I agree with you. I think the finale was the worst episode of the show by a wide margin, so poor that it taints the whole of the series.

I disagree. He lost everything that mattered to him.

Losing his family and dying is a happy ending?

Love Top Gear on the BBC.:) The American version is painful to watch. What's up with the Jimi Hendrix version of the Paul segment?

His kids got the money, he never saw the inside of a jail, he killed everyone that would/could harm his family, and he saw his kids again before it happened. He died as happily as he could have with the circumstances.

I agree with that but that is not a happy ending by any stretch. His family hates him, one of them is dead because of him and his other "son" wants to be far away from him as possible.

It's not happy but it is ultimately presented as redemptive, which is horseshit.

Not to derail the thread on a show that's been over for months, but the Top Gear Christmas special was very educational.

They're on a trek across Burma, which includes The Shan, where apparently no Western film crew have been before. And God was it beautiful.

And I'm 99% sure I saw a vendor selling Durian.

You just aren't receptive to art.
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I didn't have a problem with the final episode. It got a little cartoonish, but I think the series always had a little of that in it. It had to wrap up. It wasn't the Sopranos or the Wire. I think they knew what they were and they did it until the end.

What did you not like about it? It was a perfect ending to the story

I liked it, but I think some fans thought it wrapped up a little too neatly.

Overall, the 2 or 3 episodes before the finale were probably stronger, but the finale is still pretty strong.

Personally, I didn't like the framing device of the last season. I wish they had not of already shown a scruffy, ruined Walt at the beginning of the season. Left some mystery.
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Just re-watched those final few episodes..

So good. So, so good.

All valid points. I myself have little nitpicks. Like how Walt got Grechin and what's his nuts, to give all the drug money to his family. But in the end,I find myself saying, the whole ****ing series was about Walt leaving money to his family. ...How shitty would it have been if he didn't get to leave the money for the family. I think that would have bothered me more in the end.

How would you have ended it? If you wanted a realistic ending he dies by the cops in a shootout or blows himself up in a meth lab