On August 11, the final eight episodes of "Breaking Bad" will begin. Fans will have the chance to see their worst nightmares come true. Walt (Bryan Cranston) could destroy his entire family. He could continue his unforgiving killing spree and wreak havoc on Albuquerque. He could suffer a painful death and we'd be left to wonder, did he deserve it?
There's no way to know how things will end for Walt. He's too unpredictable. As the previous seasons transpired, we watched him make one horrifying decision after another, each one more surprising than the last. Just when we think he's gone too far, he goes further. But as much as we've been agonizing over his fate, it's going to be a bittersweet ending. We can't wait to find out how Walt's crystal meth empire comes to an end, but then that's exactly what it is. The end. Luckily, creator Vince Gilligan promises fans that the long deliberated ending will not disappoint.
"I was really nervous about coming up with the end of this thing for a year straight - for six years straight," Gilligan said last Friday at the Television Critics Associations' summer press tour. "The best hope we had to come up with something that, hopefully, most people will like was to satisfy ourselves, the seven of us in the writers' room, [as well as] the cast and the crew."
"I'm very proud of the ending," Gilligan added. "I can't wait for everyone to see it. I am very cautious in my estimate, in general, of how people will respond to things. I hope I am not wildly wrong to estimate that most folks are going to dig the ending."
Bryan Cranston, who plays Walt on the show, was then kind enough to tell fans exactly what that ending would entail.
"Everyone will be satisfied with the ending, where we hug it out [and] where all is forgiven," Cranston said with a laugh. Nice try. Just to clear things up, in case you couldn't tell, he was joking.
"Breaking Bad" will return to AMC August 11.