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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Conclusion: Facing Completion in Season Five
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This book has aimed to make clear an appreciative understanding of the artistry that is manifest in Breaking Bad. I noted at the outset that the purpose of my attention and writing is guided by Christopher Ricks’s summary of William Empson’s aim as a critic. Here again are those steering words: ‘The idea was not so much to show someone that a poem is good, as to go some way towards showing how it comes to be good, so very good’.1 I can comfortably predict, on the basis of enough encounters with friends and colleagues and students whose views of Breaking Bad do not line up with mine, that not all readers will find full agreement with my appreciation for Vince Gilligan’s show. Despite this, my conviction remains that the aspects of Breaking Bad that are described in the pages of this book are materially verifiable.