Breaking Weird

The whole second season of Breaking Bad foreshadowed something terrible the end. Now that it finally happened, in "ABQ," we discover, after all the predictions, that there was no way anyone could have guessed what it would be.

The second season of the show was even better than the first, but I don't know about the last five minutes. Creator Vince Gilligan defends it as a symbolic of the results of Walter White's activities, but we saw a great example of that last week, and Walt was right in the middle of it. This seemed less like Breaking Bad, and more like Lost.

The third season looms with plenty of problems ahead for Walt and Jesse, so I have faith the show will continue to descend into even worse problems. (And soon AMC will have new Mad Men to carry us through the dead times.) But the finale didn't leave us with a cliffhanger so much as a resting place, where we can sit and contemplate what a mess things are.