No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad (2013) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It opens the door on the fifth and final run of AMC's Breaking Bad, tracing how the ending that closed the book on Walter White came together scene by scene.

The film lives on set: table reads, take after take in the New Mexico desert, the editing bay, and long arguments about how the story had to finish. The people who built it do the talking — Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, series creator Vince Gilligan, writers Peter Gould and Sam Catlin. Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Bob Odenkirk and most of the core cast turn up too. Two and a quarter hours on the cost of sticking the landing.

Directed by Stuart Richardson, it shipped with the show's collector's edition and remains the most thorough look at how the series was actually made. Save it for after you've finished all five seasons — it spoils plenty, but it shows just how deliberate every frame was. Stream No Half Measures (2013) online on iFILM.