Doing a rewatch right now and the cold open of the season 3 finale (the flashback to the Whites touring what will become their family home) drew my attention to the pool. Does anyone ever actually swim in it, or use it in a way that is innocent and recreational? Here are the things that I remember taking place in the water of Walt's pool: Junior puking into it when his dad forced him to chug tequila, the one-eyed Teddy Bear falling in, Walt throwing his half-cooked drug money into it, Skyler despondently submerging herself in it, and the empty, abandoned pool being used by skateboarders. The other pool on the show that comes to mind is of course Don Eladio's and nothing nice happens there either, the only things we've seen take a swim in it were Hector's urine, blood from Max's gaping cranial bullet wound and Eladio's poisoned corpse.
Obviously the show is dense in visual symbolism but I guess I never really thought about this one. What do people make of it?
Submitted July 26, 2020 at 07:47PM by zoob1357 https://ift.tt/3f58tMV
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