If you’re one of the people who pretends you’ve seen Breaking Bad because it’s the thing to say you’re “into right now” – repeating this news will make you look even cooler. If you’re one of the people who have actually seen the show, this news may settle your nerves slightly as we approach B-Day and the phenomenal crime drama airs its final eight episodes from 11 August.


Five and a half years ago, Vince Gilligan unleashed the incredible story of a terminally ill high school chemistry teacher turned meth cook onto the world. Although most of us have watched 54-episodes in a much shorter timeframe hunched over iPads on the tube or glued to Netflix for a week solid, one question has been at the back of all of our minds since we got hooked…

Can this really deliver a satisfactory conclusion, or will it end up being another X Files, Lost or The Sopranos?

Well Mr Gilligan seems upbeat (and, after all, he knows what’s going to happen, we hope), so maybe there’s nothing to worry about?

“Anyone anxious that there won’t be resolution enough at the end of these eight episodes can rest assured that the story very much reaches resolution,” he told the Daily Beast.

“It will not end in any kind of open-ended sense.”

Gilligan admitted they were still only half-way through the edit on the series, which stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, but said if he had to describe it in one word… it would be, “victorious”.

“I was very nervous for the last year that we didn’t have an interesting enough way to wrap up Breaking Bad,” he explained.

“I have to say that we were in the woods for a long time with these final eight episodes. Creatively, I felt like I couldn’t see the forest for the trees, and I was sort of trying to hack my way through the jungle of this story.

“I’m very proud of these final eight… They go like gangbusters. There is no downtime in them. We are racing to the finish. I think they end the show in as satisfying a manner as we could possibly come up with.”

Let’s hope so, Vince, eh?

Breaking Bad begins its final run on 11 August 2013 on AMC in the US. It’s set to conclude on 29 September in America, with the final episode written by Gilligan himself.


In the UK Breaking Bad is available on Netflix.