After so many lugubrious turns, breaking bad came to an end on sunday on an almost uplifting note. But the end of breaking bad will still matter in the context of the new series. A breaking bad alternate ending is a malcolm in the middle. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
Breaking bad,friends,how i met your mother entertainment at its peek. In my own way, i also enjoyed aspects of the finale, particularly the scene with skyler. It is loaded with all kinds of facts about the show. Breaking bad is widely regarded as one of the greatest television series of all time. Besides sauls mention of them, the fates of nacho and lalo were not specified in breaking bad. In fact, all the clues about the ending were right there in the opening shot of the series, if you look closely, which you clearly never do. At the ending of gliding over all, when hank read the quote from the book, the thought of walter being heisenberg hit him for the first time, his brain started remembering and connecting all the events that happened before, like walt dissappearing, walts mysterious fortune, his knowledge in chemistry, the time where he crashed into a car to. Breaking bad, the amc cable tv series about a high school chemistry. After so many lugubrious turns, breaking bad came to an end on. I am a big fan of this show so i was delighted to read a book all about breaking bad. Breaking bad came to its conclusion tonight with felina.
Here you will find discussions and speculations about the show, pictures from the show, amas with the cast, and anything else breaking bad related. Believe me, its a question ive asked myself many, many times. Filmed in january 2011, the episode was edited by skip macdonald, one of a handful of editors who have regularly worked on the series. Thats because better call saul isnt strictly a prequel. It has come to my attention that various denizens of the internet are claiming the copy of leaves of grass found by hank in walts. What happens to jesse pinkman at the end of breaking bad. Breaking bad the alternate ending original michaelboon30. It was set and filmed in albuquerque, new mexico, and tells the story of walter white bryan cranston, an underemployed and depressed high school chemistry teacher. That dismissive attitude is in character and besides, its funny to see the great man unmasked by a guy taking a dump. Gilligan provided more details regarding the poisonous ploy at san diego comiccon in 20.
Breaking bad s walter white undergoes one of the greatest character transformations on television. In the final season of breaking bad, walters drug dealing identity was discovered by his dea brotherinlaw hank dean norris, which eventually led to hanks death at the hands of todd jesse. Breaking bad the alternate ending original youtube. Back in the first week of this discussion, i said i was excited about the return of breaking bad and its oh shit moments. Written and directed by series creator vince gilligan, it aired on amc in the united states and canada on september 29, 20. Youtube pulled the video, but we grabbed it, so here it is again. White is diagnosed with stage iii cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. A subreddit for fans and critics of the hit television series breaking bad on amc. Its been over six years since the breaking bad finale, so youd be. Breaking bad movie is a sequel starring aaron paul.
But if you need a helping hand to understand that final episode. Breaking bad is one of the best shows in tv history, and after five seasons, it led to an ending that people still talk about today. The final episode of breaking bad leaves one question. Better call saul gets a lot of juice from its implied resonance with.
But if you dont want to read a critical take, stop here. Breaking bad is an american neowestern crime drama television series created and produced by vince gilligan. Walts phone call to skyler after he took baby holly and later left the baby. We talked about jesse taking walt up on his offer to kill him or walt turning. Felina is the series finale of the american drama television series breaking bad. Its undeniably satisfying that they are taken out with one last trick of engineering. For the finale, breaking bad let viewers feast on a particular ingredient.
Youd have to be a ruin of a person to for your life to end this way, and for anyone to consider it a happy ending. Game of thrones showrunners want their ending to be like. Breaking bad follows protagonist walter white, a chemistry teacher who lives in new mexico with his wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy. What did hank read in the book on the toilet at the end of. A breaking bad movie writerdirector vince gilligan details plans for a discarded alternate ending that would have seen fugitive jesse pinkman aaron paul escape to. Vince gilligan almost literally gave us one in this weeks final scene.
Books you would have thought were great if it werent for the totally crappy ending. Off camera, walt had somehow planted the juice box in brocks lunch at school, making sure only he came in contact with the drink. Walter white why they break bad better call saul and breaking. It is the sixteenth episode of season five and the 62nd overall episode of the series. Yes, better call saul is a prequel, but it definitely makes more sense to start with breaking bad. Gilligan said by the end of the series, it feels as if we should adhere to our promise that we explicitly made to our audience from the first episode. Breaking bad, the amc cable tv series about a high school chemistry teacher who turns to making meth, is showing its final eight episodes. Because today im forever changing the way that you look at the final scene of one of the greatest television shows of all time breaking bad. But for me, breaking bad at its best has been a show that values sound construction and moral rigor equally. In the most emotional scene of the amc dramas series finale, high school chemistry teacherturnedmeth kingpin. He also takes revenge on the aryan brotherhood gang who doublecrossed him, killed his brotherinlaw hank, took jesse captive and. It was not optioned from a string of crime novels or a fancy comic book.
The writers of breaking bad referred to the incident as walt. The breaking bad story comes to a bloody end even though walt is retired with plenty of money, hank is on his trail. The show aired on amc from january 20, 2008 to september 29, 20, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes. Breaking bad alternate ending finale felina final scene xovadin. Almost none of the darkest predictions about the breaking bad finale came true. But perhaps the best thing about it was the series actually ended. Ultimately, gilligan chose to end breaking bad with walters death, occurring instory two years after he had been first been diagnosed with cancer and given two years to live. The closurehappy breaking bad finale the new yorker. Walter takes on the name heisenberg to mask his identity. By season five, hes poisoned a child, covered up the actual murder. Yeah, your life has to be pretty messed up to make you throw pizza on the roof of your house. Fall 2002 winter 2003 bcs, season 3jimmy hires francesca as wexler mcgills receptionist.
The breaking bad creator opens up on a big unanswered question. Its the undeniable subtext or even the actual text of the show. The bad people lydia, todd and the nazis were punished. The breaking bad movie is going to be a sequel, with aaron paul reprising his fanfavorite character role, and will first air on netflix before dropping on amc. Before you see the new netflix sequel, heres a recap on where the storylines of some of breaking bad s most significant players left off in the shows final episodes. At the end of breaking bad, tvs greatest liar finally stopped lying to himself. The journey he took to arrive at that outcome was pretty nifty, right.
The last bunch of breaking bad episodes have had to compress a lot of time and storytelling, and thus, for me, not everything in the finale landed with the impact id hoped for. While the bulk of the action takes place prior to 2008. So, no, thats not a happy ending in any usual sense. The writers of breaking bad referred to the incident as walt becoming the evil juice box man, imagining him injecting the poison into brocks juice box. Why not make more im a writer for breaking bad, and thats the question ive gotten the most over the past year next to. In earlier episodes of breaking bad, they purposely made a point of showing walt take the book out, smile, and place it on top of all his books when he was moving back in with skylar. An alternate ending for breaking bad has been posted to youtube, and it depicts malcolm in the middles hal waking up in the middle of the night, roused from his twinkieinduced nightmare of dealing meth and killing people with bombs and poison.
With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his familys financial. The random lalo mention in breaking bad is becoming an. Right after breaking bad ended, vince gilligan and most of the cast notably minus bryan cranston and bob odenkirk showed up to discuss the finale on talking bad. We all figured that breaking bad would end neatly, tying up all its loose ends and touching back with as many characters as possible even marie in her white sweater gets one final farewell. Each chapter focuses on how breaking bad was put together.
I also 100% called the way vince gilligan chose to wrap up that other loose end but leave that other one dangling, i had that bit figured out all the way back in season three. Walter white died, of course, but first he ran the table of revenge, settling score after. In response, skyler and walt concoct an elaborate cover story, alleging that. Its been about three years since the show ended, but somehow we just got a huge bit of breaking news. Spoilers galore for all of breaking bad in the following post. Its at this point that you want to stop reading if you havent seen the final episode because were about to get into. The good people almost everyone else came out unscathed. She would remain his receptionist up through the end of saul goodmans story in breaking bad. As i said in an earlier piece about breaking bad s end, rejudging a series based solely on the series finale is a foolish practice that is becoming frustratingly common. In 20, the amc series concluded its fiveseason run with a cryptic finale. Stop reading if you have not watched the finale of breaking bad, titled felina. By the time that the series finale aired, it was among the mostwatched cable. A breaking bad movie, picks up the jesse pinkman storyline after the series finale.
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