Title pretty much sums it up, I finally got around to watching breaking bad, after watching every video analysis there is, and I already knew what was going to happen. Spoilers generally don’t change my perception of television episodes, because the big plot twists are just a small part of what makes me love television.

I finally reached the fabled episode, and while I still find it to be a phenomenal episode of television, I cannot fathom how it can have a 10/10 on imdb, while Mizumono has a 9.8

For Ozymandias, the shooting, visual story telling, set ups and pay offs, were all amazing, and the way Walt protects Skylar and his family is genius, everything clicked together and resulted in the perfect set up for the final episode, and developing many characters to their final point in the show; but I wasn’t exactly “blown away” by it.

But even on my third and fourth re-watches of Hannibal, where I could recite every event in order, the metaphors, and what the visuals represented, Mizumono still manages to amaze me. Every time I watch this episode of television, it feels like i’m watching the standard by which every piece of media should be judged. Watching every scene unfold still fills me with the same amazement it did when I had no clue what was coming next. Even on rewatches I end up staring at a black screen at the end of the episode and I have to contemplate how a single piece of media can combine into such an amazing episode of television, that it becomes my gold standard for every piece of media I consume after.

Perhaps i’m biased because of my love of the show, or my preference for the genre as a whole, but I doubt I will ever find another episode that still manages to leave me awestruck like Mizumono does.