Breaking Bad Review

Breaking Bad has quickly become the most talked about TV show. It combines excellent writing together with tense moments and combines them together for a flawless performance. This show has become voted the best show in history and it shows. With the last episode viewing Sunday night, I would like to give this show a review and give it a quick rundown before the last episode ends.

Breaking Bad is a show about Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher whose life was turned around when he discovered he has stage 3 cancer of the lung. He knows the cancer will kill him soon, and he wants to be able to financially support his family before his death. His life will be forever changed when he tags along with his brother in law, DEA agent Hank, on a drug bust. There he sees one of his old student Jesse Pinkmen. Together Walt teams up with Jesse to cook meth. Using his knowledge as a chemistry teacher, he soon produces the best crystal meth around town.  He then starts using the name Heisenberg to disguise his name and his meth lord name. But with the best comes the competitors. And they are not happy about it. The longer the episodes come on, the more eccentric characters are introduced like the wheel chair ridden psychopath Hector and the cool and calculated drug kingpin Gus.  But it seems like for every character introduced 2 of them are killed off.

This show has changes everywhere you look. In the start of the series Walter is just a normal human being who is fed up with his life and wants to just provide for his family. But as the seasons tick down, you can see the visible change from everyday man to a murder. As the show goes on, Walt seems to almost turn from the protagonist to the antagonist.  The writing as I mentioned is perfectly, tying all loose ends together so you feel satisfied. It also adds to the tension and twists of the show, making you guess what’s going to happen next. The characters are all acted perfectly; making even some of the most evil ones oddly likeable and gives you mixed feelings in a good way. The show makes you question your morals as well, with you questioning constantly who is the good guys, or if there really are any.

Unfortunately for the younger TV watchers, this show might not be for them. It has a constant stream of violence and language, with AMC giving the show TV 14, but the DVD versions are uncensored and are can most definitely comply with the R rating. The theme of the show is dealing meth and the dangers of doing so, with almost every episode depicting a form of violence and most of them are bloody and gore filled. This plus the language makes this one of the most mature shows on the air right now, and I don’t recommend this to anybody under 15-14, and even they should be able to handle the mature themes and depictions of violence.

Breaking Bad has quickly become the most popular show on air for a reason. There’s a reason why this show was given a 99/100 by Metacritic, the highest rating it has ever given a show.  Its picture perfect writing and dialogue with its spot on actor performances really sell the show.  The plot is amazing with each episode giving you what you want and almost never leaves anything for disappointment.  If you are old or mature enough to handle this show, I highly recommend that you give it a view.