Breaking Bad Season 5 Thread

"Todd's been selling those fucks in Eastern Europe blue rock candy mixed with Drano the whole time!"

 

Sepinwall review posted:

http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/series-finale-review-breaking-bad-felina-its-all-over-now-baby-blue

 

That was great. Bravo Vince Gilligan. Bravo.

 

Walt was most surely redeemed on some level. After two weeks of the writers showing Walt taking the full fury of his actions -- reaping the whirlwind, to put it in Biblical terms -- they gave Walt his dream ending. Before he watches Charlie Rose, 80% of his money is in the hands of the Nazis, he can't get the money he does have to his family, Skyler is looking at prison and everything has gone wrong.

At the end of the finale, Flynn will have enough of Walt's money to be able to do whatever he wants. He gets the Gray Matter couple to launder it for him and gets a small measure of revenge in scaring the crap out of them. Skyler lets him see Holly one last time. He kills the Nazis and Lydia and essentially gets to tie up every single loose end in his favor. Walt started down this path to provide for his family financially and now his son will get $7 million dollars. Sounds pretty redemptive for a murderous drug kingpin. The only thing that was missing was Hank rising from the dead.

This is the ending of a Jack Reacher book, not a morality play. Breaking Bad lost the right to be called Shakespearean after this finale.

 

I'm not suggesting it's my version of atonement. It's his. He got his money for his family and his revenge.

And Skyler, let's face it, has a fairly repugnant character. She's a hypocrite. Walt, at the very least, sheds that label in his final meeting with her. Walt's always carried on some small pretense to vaguely or specifically please/appease her; he's done with it.

 

Todd's Lydia ringtone:

 

From the AV Club comments:

"One of the most critically acclaimed TV shows in in the history of the medium ENDED WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER KILLING NAZIS WITH A ROBOT GUN."

 

That last point I agree with. I think Gilligan is too nice a man to actually follow through with the ending I hoped for. There was fan service here, but it was well-executed fan service.

 

Yep.

 

Dying of a gunshot wound isn't as fun as you guys are making it sound.

 

I mean, I assume. I haven't tried it.

 

From it:

"Maybe Walt's sudden ability to settle all family business with minimal fuss isn't too much narrative economy, <b>but rather the God of "Breaking Bad" deciding that after all the harm Walter White had caused to so many people, matters needed to be set right before he died</b>, and he was the man to do it."