What else is there to say, besides this being the best ending to any television, ever. The second half of the season is so full of just immensely satisfying resolutions, where choices made from the beginning are followed up with their rightful consequences, and one truth becomes startlingly clear: You'll always get caught.
Seeing the rise and the fall of an empire illustrated through this season is fucking incredible, and I love how overt it's storytelling is. At every possible moment Vince Gilligan and the writers not only go out of their way to make sure you know, but the show itself makes sure you know that Walt is not a good guy. At every turn, and every choice, everyone but Walt says that he's a monster... until the end, that fucking awesome line.
"I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it."
Walter White died the moment he killed Krazy-8 and Emilio in season one. Here, we just see Heisenberg finally catch up to him.
I cannot overstate how good everything is in this season. There's rarely a slow moment past episode 10, and by then every episode after is just one part of the ultimate finale for this show. So fucking good, so fucking perfect.
Review by saundrewBlockedParent2016-02-14T20:56:26Z
Part 1
I wasn't sure if I should only write one review for this season, or two. If you didn't know, this season basically aired as 2 seasons. Here is when we get into television stations' way to get more show than they have to deal with contract wise.
But yea, I love this first half of the finale season. Shocking, I know. One great part of the show at this point is that they don't have a crap load of episodes anymore, so the pacing gets really fast. While normally I'm just fine with taking some time, seeing the show plow through so much plot in such a short time is awesome. Each episode has like, 3 or 4 amazing twists.
Is this the greatest show of all time? You're goddamn right.
Part 2
This is the best television show ever made. I'm going to just pull the trigger on this, cause for a long time I wasn't sure what I'd put at the top. Going through the whole show continuously like this was just a lot of entertainment.
All of this season is super tense. There is not a single moment of down time, because shit has hit the fan for the entire cast. The one that stands out, to everyone I think, is Ozymandias. That is what I'd call the climax to the story, with the next two episodes being the epilogue. I love that you turn sides (or at least moral people do). Walter White has gone from a slanted protagonist to a villain, and we've seen every step in that direction for 5 seasons. What he gets is actually less than what he deserves.
You know, I've heard a lot of people nitpick the finale, but frankly I love it. I think I might have been thrown off a bit the first time watching, but going back to view it with a bit of foreknowledge helps. Suddenly you don't have your own idea of what should happen and get slightly bummed when they didn't take your advise during production. This is basically a curse every great show will have when they get to a pumped up end.
Finale message to all of you: if you've never seen Breaking Bad, your life is not complete.