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Breaking Bad - Season 1 [DVD] [2008]

Staring: Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris
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List Price: ~~£24.99~~
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Product Details
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5035822786219
Format: Colour, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Label: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: 2009-12-14
Running Time: 332
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Editorial Review
Amazon.co.uk Review
No one would confuse the desperate dad Bryan Cranston plays in this character-driven drama with the fun-loving Hal from Malcolm in the Middle. In Breaking Bad, Walter White lives in the suburbs with his wife--and wears tighty-whiteys--but the similarities end there. During the pilot, the cash-strapped chemistry teacher finds out he has inoperable lung cancer. He and Skyler (Deadwood's Anna Gunn) have one son, Walter Jr. (R.J. Mitte), and a daughter on the way. With two years to get his affairs in order, Walter comes up with a wild plan: he and former student Jesse (Aaron Paul), a drug dealer, will open a meth lab.

In the hands of creator Vince Gilligan (The X-Files), Bad's first season plays like the improbable offspring of Weeds and The Shield. With nothing left to lose, the Albuquerque 50-year-old uses his death sentence as a catalyst to break every rule he's ever followed while keeping his family--including Skyler's radiologist sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt), and her DEA agent husband, Hank (Dean Norris)--out of the loop. Throughout these seven episodes, Walt takes on a hostage, a dead body, and a partner who likes to sample his own product. Based on the description alone, it shouldn't work as well as it does, except Gilligan and company keep the situations psychologically believable and Emmy winner Cranston makes Walt surprisingly sympathetic as he swings between compassion and self-interest. As he tells his students, "Chemistry is the study of change", a statement that applies equally well to the show, since Walt ends up in a very different place than where he began. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Customer Reviews

Breaking Out Of Bad TV, 2010-06-23
Seriously this exists out there and we get Glee and another series of Big Brother?

Funny, serious, entertaining, brilliant acting, great plot - Overall one of the best TV series written.

Just be glad it's out on DVD and available from Amazon, curl up on the settee and enjoy.

Addicted to Breaking Bad, 2010-06-30
I think this is the most intense show I've ever watched. It's not just the intensity of the show that makes it good it's the intelligence of the puzzles in the TV show.

You can imagine how intense a show would be where do you see this middle aged man with a nice family get mixed up in the criminal underworld with psychotic drug dealers, shady criminal layers and axe wielding hitmen - it's intense

One of the real hooks this show has is that it shows you the end of the episode at the beginning it doesn't give anything away apart from the massive difference in positions from begining to end.
I mean you'll watch it and think to yourself how can the situation possibly get that messed up!? I think it's great, it has cliff hangers at the end of episodes but having this at the beginning really keeps you watching in anticipation for what's to come.

Also while you're watching the show it's has HANDS DOWN THE BEST "what will happen next" moments, you will have no idea how Walter will get out of situations and you will never see how bad the situations get.

The great thing about this also adds to the fact the show's VERY fast paced compared to other TV shows. Breaking Bad really isn't shy... From what I mean here is there are 7 episodes in this season as a posed to 12 or 24. This is because the show doesn't beat around the bush and prolong situations in order to make the show longer.
At the start of one episode Walter may have hair and be nice, by the end of the episode he will be bald and been through major changes in his personality. Other TV shows are scared of changing their characters, scared of conflict that will change the show forever. Breaking Bad welcomes these and this is what makes it so great. Breaking Bad welcomes these conflicts and by the end of 3 episodes the characters will be completely different, by the end of the season it will progress even further.

I've just finished Season 3 and I can tell you the characters are ALL played with, even side characters and foil characters, they ALL go through major personality changes, I mean complete overhauls. Other TV shows just don't do that.

Anyway, this is by far one of the best if not the best TV shows I've watched, I've piled through 3 seasons within 2 weeks, I'm completely addicted to the quality of this product. I couldn't give it a higher recommendation

amazing!!!!!, 2010-06-19
Breaking Bad is totally amazing!!! full of drugs, gore, comedy ... its a must see and I can't wait till the 2nd series is out next month :)

Absolutely Excellent, 2010-07-17
This is brilliant - one of the best TV shows I have ever seen. Bryan Cranston is amazing in this role and draws you in from the very beginning. It's funny, weird, emotional and hugely entertaining throughout. Highly recommended!

Seriously Good!, 2010-07-21
As an English person, it's normal to be presented with high quality American Television. Whether it be the action of 24, or the profanity-laced drama of Sopranoes, as a Brit you realise most of the top-end TV is being made across the Atlantic. Breaking Bad is no exception. I was pretty much hooked from episode one, and it did it all without high-octane action, mindless violence, expletives or gratuitous sex - and that's not to say Breaking Bad doesn't have those things, it just has them as part of a gripping, extremely well plotted story. That's the thing here, the balance of the story is truly superb. The development stages of the characters brilliant. The character dynamics excellent. Breaking Bad is a rarity, in that it goes back to good storytelling and characters before anything else. Tense, funny, shocking, moving - it's an absolute gem (or crystal, if you excuse the pun, you'll find out!). The premise is intriguing, and rewarding, with great acting throughout, and it has completely got me! Almost as addictive as meth being produced in that RV!