Aaron Paul's Favorite Breaking Bad Episode & Scene Explained
Aaron Paul, who stars as Walter White's druggie sidekick Jesse Pinkman in the heralded AMC series Breaking Bad, has a favorite episode and scene. The show tells the story of an underpaid and overqualified high school chemistry teacher who turns to methamphetamine production with the help of his former student, Jesse, after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Paul is featured in all 62 episodes, as well as the Netflix exclusive sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Story.
The series, which aired from 2008 to 2013, garnered much critical acclaim at the time and has since gone down as one of the greatest television series of all time. Initially a supporting character, Jesse Pinkman grew to be a fan favorite and as important to the series as the protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston). Though the episodes of the later seasons are generally regarded by audiences to be the strongest of the series, Paul's personal favorite episode aired relatively early in the life of the series.
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In 2019, Paul revealed his favorite episode (via The Independent) to be season 2, episode 9, “Four Days Out.” The episode features Walter and Jesse driving their iconic RV several hours into the remote New Mexican desert to spend four straight days cooking meth and exhausting the remainder of their precursor supply. Things go awry when they try to start the RV and realize the battery is dead. The episode zig-zags between heavy, dramatic scenes and comedic slapstick moments not dissimilar to an Abbott and Costello skit, as the two grapple with the situation. It has a little bit of everything; the small claustrophobic setting combined with the high stakes of this life-or-death
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