I'll start by the writing. The writing in this show is fantastic. It feels so grounded in reality. For example if someone is put in a very tough situation that no one would actually get out of... that is precisely what happens. In other shows this rarely happens. The writers also make it very smart. Nothing ever feels dumb, and the whole show is planned out perfectly from the beginning. What I love about this show the most are the characters. I love how they change throughout the show, specially Walter and Jesse. In the beginning Walt is just a regular, boring teacher. As the show moves on you start to see the change. The way he looks at people, the way he talks, his actions, everything. I love how the writers don't make him go bad instantly, but acutally make it a slow transformation. Bryan Cranston plays this guy perfectly. The whole change this guy goes through is done incredibly thanks to Cranston. If you watch the first episode and then the last one, you will notice how everything changes. Aaron Paul plays Jesse who is basically a junkie. He teams up with Walter to cook meth, and let´s just say that this guy goes through a lot of shit in this show. There is a great scene in the third season were he says this to Walt: "Ever since I met you, everything I've ever cared about is gone, ruined, turned to shit, dead ever since I hooked up with the great Heisenberg. I have never been more alone, I have nothing, no one alright it´s all gone get it?" So yeah, by the end of the show this guy is completely broken and you can tell just by looking at him in one of his final scenes. This guy nearly brought me to tears a couple of times, and that is also in great part to Aaron Paul's performance. He makes Jesse such a vulnerable character with so many issues, and the way that he is written is so perfect you just end up caring about this dude. Anna Gunn plays Skyler which is Walt´s wife. A lot of people say her character is a bitch, but the show is intended to be realistic. All of her actions are what someone would actually do in a situation like this. Throughout the first 2 season she has no idea of Walter´s second life. So when she finally finds out, shit really gets real for Walt. He does what he does for his family, but he ends up destroying it because of it. Then you have Skyler´s sister Marie, and her husband Hank. Hank is a D.E.A agent (and a badass one), so Walter basically even has family trying to get him. This makes for some awesome scenes between him and Hank. There´s Walter Jr. who is Walt´s son. He is the character that can always tell right from wrong, so he is basically one of the only truly good guys in this show. All of the actors in this show are phenomenal. There isn´t one single person in this show that does a mediocre job, and that is one hell of an accomplishment. The villains in this show are fantastic. You have Tuco who is this extremely violent asshole, then there is Gus Fring who is the type of quiet and well mannered villain, and then there is Todd. I fucking hate that dude. You really have to see the final season to undestand why I hate that dude so much.
The show itself feels like one big movie. There is no episode that fills like filler. This show is like a big puzzle, and everything has an effect on everything. Something that happened in the first season might affect the last one for example. Another great thing about this show is that there is no bad season. Most shows have a season that isn´t very good, well not here. Every season gets better and better, and the final season (specially the final three episode) is probably the best thing I´ve ever seen. The final season is just crazy, and the episode titled "Ozymandias" is just a masterpiece. Here you see just how big of a monster Walter has become. This episode was just devastating and sick, and I was on the edge of my seat watching this. The way the series ended was just perfect. It was bitter-sweet, and it tied up everything perfectly. There are no loose ends here and it gave the perfect conclusion to the greatest show ever. It's going to be a long time before another show like this turns up.
Breaking Bad is perfect. You care about every single character in this show. It will shock you, make you laugh, cry, etc. It gave us Walter White who is the most real character I've ever seen. There is a line that he says to his wife in the final episode that just made him so realistic for me, and really summed up the kind of person he is. To see such a good and honest guy become such a monster in such a realistic way was fantastic. Breaking Bad is the greatest show ever, and everyone should watch this without a doubt. Breaking Bad gets a well deserved 5/5
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