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Breaking Bad

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Genre: Drama

High-school chemistry teacher Walter White learns he is dying of lung cancer and takes steps to ensure his family's financial future.

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Cast of 'Breaking Bad'

  • Betsy Brandt as Marie
  • Bryan Cranston as Walter White
  • Anna Gunn as Skylar White
  • R.J. Mitte as Walter White Jr.
  • Dean Norris as Hank
  • Aaron Paul as Jesse Dupree

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About 'Breaking Bad'

Premiered:
Jan 19, 2007
Original Network:
AMC
Website:
http://www.amctv.com/

Premise of 'Breaking Bad'

Mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White thinks his life couldn't get much worse. He gets no respect from his students, and his salary barely makes ends meet, a situation that isn't likely to improve once his pregnant wife, Skylar, gives birth. Complicating matters further, their sensitive teenage son, Walter Jr., is battling cerebral palsy. Even so, Walter is dumbstruck when life hands him another lemon: He has terminal lung cancer. Realizing that his illness probably will ruin his family financially, Walter makes a desperate bid to earn as much money as he can in the time he has left by turning a battered RV into a meth lab on wheels, abetted by Jesse Dupree, a streetwise former student who knows his way around the drug world.