DVD review: Breaking Bad - the final season

Walter White in the final scene of Breaking Bad's final season.

Warning: This review contains spoilers. Do not read if you haven't seen the final season of Breaking Bad.

From the showdown between Walt and Hank in Hank's garage, to the knife fight between Walt and Skyler in Skyler's kitchen, and the machine gun genius of the finale, there are many killer scenes in this killer final season of Breaking Bad.

Fans were promised resolution for every character in the final eight episodes of Vince Gilligan's epic tale - and that's exactly what they got. But along the way it proved to be a murderous, manic and mesmerising ride as Walt continued his descent into the narcissistic drug kingdom he'd built around him.

It culminated in an episode called Ozymandias, which has been described as the most perfect hour of television you will see.

It's hard to disagree - it starts with the deaths of two main characters, then gets more crazed until the climax, which sees Walt kidnapping his daughter and delivering a brutally heartwrenching, nearly unlistenable, message to his wife.

Phew. While there was no way the two climactic episodes that followed it could match Ozymandias for intensity, they're still perfect episodes in what proved to be a perfect final season of television. And thank God there's resolution for Jesse, who spent most of this season in shackles, cooking meth on demand.

The only question that remains is whether Walter White could return in the Saul Goodman spin-off prequel. Make it happen Vince - surely there's more Breaking Bad goodness in the works.

Extras: The blu-ray release boasts nine hours of extras with cast and crew commentaries on every episode, behind the scenes featurettes, an alternate ending and pretty much everything a Breaking Badophile needs.

- nzherald.co.nz