Breaking Bad - Season 3 (2010)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2010
	Creator: Vince Gilligan
	Actors: Bryan Cranston (Drive, Argo), Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris (Total Recall, Starship Troopers)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Polar, Black Comedy
	Conditions of visioning: November-December 2017, VOD, 10" tablet screen
Synopsis: The paths of our two favorite drug manufacturers Walter and Jesse (Cranston, Paul) have diverged, but a new market and new threat from Mexico may bring them back closer.
Review: Hard to keep the pace after the first two intense seasons. This third starts slowly and with regular inserts of two Mexican gangsters which purpose takes a while to clarify. Unlike the series Sons of Anarchy to which I compared it with, Breaking Bad doesn't throw its characters in a downward spiral but on the contrary tries to level a bit the situation, in order to last longer it seems. Indeed how long could Walter have kept the secret at this pace? My main criticism to this season would be this slow pace: some episode contain some dialog scenes that are overstretched to 10-20 minutes and started to bore me. For example the episode S3E10 Fly, which tried an original humor and I thought could be a turning point in the relationship between the two partners, but ended up pretty boring and useless. There are a few good ideas/twists that keep the show going (spoiler, highlight to read the assistant Gale, Gus' taking on the Cartels, Skyler slowly re-entering Walt's world, the new lab, Hank's fate, Saul, Mike) and the last two episodes deliver again the thriller quality of the first two seasons, but on the other hand a general lack of idea is felt, and I didn't like in particular the side-story of Jesse trying to deal again and convince former addicts to dive again. Let's see what the two last seasons have to bring...
Rating: 5 /10