BRYAN CRANSTON
Bryan Cranston has become ubiquitous with Breaking Bad; watching the descent of “Mr Chips To Scarface” is arguably the most essential, smouldering element of the series’ core. Before the show began, Bryan Cranston was perhaps best known as “The Dad From Malcolm In The Middle”; now Bryan Cranston is Golden Age TV royalty – nothing could ever have shot him to such critical claim as much as Breaking Bad. Besides, Cranston also has a tattoo of the Breaking Bad logo on the inner side of one of his fingers, so don’t even bother competing you damn posers.
THE GUY WHO MADE THIS CINEMATIC RECAP
Guy with way too much time on his hands Jason Grzybowski has spent unimaginable hours pouring over every Breaking Bad episode (up until S05E08) to bring you this masterpiece: a truly cinematic recap containing scenes from every Breaking Bad episode up until season 5’s second part premiere. Can you even fathom the rendering time this thing would have taken? Watching this is a recipe for tears.
MY DAD
Breaking Bad devotee—and my very own Dad—sent me an email this morning speculating on the final episode. Does your Dad write hugely implausible Breaking Bad fan fiction? Didn’t think so. Here’s what he wrote:
“Walt is standing over his quivering family and Marie, laughing
maniacally and just about to blow them all away, Jesse is already dead
in the corner of the room, when a totally filthy Hank, one eye blown
away, bursts into the room and says, “Not on MY watch, asshole!” and
fills Walt full of lead. Hank staggers over to Walt’s corpse and says,
“The only ‘Leaves Of Grass’ you’ll have now, Walt, will be the ones on
your grave!” Then he tosses the book of Walt Whitman poetry on to him.
Show ends with a close-up of the book slowing turning red from soaking
up Walt’s blood.“
THE GUY WHO WILL HAVE THIS TATTOOED ON HIM FOREVER
Aaron Paul kindly notified the world via instagram that this intricate tattoo is actually attached to a human, and will be permanently inked to flesh for the rest of his days. This is no fleeting fan obsession. This is a life choice, you guys. Too bad he has this intricate tattoo of Walt’s face permanently inked to his flesh :/
AARON PAUL
After Walt, Jesse is obviously the second most important character in Breaking Bad, a fact uniquely expressed by his IRL counterpart, Aaron Paul. Paul regularly hypes up fans on twitter before a Breaking Bad episode airs, incessantly posts memes on instagram and appears to be perpetually in character, or practicing the method, by enthusiastically adding “bitch!!!!!” to every sentence. Gonna miss seeing this guy every Monday so hard.
THE ARTIST BEHIND THIS DETAILED ACRYLIC FAN ART
You don’t spend hours of your life making an immaculately detailed, acrylic work of art that captures an intense moment of the series without being a real hardcore fanboy/girl of the show. *Bows down to the artist’s inspirational devotion*
THE DUDE BEHIND THIS STUPID IN DEPTH ANALYSIS OF AN ICONIC SCENE
Taking you’re-reading-way-too-much-into-this to new heights, one fan dissected an iconic scene from the series’ fifth season with a series of annotations that are just so crazy, they might just work. If this scene provokes such an analysis, you can bet that every millisecond of tonight’s episode will be scrutinized beyond belief. Find the high res version here.
THE PEOPLE OF ALBUQUERQUE
Albuquerque is now legitimately a Breaking Bad fan’s tourist destination – so much so that The New York Times published a piece titled, “Breaking Up With Breaking Bad Is Hard For Albuquerque” because those geographical references of parched desert sure did reel in those hungry BB fans. Causing a surge in economy from location site seeing tours and local businesses adapting their menus to reflect any tenuous Breaking Bad reference possible, losing the show won’t just be an anxiety-inducing, heart-abating hour of pure terror, it may also signal the beginning of the end of their blissful, economic bandwagon ride.
THE ORGANISER OF THE ULTIMATE BREAKING BAD VIEWING PARTY
Insanely dedicated fan Jamee Bryant organised her Breaking Bad viewing party to utter perfection. There’s mini Heisenburgers, blue ice cupcakes, tighty whitie cookies and Los Pollos Hermanos wings. Makes me, my laptop and takeaway look straight up sad.
THE PERSON BEHIND THIS SUSPICIOUSLY PLAUSIBLE SERIES FINALE THEORY
Some dude has slowed down season 5’s opening episode to the point of sussing out a suspicious wire-like object under Walt’s shirt. The theory has it that by the time we hit the flash forward scene, Walt has started to try and catch his enemies out on tape. Who they may be and why they would talk beats me, but as Uproxx concedes, there was a sneaky allusion to the idea of “wiring up” with Walt conveniently standing over Saul’s number plate to show WYRUP on screen. Probably insane, but this guy will be watching tonight’s episode with unsurpassed anticipation to see if he was right.
