Breaking Bad

Show • 2008 • Drama, Crime

Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

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StatusEnded
ReleaseJanuary 20, 2008
Seasons5
Episodes62
Last episodeOctober 11, 2019
Origins
  • United States of America
Genres
  • Drama
  • Crime
Tags
  • admiring
  • albuquerque, new mexico
  • cancer
  • cartel
  • criminal
  • criminal lawyer
  • crystal meth
  • dark
  • dark comedy
  • dea agent
  • drug dealer
  • drug lord
  • drugs
  • fall from grace
  • foreboding
  • gritty
  • high school teacher
  • male egos
  • meth lab
  • methamphetamine
  • mexican cartel
  • narcissism
  • narcissist
  • neowestern
  • new mexico
  • outlaw
  • psychopath
  • terminal illness
  • thriller
  • tortured genius
  • tragedy
  • violent

Seasons

Season 1

7 episodes Jan 2008 – Mar 2008

Emmy award winner Bryan Cranston stars as Walt White is a down-on-his-luck chemistry teacher struggling to make ends meet for his wife (Anna Gunn) and physically challenged son (RJ Mitte). Everything changes when Walt receives a startling diagnosis: terminal lung cancer. With only a few years to live and nothing to lose, Walt uses his training as a chemist to cook and sell crystal meth with one of his former students (Aaron Paul). As his status grows, so do his lies, but Walt will stop at not...

Season 2

13 episodes Mar 2009 – May 2009

As their partnership reaches new heights, Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich, but it's getting more difficult than ever for Walt to conceal the truth from his wife Skyler, his son Walter Jr., and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank. Walt struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with vicious drug dealers, an increasingly distant wife and son, the impending birth of his daughter, and a strung-out...

Season 3

13 episodes Mar 2010 – Jun 2010

Abandoned by his wife, feuding with his reckless partner and hunted by a Mexican cartel, teacher-turned-meth-cook Walt faces an impossible choice: make a fortune working for a dangerous kingpin or walk away and risk everything he cares about.

Season 4

13 episodes Jul 2011 – Oct 2011

As his young accomplice, Jesse, turns increasingly distant and hostile, Walt must deal with his estranged wife, his relentless DEA agent brother-in-law, and the ruthless kingpin manipulating the entire operation.

Season 5

16 episodes Jul 2012 – Oct 2019

With Gus Fring dead, Walt's transformation from well-meaning family man to ruthless drug kingpin is nearly complete. Forming a partnership with Jesse and Mike, Walt proceeds to make a killing in the meth business until the fruits of his murderous schemes are threatened by a new development in the investigation led by his relentless brother-in-law Hank.

Ratings by episode

Best Episode 9.8/10

First aired: Sep 29, 2013

S5E16 – Felina

The acclaimed crime drama comes to a close in the series finale.

Worst Episode 7.9/10

First aired: May 23, 2010

S3E10 – Fly

When Walt becomes driven to distraction by a contaminant in the lab, he refuses to cook meth until they are able to get rid of it.

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Positions in the top 50 for Breaking Bad in the past 30 days