Creators:
Vince GilliganComposer:
Dave PorterCast:
Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, Giancarlo Esposito, Jesse Plemons (more)VOD (3)
Seasons(5) / Episodes(62)
Plots(1)
To "break bad," as says the old colloquialism from the American South, is to go so wrong it's almost impossible to do what's right. Walter White is breaking bad. Recently diagnosed with Type III lung cancer, raising a son with cerebral palsy, and in need of a way to support his family, Walter uses his skills to transform himself from nebbishy high-school chemistry teacher to neophyte crystal-meth cook in the blink of an eye. Things become problematic when, not long after Walter and his former student Jesse put together a lucrative cooking operation, the two of them of are assaulted by a pair of drug dealers who accuse Walter of being affiliated with the DEA. But that’s just the beginning of his problems: he soon has a dead body on his hands and has yet to even reveal his cancer to his loving wife. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews of this series by the user D.Moore (1)
Breaking Bad (2008)
Since the days of Rest in Peace, I haven't seen a new series that could entice me this much. In particular, the transformation of the main character (I'm not going to say protagonist) is something surreal, and the way in which the screenwriters cruelly mess with viewer’s sympathies and how they don't really give a damn, is admirable. Of all the episodes, not a single one seemed useless to me, there were no blank spots in any of them, although there was talk all the time, I enjoyed the precisely written dialogues as much as when the characters were just looking at each other and the tension thickened. It was an excellent fifty hours.
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