Originally Posted by
Billy Dat
I also liked the finale, but it seems like the critics response has been, well, negative on balance. The prevailing sentiment seems to be that for such a messy world, it all ended a little too neatly. Emily Nussbaum, TV critic of the New Yorker, said that when Walt couldn't get the car started in the snow, she thought the "finding of the keys" was the start of a revenge fantasy, and that once he was strolling wistfully around the Nazi Meth lab, the scene would abruptly cut back to Walt frozen to death in that car, and everything back in ABQ would be, cruelly and realistically, as it would be...the Nazis and Lydia making millions off meth, Jesse still their slave, Skyler facing serious legal issues, Marie having no closure with Hank's body MIA, etc. That would have been a really crazy way to end it. The critics are feasting on the illogic of Walt (A) somehow getting out of New Hampshire (B) moving around ABQ despite the fact that everyone knows he is back especially (C) his ability to get into Skyler's condo and catch a glimpse of Flynn one last time and (D) his broad daylight hangout in the Todd/Lydia coffee shop then (D) the Nazis letting him park his car wherever he wanted and not checking the trunk and on and on.
Whatever, I'll take the fairly neat closure.