Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Anna Gunn) and teenage son (RJ Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live.
With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family’s financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. 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.
Cast
Bryan Cranston – Walter White
Anna Gunn – Skyler White
Aaron Paul – Jesse Pinkman
Dean Norris – Hank Schrader
Betsy Brandt – Marie Schrader
RJ Mitte – Walter White, Jr.
Giancarlo Esposito – Gustavo Fring
Bob Odenkirk – Saul Goodman
Jonathan Banks – Mike
