AMC's 2nd Emmy award winning masterpiece is about teacher (Cranston)/ meth cook and his sidekick, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), his former high school chemistry student. They form the most dangerous odd couple of T.V. as they rise to drug lord status. The 5 seasons since 2008 are over, but the marathon binging is not, currently on Summer Sundays.
The creator Vince Gilligan formed a cult classic, changing cable T.V. forever. Cult movies are known for casting each cast member with precision in the perfect storyline for them, making a production rewatchable many times. That's what Gilligan did, but for T.V. Cranston is reborn as straight Mr. White. You might be him: stuck in suburbia, dead-end career, and growing desperate to resolve his bills until he finds a way out of his mid-life crisis. Aaron Paul speaks with emphatic pauses with "bitch" sprinkled on every script page. Each drug lord they encounter was a caricature from the Mexican cartel bosses to the Chilean "Chicken King." Skyler (Anna Gunn) is the polished trophy wife forced to descend into her husband's underworld. Mr. White's brother-in-law, Hank (Dean Norris), is the macho DEA agent alpha male, who realizes he's not the big fish...and so many more! They played it so well, most careers died with these roles.
Each season is a new level of thug life. The moral conflicts make you think, "What would I do?" In the end, everybody is tainted with dirty money, including us--as we can't help but root for our fav's happy ending. Easy TOUCHDOWN! It's in the Guinness World Records as most critically acclaimed, after all.
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