AMC's Breaking Bad: The Upcoming Final Season – 5 Plot Lines to Consider
On August 14 of 2011, AMC announced that Breaking Bad was good-to-go for its fifth-and-final season. Everybody thinks they know how it will end – but given Vince Gilligan and crew’s consistently strong and unique story lines, we’re all probably wrong. It will have to be something uber-dramatic, and they will take pains to make this award-winning series end on an even higher note than it’s performed for the last 5 seasons. Indeed; so good was the overall writing and acting on Breaking Bad for the last few episodes of Season 4, they actually used an entirely excellent possible ending as a mere decoy and set-up for the finale. Gus and henchmen’s death-by-car-bomb would’ve been fine by cinematic standards…
Consider: who could have guessed that Skyler would become the First Lady of TPMOE (The Purest Meth Operation Ever)? Or, that Walt would rise to such criminal heights (and stoop to such moral lows – although the two generally go hand-in-hand) and defeat a master psychopath with such resounding finality in Gus? Incidentally, will we find out that the cancer affected Walt’s brain before it went into remission; or is the ex-high-school chemistry teacher simply “breaking bad”? The excellent writing that has endured and driven the show to record-breaking heights will not falter, especially given the fact that the (final) Season Five will have three extra episodes to tidily tie up what may be an otherwise bloody mess. As such, we can expect it to be tightly-plotted; likely with clues as to what may transpire already littering the scenes of the previous 4 seasons. Will Jessie find out what Walt did with the poison? Will he understand why Walt arguably had to do it? Will it matter!? Here are the 5 things Breaking Bad’s final season must tie up…
1. Where does Mike (played by actor Jonathan Banks) fit in? For my money, I’d guess there will be a confrontation – but it won’t end badly, even if it begins that way. Mike the cleaner has always come across as not just loyal; but smart. He’ll side with Walt much more readily than harbor any amateurish notions of avenging Gus, a concept which would come across as childish to the skilled and efficient hit-man.
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