While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.While Walt worries about Gus's interference and Jesse's increasingly fragile state of mind, Skyler steps up the pressure to get what she wants.
- Walter White, Jr.
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- Gus Fring
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- Mike Ehrmantraut
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- TriviaThe title is about the self-destructive ways in which Marie Schrader as well as Jesse Pinkman try to distract themselves from facing their deteriorating lives: Marie by her role playing/kleptomania during actual open houses and Jesse by "opening" his house to derelict meth heads and partying non-stop.
- GoofsWalt & Skyler celebrate the planned purchase of the car wash by drinking from a $320 bottle of Pol Roger Cuvee Sir Winston Churchill Champagne. Skyler asks "How do you, Walter White an unemployed school teacher pay for it? How do you explain it?... On paper we have no money." Yet they are about to buy a business for $800,000.
- Quotes
Saul Goodman: You were smart to call me. Now you just sit back, relax and let a professional take over.
[his bodyguard knocks on the door]
Saul Goodman: That's for me. Excuse me.
[Saul opens the door, whispers]
Saul Goodman: What do you want? I'm in a meeting. Why didn't you think of that before, it's not my prob... I'm in a meeting!
Saul Goodman: [to the Whites] Can Huell use your bathroom?
Skyler White: Huell?
Walter White: Uh... sure, top of the stairs.
Saul Goodman: He'll be quick. It's a stomach thing. So where were we?
Skyler White: Professionalism.
- Crazy creditsBryan Cranston is credited both as an actor and a producer. For his actor credits (Br) is highlighted and for his producer credits (Y) is highlighted for chemical elements Bromine and Yttrium from periodic table.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Vikings (2013)
- SoundtracksSpasm
by Dave's True Story
As Jesse's parties grow bleaker and bleaker, Aaron Paul impresses me even more through his almost wordless, yet still so deep acting – especially the go-kart scene near the end of the episode was a small, but mentionable gem. The bigger part of this episode was definitely focused on either the Schraders or the Whites though, and while these also had some nice parts here and there, the average was rather low. Especially Marie bringing out the kleptomaniac side of hers was overly long and resulted in a ridiculous and redundant crying scene of Betsy Brandt.
Skyler got a tad more interesting in "Open House" as she is willing to passively participate in Walt's crime by becoming a (different sort of) criminal herself, yet that doesn't say a lot for a character that bored and annoyed me for pretty much all three seasons up to that point. This story part had some blatant stupidities in it, such as the "It's been six hours, he won't call – he calls" and the "Giving a random guy instructions over headphones so he can manipulate someone else in your favor" clichés. At least Bob Odenkirk was able to uplift both the humor aspect and the quality of it with some trademark stupid jokes.
As you see, there really were only few things for me to appreciate in "Open House", an episode that proves yet another time that Breaking Bad is weak when the story is evolving slowly.
- stillworkingfortheknife
- Dec 9, 2013
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 16:9 HD