Mara Shalhoup: That’s the big question. But here’s the deal: we’ve been inundated with these ambiguous, meta endings to great TV shows. This wasn’t that.
SW: I think Vince Gilligan backed himself into sort of a corner in terms of the timeline—there was just so much that had to be resolved in the last episode.
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KW: I loved the car scene, when he hit the window and knocked the snow off. Old-school Heisenberg.
KW: Walt wandering around the house casually stalking them was so good.
KW: The last episode seemed more a like a crossing off of tasks from a list than an ultimate search for self-respect.
MS: I watched the show with great interest in part because I liked how easy it was for a “normal” guy to turn bad. But I was even more interested in how (and whether) Walt would achieve what he set out to achieve.
