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What the <em>Breaking Bad </em>Film Gets Right About Jesse

<em>El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie</em> gives him a ruminative and riveting send-off.
Source: Ben Rothstein / Netflix

This review contains light spoilers for El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie and major spoilers for the Breaking Bad series.

In an era of controversial series finales, was the rare show to . The AMC drama set in New Mexico about Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a milquetoast high-school chemistry teacher who decays into a morally bankrupt drug kingpin, tied up every loose end in . “We knew we needed to dot all the ’s and cross all the ’s,” the show’s creator, Vince Gilligan, moments after the finale aired in 2013. “Sometimes unanswered questions are good, but in this case, this being such a finite and closed-ended show, we

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