Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show aired on AMC from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes. In 2013, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the most critically acclaimed show of all time. Better Call Saul, a prequel series featuring Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, and Giancarlo Esposito reprising their Breaking Bad roles, debuted on AMC on February 8, 2015.
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Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show aired on AMC from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes. The title is a Southern colloquialism meaning to turn to a life of crime. In 2013, Breaking Bad entered the Guinness World Records as the most critically acclaimed show of all time. Better Call Saul, a prequel series featuring Bob Odenkirk, Jonathan Banks, and Giancarlo Esposito reprising their Breaking Bad roles, debuted on AMC on February 8, 2015, and has been renewed for a final sixth season. The sequel film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie starring Aaron Paul was released on Netflix and in theaters on October 11, 2019. The series follows Walter White, a meek high school chemistry teacher who transforms into a ruthless player in the local methamphetamine drug trade. It had moderate viewership in its first three seasons, but the fourth and fifth seasons saw a significant rise in viewership when it was made available on Netflix just before the fourth season premiere. By the time that the series finale aired, it was among the most-watched cable shows on American television. Breaking Bad’s first season received generally positive reviews, while the rest of its run received universal acclaim, which would make critics laud it as one of the greatest television series of alltime. It received numerous awards, including 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, eight Satellite Awards, two Golden Globes, two Peabody Awards, and four Television Critics Association Awards.
The final season introduces Jesse Plemons as the criminally ambitious Todd Alquist, and Laura Fraser as Lydia Rodarte-Quayle, a clumsy business executive secretly managing Walter’s global meth sales for her company. Because of his drug-related activities, Walter eventually finds himself at odds with his family, the Drug Enforcement Administration through his brother-in-law Hank Schrader, the local gangs, the Mexican drug cartels and their regional distributors, putting his life at risk. He takes on the name “Heisenberg” to mask his identity. He is eventually diagnosed with stage-three lung cancer, and takes on a new identity of “Walter White” to protect his family from the dangers of the criminal underworld. The character of Walter White was created by Gilligan, who spent several years writing the Fox series The X-Files. Gilligan believed the concept of showing the full transformation of a character across the run of a television show was a risky concept and would be difficult to pitch without other powerful factors to support it, such as strong cinematography and acting. He added that his goal with Mr. Chips was to turn him into Scarface, which was chosen by Time entertainment editor Lily Rothman to describe Walter’s transformation to an old man who has a broader and old-fashioned outlook on life. He said that he wanted to create a series in which the protagonist became the antagonist.
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