Probably one of the best TV shows you are not watching, seriously. The story focuses on Walt, who is a high school chemistry teacher that just got diagnosed of having terminal lung cancer. With this in mind, Walt starts to think about his family's financial future when he's gone. With his current meager teacher salary, expensive chemotherapy sessions, and with a son and wife who is pregnant, desperate times call for desperate measures. Walt gets together with one of his former students, Jesse, who had previously failed Walt's class, is a druggie and a meth cook. But with Walt's knowledge of the chemistry world and Jesse's basic insight in the drug world, they join forces and start cooking up crystal meth to be sold for money.
And that's just the first-half of the pilot episode and then everything gets turned upside down. The interactions between Walt and Jesse are great in that there is an ongoing teacher-student, father-son, boss-worker, gallant-goofus relationships going on all at once. With their entrance into the drug making and dealing world, it becomes chaotic in that they are forced to make tough decisions and take action of things they couldn't ever imagine or wouldn't even want to do: murder, disposing dead bodies, working with notorious criminal dealers.
Just when things go their way, something comes up and alters everything, to which you would think that someone of Walt's nature would just give up altogether. But he doesn't and he keeps reminding himself he's doing it for his family's financial survival. Aside from keeping his sanity while cooking meth secretly, he has to deal with family life in explaining his sporadic absences from his family, excuses for his behavior, and a brother-in-law who works for the DEA.
Bryan Cranston does a fantastic job in playing as Walt with this tug-of-war struggle that is going on inside of him of trying to be the family man doing what's right in his mind and getting drawn into the gritty drug world and quite possibly becoming something he loathes.
The first season only lasted for seven episodes and now it is currently more than half-way done through the second season of thirteen episodes. Each and every episode is very gripping and enthralling to the point you feel like you're a druggie yourself and wanting more. It's also very dark, grim, and can be a bit grotesque at times, but does have some funny moments as well.
If you want to get hooked from the beginning, check out AMC's Breaking Bad website for Recap Minisodes for all of season one and two. Tell'em Critiqulous sent ya.
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Breaking Bad is a great show, Good Job for Spreading the word!
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