breaking bad

Need a new action packed, heart throbbing, drama to keep you entertained? Then Breaking Bad is a perfect choice for you. Breaking Bad is about a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White who finds out he has a form of lung cancer. As he goes through the stages of his cancer he is realizing that he has left no money or valuables for his family after he passes. After remembering one of his druggy students he goes over to his house and that’s when he meets his partner Jesse Pinkman. They start to make meth, Walter, being a prominent chemist creates a batch of the best meth around and sends the DEA and other drug dealers crazy.  (I don’t want to give anything else away so…) the rest of the plot is about all the ups and downs, close calls, and family dramas that come out of  his and Jesse’s drug deals.

 

Breaking Bad has been on air since Jan. 20, 2008. After the first four seasons of the show was put onto Netflix it really blew up. The rating for it skyrocketed and breaking bad began to win awards for its performance to entertain. Over the course the show has gathered more and more followers, and the show has become so popular that even the lesser known characters are becoming a big deal.

 

Breaking Bad became so popular because the dialogue is always tight. Nobody acts out of character. You never get a sense that an episode is there just to fix a past continuity error. There’s never a moment that seems like the writers had run out of interesting things to say. No filler, no wasted space, and no show that I’ve ever seen has mastered the art of the cliff-hanger like breaking bad has. Partly this is because not every episode ends at the edge of a cliff, some just end. The endings change from a major event to a family memory being relived.

 

Acting is another reason it’s so popular because Bryan Cranston plays Walter White with great detail. He’s a perfect match to switch from a twitchy awkward husband to a mobster drug dealer as easily as changing a shirt. Bryan has also has to over time change his character because Walter is continually changing how he acts and throughout the series. Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman is far more complicated than he lets on, he must play the part of acting like a druggy that is both sensitive and a gangster. Walt’s brother in law, Hank, Dean Norris plays a goofy, loud mouthed type of personality with hidden depth; His struggle with panic attacks after two violent encounters in his job as a DEA agent create a more vulnerable character.

 

Breaking Bad isn’t just about cooking meth. Science is used for all sorts of fun things. Like building homemade batteries or creating poison out of beans, or using mercury to make a meth look alike that’s actually a highly explosive material you can use to intimidate a psychotic drug dealer, so yeah its pretty badass.

 

Breaking Bad has redefined what is good on television. It has become the Meta for what we expect to be a good show, and every show from now on is now going to be put on the “breaking bad scale”. There’s a reason why Metacritic gave it a 99/100, the highest rating they have ever given a show. With its crisp and fresh dialogue, excellent character and actor portrayal, it almost feels like a documentary at times, not a fictional T.V show. So with the entire experience all together, you get one of the best shows on air.