Walt's dead, Jesse's free and Breaking Bad is over. Certainly not a unique way to open a review on this episode, but a compelling one. I'm not going to detail what happened because I would only be one of the literally thousands to do so. I'm just going to talk about how I felt, and whilst it isn't the most exciting thing in the world, that's the sort of hyperbolic statement that allows for a whole lot of still mildly exciting stuff like this article.
Read moreBreaking Bad E15 S5: Granite State
In this episode we see a pathetic and broken creature. Reminiscent of Gollum, Walter White has crippled under his own obsessions and the forced slow-down due to his cancer has finally given him the time to acknowledge it.
Read moreBreaking Bad E14 S5: Ozymandias
This was the pinnacle of Breaking Bad and pretty much the end of Walter White. The next two episodes, as extra long as they are going to be, will undoubtedly focus on wrap up. Not everything is answered, not even half of it. Jesse is Todd's slave, Lydia is off somewhere doing something, Walt goes crazy with a gun at some point, the house is abandoned and decrepit. Asides from all of that, I have too much stuff to discuss about this episode alone, and nowhere near enough time.
Read moreBreaking Bad E13 S5: To'hajiilee
Todd is hot for Lydia and we get to see it all play out straight off the bat in this thirteenth episode of the season. I was actually pretty disappointed in Todd for not getting the purity of meth above 80%, not to mention the lack of blue. You just can't get a decent meth cook these days.
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