Opinion | Ani Bundel: Netflix's 'El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie' gives Jesse Pinkman the closure he deserves. - NBCNewsTHINK
“Breaking Bad” was good at many things, but its ability to stick that final landing made it truly special.
“Breaking Bad” was good at many things, but its ability to stick that final landing made it truly special. The series finale managed, in just a single episode, to wrap up every plotline that was still dangling. Gilliganhe felt the only way to end the series was with a definitive and complete conclusion. White was killed, his enemies were slaughtered. His partner, former student Jesse Pinkman was freed from captivity and escapes the massacre alive.
But those expecting the movie to start back up where they assumed this scene left off — Pinkman being chased toward Mexico by the cops in a classic car — will be disappointed. Instead, Jesse finds himself unable to leave Albuquerque, trapped both by physical and emotional roadblocks. Pinkman is as much a prisoner of his PTSD as he is by his need to find Walter’s money stash.
For fans of the series, this is the closure for Jesse they always wanted. All the “Breaking Bad” faces one expects to show up do. But it’s still a strange sort of film, especially coming on the heels of both the “Deadwood”. Both “Deadwood” and “Downton” were standalone pieces that behaved as such. Someone who had never seen either TV series would enjoy them just fine, even if they didn’t pick up on all the nuances. But “El Camino” does not bother with such niceties.
If the movie premiered on AMC, and was treated like a TV movie special, this might have felt more excusable. But the movie is currently exclusive to Netflix with a “limited theatrical run,” and
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