Breaking Bad

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Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle) stars in this drama focused on a mid-life crisis gone bad for an underachieving high school chemistry teacher who becomes a drug dealer after he discovers that he has lung cancer. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to gain financial security for his family, Walter White joins forces with an old student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), in a quest that follows their entry into a dangerous world of drugs and crime. Breaking Bad is produced by High Bridge Productions, Inc. and Gran Via Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television for AMC Television. Filming takes place in New Mexico.

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Breaking Bad has won 7 major category Primetime Emmys. Most notably, Bryan Cranston has won for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama three times in a row from 2008 to 2010. Aaron Paul won for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama in 2010. The show has 22 critical wins and 55 nominations in total.

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  • Legendary

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    By It_Stinks, Jan 05, 2012 Report Abuse
    This is probably one of the best shows to ever air. It has some of the best plot lines and gritty scenes ever done. I could go on forever about this show. Watch this show from the very beginning if you haven't seen it. Avoid spoilers at all costs. I'm curious to see how everything pans out in the end and confident I won't be disappointed.

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  • Breaking Bad!!

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    By Grimmjackspeare, Dec 27, 2011 Report Abuse
    wow this show, has just caught me by surprise, the way its gelled together, the writing the characters, its too awesome, have to say it is one of the best right now, watch alot of shows it definitely is my 2nd best only after game of thrones, but could easily surpass game of thrones as well. it has it all, suspense, drama, action, its thrilling and funny too.. well put i might add..moreless

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  • AMC has started hyperventilating HBO and Showtime in the neck with it's quality-filled series. In addition to the super-success of "Mad Men" and the exciting zombie series "The walking dead" I present to you, the golden treasure that is "Breaking Bad"moreless

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    By Fakistoteles, Nov 25, 2011 Report Abuse
    Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a chemistry teacher, one of those teachers who are driven and inspiring - if you are patient enough to listen to him. Students are not overly responsive, and much may have to do with Walters guaranteed harmless appearance.
    He is a very gray and brown figure, dressed in muted earth tones and short, a pretty boring and proper type.Just turned 50 years he gets a fateful statement: he is suffering from long screed andunoperable lung cancer. Walter's days are numbered.
    With a pregnant wife (Anna Gunn) and a disabled teenager son(RJ Mitte), it is not the time to tell this story yet and Walters only worry is how he will ensure that the family's future is secured when he had gone to the happy hunting grounds. The solution however, comes to him: He'll engage criminal activity.
    His brother in law (Dean Norris) is a drug police and talks loudly about all the raids he does while in a more serious tone talking about the problem of methamphetamine. Walter must go on a raid and see how a former student flees the place. Walter seeks out Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and offers to cook meth for him. Quickly, the chemistry teacher becomes producer of the area's purest methamphetamine.
    Actually, the arrangement is deeply tragic. I can not offhand think of any other ongoing TV series in which the protagonist suffers from cancer and does everything for his family, without revealing the secret of course. It is original and strong and provides a serious basis for a series that is otherwise entertaining and at times hysterically funny.
    Walter and Jesse are a strange radarpar that over time begin to respect each other for their knowledge. But the road is lined by quite a few obstacles and hilarious situations. Especially the first few sections of the sevenepisodes short season is extra fun with the absurd situations, the pair end up in.
    A bit into the series, Walters cancer gets official and they start to treat it sensitively, both within families and within the series itself. Walter get dealt with, gets worse and narrower and finally shaves off his hair, to the wife Skylers terror and son Walter Jr. 's delight. "Bad ass, dad!" he comments.
    And Walter is a "bad ass", not only for his cooking dope in a mobile home, but also to the knowledge of hisfragile life causes him to break out the brown template and not being afraid to challenge and mess with dangerous types. It is a very cool development that is managed superbly by Bryan Cranston. I can not remember having seen him before in something else, but now that I have, I will never forget him, for he is a true character actor.
    He won an Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series". Not at all undeserved. Even Aaron Paul as Jesse makes a great effort. When the character is introduced, he is a pretty simplisticdope-head but also his character grows up. He's a junkie, but there is also a functioning brain in him.
    "Breaking Bad" settled perfectly within my collection and has immediately become a bit of a favorite show with its high-class acting and script and an original topic as a starting point. Time of writing, the fourth season is underway, and I cannot wait for more.
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  • The most brilliant show on television. If you even remotely liked Sopranos you will fall in LOVE with Breaking Bad.

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    By bienbass, Nov 22, 2011 Report Abuse
    Superb acting. Brilliant writing. Fantastically filmed. Thought-provoking. Scored excellently. You just can't touch this show.
    The first episode takes off so quickly you just don't know what to expect. From there the first season is highly entertaining and draws you into the action.
    The second season for me is the highlight of the first three... where you literally will find yourself watchign episode after episode -- heartbreaking character arcs as each is developed more than you could ever expect in a TV drama.
    Third season flips everything on you. As your least liked characters become your new favourites and old threads are woven back in to make your jaw hit the floor again.
    Can't wait to watch Season 4 before season 5 starts.
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  • One of the reasons Breaking Bad is considered one of the best dramas on TV right now (and I have a feeling that it will be soon ranked among the all-time greats), is that the writers do a phenomenal job introducing complex themes, plot lines and ideas, and they somehow manage to weave them all together for an extremely satisfying conclusion. It's not an easy thing to do, especially when the show asks the audience to hold on until the end to see where it's all going.moreless

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    By Devilman1210, Oct 30, 2011 Report Abuse
    In a lot of ways, I see a lot of similarities between Breaking Bad and The Wire, the latter being a show that didn't hammer its audience over the head constantly with flashy moments, but instead expected the audience to be patient and see what all the plot threads and groundwork were building up to. And damn if The Wire wasn't perfection. Where Breaking Bad differs is that it's much more macroscopic in scope and focuses on a narrower set of characters and the world as perceived by them. The advantage to this kind of storytelling (if done right), is the stakes and emotional ties we have with the story and characters can be much higher. If the season premiere told us anything, it was that we were in for a lengthy chess match that would keep us on the edge of our seats until the final move was made. This couldn't be truer for the finale Face Off." Walt, having no more options after his attempt to blow up Gus in the parking lot failed, asks Jesse if there are any other places that he goes that are not heavily watched by his surveillance. But before he is even able to think about it, Jesse is escorted to the police station, where they ask him why he would tell Andrea that her son was poisoned by "Ricin." It's a very rare poison, so it makes sense that they are suspicious. Of course Jesse just gives them the run around. His response about seeing it on House was hilarious if not spot-on (on House, it's always the rarest thing). After Saul finally comes in and whisks the detectives out of the room, it's revealed that he's actually there on behalf of Walt and asks Jesse if he's thought up an answer. Saul then meets with Walt and tells him that Jesse told him Gus goes to a care center for old people to visit Hector Salamanca. Jesse and Walt know Hector from season two, when Tuco had tried smuggling them over to the cartel. The key information here though, is that Gus and Hector are enemies, as Jesse witnessed Gus torturing the guy.

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