This is a perfect summation of the "Breaking Bad" finale--not a great episode, but a great finale. Don't read below, much less the article, if you've yet to watch to the end.

"It’s not that Walt needed to suffer, necessarily, for the show’s finale to be challenging, or original, or meaningful: but Walt succeeded with so little true friction—maintaining his legend, reconciling with family, avenging Hank, freeing Jesse, all genuine evil off-loaded onto other, badder bad guys—that it felt quite unlike the destabilizing series that I’d been watching for years. If, instead, we were watching Walt’s compensatory fantasy, it was a fascinating glimpse into the man’s mind—akin to the one in the movie 'Mulholland Drive,' a poignant, tragic attempt to fix a life that is unfixable."

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/09/breaking-bad-finale-reviewed.html

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