'Breaking Bad' Fans React to the Finale: 'Very Happy. Very Sad.'
Just think, "Breaking Bad" fans: Back in your grandparents' day, they had to watch dramatic TV events without the virtual comfort of fellow social media users. At least we have our Twitter brethren to share our pain over bidding adieu to one of the greatest TV dramas of all time.
[Related: We Recap the 'Breaking Bad' Series Finale]
We're sure, for instance, most "BB" fans can empathize with this tweet from singer Jay Sean:
I need a breaking bad helpline. I don't know how to feel.i don't know anything anymore. 😔😞 what can fill this void!!? #goodbyebreakingbad
— Jay Sean (@jaysean) September 30, 2013
Adds @cschweitz:
Thinking about re-watching @BreakingBad_AMC just because I kind of can't imagine my life without it. #goodbyebreakingbad
— Callie Schweitzer (@cschweitz) September 30, 2013
From @CarterHardin:
I feel like someone just broke up with me through text #GoodbyeBreakingBad
— Carter Hardin (@CarterHardin) September 30, 2013
From "Bridesmaids" director Paul Feig:
Aaaaaaaaaand ... here come the waves of depression as I realize there will never be another new episode of Breaking Bad. #GoodbyeBreakingBad
— Paul Feig (@paulfeig) September 30, 2013
And as "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" creator Rob McElhenney so pithily put it:
Very happy. Very sad. #breakingbad
— Rob McElhenney (@RMcElhenney) September 30, 2013
Others who were sharing their love of all things "Breaking Bad" post-finale:
@kriscomedy, who tweeted:
Dear J.J. Abrams,THAT'S how you end a TV show.Sincerely,The Public#BreakingBad #GoodbyeBreakingBad
— Kris Wernowsky (@kriscomedy) September 30, 2013
Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt wrote:
Thank you, Vince Gilligan, for conceiving & executing the most bizarre love story I've ever seen. #GoodbyeBreakingBad
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) September 30, 2013
"Breaking Bad" alum Giancarlo Esposito (aka Gustavo Fring) tweeted:
BREAKING BAD !!!!! Excellence personified !!!
— Giancarlo Esposito (@quiethandfilms) September 30, 2013
@davechensky wrote:
BREAKING BAD: SERIES FINALE - One of the most emotionally & karmically satisfying endings ever, for one of the best shows ever. Just bravo.
— David Chen (@davechensky) September 30, 2013
"Little House on the Prairie" star Melissa Gilbert (part of a series finale in which the citizens of Walnut Grove blew up their town) tweeted:
I've seen the end of the end of the best show on television, in my lifetime. @BreakingBad_AMC Smart. Moving. Thought provoking. Perfect.
— Melissa Gilbert (@MelissaEGilbert) September 30, 2013
Tweeted @KevinAbstract about Walt and Skyler's final scene together:
that kitchen scene was beautiful. probably their FIRST honest conversation since the 1st season #GoodbyeBreakingBad
— Kevin Abstract (@KevinAbstract) September 30, 2013
Comedian Richard Lewis tweeted a personal connection to the finale:
Hip difference when I bottomed on "meth" almost 20 years ago and now sober tripping on the great "Breaking Bad" with no need for a 911 call.
— Richard Lewis (@TheRichardLewis) September 30, 2013
And the big guy upstairs — no, not AMC president Charlie Collier; we mean God, or the Twitter imposter version thereof — gave the finale two thumbs up:
I hope when I end the world it feels as satisfying as that. #GoodbyeBreakingBad
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) September 30, 2013
And now, for the dissenters. Yes, some people didn't love the "Breaking Bad" finale as much as the rest of us did. Like…
@ErikMAdams, who tweeted:
Left a touch cold by the #BreakingBad finale--but I'm a weirdo who thinks closure is overrated. Neat deus ex machina, tho.
— Erik Adams (@ErikMAdams) September 30, 2013
(NOTE: What, exactly, in the finale qualified as a deus ex machina?)
Tweeted @marathonpacks:
So Breaking Bad ends like a mega-cheesy action movie
— Eric Harvey (@marathonpacks) September 30, 2013
And wrote @TomCarsonWriter:
And so ends yet another perfectly good TV show that was overrated to the point of insanity. #BreakingBad
— Tom Carson (@TomCarsonWriter) September 30, 2013