Breaking Bad

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Anyone else watch this series? I fell in love with it recently. I was on an airplane and they kept showing ads for it proclaiming it "the best drama on TV". I figured I'd be the judge of that and gave it a shot. I've seen the series all the way up to the latest episode that just aired last night and I got to say it's a great show.

The writing is just clever and the series has mastered making scenes tense. They also end episodes in ways that leave you completely satisfied yet wanting more, great cliff hangers. The characters are all well fleshed out and they are completely anal about revealing every detail of the story. They even go so far as to show things that happened in previous seasons to fill in any blank spots people might have questions about. The clever part is they find a way to make those scenes relevant to the story of the current episode.

The blunt of the series is a man named Walt is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was a Chemistry teacher and also won a Pulitzer prize. Through his brother in law he learns that there's tons of money to be made in cooking meth. He goes on a bust with him to check out the operation and runs into an old student of his named Jessie. Together the two of them form an alliance and cook together. He wants to use the money to pay for his treatments and for something to leave his family. The series goes on from there with them getting progressively further up the drug food chain.

The last episode was nothing short of epic. Next week is the season finale and I'm really looking forward to it. This season has been the best yet.