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That should produce an impressive 3.2 demo rating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ozymandias,&#8221; Sunday&#8217;s episode, featured the conclusion of last week&#8217;s nail-biting shootout sequence.  When the dust settled this week, Jack&#8217;s White Supremacist Gang killed Hank and Gomez, captured Jesse and stole the majority of Walt&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n<p>Called television&#8217;s best all-time hour by many a social media user, the episode, which featured Walt, Jr. finding out his father&#8217;s secret (and subsequently calling the police), also saw Walter depart town&#8211;and his identity&#8211;using Saul&#8217;s vacuum cleaner service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,437],"tags":[671,343,176,824],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cliffhanger Buzz Leads &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; to Ratings Record<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Given the intensity of last week&#039;s cliffhanger ending, one would be hard pressed to find an hour of television more hotly anticipated than this past\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/16\/cliffhanger-buzz-leads-breaking-bad-to-ratings-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cliffhanger Buzz Leads &quot;Breaking Bad&quot; to Ratings Record\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Given the intensity of last week&#039;s cliffhanger ending, one would be hard pressed to find an hour of television more hotly anticipated than this past\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/16\/cliffhanger-buzz-leads-breaking-bad-to-ratings-record\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-09-16T19:53:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/16\/cliffhanger-buzz-leads-breaking-bad-to-ratings-record\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/16\/cliffhanger-buzz-leads-breaking-bad-to-ratings-record\/\",\"name\":\"Cliffhanger Buzz Leads \\\"Breaking Bad\\\" to Ratings Record\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-09-16T19:53:01+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-09-16T19:53:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Given the intensity of last week's cliffhanger ending, one would be hard pressed to find an hour of television more hotly anticipated than this past\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2013\/09\/16\/cliffhanger-buzz-leads-breaking-bad-to-ratings-record\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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