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Guillermo del Toro desperately wanted to direct the episode "Ozymandias." When he expressed this desire to the episode's eventual director Rian Johnson, Johnson responded, "Yeah, sorry, I'm the one who gets to fuck the prom queen."
The flashback of Walt and Jesse at the beginning of the episode was the final scene that was shot for the series.
Series creator Vince Gilligan said in an interview that, "Ozymandias is the best episode we ever have had or ever will have."
The episode's title gets its name from the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which alludes to a crumbled empire. Bryan Cranston read the poem in a promo for season 5B.
This episode is considered by many television critics and audiences to be the greatest episode of TV ever produced. It received universal critical acclaim, is the highest rated TV episode on IMDb and won three Emmys for Best Writing, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actress.
The knife Skyler picks up is the exact same one that Walt uses in season two, fearing that Tuco would come to the house.