It’s a simple, but wonderfully executed premise that keeps building off of the conclusion of Breaking Bad, now that pretty much every single one of Walter’s criminal associates is dead, and Jesse is left as one of the only true scapegoats from a far-reaching and incredibly powerful meth trade.Īaron Paul returns to the role of Jesse with incredible ease as well, embodying both Jesse’s past and present, and occasionally calling back to a simpler, more engaged and energetic criminal bend with Jesse’s character, which has now given way to the broken and desperate survivor that has seen his years with Walter begin to catch up with him. With the police hunting him down, Jesse thus has to try and formulate a plan to flee his criminal life for good, lest he spend the rest of his literal life behind bars. That alone should be a big draw for Breaking Bad fans, and while this movie is certainly quite dependent on viewers already being Breaking Bad fans to get the most out of it, it is nonetheless a superb offering for those fans, who will find an appropriately dramatic, engaging and satisfying epilogue that finally provides more satisfactory closure for Jesse.Įl Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie unfolds pretty much entirely from Jesse’s perspective, picking up immediately after his dramatic fleeing from the site of Walter’s body, following the conclusion of Breaking Bad’s series finale. Thus, after seemingly years of whispers, rumours and speculation from both Breaking Bad veterans, AMC and Breaking Bad rights holder, Sony Pictures Television, it was eventually announced just this year that Sony would be collaborating with Netflix, to release a Netflix Original Film that would continue the story where Jesse’s character left off at the conclusion of Breaking Bad! This Netflix Original Film is El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a production directed by Vince Gilligan himself, and one that returns Aaron Paul to his breakout role as Jesse Pinkman. It seems that Breaking Bad creator and showrunner, Vince Gilligan agrees with this short-changing of Jesse’s conclusion too.
It is however also difficult to argue that if any Breaking Bad character was denied proper closure, it was probably Jesse, whose fate deserved at least a little more fleshing out than it ultimately got. This was indeed an effectively ambiguous conclusion for Jesse’s own tragic story, as a young man who had every advantage in life, and seemingly squandered every chance he had to do better. We never found out what happened with Jesse, despite most of the series’ other criminal characters, including the ones currently featured on Better Call Saul, ultimately perishing through direct or indirect means by Walter’s influence as New Mexico drug kingpin, Heisenberg. Jesse was last seen in Breaking Bad’s final episode furiously speeding off in a stolen El Camino, after Walter used a remote-controlled machine gun to murder all of the Neo-Nazi’s that were keeping Jesse captive, and forcing him to cook meth for them.
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AMC has continued their own expansion of the Breaking Bad universe with the ongoing prequel/spin-off series, Better Call Saul as well (which is sitting out 2019 entirely, and instead debuting its next season in 2020), but outside of that, it’s tough to argue that Breaking Bad ended very definitively, leaving very few unresolved story threads in the wake of series protagonist, Walter White’s tragic demise at the end of the series finale.Īmong the small handful of unanswered questions following Breaking Bad’s conclusion however is the fate of Jesse Pinkman, Walter White’s former student and partner-in-crime. After a thoroughly superb five-season run, beginning in 2008, and ending in 2013, with one of the most talked-about and satisfying conclusions in television history, the legacy of Breaking Bad is still standing strong today, particularly with its popularity as a continually watched and re-watched series on Netflix. NOTE: Some major spoilers for AMC’s, “Breaking Bad” series, particularly its final season, are present in this reviewĪMC’s excellent crime drama series, Breaking Bad continues to stand as one of the most celebrated original series offerings that the cable network has ever delivered.
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