After five seasons Walter White's journey comes to its end. Back in New Mexico he sets about putting his affairs in order, firstly paying a visit to old friends Gretchen and Elliot and persuades them to channel his money to Walt Jnr without letting him know where the money came from. He then goes to see Todd and Lydia to offer them a new way of making meth that doesn't require methylamine in exchange for a million dollars. He then pays one final visit to Skyler and finally admits that what he did he did for himself before giving Skyler the coordinates to Hank's grave. With his affairs sorted out it is time to pay a visit to Todd, Uncle Jack and his gang of neo-Nazis; they may plan to kill him but that doesn't matter; he has a surprise in store for them.
Too often series that start great are let down by weak conclusions; 'Breaking Bad' is most definitely not one of those series. Just about every loose end is tied up in a very satisfactory way. Those criminals who have crossed Walt end up dead; either full of bullets or in the case of Lydia a poisoned coffee. The one exception is Todd; appropriately it is Jesse who kills this psychopath. In this season Walt has become an increasingly unpleasant character but here it was good to see him go some way to redeeming himself by revealing where Hank is buried and freeing Jesse, even if the latter might not have been part of his original plan. While the dying moments of the series aren't exactly feel-good they aren't so depressing that one won't want to watch them again a good thing in a classic 'box-set' series.
Too often series that start great are let down by weak conclusions; 'Breaking Bad' is most definitely not one of those series. Just about every loose end is tied up in a very satisfactory way. Those criminals who have crossed Walt end up dead; either full of bullets or in the case of Lydia a poisoned coffee. The one exception is Todd; appropriately it is Jesse who kills this psychopath. In this season Walt has become an increasingly unpleasant character but here it was good to see him go some way to redeeming himself by revealing where Hank is buried and freeing Jesse, even if the latter might not have been part of his original plan. While the dying moments of the series aren't exactly feel-good they aren't so depressing that one won't want to watch them again a good thing in a classic 'box-set' series.