How Breaking Bad Pulled Off An Impossibly Perfect Finale

I have to hear one more time that you did this for the family, you did this for me, this is Felina, the final episode of Breaking Bad in the same way that Walt is a

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ending to fully understand gravity. From Breaking Bad Spinali we have to remember that this is a show about a suburban high school teacher's slow descent into the criminal underground. Walt's terminal cancer diagnosis in the first episode is the spark that slowly burns a path of destruction through his life and everyone around him. until he becomes a raging fire of pride and moral degradation, but whether you see Walt as a good man who made bad decisions for the good of his family or a bad man who finally found a reason to act on his worst impulses , Felina is a fitting ending. is a perfect example of what made Breaking Bad and, in particular, the character of Walter White great in the first place.

His willingness to explore dubious morality in ways that are equal parts moving, heart

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, and terrifying remain unmatched on television to this day. Vince Gilligan's writing and direction make for an episode full of suspense and contained intensity and supported by the rest of the absolutely stellar cast, Brian Cranston's performance in Felina is truly disturbing in every sense of the word, it comes across as a angry and exhausted ghost who can only be allowed to go to the afterlife. After writing down all his mistakes and tying up all his loose ends while determined to do it all on his terms, it's true that Felina is basically Walter White's wish-fulfillment happy hour, but despite the actual content of the episode, the way in which Felina is shot never leaves us.

He forgets that his actions are monstrous, he is alive, right? He is cooking for you, what are you going to lie after seeing his former colleagues belittle him and minimize his contributions to technology? Gray matter? Walt decides to flee his hideout in New Hampshire and return to Albuquerque in At the beginning of the episode, like a man possessed, he heads straight to Gretchen and Elliot's new home. He terrorizes them into setting up a trust fund for their son under threat of murder. These killers turn out to be Badger and Skinny Pete with laser pointers, but still the Schwartz family is scared enough to make Walt's bids for Walt and the audience is quite satisfying.

He gets exactly what he wants in characteristically clever and ruthless ways on the surface. This seems like a direct victory for Walt, but the way the scene was filmed. says otherwise the way he lurks in the shadows at the schwartz house and follows them inside is straight out of a halloween movie the terrified performance by jessica hecht and adam godley here tells the audience everything they need to know walt he is the villain after learning from badger and skinny pete that jessie is alive cooking jesse walt recovers the castor bean from his old house as a murderer who returns to the scene of a crime, inspects the place where he is a shell of his former self, just like walt and remembers his 50th birthday party a year ago.

A shot of Brian Cranston's expressive face confirms the audience's claim that Walter White will not make it out of this episode alive. Walt later interrupts Todd and Lydia and offers to teach Todd a new cooking method that doesn't require methylamine after a brief conversation in whose vault he brilliantly plays the role of a desperate man running out of time. Lydia tells Walt that she should meet with Jack Welker's uncle Todd later that night, but she has no intention of listening to Walt. The scene ends with a tight shot of her pouring stevia on her shirt. As he always does, the audience sees a quick scene in which Walt makes something in the desert that is connected to his car keys before one of the most memorable moments of the entire series, his conversation with Skylar, in which he says goodbye and finally confesses. to his wife and the audience who enjoyed what he did that made him feel alive as brian cranston gives the performance of his life throughout the episode this scene is especially exemplary and anna gunn is equally incredible you can really feel the pain of the loss and the exhaustion between the two characters, but you can also feel Walt's fixation on his goals and Skyler's terror at facing the man she can barely recognize as her ex-husband.

He says goodbye first to his daughter and then to his son in his own way for Walt. These goodbyes are tender moments, but once again the way this sequence is filmed betrays Walt's vision. Initially it appears that Skyler is alone in his apartment, but the camera zooms in to reveal Walt standing menacingly in the corner like a monster waiting for the right moment to attack. even withered and emaciated this man is an imposing figure when walt says goodbye to holly skyler he is watching a man capable of horrible acts caressing his helpless sleeping child and then walt silently watches his son return home from school through a window in a shot that without context looks like a stalker targeting his victim while the audience is still rooting for Walt to finish what he set out to do.

We're well aware of how dangerous he is, so this is Felina's final act as Walt pays Jack one last visit. the welkner gang, an amazing and exciting affair after some teasing from walt jack welker parades jesse in front of him walt fiddles with his keys before knocking jessie to the ground and hitting his keychain, unleashing another iconic moment From the end in The Unsuspecting Gang that the gadget Walt was putting together in the desert turns out to be the M60 set to fire automatically from the trunk of Walt's car. Everyone except Walt, Jesse Jack and Todd die in a storm of bullets.

The audience then sees Jesse snap Todd's neck. which certainly made people stand up and cheer and then, in an even more satisfying moment, Walt shoots Jack mid-sentence, like Jack did to Hank earlier in the season, with all the others dead, leaving Jesse and Walt in a brief confrontation in which Jesse realizes that Walt was shot by the machine gun Walt wants Jesse to kill him but ultimately refuses after five seasons Jesse refuses Walt's orders then do it yourself instead of killing him jesse chooses to leave his former partner alone among a pile of bodies a phone rings and walt answers only to hear lydia on the other end of the line asking if everything had gone according to plan and that walt is dead.

Walt informs her that earlier that day he poisoned the stevia Lydia used for her ricin tea, essentially giving her former supplier a death sentence. It's a big payoff, and killing Lydia by taking advantage of her overly detailed agenda is especially rewarding, but the scene is deeply reminiscent of several iconic horror movie phone calls that once again position Walt as the story's villain. The audience receives a final wordless goodbye. walt and jesse before jesse walks off into the night in a rush of emotion seeing jesse finally free of his life and the torture he was subjected to is perhaps the happiest moment of the entire episode and it is no coincidence that She's framed as the last girl barely escaping alive at the end of a horror movie, but that's not how the episode ends.

At the end of the day, it's still Walt's story and he finds himself alone and bleeding instead of spending his last moments near his family or Walt uses his last breath to say a single kind word about his partner and limps to the lab to die like a happy dog ​​at the feet of its master. He walks among the team with an almost nostalgic bow as police sirens wail in the distance. The sky blue is developed when Walt takes a look at the reflection of himself before dying on the laboratory floor while the police invade the building.

We, as an audience, can see simply by the look on his face that Walt is pleased more than proud for a man who once claimed that I'm in the empire business, there's no better way to go out than surrounded by the product you developed after of crossing off every item on your wish list and that's how,

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bad ends, a man gets everything he ever wanted at the expense. from everyone else in his life and ultimately dies from self-inflicted wounds, there's literally a kind of ironic tragedy to the whole thing and it reminds the audience that outside of this charitable narrative that Walt has built for himself over five seasons . actually become a monster, a villain, why are you still alive?

Why don't you just die? he just dies, the beauty of turning bad is that everyone who sees it comes away with a different experience and the ending is no different when Walt finally dies, you can see his final actions as a tying up of loose ends and a triumph of achievement or you can see it as the end of a terrible ordeal for a family tormented by the enraged spirit of their husband, father and friend, or maybe it's somewhere in between but no matter where you stand on the morality of Walter White, there's no denying that Breaking Bad had the perfect series

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and that's all we have for you today.

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