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SPOILERS GALORE: The 63rd & final episode of the Breaking Bad prequel pulled a lot of strings together & closed some big doors tonight.

You know, when his brother, Chuck (Michael McKean) dies, it takes a long time for Jimmy to feel what he’s feeling, and maybe I’m the same way because I haven’t quite got my head around it. DEADLINE: Well, I would say, and this has spinoff stuck all over it one way or another, she also isn’t going to be satisfied not playing the game. She takes off at midday of work, and where does she go, she goes to a legal office, and she’s going to volunteer there. Of course, when he comes into the meeting room with Kim, she calls him Jimmy, and you can see the vulnerability in Bob’s face when she does that. Ultimately, even if he becomes Jimmy McGill again in his own mind and to himself, to the outside world, he’s always going to be this two-dimensional cartoon character that he made. Saul Goodman’s going to be something that he has to live with for the rest of his life, and that’s his own kind of purgatory. The first BCS episode to be both directed and entirely penned by showrunner Gould, the layered finale seeks and satisfactorily achieves resolution for the title character in a yarn that intertwines the color of the past with the black and white of the ultimately-confining present. DEADLINE: Certainly Kim’s found a freedom in Jimmy taking the full fall for everything, including Howard’s demise, but he’s also a full-on Saul Goodman, the king of the joint. GOULD: Yes, on Breaking Bad it’s revealed he has a gun in his desk, but you’ve never seen the guy pick up a gun. DEADLINE: Peter, I doubt there are very few people who watched the Saul finale who didn’t at least get a Breaking Bad refresher if not binge to get this far. To that end, throwing his love and once fellow lawyer Kim Wexler ( Rhea Seehorn) under the proverbial bus for the death of rival Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian) earlier in the season, Goodman tries to escape decades behind bars with a mix of coercion, Heisenberg victimhood, and a big roll of the dice. “As soon as we land, I want you to tell the other side that I’ve got more to trade,” a busted but still hustling Saul Goodman ( Bob Odenkirk) tells his lawyer on a flight from Nebraska to New Mexico in tonight’s Better Call Saul series finale.

Nearly a decade after last inhabiting the role, Betsy Brandt returned to perhaps her most recognizable character, Marie Schrader.

Saul was an accomplice to crimes committed in “Breaking Bad,” including the death of Marie’s husband, Hank (played by Dean Norris). Marie listens — her face expressing shades of sorrow and anger — before delivering a cutting dialogue, directed at Saul. The actor who played Hank in “Breaking Bad” even chimed in on the social media platform about Brandt’s return to her character after eight years. “So great to see Betsy Brandt!!!!! Maybe not everyone knows, but Betsy Kettleman is a Betsy in homage to @betsy_brandt. When I found out I was both intimidated and honored,” wrote Julie Ann Emery, who played the character of Kettleman in “Better Call Saul.” In season 1, Kettleman was helping her husband, a thieving treasurer, flee from criminal conviction. In her reprisal Monday, Brandt’s Marie character appears first in a 10-minute scene where she faces the “Better Call Saul” title character, Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk), following his arrest after years on the run. Brandt, who played the sister-in-law of the lead character in “Breaking Bad” from 2008-13, returned in a surprise appearance as Marie Schrader in the Monday, Aug. 15, episode of the AMC series’ popular spin-off show, “Better Call Saul.” She had not previously appeared in “Better Call Saul,” which debuted in 2015 and wrapped up with this week’s episode.

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Journey is only a couple of hours long and it’s one of my favourite games of all time. Vince Gilligan tells us not to hold our breath for a Breaking Bad video game adaptation, but now that TV, books, film and games are getting friendlier with each other, I wonder whether it might happen in another 5 years. It resulted in the well-received South Park: The Stick of Truth in 2014, after 5 years of development. Immense energy, effort and talent went into writing storylines for potential game projects, he says; at one point something was on the cards for PlayStation VR, but that never materialised, either. Gilligan is not a gamer himself, but he talks about his vision for a Grand Theft Auto-style adaptation of the show that was pitched but never happened. I’ve often wondered why there’s been no Breaking Bad video game – especially because Netflix has shown a great deal of interest in the games, from buying studios to bankrolling endless TV adaptations.

They then meet with the feds, though watching over them is none other than Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt) from the original show – who you'll remember was the ...

He continued: "It's not an exact analogy, but hopefully those flashbacks help to illuminate the change that he's making in this episode. And each time he's visited by one of these ghosts, you realize this guy is trapped in the cycle." "And of course Michael Mando, Nacho's shadow hangs over the whole season. We didn't want to make a kind of overstuffed epic, and I hope we didn't. We wanted it to feel like a drama, and not like a collection of scenes. "Anna Gunn [Skyler White] would have been great if it fit in the story. "I would have loved to have Patrick Fabian [Howard Hamlin] back, to have Dean Norris back," he said.

But though it was a finale that took out several huge criminals in this world like Jack (Michael Bowen), Lydia (Laura Fraser), and Todd (Jesse Plemons), it ...

This choice also led to the best possible ending for Jimmy. Outside of prison, Jimmy was dismissed, belittled, and hated for his borderline criminal legal tactics. His spirit wasn’t beaten and crushed until it was barely recognizable like Jesse. No, when Jimmy looked across the courtroom and saw Kim (Rhea Seehorn), for one of the first times he chose honesty and put the needs of other people over his own. But though it was a finale that took out several huge criminals in this world like Jack (Michael Bowen), Lydia (Laura Fraser), and Todd (Jesse Plemons), it never challenged Walt to change who he was. The haunted, near silent man at the end of El Camino was a ghost of the animated sweetheart that Jesse was at the beginning of Breaking Bad. Though Jesse managed to escape with his life, he only found safety by sacrificing his future, abandoning his loved ones, and stripping away who he was. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie followed Jesse as he escaped the Neo Nazis lair, dodged the authorities, and eventually fled to Alaska. It was heart-warming to see that Jesse, the epitome of a guy who got wrapped up in something bigger than himself, managed to escape. It also filled in the emotional gaps of both Breaking Bad and El Camino, finally giving fans permission to step away from this universe for good.

Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) have become icons of TV's golden era, celebrated as quotable memes, achievable fancy dress options, ...

But right now, whether there’s more room to grow or not – and there probably is – I feel like it’s time to do something new.” Ours is a very small one, Albuquerque, New Mexico, versus some of these worlds and series of movies and TV shows. And I think there’s a certain point, and it’s hard to define, where you’ve done too much in the same universe. But without naming any names, I look around at some of the worlds, the universes, the stories that I love, whether they’re on TV or in the movies. The world of Breaking Bad has expanded since the main show’s conclusion in 2013. Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short was also released in conjunction with El Camino, focused on Todd (Jesse Plemons).

After 61 immaculate episodes, this cinematic, immersive drama ends today. It was visually beautiful, detail-oriented TV that became so much more than Vince ...

From the get go, all that said, this wasn’t a promising premise. Sometimes, all plot development suspended for a few hypnotic moments, the camera would linger on a worn-out dollar bill caught on a cactus thorn, or on some abstract composition of a piece of metal foil blown about the desert. When Jesse Pinkman drove off into the desert, leaving Walter White murdered by cartel goons at the end of Breaking Bad’s final episode nine years ago, the safe money would not have bet on Bob Odenkirk starring as the reptilian “Slipping” Jimmy McGill in a prequel that traced his mutation from small-time schlemiel into still more slimy attorney Saul Goodman.