Breaking Bad: 10 Behind The Scenes Facts You Didn't Know
4. Rian Johnson Directed Both 'Fly' And 'Ozymandias'
Rian Johnson's career is a fascinating one that began with crime indie film Brick before breaking through with cerebral sci-fi movie Looper and more recently gracing the screen with quirky murder mystery Knives Out. However, it seems fitting that his first venture to the world of Breaking Bad with 2010's 'Fly' was met with the same level of polarising fan response as his most well known film Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
'Fly' was deemed by many as the ultimate Marmite episode of the show. Is it a coincidence that the most divisive episode in the show's history was overseen by the man who wrote and directed The Last Jedi, a Star Wars film which angry fanboys on both sides of the debate are still arguing about today? In a word: yes. After all he is only responsible for directing 'Fly' and had no written input into the story which saw Jesse and Walt chase a fly around the lab while exchanging anecdotes in a 'bottle episode' format (an episode set in one location to save a show's budget).
'Fly' may be the lowest rated episode of the show according to IMDb, with a still respectable 7.8, but Johnson's other episodes included the season five episodes 'Fifty-One' and 'Ozymandias'. The latter is not only the best episode of the show, with a rare score of a perfect 10 on IMDb, but a remarkable piece of television in its own right.