https://www.radioactivecookies.com Go on, take a bite! Fri, 18 Mar 2016 20:20:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 108799538 https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-5-recap-jesse-james-the-tarantula-boy/ https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-5-recap-jesse-james-the-tarantula-boy/#respond Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:56:44 +0000 http://radioactivecookies.com/?p=3426 Breaking Bad gives us another extremely cold open as we see the coolest kid you will never be dirt biking through the desert and then befriending a cuddly tarantula. Opening Credits! Who is this kid? I don't know, but I'm guessing he's going to be revisited somewhere this episode. Walt pays Hank a visit at his new fancy boss man office and breaks down about Skyler. Hank, being an uncomfortable straight man around other straight man tears, leaves. Giving Walt the opportunity to plant a bug in Hank's office. What is he going to use that for I wonder? Down in some basement somewhere, Mike, Jesse and Walt kidnap Lydia to try and get to the bottom of the whole methlymine bugging incident. Jesse is on her side, not wanting to spill blood, trigger happy Mike is looking to shoot someone in the head and all Walt cares about is keeping the meth juice flowing. Lydia snivels and bit and promises it wasn't her. Mike offers her a deal, call Hank, ask him if one of his guys put the bug on the barrel during the investigation or he shoots her in the head. Lydia obliges but to her misfortune, Hank knows nothing about it. The three baldies put it to a vote and all but Jesse want her dead. But heavens! The bug Walt put in Hank's office picks up Hank talking to some out of town cops who stupidly put the bugs on every single barrel in plain sight. And Lydia lives another day! Now the problem lies in stealing the methlymine barrels that are all traceable. Lydia, with the hail Mary idea, suggests they rip off the shipment of meth juice. And so the gang devises a plan to rob a train! Oh lordy, we've gone into the wild west! Follow free wheelin' Jesse through the JUMP! Mike, in all his year of killing people and robbing stuff, know there's no way to do this job without leaving any witnesses, unless they want to kill the two conductors on board. Walt is really okay with that as long as they get the methlymine, but Jesse again protests popping people in the name of blue crystal. So Jesse devises a plan to take the juice without anyone knowing. One of Mike's guys parks his truck on the railroad tracks, stopping the train, just long enough for Jesse, Walt and some rando Vamanos Pest guy to swap out 1,0000 gallons of methlymine with water. The great train robbery goes off smoothly, but a good samaritan Native with an awesome pick up truck comes along and offers to give the halted truck a push off the tracks. Mike warns Walt to get his guys off the train but Walt's greed for methlymine suppresses his care for human life as he vows to get to 1,000 gallons before the train moves on. Just as Walt gets to 1,000 gallons, the train begins to move, Jesse must wait in between the tracks for the train to pass as the rando Vamonos Pest guy jumps off the side of the moving train. The train passes and everyone is fine and it seems they have gotten away with stealing 1,000 gallons of meth juice without any witnesses and then they turn around... And it's that damn pesky spider kid from the cold open. I knew he would come back to bite this episode in the ass somehow! The boy waves to our heroes, the rando guy waves back and then pulls out his gun and shoots the kid in the head before anyone has a chance to say anything. End credits!]]> https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-5-recap-jesse-james-the-tarantula-boy/feed/ 0 3426 https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-4-recap-the-return-of-heisenberg/ https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-4-recap-the-return-of-heisenberg/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:24:09 +0000 http://radioactivecookies.com/?p=3412 Continue reading BREAKING BAD 5.4 Recap →]]> Breaking Bad opened this week with the fabulous and newly fortified Prius returning to Walt, along with his increddible headwear. The return of Heisenberg's hat prompted a lot of rash behavior this week. For example, when Walt got his run-over-a-witness-mobile fixed for free he went around and sold it to the mechanic for $50! Afterall, the only reason Walt got the damn thing fixed anyway was so he could look at his awesome hat in the driver's side mirror. In Walt fashion, he peaces without the shitty green Prius and returns to the house in his baller hat and in some baller wheels. Then there's this whole bit with his son and he gets him a sexy ride with racing stripes and there's some dubstep and lots of whip pans and then... the useless one returns home, in her totally un-pimped car. Obviously she's pissed, because this isn't the first time Walt went money happy and bought his kid a car, no that one he wrecked. Skyler is really upset because she's jealous that she hasn't lost the baby weight yet and is driving around in a wood paneled wagon. That night, Skyler does her typical, turn away in bed from my evil husband thing and Walt gropes at her shoulder and tells her that everything is all good in da hood, cuz Herr Heisenberg is in da house fo' sho'. Or something like that. Anyway, the next morning it's Walt 51st birthday and we learn more about this silly turning bacon into numbers nonesense from the season opener. I'm sensing some predictions are going to be made by the end of this post! FOLLOW THE JUMP! Meanwhile, in another, more interesting storyline, Lydia, that crazy bitch from the Mike episode got her methylmine guy nabbed by Hank and the other DEA. So Mike sends his main man Jesse over to Madrigal to pick up the meth juice. When Lydia tells Jesse to retrieve a specific barrel she deleted from the system, he picks it up with a forklift and she spots what looks like a bug on the bottom. She freaks out, sends Jesse back to Mike without any juice and Mike, in Mike fashion, wants to off her because he suspects she's trying to weasel her way out. Jesse, being the new voice of reason on the show, objects and Walt says to hold off because he needs the meth to continue lining his pockets. Back at Walt's birthday party, Skyler is totally spacing out and everyone thinks it's because she's feeling guilty about having an affair with Ted, but we really know it's about putting Ted in a head brace and losing her husband to the meth bizz - boring! So she does a little trick as Walt is telling everything how thankful he is he survived his cancer bout and walks into the pool, which gives us this wonderful screengrab of Skyler underwater. This stunt prompts Hank and Marie to take the kids while Walt and Skyler work it out. This was her master plan all along, act crazy so the kids could be out of danger. Walt challenges Skyler, mentally and legally and she of course, shrivels in the corner. So now onto the predictions, we know that the curly mop on Malcolm's Dad's head took a year to grow, and we can also infer that one year from now he will be separated from Skyler and the kids. Maybe she gets her wish takes them away from him and now he's on the run alone? Jesse found out something about the poisoning the kid thing and they're not together anymore and the guns are to kill Mike? I don't know, there's something in there. Oh well, here's a GIF of Skyler, doing what she does best, blowing smoke.

]]> https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-4-recap-the-return-of-heisenberg/feed/ 0 3412 https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-3-recap-los-four-amigos/ https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-3-recap-los-four-amigos/#respond Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:31:46 +0000 http://radioactivecookies.com/?p=3398 Continue reading BREAKING BAD 5.3 Recap →]]> This week's episode of Breaking Bad opens up in prison and we learn that Mike has two skills we weren't privy to before, (1) he moonlights as a paralegal and (2) he gives a mean side-eye. Okay, well we might have already known about the side-eye thing, but this is Mike, so any new face is worth mentioning. We learn that Mike is making the rounds to all of his "guys" to let them know that even though the DEA took all their Gus Hush Money, they will be receiving their "Hazard Money" soon. The new partners meet up at Saul's office to go scouting for new meth lab locales. As the four amigos scour greater Arizona for a dirty front, Walt has a light bulb moment at a pest control shack and realizes the best way to keep the DEA none the wiser and have an isolated lab are to keep it on the move and in other people's houses! Genius! Follow the meth-fetti glitter bucket under the cut for more! While the big boys are busy setting up the pop-up meth lab, Jesse enlists the help of Badger and Skinny Pete to hop by the local music store and pick up some roadie cases (and play around with this sweet double-necked guitar.) Skinny and Badger suspect that Jesse is back in the business and reveal their desire to work with him and promise not to fuck up at all, which we totally believe. Walt and Jesse have a super secret meeting about their first cook at Jesse's place and then we realize he's still banging that ex-junky when she walks through the door with groceries and her silent video game obsessed child. While Jesse and the mom bang in the kitchen, Walt is left alone with the kid he poisoned to save his own ass, and he really doesn't have much to say to him since he's old and no longer knows how to talk to kids. Off at the car wash, Skyler and Marie eat undressed salads and discuss the best ways to get a streak-free shine when cray-cray Skyler goes bat-shit and politely tells Marie to SHUT THE FUCK UP. This is by far the best moment for Skyler on the show thus far. We could talk about Breaking Bad and all the awesome female characters they've had on the show, but they haven't. In spite of this I still watch it, not for the whiney, lazy housewives that talk too much, but for of the sexy bald men that barely say anything. And, you're welcome! So the first cook is done and it goes off without a hitch, Mike sells it easily and brings the fat stacks home to his two dads. The loads of cash make everyone happy for a second and then Mike starts unstacking the Benjis to give everyone else their cuts, including making sure his "guys" have their hazard pay. Walt is not happy about this at all and the two stare each other down for a minute and you just know someone is gonna do something to someone next episode. At least I hope so, Breaking Bad, I will say is starting off pretty solid but is also moving along slowly, I'm guessing to set up something bigger later on down the road. Surely Mike and Walt are going to have a showdown and Jesse will definitely uncover the kid-poisoning scheme, but we just have to sit and wait for the shit to hit the fan.]]> https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-3-recap-los-four-amigos/feed/ 0 3398 https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-2-recap-tres-hermanos/ https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-2-recap-tres-hermanos/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 20:53:22 +0000 http://radioactivecookies.com/?p=3374 Continue reading BREAKING BAD 5.2 Recap →]]> So the fabulous Breaking Bad is back and badder than ever! Episode 2 opens with a sad looking German dude sampling tater tot dipping sauces - I don't know about him, but if that was my job I'd put a fucking smile on my face. Anyway, we discover that this man, is some super important business owner guy who, guess what? Owns Pollos Hermanos. The DEA were able to trace the whole big meth operation back to this tater tot eating German guy using the scribble scratch on the picture frame from episode 1 and they want answers! Too bad Herr Tator Tot decides to off himself by grabbing the nearest unattended defibrillator and giving himself the big deep fry. And then we're back with our heroes, Jesse left Walt a frantic desperate girlfriend voicemail saying that he's been going cray-cray looking for the missing ricin cigarette. We see Walt trading out Jesse's ricin cig for a salt cig and then stashing the ricin away for safe keeping, and most likely, a future murder. Walt goes to Jesse's house, promising that they will find it together, which prompts a great search montage. Jesse finds the ricin in his Roomba and all is well again, except for the fact that Jesse thinks he's going crazy and Walt is turning more and more deceptive (and sexy.) Follow Mike and Kaylee for more RECAP! Walt and Jesse call up their bestie, Mike and offer him a three-way... partnership since they're all broke now and there's no more big meth boss in the area. Mike kindly declines and goes on with his day of meeting with an overly skittish tea nazi at the local diner. She gives Mike a list of the people on Gus' payroll and dances around asking him to kill all of them to save her own ass. Mike kindly declines and then pays for her tea like a suave gentleman, and then leaves. Mike then meets up with Hank for some questioning. The cops know who was on Gus' payroll and have seized all their assets. Except for Mike, since he's super smart and I guess was an ex-cop, he stashed his money in his granddaughter's bank account. Mike again, kindly, declines the cops' offer of a deal and ask for the cuffs if he's under arrest, but he's not, and he knows it, and so he leaves, Mike out! The laundromat - aka the Methomat - manager calls up Mike (lots of people are pestering Mike this episode) and says the DEA took all his money and that they need to meet. Mike goes over to his place to rap for a sec but smells something fishy so he pulls out his glock and his silencer and sneaks up on an assassin, who's already killed the methomat manager. Mike gets the intel that the tea nazi bitch put a hit out on Mike for 30K and everyone else on the payroll for 10K. Flattered that his bounty is the highest but not wanting to die, Mike shoots the assassin and peaces. Mike finds the tea nazi bitch and holds her up at her swanky ass apartment. After letting her snivel for a hot minute Mike aims for the kill shot and then decides to not kill the tea nazi, but spare her her life if she supplies him with methylamine, the one ingrediant Walt and Jesse are missing for their start up meth business. And so Mike calls up Walt and agrees to go tres hermanos with him and Jesse and there you have the set up for season 5! ADDENDUM: Walt goes to bed, where Skylar has been lying and crying for the entire episode and tells her that there's no better reason to manufacture and distribute meth than family. INDEED! Side Note: Can someone please shoot this bitch in the face already? Why is she even on this show anymore?]]> https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-2-recap-tres-hermanos/feed/ 0 3374 https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-1-recap-three-bald-men-a-baby/ https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-1-recap-three-bald-men-a-baby/#comments Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:05:00 +0000 http://radioactivecookies.com/?p=3342 Continue reading BREAKING BAD 5.1 Recap →]]> You're wondering where I've been and all I can say to you is that I've been busy. I could fill you in on all the gory details of the past year but thats not why you clicked this post. You're reading this because you're like me and you've at last been released from television pergatory to only be welcomed into the kingdom of our savior Walter White.

Yes Breaking Bad season 5 premiered last night on AMC and it was a glorious, albeit somewhat befuddling return. The episode opens with Walt, our father of the blue crystal, rearranging some bacon into a 52, because, guess what? Its his b-day! (Or at least the birthday of his new identity) and everyone knows you eat for free at Denny's when its your birthday and you sign an integrated marketing contract. What's worse than the blatant advertising ploy, most likely a result of AMC initially trying to can BB because of the high production costs, is the amount of hair on Bryan Cranston's head. Walt appears to no longer be in the 7th circle of hell aka Arizona and meets up with some rando guy in the bathroom and gives him an envelope. So much mystery already. Where are Skylar and the kids? What state is this Denny's in? Why is Walt tossing the bald look? The plot thickens as Walt goes to the parking lot and pops open the trunk of (not his) a car to find a BIG ASS gun and some instruction manuals. Cue opening sequence! Welcome to Season 5! JUMP FOR MORE BREAKING BAD RECAP-I-NESS!!! We return to right after Gus goes boom, Skyler is still annoying and mostly useless as ever. While Hank is still hobbeling around the case of the blue meth. Apparently hasmat suits now come paired with stylish walkers for the every day DEA agent exploring a giant exploded meth lab. And it wouldn't be BB if Hank didn't stumble across something that totally harshed the mellows of the three bald wisemen. Walt and Jesse find Mike, who's still really pissed off about the whole blowing up Gus thing and is ready to kill Walt and give Jesse some dad-like advice, 'cuase 'ya know, they're BFFs. But before Mike can pull the trigger, Walt reminds him that the police have Gus' laptop with the video record he kept of all the meth making/dealing. Mike grumbles and agrees to go on a road trip to Jesse's house where the baldies try to figure out a way to keep the cops from seeing the tapes. Being the genius that he is, Jesse asks, "What about magnets yo? Like every time I put my cell phone next to my metrocard that shit can't swipe for like 3 days!" Sorry, NYC reference. But it's so crazy it might just work! Like any man of science, Walt wants to test out Jesse's theory, of course, at a scrap yard. In another fit of AMC's attempt to lower their bottom line, they wreak a shitty Dell computer with the test magnet and it works! Meanwhile, in another storyline Saul goes to Skyler to tell her that, guess what, Ted, the rere that tripped his way, head first into a bannister, is actually not dead like we all thought, he's awake! And he looks like Pinhead. But it's all good because Skyler's goons scared the shit out of him when he got all paralyzed and shaved down so he won't be spreading any news about the Whites anytime soon. Later, Jesse and Walt head over to the police station and park their sketchy ass truck next to the evidence room and turn the magnet on full blast, ripping the evidence room apart and rendering Gus' evidence laden laptop in smithereens. But wait, it appears that all the flying of evidence broke one of Gus' pretty picture frames, revealing some scribble scratch that will probably come back to haunt our heroes later on in the season. But for now, Walt is none the wiser and returns home to hug his wife. With a fairly solid season opener, we're left wondering what the scribble scratch could mean, is it a stash of evidence, a stash of money, a stash of Gus' DNA so he can be reanimated only to continue tormenting Walt? The possibilities are endless. But what I'm still curious about is how that curly mop got on Walt's head and when it's going to go back to where it came from?! ]]> https://www.radioactivecookies.com/breaking-bad-season-5-episode-1-recap-three-bald-men-a-baby/feed/ 1 3342