Breaking Bad

I recently binge watched Breaking Bad in about one month, all sixty-two episodes. It was truly as remarkable and bad ass as everyone said it was.

With that said,

*SPOILERS AHEAD*

"My name is Ozymandias. King of kings."
"Skyler, I don't think you know who you're talking to. You think I'm in danger? No, I am the danger. A man opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks."
"Say my name."
"I did it for me. I liked it."
"Yeah, bitch! Science!"

Breaking Bad is full of great quotes. Legendary. Amazing. Quotes. That's why it came as a shock that the last lines ever spoken on Emmy-winning show were.

"Goodbye, Lydia."

Not monumental. Not simply a "goodbye." An individual goodbye to a character introduced in the final season.

The last spoken words were much better, in the form of a song while Walter White laid dying in what he cared about the most. A meth lab.

"Guess I got what I deserved.
Kept you waiting there, too long my love.
All that time without a word.
Didn't know you'd think that I'd forget.
Or I'd regret.
That special love, I had for you.
My baby blue."

How could a show about a gentle teacher, with a disabled son and pregnant wife, who went from Mr. Chips to Scarface by killing people, cooking meth, and becoming the worst criminal in America, be so poignant in its last moments?

The journey from the cancer discovery to the end of Tuco, to being stuck three days out, to the death of Jane, to the plane crash and the pink Teddy Bear, to the pizza on the roof, to Gale Boetticher's rendition of David Bowie, to Skyler's outburst, to Brock's poisoning, to Gus' bad ass death, to Mike's poignant death, to the incredibly upsetting death of Hank, to the revealing of Heisenberg, to Andrea's death, to the finale with the end of Walt, Jesse, Lydia, and lots more.

My favorite character was definitely Pinkman. Poor, poor Jesse Pinkman. He was absolutely put through the ringer, but in the end he was free, and on his way to Brock.

Every aspect of Breaking Bad and its finale was complete perfection.

It's hard for me to analyze because it's been done so much, everything I would have to say would be mundane.

So I'll simply say, it was an amazing show...

Bitch.