Review on Breaking Bad series (season 5 premiere - July 2012)

Creator: Vince Gilligan
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn and Aaron Paul
Original channel AMC

Original run January 20, 2008 – present

Season 5 premiere - July 2012
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 26 wins & 65 nominations See more awards »
Rating: around 9.3 on IMDB

Plot:

Breaking Bad is an American television drama series telling the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) - a high school teacher who is diagnosed with lung cancer. In the beginning of the series he is told that he is going to live for a few months and that is why Walter turns to the life of crime. He starts producing and selling methamphetamine with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), so that he can provide for the financial future of his family before he dies.

Review:
I would definitely say that Breaking Bad is one of the best TV series on the American television casted in the last decade. The series has a compelling story, build on a masterpiece of a script and as a result it won six Emmy Awards—including three consecutive wins for Lead Actor in a Drama Series for Cranston (known for the comedy 'Malcolm in the Middle').The central question in the story of Breaking Bad is - What makes a man "bad" - his actions, motives or his decision to be a bad person?- and the answer is for the viewer to decide. When you watch the series you will pity, judge, hate and like Walter as well as the other characters in the series.Even more compelling is that every episode is filled with unexpected turnovers and tension that is keeping the interest of the viewer up to the end of the show. One of the interesting techniques in Breaking Bad is the retrospective story-line used on some of the episodes like in the pilot which starts with Walter holding a gun, half naked, waiting for the cops in the middle of a desert.
Cranston's acting in the series is at its best. He presents us with some humorous parts in the series which cool down the tension so that it could be build up back again. This makes Breaking Bad somehow "fresh" in comparison to the other TV-series out there and that's why I recommend it to everybody who hasn't watched it.