The Biggest Breaking Bad Easter Egg Demands a Rewatch to Truly Appreciate

Summary:

• It may go unnoticed for Breaking Bad fans that there is quite a strict distribution of colors used in this crime drama, which is confirmed by its showrunner.
• The definite color there stands for some issue raised in the series.

Despite the decade having passed since airing of the final Breaking Bad’s episode, it continues evoking fans’ discussions regarding an enormous number of allusions, dropped by its creators. One of the most peculiar issues here is quite a peculiar color distribution of the characters’ clothes and objects of the world around them.

Even the crime drama’s showrunner once confessed it was done on purpose.

“I want to do the color timing for each of these episodes where you sit with the colorist and make sure that the color of each individual scene is just the way you want it,” stated Vince Gilligan.

Let’s try to arrange the main Breaking Bad’s colors according to their meanings.

Blue is for Purity

One of the most remarkable bright things, featured in the series, is blue meth, elaborated by Walter White, and Breaking Bad fans obviously know that it was of high quality and purity. This color can also be seen as the one of Skyler’s clothes, especially at the beginning of the show, in which she bravely resisted her husband’s illegal activity.

Yellow is for Crime

This color can be traced from the jumpsuits worn by Walter and Jesse for the industrial drug production to the yellow attributes of the show’s antagonist Gus Fring's business. Yellow, which means caution and danger in real life too, as it’s the color of the warning signs, here stands for the risks which are brought by the criminal underworld.

Pink is for Innocence

Even the last name of the show’s leading character, the young drug dealer Jesse Pinkman, hints at the naivety and childish innocence of this color. One of the main additions to it is a pink teddy bear, which fell into Walter’s pool after the plane crash, which symbolizes the end of the careless time of your life and the tragedy of lost youth.

Green is for Money

Throughout the series this color gets strongly associated with money (which are of the same color too). Walter often wears green clothes if it comes to his lust for money and further power in his terrifying transformation into the persona of Heisenberg.

You can now binge Breaking Bad on Netflix and pay closer attention to its colors.

Source: Reddit