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While many criticise the finale (myself included) for being a little bit too macho – Walt guns down his competitors, saves Jesse, and sets up his family – the finale is just what the show was all along: all about Walt.
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A few weeks after Breaking Bad had come to its dramatic finale, I found myself standing in front of an audience of journalists at a swanky London hotel.
I may be sitting in a room with 23 chapters and 100,000 words of Alex Rider to write, but at least I have a spectacular and bloody finale to reward myself with.
Finally, the finale.
Listening to its joyous, earthy energy, I nosed the car round a bend on the single-track road and, just as Dvořák's finale exploded, I found myself gazing out at a glistening sea, bound by a rugged coast and bejewelled with the Hebridean islands.
The finale: a feel-good "Me, Myself, and I".
Yet I find myself resisting a series finale where Olivia Pope is held accountable for her sins in a way that none of the famous white male antiheroes of the past decade have been required to.
On the eve of the first season finale of HBO's Westworld, I find myself looking ahead, past the episode right in front of me to as-yet unexplored territory.
Offspring fans had a pretty good idea of what they were in for on Wednesday night's season finale after (oh god, I can barely bring myself to say it) Patrick's dramatic death last week.
I couldn't even bring myself to recap last season's finale, I was so annoyed and frustrated.
Which, I'm aware, makes a much better end song than "I stopped loving that man because I realised I needed to respect myself", but that may well be the finale of the Beyoncé musical in 2116.
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