Breaking Bad: Every Season Finale Ranked Worst To Best

5. Season Two: ABQ

Throughout Breaking Bad's sophomore season, there were clues sprinkled around teasing some horrid disaster at the White household. In the finale, ABQ, the mystery of what's happened is finally revealed, and the results help hammer home just how despicable and ruinous Walt has become.

Though it barely holds a candle to the previous episode, Phoenix, in which Walt let Jane die in a bid to keep Jesse in his corner, ABQ features some very compelling twists, chief amongst them the sudden reveal that Walt's actions have kicked off a chain reaction that leads to a mid-air plane crash that kills hundreds.

Other than that, though, there is a clear sense that this episode is all about tying things up. Fixer Mike Ehrmantraut is introduced, and cleans up Jane's death; Jesse gets sent to rehab; and Skyler's suspicions about her husband's extracurricular activities cause her to move out.

It's a finale of many small threads being tied up, setting up another season that promises Walt is only going to become more and more morally corrupt, though it's not quite able to surpass or even match the other finales around it.