Why El Camino Was The Perfect Follow Up
Assessing The Extension of Breaking Bad
The following article contains spoilers
Calling El Camino a sequel to Breaking Bad is just wrong. I prefer to call it an extension. The film follows Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul, moments after the ending of Breaking Bad. Across the film, Jesse runs into a number of Breaking Bad characters as he tries to escape captivity and the law. Throughout this journey, we also see a few flashbacks during previously unseen moments in the Breaking Bad timeline.
The film was received well. It currently has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 72% on Metacritic. Take those scores with a grain of salt, because, what do they really mean anyway?
Perhaps a better metric to use is the one Netflix recently shared, that over 25 million households watched the film in the first 7 days after release. For comparison, the final episode of Breaking Bad was watched by 10 million viewers. So it would seem that this was something that fans wanted.
The Worry
There were two questions prior to the release of the film. Was it needed? and Would it ruin the ending of Breaking Bad?
That ending is one of the highest-rated and most well-received endings to any show. In a world where…
