{"id":22633,"date":"2013-09-30T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=22633"},"modified":"2013-09-30T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T00:13:07","slug":"breaking-bad-what-a-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/breaking-bad-what-a-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Bad: What a Finale!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who watched the <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> finale? (If you haven&#8217;t seen it because you&#8217;re in another time zone or still catching up on earlier episodes, stop whining about spoilers and get off the Internet for fuck&#8217;s sake!) I loved it! It didn&#8217;t make me teary like the last episode of <em>MASH<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22634\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kenlevine.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/the-30th-anniversary-of-last-mash.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22634\" alt=\"Mash-Goodbye_l\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mash-Goodbye_l.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mash-Goodbye_l.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Mash-Goodbye_l-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MASH ended 30 years ago this year. Click for more info.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; or <em>Cheers<\/em>, and it didn&#8217;t stun me like <em>The Sopranos<\/em>, but everyone got his or her perfect ending. (Including Lydia. Anyone who is that tightly wound about her Stevia deserves to be poisoned.) We even got to have a farewell moment with Skinny Pete and Badger, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosencrantz_and_Guildenstern\" target=\"_blank\">Rosencrantz and Guildenstern <\/a>of the series. Okay, maybe not all of it was totally believable (the machine gun?) but it was totally satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having a lot of emotions about the end of the show and want to wear them on your earlobes, don&#8217;t forget to get my Heisenberg hat earrings. I have just a few left. Click the photo to purchase.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22635\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Heisenberg-Hat-Single-Stud-Earring\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22635\" alt=\"hat_single_s_80__57496_std\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hat_single_s_80__57496_std2.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hat_single_s_80__57496_std2.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hat_single_s_80__57496_std2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hat_single_s_80__57496_std2-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sterling silver. $35 for one, $70 for two. Click!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the photo of Bryan Cranston as Walter White that the earring is based on. I liked the hat&#8217;s angle in this shot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22636\" style=\"width: 406px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amctv.com\/shows\/breaking-bad\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22636\" class=\" wp-image-22636\" alt=\"heisenberg_660\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heisenberg_6602.jpg\" width=\"396\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heisenberg_6602.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/heisenberg_6602-250x300.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-22636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy AMC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gorgeous Anne T. Donahue wrote about the hat earring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.29secrets.com\/daily-whisper\/celebrate-end-breaking-bad-heisenberg-earrings\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. I hope she adds it to her collection of <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> wall art and bobbleheads!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And just for kicks, here&#8217;s a funny story: remember how there were two DVDs of the movie <em>Mr. Magorium&#8217;s Wonder Emporium<\/em> in Walt&#8217;s New Hampshire hideout?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geeksofdoom.com\/2013\/09\/26\/mr-magorium-director-not-suprised-by-walter-whites-shock-in-breaking-bad-penultimate-episode?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geeksofdoom+%28GEEKS+OF+DOOM%29\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Mr. Magorium<\/em>&#8216;s director thinks that&#8217;s positively hellish<\/a>. I also highly recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BB__Comics\" target=\"_blank\">the Breaking Bad comics feed on Twitter<\/a> for meth-related LOLs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">UPDATED TO ADD: Uptown Magazine also included my Heisenberg earrings in its list of <a href=\"http:\/\/uptownmagazine.com\/2013\/09\/7-breaking-bad-finale-inspired-accessories\/\" target=\"_blank\">seven <em>Breaking Bad<\/em>-inspired accessories<\/a>. The &#8220;Fat Stacks&#8221; wallet is cracking me up!<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who watched the Breaking Bad finale? (If you haven&#8217;t seen it because you&#8217;re in another time zone or still catching up on earlier episodes, stop whining about spoilers and get off the Internet for fuck&#8217;s sake!) I loved it! It didn&#8217;t make me teary like the last episode of MASH &#8230; &#8230; or Cheers, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/breaking-bad-what-a-finale\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earrings","8":"category-tv","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22641,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22633\/revisions\/22641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}