Six years is a long time to spend in limbo — but such has been the lot of Jesse Pinkman until El Camino, the one-off Netflix sequel to AMC’s beloved crime series Breaking Bad. For the rest of us, the world has been turning with particular vigour since the apparent finale in 2013, but for the hapless Jesse (played by Aaron Paul), time clearly stood still in the getaway car of the title, speeding from a scene of bloody mayhem in what viewers took to be as close to a happy ending as this brutal show would ever deliver. At least this is what we glean from writer-director Vince Gilligan, rejoining his anti-hero not six years on but where he left him, screaming at the wheel. Read More...
Six years is a long time to spend in limbo — but such has been the lot of Jesse Pinkman until El Camino, the one-off Netflix sequel to AMC’s beloved crime series Breaking Bad. For the rest of us, the world has been turning with particular vigour since the apparent finale in 2013, but for the hapless Jesse (played by Aaron Paul), time clearly stood still in the getaway car of the title, speeding from a scene of bloody mayhem in what viewers took to be as close to a happy ending as this brutal show would ever deliver. At least this is what we glean from writer-director Vince Gilligan, rejoining his anti-hero not six years on but where he left him, screaming at the wheel.
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