Country United States
Genres Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Runtime 47 minutes
Total runtime 49 hours 21 minutes
Status Ended
Network AMC
Showrunner Vince Gilligan
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Breaking Bad

2008 140K members 5 seasons63 episodes

Walter White lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a modest high school chemistry teacher. He struggles to provide for his family. But after being diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, he has no choice but to find another way out.
He decides to manufacture methamphetamine with his former student Jesse Pinkman in an RV converted into a laboratory.
Their market develops very quickly. Maybe too fast for Walter who becomes a real drug godfather. He must therefore manage his new status and try to carry out his role as a family man, husband, and sick man! Especially since he hides his activity to his wife, Skyler.
Walter takes the name "Heisenberg" to hide his identity.
His brother-in-law Hank Schrader, the local gangs and the Mexican drug cartels are his new enemies.

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