Watched it. I liked it! A perfect and "realistic" coda to Breaking Bad. No way they could - or probably should - cram into a 2 hour movie all the excitement of Breaking Bad, so I appreciate the moderately slow pace of it, and the realism.
This movie is basically like Rogue One - how the rebels got the plans for the Death star? well, they must have robbed them somehow and fought for it.... was Jesse did after the end of Breaking Bad? he probably went looking for the vacuum cleaner guy and escape to Alaska. Did we really need to know in both cases? maybe not, but it was nice seeing it.
I loved the little touch of realism, like Jessie almost running into the cops, the car being monitored, Skinny Pete's clever thinking with the car switch.... and the scene with Robert Forster (Rip
) was great, of course Jesse didn't remember the exact name of the vacuum cleaner brand... neither did I! that entire scene was priceless, that dude was the king of all poker faces - I'm sure he recognized Jessie from the very second he entered the store, but he kept up the pretense.
It was cool to see Jesse get more of a happy ending, but you can't help but wonder where his life goes from there. Even after paying Ed, he should have had more than enough money (that he got from the welding guy) to be okay in that regard for a while, but he's in a new state with no friends, no job, no family, no skills (aside from being able to cook crystal meth), etc. I get it, he was getting a fresh start where the possibilities are endless, and that was the point, but my mind wanders...
He was probably set up for some kind of job. Some fake references, no way he gets a new house, a new car and then is just left in the middle of a new town, "go figure something out". After all he has a new social security number, he surely has a backstory created for how he ended up there. He'll find a job somehow, something in constructions maybe, he'll be a quiet guy who'll keep to himself. Eventually he will get close with some people, one night at a bar he will meet a girl, he's gonna start from there. The clean cold air of Alaska will slowly but steadily detox him, wether he'll be a loner or eventually will find some friends and love it's up to anybody's guess, but in time he will be serene and shake off all the psychological remains of his past life.
Now, as a side note - it was beyond weird to see fat Todd, the actor put on weight for Fargo but evidently didn't feel like coming back down so we'll have to close an eye and pretend Todd was fat the whole time