El Camino is a counterpoint to the end of Walter White Breaking Bad kicks off with Walt finally deciding to take charge of his life — to act, instead of being acted upon, after being diagnosed with cancer. At every turn, he makes choices that will help him amass more power but that will also corrupt his soul.
Part of the Breaking Bad franchise, it serves as a sequel and epilogue to the television series Breaking Bad. It continues the story of Jesse Pinkman, who partnered with former teacher Walter White throughout the series to build a crystal meth empire based in Albuquerque.
In terms of “El Camino,” the answer is no — but not a damning no. The new movie, written and directed by “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan and now available on Netflix, is not an essential addition to the intimate epic that's is one the best TV dramas of all time.
There's no word on what happened to the White family after Walt's death, but El Camino confirmed that Jesse Pinkman survived the compound siege and that he made it to Alaska a free man, ready to start over. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie is now streaming on Netflix.
Whereas El Camino had a happy ending with a few drops of tragedy, Better Call Saul delivers a tragic ending with a few drops of happiness.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie drew 6.5 million viewers in the US on its opening weekend, making it one of Netflix's most successful original films of the year.
Alaska is an American State located west of Canada. Alaska serves as Jesse's final destination following the events of "El Camino," and is nicknamed "The Last Frontier." It was chosen by Jesse due to a conversation with Mike Ehrmantraut in which Mike stated that Alaska would be a good place to make a new life.
Neil challenging Jesse to a duel. Neil Kandy is the final antagonist of the Breaking Bad franchise. He serves as an unseen antagonist in the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad and the main antagonist of its 2019 sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.
Skyler And Marie Might Have Broken Bad Themselves
When her life fell apart and Walt disappeared, Skyler lost her assets and moved in with her kids in a small apartment with a job as a taxi dispatcher.
At one point in the film, Jesse is back at Todd's apartment because he remembers that he was stashing a lot of his money there in a secret hiding place. He literally tears the whole apartment apart searching for his stash of cash.
No. From the moment Walt had him dragged out from under that car in the desert, Jesse never forgave his former partner. From that moment on, Jesse felt nothing but hatred and resentment towards him.
The Breaking Bad character Todd Alquist looks radically different in El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie — but Todd wasn't recast. El Camino takes place immediately after Breaking Bad, but was filmed almost six years after the show.
Anna Gunn didn't return as Skyler for either El Camino or Better Call Saul, but in a phone conversation between Saul and his secretary, Francesca, in Better Call Saul Francesca mentions that Skyler received a plea deal from the government.
In a video released by Cranston, we see how the hair and makeup team quickly transformed Cranston into Walter White using a bald cap—although writer/director Vince Gilligan previously revealed that the bald cap made Cranston's silhouette look “off” due to his hair underneath, so as a result every shot in that diner has ...
The finale did give Jesse a happy ending of sorts when Walt, finally showing something like remorse for what he'd done to his former student, set him free. But our final image of Jesse was behind the wheel, screaming, gunning it down backroads to make his escape. It's an ending, but it's hardly closure.
And, just before the film's close, El Camino delved back in time for the return of the show's central character: Walter White, the chemistry-teacher-turned-drugs-baron portrayed by Bryan Cranston. However, the man we saw in flashback is far from the one portrayed in the Breaking Bad finale.
After Breaking Bad
In an interview, show creator Vince Gilligan confirmed that Walter Jr. eventually received his father's drug money through Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz, which he had arranged beforehand.
(also known as Flynn) is a fictional character in the crime drama series Breaking Bad. Played by RJ Mitte, Walt Jr. is the son of protagonist Walter White and his wife Skyler. He has cerebral palsy, as manifested in speech difficulties and impaired motor control, for which he uses crutches.
In the begining he only wanted to make $737,000 to leave them. He ended up leaving them 9+ Million, I think he was happy with that. Maybe towards the end he was doing it for himself, but at the beginning it was mostly for the money and possibly a little for the thrill.
At the very end when Jesse finally arrives in Alaska, he gives Ed (Robert Forster), the man who helps smuggle him to Alaska with a new identity, a letter.
In flashbacks, Neil joins Kenny and Todd Alquist in tormenting the captive Jesse. In the present, Neil and Casey visit Todd Alquist's apartment as fake police officers in search of his drug money stash, with Jesse doing the same. Jesse is then found by the two and deceived into giving himself up and is taken hostage.
Jesse: I am 96% sure that you are the guy. Narrator: 96% sure, he says, a reference to the purity level of the meth he once cooked. When Jesse's searching his parents' house for a gun, his eye is drawn to the crawl space on the floor.
She didn't get it. That's one of the reasons he left when the DEA showed up at the park: he needed his buyout from Walt if he was going to set her up.
Later in the season, Walt and Todd use hydrofluoric acid to dispose of Mike's body after Walt shot him in a fit of rage ("Gliding Over All").
In the season 5 episode Confessions Jesse realises that Saul and Huell took his ricin cigerette on the orders of Walt (Jesse finds this out by threatening them with a gun) which causes him to also realise that Walter was behind the whole false story of Gus poisoning Brock when it had been him all along.