*****SPOILER*****Not a bad finish to the whole saga.


Walt gets to look after his family
Hank and Gomez get found
No more Blue meth on the streets of the US of A
Would have liked Jessie to have had some ££€€$$ after everything that went on. Great tv.

But any money that he left with would have been tainted. At least now he might be able to move on.

It was a good ending. A little too perfect though. Getting rid of Lydia and the gang so easily, only for Todd to be left alive so Jesse could kill him? Whatever!

Still think it was completely unrealistic that Jack would have left Walt alive after he killed Hank. I also think Hank was a dick for telling Jack to eff himself when Walt offered all his money for his life. I think Hank should have agreed to keep quiet to save his life, then Jack should have shot him anyway, saying he couldn't trust a "cop".

Hank could have lived and backed down from going after the gang. They just needed to threaten to kill Marie if he didn't just step down from the DEA.

Cracking ending to what I think is probably, on balance, the best TV series I've ever watched; if you haven't, do so at once.

It's good. But I'm a G of T man

Well, finally finished it last night
Excellent series, and often I couldn't call what would happen next.

Up there with The Sopranos (which had a silly ending IMO)

Right...I'm back to watching Box Set of 'Big Bang Theory'. Only recently discovered this, and is sooooooooooo funny. Complete contrast to Breaking Bad!

Just finished watching a marathon of The Wire. BB gets 9.5 on imdb, TW gets 9.4.

While I enjoyed The Wire, Breaking Bad destroys The Wire in the same way as Walter White destroyed Gus Fring.

The big difference for me is that Breaking Bad never had a poor season, whereas The Wire storyline that focussed on the media and McNulty's faux serial killer was just daft. They're both brilliant, but Breaking Bad is brillianter.

just got into this - do not know how I missed it 4 years ago - Great

Agree with the guy above who mentioned the McNulty storyline in Season 5 of The Wire, didn't ruin my enjoyment of the series but they could have gone in so many other different and more interesting directions with the characters they had developed over time. Very disappointed with the ending.

As for BB, haven't seen it all yet and I stupidly half-caught a mini-spoiler reading this page so I won't be on again until I've watched it all!

I loved Breaking Bad but can't believe people are putting it ahead of the Wire. IMO the best tv series ever

I enjoyed The Wire, but I just didn't think it was anything better than a decent cop show.

I think Walter White was about 50 times more interesting as a character than Jimmy McNulty. I think Stringer Bell and Omar Little were the most interesting characters in The Wire and the show would have been better if they played even bigger roles.

It's a small thing, but I always hated the opening music for The Wire. In none of the 5 series did the song ever do anything than bug the hell out of me. In BB they just had the ultra short theme tune and got on with the telling of the story.

For me The Wire just came across as a TV version of films like Training Day and LUV. And I much preferred Training Day and Luv to The Wire. I think BB is a great film expanded over 5 seasons of TV time.

For people who are into this kind of telly, I'm reading an interesting book at the mo called 'Difficult Men' - it's about the writers and show-runners of series like The Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad and Mad Men - fascinating peek behind the scenes, with some interesting insights into how the medium has evolved over time. Recommended.

Looks interesting. I'll give it a read after I watch The Shield, if I get round to it.

I don't think there's much between them and I certainly rate The Wire as more than just a decent cop show; for me though, Breaking Bad was better written, more compelling and had a better story arc. Acting wise, I don't think there's much to choose - Walter White was a brilliantly realised character, but there were some fantastic performances in The Wire - like you, I think Omar was one of the best, and the same actor is now carving it up as Chalky White in Boardwalk Empire. There aren't many shows that could make an anti-hero out of a gay stick-up man, and I think Michael K Williams performance had a lot to do with that.

Either way up, thank goodness for HBO - if it wasn't for stuff like this, I'd never watch any telly at all.

Finished Breaking Bad on Friday night, a fitting end to a superb series. Loved it from start to finish.

The Wire had been my favourite programme, but BB probably shades it as it was consistantly brilliant. The quality of The Wire fell away a little in season five, although I would rate season four as the best TV season ever.