El Camino: Where did all the brown people go?

Kurly Tlapoyawa
2 min readOct 20, 2019
Jesse Pinkman wonders where Albuquerque’s brown people went…

The eagerly awaited Breaking Bad film “El Camino” debuted recently on Netflix. And while public reception has been mixed, I thought it was a satisfying and well executed farewell to the character Jesse Pinkman. But while sitting on the couch watching the end credits roll, I couldn’t help but ask myself “where did all the brown people go?”

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Kurly Tlapoyawa

(Chicano/Nawa/Mazewalli) Archaeologist, filmmaker, and founder of the Chimalli institute of Mesoamerican Arts. Professor of C/S at Colegio Chicano del Pueblo.