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The experiment gets out of control in the second season of AMC’s Breaking Bad, the series critics are calling “bleak, heartbreaking, shocking and bitterly funny.”(Frazier Moore, AP) Bryan Cranston shatters suburban stereotypes in his performance as chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin Walt White. As danger and suspicion around him escalate, Walt continues to straddle two conflicting worlds: A ruthless swirl of drugs, murder and mayhem on one hand, and a complex and emotionally fraught domestic life on the other. In the no-holds-barred world of Walt White, the end justifies the extreme.

About the Show

Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live.

With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

TV information

Showing: 2008-
Channel/Network: AMC (Breakiing Bad)

Cast

Bryan Cranston Walter H. White
Anna Gunn Skyler White
Aaron Paul Jesse Pinkman
Dean Norris Hank
Betsy Brandt Marie
RJ Mitte Walter White Jr.
Steven Michael Quezada Gomez

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