Aug 022013
 

The latest trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad does a great job of foreshadowing what is likely to be a bleak ending. Bryan Cranston (Walter White) reads from Shelly’s “Ozymandias”, a poem about an empire in ruins. I’ve been watching the early episodes and had forgotten how quickly White descends from average guy to violent criminal. It’s not a story about a guy who goes astray in a misguided effort to provide for his family. It’s a story about a guy who finally embraces the darker self that he kept repressed so long.

Here’s the trailer:

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