Breaking Bad: Season 1
Emmy Award winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and physically challenged son (RJ Mitte). Everything changes when Walter receives a startling diagnosis: terminal lung cancer. With only a few years to live and nothing to lose, Walter uses his training as a chemist to cook and sell crystal meth with one of his former students (Aaron Paul). As his status grows, so do his lies, but Walt will stop at nothing to make sure his family is taken care of after he's gone, even if it means putting all their lives on the line.
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Enjoyable once rolling - TWSS
This series definitely takes a few episodes to gather some momentum and get going. Similar to the series "Weeds" in that you have an otherwise law abiding citizen trying to provide for their family through illegal means. As the characters progress they get more and more comfortable pushing the legal boundaries.Breaking all boarders - movie_goer
Brilliant, AMC has struck GOLD!!!!
Breaking BAD reserects Bryan Cranstan's damaged career that face plummited thanks to Frankie Muniz's squeaky voice and bad writers of Malcolm in the Middle.
Thankfully in Hollyweird theres plenty of edge for 2nd comings and multiple comebacks. Breaking Bad was Cranstans over due and most welcoming break into 'serious' acting. Who knew that the fumbling, idiotic father could be AMC's ticket to great rating and ultimately earn him emmy nods?!It's a masterful program!!! - HotTubber
When mild-mannered chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) finds out that he has cancer, he slowly starts to turn off the straight and narrow. Not wanting to leave his pregant wife (Anna Gunn) and handicapped son (RJ Mitte) without any money, Walter uses his chemistry genius to begin cooking crystal meth with an old high school drop-out (Aaron Paul).
Enveloping this all together is a phenomenal turn from the moustachioed lead, Cranston. Though known for his comedic role as childlike-adult Hal in Malcolm In The Middle, he proves a natural at serious dramatic material, evolving subtlety and believability over the series from hen-pecked family man to scary drug-dealer with nothing to lose.
Elsewhere the support is rich (In particular Dean Norris is a scene-stealer as macho DEA officer/brother-in-law Hank and Paul does a lot with a potentially clichéd role), but it's to Cranston's credit that no matter the circumstances, we're always symapthetic towards him. And yes, that includes when he's standing schlubily in his pants waiting to gun down cops.
I suppose there are some that would argue that the act of watching a television show shouldn't be a stressful one--that it should be an escape to entertainment, the release of a pressure valve rather than the compacting of one. Breaking Bad, on the other hand, functions in such a constant state of dread, permeated by a sense of bad things right on the verge of occurring. It operates at a fever pitch; it keeps ramping up, higher and higher, increasing the intensity to such a degree that you're not sure how they can possibly sustain it. But they do, and then they top it. It's a masterful program.
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Enjoyable once rolling - TWSS
This series definitely takes a few episodes to gather some momentum and get going. Similar to the series "Weeds" in that you have an otherwise law abiding citizen trying to provide for their family through illegal means. As the characters progress they get ...Breaking all boarders - movie_goer
Brilliant, AMC has struck GOLD!!!!
Breaking BAD reserects Bryan Cranstan's damaged career that face plummited thanks to Frankie Muniz's squeaky voice and bad writers of Malcolm in the Middle.
Thankfully in Hollyweird theres plenty of edge for ...It's a masterful program!!! - HotTubber
When mild-mannered chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) finds out that he has cancer, he slowly starts to turn off the straight and narrow. Not wanting to leave his pregant wife (Anna Gunn) and handicapped son (RJ Mitte) without any money, Walter ...