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This week’s broad is a relative newcomer to Breaking Bad – Lydia Rodarte-Quayle.  (If you are behind on your BB, I’d suggest skipping my blurb, and go straight to the drawing, and then going straight to your video device of choice, and find a way to watch the new season. It’s a doozy.).

OK, anyone who’s still reading – you caught up with season 5? Good, let’s chat.  Lydia’s a complex character – she presents as an alternately strong and vulnerable woman.  She’s stared down & talked her way out of death threats from both Walt and Mike, two guys who aren’t afraid to kill to protect what they’ve created.  Lydia also isn’t afraid to use her connections (and Madrigal’s) to keep herself out of trouble, and in business.  She strikes me as an extremely cunning person, who is very good at manipulating those around her to get what she wants.  She’s a tightly wound type-A who’s gotten herself into business with some very unpredictable characters.  As viewers, I still feel like we don’t know a whole about Lydia for sure yet – how much of her personality is a front, and how  much is really her?  Why does she choose to take so many risks, like orchestrating meth distribution, when she’s clearly a well compensated executive at Madrigal?  At first, I thought she might have been Gus Fring’s oft mentioned, but never seen wife – is it still possible?  We have yet to see how Los Pollos and Gus were hooked up to Madrigal – maybe we’ll get a flashback this season?

A final interesting thing about Lydia; the actress that portrays her, Laura Fraser, is Scottish.  According to Breaking Bad’s crew, she naturally has a fairly heavy Scottish accent.  Amazingly, as Lydia on screen, you never hear even a trace of a non-English accent.  How cool is that??

When I think of Lydia, I always think back to the first time we met her, in the diner with Mike, and how nervous she appeared. Despite her nerves, she came off as a forceful, strong-willed woman who knew what needed to be done.  And a diner-hating Stevia lover.