![]() ![]() Desperation makes Jesse twitchily calculating, but fear nips at his heels, too. It helps that Paul, as ever, is incredible in the role. El Camino refocuses on what drives Jesse-his distance from his parents, his collegial warmth with his friends, his relentless empathy for the helpless. In Breaking Bad, Jesse was an appendage to Walter White’s story, and by the end of the series, proximity to Walt had destroyed his life. It’s kind of "Felina," through a dark mirror-instead of the outlaw leaving his hideout to make amends and die, it’s the outlaw escaping death to make amends and then hide.īut Gilligan has proven, again and again, that he is a skilled storyteller in this universe, and if a post-finale finale had to exist, El Camino is a lovely coda that puts Jesse’s tortured soul to rest, in a way. El Camino doesn’t feel like an episode of Breaking Bad, although GIlligan’s signature obsession with process still drives the suspense. My patience for sequels and prequels is nearly exhausted, but I keep making exceptions for Gilligan-who, along with Peter Gould, made prequel spinoff series Better Call Saul into an immersive character drama that stands on its own. He sinks back into the role of Jesse as if it is a second skin, thoroughly inhabiting it so he can just as thoroughly discard it. Paul, whose performance as Jesse won him three Emmys, seems to have the ability to erase time, too. In an unhurried modern-day Western, Gilligan unfolds Jesse’s hurt and lays it out, turning it into the path that will take Jesse forward. He haunts Albuquerque like a ghost, appearing at Badger ( Matt Jones) and Skinny Pete’s ( Charles Baker) door scarred, filthy, hairy, and ravenous. ![]() "El Camino" means "the road," and damaged outlaw Jesse is on the road, both the place and the state of mind. The two-hour film begins where it left Jesse six years ago, and stays with him for a few agonizing days. In a way, that is the story of El Camino: The Breaking Bad Movie, written and directed by Breaking Bad creator and showrunner Vince Gilligan. It looked as if he’d driven right out of the compound into his own action movie-the flame-out scream turned into a new life in a different universe. His final scene in Breaking Bad shows Jesse behind the wheel of Todd’s ( Jesse Plemons) El Camino, screaming with newly liberated joy and a lot of leftover terror. Given how awful things went for Jesse during the events of the final season, it seemed like the best possible ending. And then from there, I think he felt like this could be its own story and its own film.”įrom there, Bernstein reports, getting Paul back on board was a shoo-in thanks to his relationship with Gilligan.Hilariously, during the the broadcast for Breaking Bad’s finale, "Felina," the commercial break right after Jesse Pinkman’s ( Aaron Paul) escape from slavery featured a trailer for Need for Speed, Paul’s film project following the series. … And I think the more he thought about it, the more story he felt was there and I think that grew into something that maybe it’s not a short, maybe it’s an episode-long piece. “And Vince at the time thought, ‘What if I did a little short about Jesse?’ And we were like, ‘Did I hear that right? Really? Do you really have the interest and draw to return to that story …?’ And he was like, ‘I think I do.’ And he started just mulling it over. “We were trying to think of ways to mark that anniversary in a fun way for fans and do something meaningful,” she said. The idea for the film came from something Gilligan had been kicking around as the 10th anniversary of the series approached in 2018, according to fellow executive producer Melissa Bernstein. ![]() Now, fans of creator Vince Gilligan’s multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning 2008-13 AMC drama series get to find out what became of the well-intentioned lad gone wrong - and likely a whole lot more - when three-time Emmy winner Aaron Paul reprises the role in “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” which begins streaming Friday on Netflix.Īs with any series rife with cliffhangers, details on “El Camino” were hard to come by, save for the one-line description on the Netflix press release that says, “In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.” When last seen, mentally and emotionally broken meth cook/dealer Jesse Pinkman was laughing maniacally as he fled his neo-Nazi captors in his Chevy El Camino in the 2013 series finale of “Breaking Bad.” ![]()
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