““Rescue dogs who have been taken from abusive situations can act in unpredictable ways. They can bite you or they can ignore you, they can jump and whine when you least expect it. They can ruin your couch. But if you show them just the slightest bit of the love they’ve been denied their entire lives, they will follow you anywhere. For the first few years of Breaking Bad it was possible to view the White-Pinkman partnership as a mismatched buddy comedy — they were two opposites who kept finding themselves pulled together. (All together now: magnets, bitch!) But all of a sudden, in the sober light of day at Hank’s house, the partnership seems abusive and horrific. It was chilling, the numbness in Jesse’s voice as he stared into the camera and confessed that Walter White, the scourge of New Mexico, “was my teacher.” All of the terrible things that Jesse did, from shooting a man in the face to giving up a chance at having a family of his own, were all in the hopes of gaining the approval of this toxic father figure. It’s the betrayal of getting kicked in the teeth again that stings him, yes, but his rage and fury are mostly at himself for offering up his face in the first place.“”
— Andy Greenwald, Grantland.com: Breaking Bad 5.12 recap
love how we all collectively get so excited by the prospect of jesse pinkman going to sleep. we see that mf in pajamas and are like "omg slay our sleepy king, he is so drowsy pilled". we're all one painful reminder of his suffering away from just default drawing him in a night cap holding a candle on his way to bed to sleep with big "Z"'s over his head