Breaking Bad
Season 5.11
Untrue Confessions
Guest Writer: Pamela Wojcik
Monday, August 26, 2013
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[The third in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad]
Untrue Confessions
Written by: Pamela Wojcik (University of Notre Dame)
“Thank you for your honesty,” Sklyer (Anna Gunn) says to a customer who tells her she has given him a five dollar bill instead of a one dollar bill when making change for his car wash. This is the only moment of unforced, unfiltered honesty in the Breaking Bad episode titled “Confessions” (Season 5, Episode 11) which ran last night. Instead of truths freely offered, the episode more often makes characters and viewers ask, as Skyler’s sister Marie (Betsy Brandt) does, “where the lies begin and end” and to question the past: “That affair of yours,” Marie asks Skyler, “Did that even happen?” The episode title promises multiple confessions, but what we get are thwarted confessions, interrupted confessions, elisions, denials, revisions, reinterpretations of the facts, tall tales, and downright lies. Read more
