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Starring
Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte

Director
Vince Gilligan

Year
2007

Genre
Drama

Synopsis
Emmy winner Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle) stars as unassuming high school chemistry teacher Walter White, who discovers he has lung cancer. Desperate to secure his family's financial future and finally free from the fear that had always inhibited him, Walt teams up with Jesse (Aaron Paul), a former student, to turn a used RV into a mobile drug lab.

Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn - Deadwood) and teenage son (RJ Mitte - Gray's Anatomy) who has cerebral palsy. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

Also stars Max Arciniega, John Koyama, Steven Michael Quezada.

TRIVIA:
When Walt is showing to Jesse the chemistry supplies he stole from the school, he mentions that he's got an "Erlenmeyer flask". This is a reference to The X-Files (1993), which featured an episode titled "The Erlenmeyer Flask". Director Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad, was a writer and producer on several seasons of *The X-Files*; a professor at the University of Southern California gave Bryan Cranston lessons in chemistry basics for the series; an actual DEA agent showed the crew and the cast how to make crystal meth.

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