Breaking Bad
A high-school chemistry teacher, facing a terminal diagnosis, partners with a former student to manufacture methamphetamine. The series tracks his descent into the criminal underworld, driven by a desperate need to provide for his family.
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About the series
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What it’s about
Walter White, a high-school chemistry teacher in New Mexico, learns he has Stage III lung cancer with two years to live. Facing financial strain and wanting to secure his family's future, he decides to cook methamphetamine. He recruits Jesse Pinkman, a former student and small-time meth cook, to help him.
What hooks you
Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, with Anna Gunn as Skyler White and Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman. The series won multiple Emmy and Golden Globe awards, including Best Drama Series and Best Actor for Cranston. Stephen King praised it as the best script on television. The first season was shortened from nine to seven episodes due to a writers' strike.
Who it’s for
It suits viewers who appreciate slow-burning character studies, moral ambiguity, and tension that builds over time. Those drawn to crime stories with a domestic focus and a darkly comic edge will find much to engage with.
Ratings
MOVIE․ONE · 1,098 votesCreative team
All 10
Trivia
All facts 10
- At the beginning of episode 6 of the second season, Jesse smokes meth and goes to a confrontation, after which a close-up shows his eyes as he looks in the window. His eyes are shown as normal with normal pupils, like those of a healthy person, although the most noticeable effect of methamphetamine on the body is dilated pupils that do not react to light.
- The main character of the series, Walter White, is known in the criminal world under the alias Heisenberg, a reference to the name of the 1932 Nobel Prize laureate in physics, Werner Karl Heisenberg.
- The opening credits show: the formula of methamphetamine (C10 H15 N); its molecular mass 149.24; and some chemical elements are displayed in the capital letters of the names and in the series' title sequence itself.
- RJ Mitte, the actor who plays Walter Jr., like his character, lives with cerebral palsy.
- The first season was supposed to consist of nine episodes, but due to the writers' strike only seven were filmed.
- The writer Stephen King spoke highly of the series, saying that it was the best script on TV.
Awards and nominations
26 wins · 37 nominations
- 2 wins Golden Globe Awards
- 3 wins Screen Actors Guild Awards
- 10 wins Emmy Awards
- 11 wins Saturn Awards
- Best Drama Series Golden Globe Awards · 2014
- Best Male Performance on TV (Drama) Bryan Cranston Golden Globe Awards · 2014
- Best Actor in a Drama Series Bryan Cranston Screen Actors Guild Awards · 2014
- Best Drama Series Ensemble Dean Norris, Anna Gunn +4 Screen Actors Guild Awards · 2014
- Best Actor in a Drama Series Bryan Cranston Screen Actors Guild Awards · 2013
- Best Drama Series Michelle MacLaren, Melissa Bernstein Emmy Awards · 2014
Also nominated Georges Awards1
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