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Watched Breaking Bad years after it ended. It was great Walt sucked so fucking bad. Was very confused when I remembered what the fanbase thought of him.

I love this scene and it’s true

Breaking Bad is not my favorite "prestige TV" show (that's a coin-toss between Deadwood and The Sopranos), but I will always appreciate how easily digestible Vince & co. made it. It's such an endlessly rewatchable show and it feels like they went through pains to make it so, and it paid off big.

He was cracking at the meth thing, every other element of being a criminal though? He Mr. Beaned his way through the criminal underworld while thinking he was Tony Montana

Was honest to his wife once and it allowed him to immediately lock in

it is awesome how much he fucking sucked he could not work with and cruise by working with the mythical unicorn that is gus the only ever actually smart competent big criminal boss because he is a really cringe pathetic asshole who thinks killing a few no names makes him the ultimate bad ass

idk about that

mike’s last time talking to him famously said “walt you did great, i’m glad we met“

In fairness I think this was moreso intended as closure for Skylar as opposed to spelling out Walt's arc to the audience, though it does do that too tbh. Better Call Saul's finale though? 😬

[Vince Gilligan arriving at the ending and realizing people are still shitting on Skylar as a villain] Oh shit I gotta do something

I didn’t like this show cause it felt like i was just going to watch this guy get worse and worse, as promised by the title.

one of the unused scripts for the sequel star wars movies said "This is the moment they had realized... They lost the star wars." Don't fuck with me on this one it's real.

Shortly after it aired someone said it must have been WW's fantasy of how he'd die, and it works as our fantasy for his end also. As a real-life denouement, absolutely no workee.

Walter White is, quite literally, the prideful AmeriKKKan breadwinner father who'll hurt his family and connections to get the validation he thinks is necessary. A stereotype. Nothing more than that. The horrible man you've seen a million times but Explained Why. And I don't feel sorry for him.

"I might allude to the name of the character", as in I'd make a joke or two given I remember any of them in the moment. I didn't have enough character space to write that sentence in full.

Its a love story

In college in like 2008-2012 along the east coast (Philly/NYC/Baltimore/DC) you'd see these stickers absolutely everywhere. For the early 00's this was the de facto "guys not getting the point" art, soon to be overtaken by Fight Club

David chase had it ten billion times worse because its plagued his life for 25 years now

Walt at the lowest point of his life realizing he can earn some sweet karma by killing a bunch of nazis who are torturing the dude he screwed over.

same. alone in the middle of nowhere with his massive piles of money that cant even buy him someone to talk to is really good, they just chickened out and gave him a more conventional ending at the last moment

I remember @kierongillen.bsky.social once blogged that it should have ended with Walter Jr getting the money years later, realizing where it came from, and throwing it all into a fire. That's still the perfect epilogue in my head

kinda yeah. The show didn’t fail in portraying how monstrous Walter was but he ultimately achieved everything he wanted and dies happier than he would’ve had he been a regular guy.

truth nuke

Look LGBT dealt a heavy blow to the college boyfriends of many women across the United States and others people will be reeling from this for quite some time (21 more hours)