Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad

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Breaking Bad is a very unique and breathtaking crime-drama television series. It entails the wire pulling evolution of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), and his powerful life journey, developing from a good-natured school teacher and family man, into a relentless criminal mastermind and killer. Vince Gilligan, the creator and producer of Breaking Bad, accomplishes to create these captivating, engaging characters, and intertwine them into the compelling story line that he visualizes, bringing to life a jaw dropping story line that questions the principles of good and evil. The enticing story line leads to the season finale where Vince Gilligan closes out the amazing series with genius. The finale tips over the moral identity of closure that we …show more content…

The spectacular acting of Bryan Cranston makes you feel his emotions through the television screen. You can genuinely feel the pain in his eyes, ultimately giving the ability for the audience to sympathize with him through almost anything. While Walter turns to making methamphetamine, solely for the reason of securing his family’s finances for after he passes, the audience keeps that in mind, and we sympathize with him throughout everything he does. After we find out he is going to die in the near or not so near future, we meet another main character who is very important to the story, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). We first see him in Walter White’s chemistry class as one of his students, who soon enough ends up being his meth cooking partner. The bond that they form as the two main characters in this story is truly riveting. They go through hell and back— and back again. They experience an uncountable number of round trips to hell, keeping the audience at their toes for the entire five seasons. Together they are unstoppable, dealing with other high ranked criminals, putting their life at the line, only to put their means to an end that they don't end up seeing for quite a …show more content…

Both of the main characters, Jesse and Walter, turn up in the middle of the first season as cooking partners. Vince Gilligan originally had plans to kill him off in the first season, but he served a higher purpose than just introducing Walter to the world of meth, and Walter’s journey through that world would of been much more terrifying if he didn’t have Jesse to guide him anymore. By any man’s opinion, Walter White was a good man faced with a bad end. This happened when Walter made his decisive decision to manufacture and deal methamphetamine, creating for himself a more confronting end. His transformation advances and so does his pay day, along with the dangers that follow. He dives more and more into the drug game and his product is outrageously very well known around his hometown. Along with his progression as a meth maker, he changes from the protagonist to the antagonist, creating and killing off many enemies along his

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