CBS Corporation . Retrieved February 26, 2013.
- Jump up ↑ Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode Guide . In: fernsehserien.de . imfernsehen GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved February 26, 2013.
- ^ Robert Seidman: iCarly, Burn Notice and WWE RAW top cable charts . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. March 10, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ↑ Bill Gorman: Sunday Ratings: NCAA Tourney Lifts CBS To Victory, Fox Captures Youth Demo . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. March 30, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011: "For the Breaking Bad fans, the top rated episode from the most recent week I have is: 3/22 10pm, 1,129 million viewers."
- ^ Robert Seidman: My Wednesday viewing dwindles with finales of Life on Mars, Damages and Life . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. April 1, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Robert Seidman: Damages season finale draws few, WWE RAW, NCIS lead cable viewing . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. April 7, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Robert Seidman: WWE RAW and Nora Roberts Tribute bookend cable top 20, Rescue Me premieres . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. April 14, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ^ Robert Seidman: Updated: WWE RAW, NFL Draft and Yankees / Red Sox Lead Weekly Cable Viewing . In: tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com . TV by the Numbers. April 28, 2009. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
- ↑ Brad Adgate (@badgate): Breaking Bad season finales viewers. In: twitter.com. September 30, 2013, accessed October 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Season 2 on Metacritic.com. Retrieved November 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Tobias Moorstedt: Direction descent . SZ. October 9, 2010. Retrieved November 6, 2013.