First off, I'm excited that there will be another season. There HAS to be. I haven't been this excited about a new series in years.

The series, like Walt himself, can go in any number of directions from here. There is a ton of room for character development and I wouldn't be surprised if AMC has twice as many episodes in the can for next season before too long.

Before it's said and done, Hank will be the bad guy. You just know that's gonna happen.

I think hank should make as much meth as possible before he dies. Its a fact he's a walking dead man with the cancer in his lympth nodes so go out in style and make boo koo money so you can enjoy the time you have left and keep your family in money so they never have to worry about it ever again.He's already crossed the line of decency so he should say hell with it and do whats right for his family and himself.He can take some serious vacations that he will remember in his short life forever and have some fun in the process.Hell with doing the right thing,do whats coming easy and thats lots of money,any fool with terminal cancer would do the same. Buffalo

How come there were only 7 episodes? Can anyone tell me?

Great finale! Tuco is a funny dude.

AMC, please don't take long with season 2. i love this show. i've turned all my friends on to it.

By the way, this is directed toward Craig from the above comment, its Walt that is making the meth and not Hank.

I can barely wait 7 days between episodes. I hope that season 2 will start before 7 months pass by

It was a weak season finale. Looks like Vince is angling for another season so there is no conclusion. One more season should be about right. Maybe three at the most. Anymore than that and it will be Lucy and Desi having Desi Jr for episode content.

We did find out what happened to Krazy 8 getting turned into a strawberry slushie, and get to see how Walt's wife, Skyler could betray him. And Walt gets frisky. Didn't he do that TWICE in the pilot? Oh, it was in the Aztec this time. That isn't breaking bad. The only saving grace this time is that Walt's transformation to a super anti-hero continues unabated with nary a flinch from him when Tuco beats down his crew and Jesse is also transforming. The rest of the characters have become one dimensional and flat.

So their is this great maybe real, maybe paranoia story about how the Hollywood police started selling "glow in the dark" crystal. Meth that would flource under a infared led. The story, if it is a story, goes they spent months dumping hundreds of pounds of the stuff on the street and then went on a big "pull over a thon" where they'd pull over everyone on the street between 3 and 5am and stick a flourescent light into their car and bust anyone who had any glow going.

Might make a great episode. Also, if your interested the guy who told me the story is a bright, intelligent, honest, thoughtful, dude, who unfrotunatly wound up spending his life as a dealer and has a million true stories. And I believe he has a lot of time on his hands as time is what he has right now.

Really enjoy the show.

dw

First of all I'd like to thank the creator Vince for coming up with such a brilliant show which I watched every week including tonights final. Then Cranston is such a brilliant and innovative actor. I've never really watched him on Malcom in the Middle but what a great believeable actor. And Skyler adds the right comedic touch to this series. I anxiously await season 2 and the releae of season 1 on dvd. Thank you Sly

The finale was a cliff hanger for sure! Leaving it to end at that would be "breaking bad". There's so much room to grow going into another season. I had my hayday once upon a time, and must say this show brings back some memories. I was never so bad as these guys, but the situations are easy to relate to. And are these guys the odd couple or what. Gotta laugh when you see them hauling a barrel baby-steps past a guard in the porta-potty! I must admit, after seeing trailers before the season began, I didn't think I'd like the show much, but watched it with my wife. 15 minutes into the pilot, I was hooked for sure. You bet I'll be watching for a season 2. Hopefully we'll get more than 7 episodes next time! And without too much wait. Anyhow, great show, great season!

I, We and the whole complex have been watching anxiously since week one and this one truley sucked. Excuse our language, however we expected a little bit more than what we got! This last episode was way too confusing and made very little sense. We hope that the future second season will be more realistic and provide more info than this last pathetic episode. I am , we are truley dissappointed.. This time at ten pm is like the most ultimate of any all week, including Americal Idol. I am one of the gals that leaves her boyfriend, husband just to watch this with the "GALS" Please dont disappoint us again or we will have to watch Idol Rewind. Good Grief dont do it Charlie Brown

C.N.:
Hi! WoW,,, what a great cliffhanger.. soo much,,, one of my faves= wen walt flips the hat and then puts in on for the very first time! LOVED it. thought maybe there couldve been more to a storyline with Skyler being held, maybe brt Hank in somehow.. the fake labr was (sorry) fake, but just storyline not acting.. but great season one everybody! Ive beeen here since the start, heck even havea cast crew season one chip to show ya!

One more question: is jesses tattoo a dragon or lizard? i didnt get a chance to study it cuz i was busy studien it! niiiiiiiice!!

thanks j. hansen

Great show and great season! Loved the finale! Wish there had been more episodes and am looking forward to season 2! This is definitely one of my new favorite series! Does anyone have any idea if there will be a dvd box set for season 1? I emailed the staff at amctv.com and never got an answer. It would be nice to know so that I may purchase it if a set is made for sale. Thanks!

AMC- (breaking bad) is so far one of the best series of programing I have seen in a long time, I very much love this show. I do not know what I will do with my sunday nights untill the season pre.

On that note let me say great writing of story and char. dynamic, the two lead actors are well found
and do such a great job as well as most the hole cast. I was hooked right in from the get go, and already a huge fan! I love the dynamic between street knowledge and the knowledge of chem. ( I.E) the ex chem teacher.

I belive AMC is now a power house for ground breaking T.V. series with all the "American idol" and "Sarah conner cronnicals" in the same season etc. Looking forward to the Pre. season- good show top notch! - spelling police go away 8)

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I really really like this show. I have never seen a better, deeper, more sympathetic treatment of characters than Breaking Bad provides. You start out with preconceptions about certain characters only to realize that, flawed as they may appear, there is still an underlying humanity to them all.

And Walt, well, this is a masterful treatment of a man faced with really hard choices in life and struggling to do the right thing even as he has to choose the bad. I really love seeing an intelligent man's response to brutality, where brains trump that brutality. Though the prognosis is bad, I can't help rooting for Walt.

I thought it worked pretty well as a season wrap-up. It'll give me lots to think about over the next several months.

It really pains me to say this, as the mother of a teenage son, but Walt Jr. should get laid next season. (UGH...that hurts more than you know!)

I liked that Walt and Jesse were finally coming to an understanding. Their alliance is not so much teacher and student anymore and Walt doesn't seem to come as unglued by Jesse's mere presence as before. Before this episode, I always got the impression that Walt saw Jesse as a symbol of how beneath him his life had become. Now he is realizing that you gotta do what you gotta do. Jesse has known this all along.

I do get the sense that Walt has an ingrained fear of Skyler. Perhaps it is not outright, but he wants her approval and is unsure of whether or not he has it. He's walking a tightrope.

The situation with Marie and Skyler parallels what is going on between Walt and Skyler (though Skyler doesn't know it yet). Marie and Skyler will eventually have to come to terms with their relationship and perhaps their resolution will be similar to what happens between Walt and Skyler. Time will tell.

Thank you thank you thank you for solving the pseudo mystery for me. This show is very real so for them to just magically have enough pseudoephedrine to make 4 pounds of meth would have made this scenario very unbelievable. For Walt to make his own was brilliant.

I can't wait for season 2. Hyzenberg Kicks Ass!!

@bird666: There will eventually be a DVD set, and Vince says it won't be bleeped, so you'll have that to look forward to. Unfortunately, I have no details on when the DVDs will come out. But as soon as I learn anything, we'll make an announcement on the site. Thanks!

I thought the season ender was great. Some of the storylines seemed a little truncated, as if they were supposed to be streched out more but had to be cut off because there were only 7 eps.

We certainly ended on the right note, with Walt watching his latest 2 pounds drive off into the sunset, all set up to do more batches for quite some time to come, with the soundtrack wailing about the saving of his soul as we fade to black....

Kudos, cast and crew !!! On to season 2 !!!

Um, lots of shows have internet goodies between the seasons to keep viewer interest up. How about posting videos of bloopers or those additional takes of Bryan doing the "scream scene"??? I would LOVE to see those, and I'm sure I'm not alone...

I was so extremely excited when I saw where Walt and Skyler had parked the Aztec--at my high school! Right outside the Science building at Eldorado HIgh School. That was freaking awesome

Oh, and seeing the spelling of Hyzenberg above makes me realize that some of the viewers may not realize that Walt is making a very cute science joke here. Heisenberg was a Nobel Prize winning physicist whose main contribution to quantum mechanics was the so-called Uncertainty Principle. Walt undoubtedly selected this "alias" becasue nobody including himself can now predict what he is going to do next or what is going to happen to him. See:

Werner Heisenberg

@I'm Rick James Bitch!!

I did get the Hyzenberg joke. Sorry if I misspelled it. When I say Heisenberg kicks ass what I mean to say is Walt's alter ego. The same guy that threw the fulminated mercury to blow up Tuco's joint. Walter White is dead or at least slowly dying. Heisenberg with black shades and cool hat is now the star of the show. The man that knows know fear. The man that locks security guards inside a porto potty while breaking locks with etch a sketch stones, then tiptoes through the tulips while carrying a 300 pound barrel. the man that cooks crystal meth all weekend while an open house is going on above his head. That is the Heisenberg that kicks ass!!! Walter White was a pussy!!

Very Good finale!

Not a great one but that's to be expected as this was not originally written as the finale ep. There were to be two more after this one that were never shot because of the writers strike. That fact in mind I think it stood up very well as a finale which is a testimony to the all around excellence of this show.

It stood on its own as the finale even though it wasn't intended that way and it stood up VERY WELL!

As for the episode itself this is the point I should explain to anyone reading my words I often talk to the characters ... its just what I do.

That in mind I want to talk to Walt!
Walt! Dear, dear man ... what is the world coming to when Jessie is the mature level headed one talking sense and reason? How much money do you really need? Strictly speaking you can only leave just so much behind without drawing unwanted attention to you family? Right? I do believe the money as motivation is teetering on the edge of losing out to the intense high of the power you're feeling in doing what you're doing. You seem to be enjoying being the undisputed best *cook*... THE MAN - I have a feeling this is something you haven't felt in a while - so you gotta ask yourself...

* How much money DO YOU NEED? Is it really still all about the money? *

Listen to Jessie!
Understand the danger in what you're doing. Realize what Tuco did to his own man, exactly what he did to Jessie, is what he will do to you and everyone you love.

Now that I'm done with that I'll play with a prediction.

Hank leaving in a big old hurry when the Tiara showed up leads me to believe Hank is aware of his wife's 5 finger discount problem. He doesn't strike me as a guy that would let his wife spend 500 bucks on baby tiara. He knows about her and now so does Walt. This opens up the door of a lil you scratch my back I'll scratch yours if Hank gets wind of what Walt is up too. I'd look for things to heat up in that department and get very interesting all the way around for the extended White family when season two rolls around.

In closing...
~My Jessie love grows deeper and deeper each week!
~Tuco is one crazy SCARY dude
And
~Finally Holly ... took you long enough Vince!

im hoping in season 2 we can see that Walt is a neglectful father.. since hes always with Jesse and never Walt Jr.

plus i never see them talk alot either..so hmmm....

For those who have said that they were disappointed in the quality of the finale, keep in mind that the season was truncated due to the writer's strike and this episode was originally filmed as a regular, middle-of-the-season show.

With that said, I loved the episode, the season, the writing, and all of the actors and actresses. I can't wait for more.

So well done cast, crew, my hats off to you Vince keep em coming! I am sad this season is over but will watch all over again and I am sure as I study the show will see things I didnt the first time around.
Yes Walt is dying slowly, but in some ways parts of him are becoming more awake with the adrenaline rush.Yet watching his face as he stood beside Jesse when Tuco flew into his murderous rage he appeared stunned and in a moment of suspended disbelief. Neither Walt nor Jesse realized the danger they were in nor the eggshells they would have to walk when dealing with Tuco. And now the chickens have come home to roost! What will prove to be interesting in Season 2 and beyond is how Walt's relationship with his family will change if he becomes more disassociated being around the violence. If he has no where to talk about it sooner or later Post Traumatic Stress Disorder will set in, however, this is tv... so who knows if Vince Gilligan will write it into the plot line!
Whatever happens, don't keep us guessing too long we love the show and will wait as long as we must for new episodes! A die hard loyal fan to the very end! Long live breaking Bad!!!

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A full 55-gallon drum of water would weigh almost 460 pounds. Few liquids are less dense than water - and those that are, aren't by much. So how could two wimpy guys carry such a drum between them?

Also, if an explosion (of mercury fulminate) is powerful enough to blow out a building's windows (with flames no less!), how could Hank survive at its center?

(I'll let slide the oddity that there was no test by Tuco of the Hank's "meth" as there was of Jesse's - how convenient, else there'd been a big bang before Hank could use it to his advantage!)

Isn't anyone proofreading the scripts? Isn't there a competent technical advisor?

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When I first began browsing on the websight,there were many controversial blogs online from people who were fearful of the subject matter of crystal meth.They caried neg experiences to the present & projected them onto the show. I read a few e-mails like that. And I do understand how an addict could possibly be triggered by watching smoking meth on the show. That would be understandable. However, I think that until enough time has been given for the plot line to unfold we really do not know what Vince Gilligan's intent is in terms of character development.These relationships between families and friends are growing together and apart and the dynamics and consequences will be found out as the story unfolds positively or negatively...drugs can spin a life either way.
Juging by the viewers and critics responce since the season finale as compared to the January Blogs..."Breaking Bad" has come leaps and bounds in popularity and has won a place in the TV Hall of Fame as being one of the best pieces of work ever created on tv. And it's only done that in 7 episodes. The fans can't get enough! And so now we watch the re-runs and wait patiently for more of the Brilliance of the cast,crew and Gillian magic to begin.

I think AMC is really hitting it big with this series and has given HBO a definite run for its' money and that's without all the crazy nudity or "F" word every sentence. It is dark, funny, violent, and educational. There has to be a second season or this would be a tragedy and not to mention a retarded business move. This finale was awesome it set the stage for season two and showed character development that was not only unpredictable, but left me dying to see the next episode. When will the season two be?

I am under the impression that they could only film 7 episodes as the writers strike kicked in and they will be filming again in summer.

First time I've posted here and I can only assume AMC watches these postings...I really want to thank them for having such an incredibly awesome show on. This is a must see for me since I was told of it and I love. it.

As a resident of ABQ it's really a privilage to see our city and state in a show that is really one of the best I've seen in years.

Thank you to AMC and the whole show crew!

Red

I dont have too much to say. I like very few shows on t.v. these days,but Breaking Bad is Brilliant. The characters are believable and likable, I find myself cheering for Walt in each episode. Thank you for putting something on T.V. I dont hate and can be excited about seeing each week.

the last episode on season one.is just a preview to season 2!!! and i cant wait 2 watch it!!!

I LOVED this episode! I am pretty much a dweeb, and I liked the way that they got the chemistry right. Using a phenylacetone/methylamine reductive amination makes a LOT more sense than having a bunch of Smurfs looking for pseudo. Of course you need a decent chemist, which is the whole point of the series! I also liked how they threw in a requirement for Thorium Oxide, just as a red herring for those who would try to copy a TV program in real life. That is SO SILLY that only a meth head would fall for it!
For me, this technical accuracy is what makes the series - keep it up!
Speaking of Thorium oxide, though - if Walt just can't make enough money with meth, how about he tries his hand at nuclear proliferation? You get much badder dudes in that business than in the crystal meth business. Also a much more evil premise - help to blow up half the world rather than kill a few hundred meth addicts. Scriptwriters - a full how-to guide can be found at www.globalsecurity.org. There is even a way to enrich uranium using chemical techniques, beleive it or not. And I heard that a little country called I**n has plenty of money and needs the goods!

Yeah we're jonesing for season two and I also have turned many people on to this show. Walt and Pinkman really are the Odd Couple for the new millenium, it's brilliant. The side plots and characters are great too. Great writing and acting. Please keep it up for season two. Oh yeah I really want to appear in an episode, let's say I'll be Tuco's supplier that catches wind of the new product floating around and wants to investigate. I got my son's crib from Tampico Furniture too (yuk, yuk).