![]() In that, he’s billed simply as “Arresting Officer,” so it seems our nameless law enforcement official got himself a promotion in the intervening years. Senior Officer (Simon Drobik)Ī sly callback from the greater Gilliganverse: One of the two police officers summoned by Ed to Best Quality Vacuum after Jesse comes up short on his initial escape-to-Alaska fund played the same role in a Season 3 episode of Better Call Saul. Much of El Camino is devoted to recounting the many horrors Jesse endured as a result of his time with Walt Kenny’s particular monstrosity is the clearest example. Notably, he forces Jesse to try to break his own newly welded chains for the sake of settling a $50 bet with Neil. Noted Breaking Bad menace Kenny reappears in flashbacks-Kenny, we know, was dispatched by Walt’s M60 in the show’s finale-that portray his gleeful torture of Jesse during his imprisonment. Jesse’s good-for-nothing little brother, Jake, doesn’t appear-he’s on a band trip to London, natch-but Jesse realizes that the passcode to the safe in his parents’ house is Jake’s birthday, because of course it is. Jesse’s Deadbeat-Ass Parents, Adam and Diane (Michael Bofshever and Tess Harper)Īdam and Diane Pinkman appear in characteristic fashion, describing their least-favorite son (and doesn’t he know it?) as “an average kid” on the local news. Los Pollos HermanosĪ Los Pollos Hermanos location turned up-since rebranded as Twisters, the real-life restaurant location’s actual identity. (OK, they’re not always subtle: Walt and Skyler’s young daughter, who did not appear in El Camino, was named Holly.) 13. Gilligan has long worked subtle references to her into his work. Wondering why the camera kept lingering on the street signs for the intersection of Holly Avenue and Arroz Road, by Todd’s apartment? Breaking Bad creator Gilligan, who wrote and directed El Camino, has been with Holly Rice ( arroz in Spanish) since 1991. Ramey, the DEA honcho (last seen in Season 5 of Breaking Bad chiding his officers for their pursuit of Mike Ehrmantraut, whoops!), and Ericsen, the no-nonsense assistant district attorney (a recurring figure on Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul), briefly appear early on at a press conference, at which Jesse is named as a person of interest following the chaos at the end of Breaking Bad’s final season. SAC Ramey and ADA Suzanne Ericsen (Todd Terry and Julie Pearl) (Not that I’m complaining-this means Jonathan Banks is up for an Oscar now, yes?)īelow, an extremely scientific ranking of those cameos based on their effectiveness according to a panel of loyal Breaking Bad viewers (that is, yours truly). Still, there were some surprises, some Easter eggs-and, OK, yes, some fan service, too. ![]() (See: The Jeffersons’ Marla Gibbs, who briefly troubled vacuum-salesman-slash-identity-procurer Ed with actual vacuum questions before Jesse could get to more pressing matters.) Which means the movie was in large part a walk down memory lane-a reasonable enough proposition given that the plot picks up a matter of moments after Breaking Bad’s 2013 finale left off. ![]() The credits list 30 cast members after Aaron Paul’s Pinkman of those, exactly half were newcomers to the Vince Gilliganverse, and, with the exception of villainous welders Neil and Casey (Scott MacArthur and Scott Shepherd), most of the newbies had fleeting screen time. So as Netflix’s El Camino promised to finally reveal in movie format what became of Jesse, we had a more pressing question: What the hell happened to everyone else?Įl Camino delivered. The last time we saw pretty much every other survivor of Breaking Bad’s five brutal seasons, things were similarly not going well. There’s obviously an innocence with Todd, but once I spent some time with the script and watched some of those scenes from the last few seasons to just remember who Todd was and talked to Vince, I was surprised at how easy it was to slip back into.The last time we saw Jesse Pinkman, he was driving away from the wreckage of Walter White’s meth empire, scarred and sobbing. He acknowledges this in the interview, and was remarkably candid about the fact his aging made certain elements of playing Todd in El Camino challenging: "You can say it: I look different. Plemons was also fully aware of how much his appearance had changed since filming Breaking Bad. "The relationship with Jesse was one where there were a lot of great scenes from the show, but it was a different side of Todd," Plemons explained, "and I think it was one of his happier days, just getting to spend the day with his good pal Jesse - never mind the unfortunate task they had to do." When it comes to the specifics of why Todd's character, as well as appearance, are so different in El Camino, Plemons' rationale is that the movie showed a better side to Todd, one Breaking Bad audiences possibly never thought existed.
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