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.^ I'm sure I read somewhere that they are looking to create new material to carry on the series after Breaking Dawn.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The series is produced by
Sony Pictures Television and broadcast in the
United States and
Canada on the
cable network AMC. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and completed its first seven-episode season on March 9, 2008. The show's 13-episode second season ran from March 8 to May 31, 2009. A third season was announced in April 2009,
[1] to premiere March 21, 2010.
[2]
.^ If that is true then Breaking Dawn will simply serve to quickly end whatever nonsense happens in the book and then set up the new franchise.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Gotta love a series that supports obsessive high school relationships and lying to your family to be with a vampire, all the while leading your best friend on.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
When White is diagnosed with terminal
lung cancer, he breaks down and turns to a life of crime, producing and selling
methamphetamine with his former student Jesse Pinkman (
Aaron Paul) in a desire to secure his family's financial future.
[3]
Breaking Bad has received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for its writing and Cranston's lead performance, and has won four
Emmy Awards in addition to numerous other awards and nominations.
Production
The
AMC network, on which the series premiered January 20, 2008, originally ordered nine episodes for the first season (including the
pilot), but the
Writers Guild of America strike limited the production to seven episodes.
[5]Lead actor Bryan Cranston stated in an interview that:
.^ Anyway, I would really LOVE to see what they make of Breaking Dawn (if they make it), I mean a self-conscious, mind-reading, impossibly-beautiful, mature baby who had been imprinted by a wolf-shapeshifter?- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
And that could be for that day or for a lifetime.
[6]
Synopsis
Season one
Walter White, a chemistry teacher with a pregnant wife, Skyler, and a son with cerebral palsy, is diagnosed with stage-three terminal lung cancer.
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Determined to develop a sufficient inheritance for his family before his death, Walter enters the
drug trade using his chemistry knowledge to cook remarkably potent methamphetamine (crystal meth) with Jesse Pinkman, a former student who has previously cooked and dealt crystal meth. Operating out of a
recreational vehicle in the desert, the two defend themselves from two local drug dealers, formerly Jesse's distributors, who accuse Walter of being a
DEA agent. At gunpoint, Walter bargains his and Jesse's life for the recipe to his crystal meth and poisons them with
phosphine gas[7] during the production process, leaving the two dealers to suffocate in the RV, before driving away with an injured Jesse in tow.
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After a coin flip, Jesse is tasked with disposing of the dead dealer's body, while Walter must deal with killing the other, a prospect that sickens him. Jesse dissolves the dead body in a bathtub of
hydrofluoric acid, but the acid eats through the tub and the floor beneath it, dumping the remaining semi-dissolved body into the hall below. Meanwhile, Walter has begun providing food and a latrine to his prisoner, Krazy-8, whom he also confides in, giving him time in attempting to find an excuse to leave him alive. Due to his illness, Walter passes out briefly while delivering food in one such instance, breaking a plate. Awakening later, Walter picks up the broken plate and, after a "heart-to-heart" with Krazy-8, goes to retrieve the key to set him free. However, while upstairs, Walt has discovered that there is a large sharp piece of the plate missing.
.^ I really wish Bella would have killed him.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Following the disposal of the body, Walter severs ties with Jesse and the drug trade.
Meanwhile, Walter's brother-in-law Hank, who actually
is a DEA agent deduces that there is a new drug producer in the region, following a trail of evidence left at Walter's cook site. It is also revealed that Walter's sister-in-law, Marie, is an
occasional shoplifter. Later, Walter reveals to his family, Marie, and Hank, that he has cancer. They implore him to visit specialist doctors and undergo
chemotherapy. While Walter is adamant at first to decide his own fate, to die honorably instead of suffering the indignities of chemotherapy
side-effects, Walter finally agrees to treatment. To divert suspicion about his money from meth sales, he pretends to accept financial assistance from Gretchen to explain how he paid for the chemotherapy. Gretchen was his former colleague and business partner in graduate school together. They founded a company called Gray Matter, now an extremely lucrative business.
.^ Gotta love a series that supports obsessive high school relationships and lying to your family to be with a vampire, all the while leading your best friend on.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The thing with Jacob and Renesmee is nothing like your making out its not perverted its a friendship and caring.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
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Walter later decides to pay for his chemo by rebuilding his meth business with Jesse, enabling him to retain his pride. Jesse, unable to replicate Walter's recipe, accepts Walter's partnership and agrees to their clearly defined roles: Jesse as the salesman and Walter as the chemist. Jesse develops a newfound respect for Walter due to the lung cancer and understands his goals of helping his family after his death.
Dissatisfied with the insufficient profit that Jesse is bringing in solely through lowly street deals, Walter sends Jesse to negotiate with Tuco, who has taken over local drug distribution—and is also, unbeknownst to Walt, a violent psychopath. During their first meeting, Tuco refuses to pay up front for the product and savagely beats Jesse when he attempts to end the deal. With Jesse in the
hospital, Walt, under the pseudonym of "
Heisenberg," confronts Tuco with a demand for an up-front payment. As Tuco prepares to assault him, Walt detonates a small amount of
mercury(II) fulminate, creating an explosion that blows out the top floor of the hideout and intimidates Tuco into surrendering payment with a promise for future business. Jesse recovers from his wounds and the two resume cooking meth, this time circumventing the restrictions on
over-the-counter pseudoephedrine products by stealing a large drum of
methylamine from a chemical warehouse and using an alternate method of synthesis. Now able to produce four times as much crystal meth as before, the two begin steady business with an increasingly psychopathic Tuco.
Season two
After killing one of his deputies, Tuco kidnaps Walter and Jesse, planning to take them to a superlab in
Mexico after the DEA raids his operation in Albuquerque. The two manage to incapacitate Tuco and escape. Hank, in his search for the missing Walt, comes across a wounded Tuco. A shootout occurs resulting in Hank killing Tuco. Walter engineers a return home claiming to have been in a
fugue state, but this excuse has numerous holes and creates an uneasy distrust in his relationship with Skyler. The DEA
seizes Jesse's "drug" money, putting a strain on his partnership with Walter after he demands half of Walter's meth profit to save him from homelessness.
Jesse rents a new place and becomes romantically involved with his landlord, Jane, a recovering drug addict. With Tuco dead, Walter and Jesse decide to move their business into new territory, but more problems arise as their enterprise expands. One of their dealers, Skinny Pete, is mugged, so Jesse is forced to confront the perpetrators. One of the addicts is killed by his girlfriend, but Jesse receives the credit, earning him fear and respect and further solidifying "Heisenberg" in the area. Another dealer, Badger, is arrested by the
Albuquerque police, forcing Walter to deal with Saul Goodman (played by
Bob Odenkirk), a crooked lawyer who offers a solution to keep Badger from
snitching while also keeping him alive. Walter and Jesse attempt to intimidate Saul, but Saul makes a deal with Walter for a cut of the meth profit in return for being Walter and Jesse's legal counsel and advisor in their drug operation, further eroding their income.
Considered a hero for killing Tuco, Hank is promoted and sent to
El Paso. In private, he suffers panic attacks due to the unexpected shootout with Tuco. El Paso unsettles Hank after he witnessed the severed head of a cartel snitch attached to the back of a tortoise. An
IED also killed 1 and severely injured 3 fellow
DEA officers. He is immediately sent back to Albuquerque by his superiors. Gretchen, Walter's former lover and executive at Gray Matter, discovers Walter has been lying to his family the money for his cancer treatment. She is horrified when an angry and bitter Walt blames her and her husband, Elliott, for profiting off his research, although she doesn't disclose Walter's secret for his family's sake. Skyler goes back to work for Ted Beneke, her former boss who apparently groped her at a holiday party when drunk, and caused her to quit her
bookkeeper job. She increasingly relies on Ted for emotional support due to Walter's constant absence and strange behavior.
Walter believes his cancer has gotten worse after viewing the latest PET/CT scan of his lungs. With only $16,000 remaining of the meth money after the numerous setbacks, he and Jesse spend several days in the desert cooking 38 pounds of meth to sell off before Walter dies. At the doctor's office, Walter discovers his cancer has not spread and his tumor actually shrunk by 80% and what he thought was growth was actually inflammation. Walt plans to end the meth operation once the 38 pounds are sold off, but finds himself bored with the return to his mundane life, finding pleasure only when he is distracted or dealing with dangerous situations.
When one of Walter and Jesse's dealers, Combo, is killed by rival dealers, Jesse is sent spiraling into a drug addiction that also drags Jane out of her sobriety. With their remaining dealers backing out, Saul uses his connections to introduce Walter and Jesse to Gus, a discreet, cautious, yet successful drug distributor. Despite never having met or seen Gus, Saul is able to arrange a meeting at a local fast food restaurant. Unbeknownst to Walter, Jesse, or Saul, Gus owns and manages a number of fast food restaurants and has purposely scheduled the meeting at one of his own restaurants in order to observe Walter and Jesse. Jesse arrives for the meeting late and high on drugs and leaves the restaurant after briefly arguing with Walter. Having seen this, Gus deems them unreliable and chooses not to approach Walter, who initially assumes that Gus has stood them up. Walter eventually deduces that the owner of the restaurant was in fact the man they were to meet, and later approaches him for a second chance. Gus reluctantly offers to buy Walter's product for 1.2 million
dollars and offers him only a short time frame to deliver it. Walter attempts to contact Jesse to complete the exchange, but he and Jane are incapacitated after an injection of heroin.
.^ And it just goes to show you that if you have enough money and resources to pimp something out, people (teenage girls without boyfriends and lonely housewives) will buy it.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
He manages to complete the transaction at the cost of missing the birth of his daughter.
Walter loses trust in Jesse and promises to give him his share of the payout only if he agrees to get sober. Upon learning of the money and Jesse's relationship with Walter, Jane concocts a plan to
blackmail Walter and convinces a reluctant Jesse to go along. Jane calls Walter and threatens to turn him in to the authorities if he doesn't give Jesse his share of the money. Walter reluctantly complies and the two agree to go their separate ways, but Walter feels obligated to help Jesse. Coincidentally, he meets Jane's father Donald in a local bar. Unaware of their mutual acquaintances, the two men share perspectives on the challenges of raising children, a subject Walter raises by describing his troubled "nephew". He returns to Jesse, only to discover that he and Jane have taken heroin again. While attempting to wake up Jesse, he intentionally allows Jane to
asphyxiate on her own vomit.
[8] Jesse believes he is responsible for Jane's death and goes into a depression. Walter attempts to help Jesse by taking him to a drug rehabilitation clinic. Meanwhile, Gus discovers that Hank is Walter's brother-in-law and that Walter has cancer.
As Walter undergoes anesthesia for his lung cancer surgery, he accidentally confirms to Skyler the existence of his secret second cell phone. This prompts her to leave him several weeks later, after she systematically investigates and uncovers his lies. Walter offers to explain everything to Skyler, but she responds that she is too afraid to know the truth. After Skyler leaves, Walter sees an explosion in the skies above his home. A grieving Donald, an
air traffic controller, has directed two airplanes into each other in the sky above Albuquerque. In an image foreshadowed in the season's first shot, a charred pink teddy bear lands in the Whites' pool and floats there until it is collected as evidence by
NTSB agents.
Characters
Episodes
| Season |
Episodes |
Original Airing |
DVD release date |
Blu-ray release date |
| Season premiere |
Season finale |
TV season |
Region 1 |
Region 2 |
Region 4 (AU) |
Region A |
Region B |
Region C |
| 1st |
7 |
January 20, 2008 (2008-01-20) |
March 9, 2008 (2008-03-09) |
2008 |
February 24, 2009 (2009-02-24) |
December 14, 2009 (2009-12-14)[9] |
May 20, 2009 (2009-05-20) |
March 16, 2010 (2010-03-16)[10] |
N/A |
N/A |
| 2nd |
13 |
March 8, 2009 (2009-03-08) |
May 31, 2009 (2009-05-31) |
2009 |
March 16, 2010 (2010-03-16)[11] |
N/A |
February 24, 2010 (2010-02-24)[12] |
March 16, 2010 (2010-03-16)[13] |
N/A |
N/A |
| 3rd |
13 |
March 21, 2010 (2010-03-21) |
|
2010 |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Season one
Minisodes
.^ There are always going to be two sides to everything, but as long as those two sides are kept in their place and as long as Team Hate discusses what they hate with the members of Team Hate and as long as Team Love obsesses with the members of Team Love, there is no need for name calling and judgment on one side verses the other.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
These episodes were made available on the Minisode's home
Crackle and
AMC's site.
[14] On March 6, Minisodes of each of the first seven episodes of the show were released on
Crackle to help viewers refresh their memory of the first season before the season two premiere.
On March 5, a collection of five webisodes was released for free in HD 720p for download on the
PlayStation Store via the
PlayStation 3 system. These differ from the Minisodes in that they are original clips, never aired on TV.
Season two
AMC announced in May 2008 that
Breaking Bad was renewed for a second, 13-episode season. Production began in July 2008 and the season debuted on March 8, 2009.
[15]"From critical praise to strong ratings and devoted audience, Breaking Bad further reinforced AMC as a top producer of high-quality, distinctive television", said Charlie Collier, Executive Vice President and General Manager of AMC.
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.^ I was really excited for Breaking Dawn and when I found out that Bella was pregnant I had to put down the book just to take that in for a second.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[16]
Season three
On April 1, 2009, AMC announced that it had renewed Breaking Bad for a third season. It has since been confirmed that Breaking Bad Season 3 will premiere on March 21, 2010.
Reception
Breaking Bad has received critical acclaim in addition to two
Emmy Awards for its first season. It won the award for best editing, and Bryan Cranston won for best actor in a drama series.
[17]
The pilot episode was watched by 1.4 million people, while the subsequent six episodes of the first season were watched by 1.1-1.3 million viewers each.[citation needed]
The second season opener was watched by 1.7 million people, up 21% from the previous season.
[20].^ Gotta love a series that supports obsessive high school relationships and lying to your family to be with a vampire, all the while leading your best friend on.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
Cranston won for Outstanding Lead Actor.
[21]
International distribution
In
Australia,
Breaking Bad premiered on pay-TV channel
Showcase on August 28, 2008. The series premiered on free-to-air digital channel
ABC2 on January 22, 2010. The show debuted its first season in
Ireland and the
United Kingdom on
FX commencing September 28;
Five USA have bought the first run rights for the second season.
[22]In
Germany, AXN Germany aired the show for Pay-TV viewers. The
Franco-German culture TV channel
Arte has recently acquired the Free-TV rights to broadcast the show in both
France and
Germany.
Awards and nominations
2008
2009
Online promotion
An online customisable video was used to promote season one. Users would receive a webcam message from Walt urging them to live their life to the fullest, at the end of which he would score their name from a list. The promotion is still live at
www.waltswisdom.com. A viral marketing campaign has also been produced for season two, users can experience meeting Walt from a first-person perspective. The promotion is located at
www.waltswarning.com. The charity website set up for Walter White in Season 2 by Walter Jr is also available at
www.savewalterwhite.com. Promotion for season three includes an elaborate website devoted to Bob Odenkirk's character "Saul Goodman". The site includes legal advice, fashion tips, customer testimonials and more. It is located at
www.bettercallsaul.com.
Chemical elements in the credits
The credits feature symbols of chemical elements from the
Periodic Table in green (for example, the symbols
Br and
Ba for
bromine and
barium in
Breaking
Bad).
.^ If they don't make a movie out of this one, then it shows that they just realized that their shitty cast can't act or do what must be done to make the movie half way descent.- THE DEVIN'S ADVOCATE: WHY BREAKING DAWN MUST BE MADE INTO A MOVIE 10 February 2010 12:37 UTC chud.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
The opening credits also feature the formula C
10H
15N which is repeated several times in each frame that it appears. This is the
molecular formula for
methamphetamine, it indicates that each molecule contains 10 carbon atoms, 15 hydrogen atoms and one nitrogen atom.
The number 149.24 is also repeated in the introduction, which is the
molecular mass of the methamphetamine compound.
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