“Yeah bitch!” is one of many appropriate ways to respond to revelations in a new Vince Gilligan interview with The Daily Beast in which the Emmy nominated Breaking Bad creator plays with our hearts like DJ Roomba and drops some vague but tantalising hints concerning the direction that the best show on television might take in its final eight episodes. Without ever divulging whether W.W. aka Walter White pays (ie dies) for his sins or not.
“I’ll say this much,” Gilligan said. “I’m surprised by how victorious, in a certain sense, the ending feels to me.”
Since Walt transformed into an asshole and stopped being the everyman moral centre of the show around season two when he let Jesse’s girlfriend Jane die of a drug overdose, “victorious” might not exactly come to mean what we think it does in a conventional sense. Living happily ever after. Or at all, even.
“I was very nervous for the last year that we didn’t have an interesting enough way to wrap up Breaking Bad,” Gilligan continued. “I have to say that we were in the woods for a long time with these final eight episodes. Creatively, I felt like I couldn’t see the forest for the trees, and I was sort of trying to hack my way through the jungle of this story.”
“I’m very proud of these final eight. They go like gangbusters. There is no downtime in them. We are racing to the finish. I think they end the show in as satisfying a manner as we could possibly come up with.”
“Racing to the finish” and a plausible way to get this rumoured Saul Goodman comedy off the ground?
Breaking Bad returns to AMC August 11.
