Breaking Bad: The Greatest Show On Television

In 2008, America was introduced to one of the greatest television shows ever created. Breaking Bad, a crime drama written by Vince Gilligan, about a high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer, who takes drastic measures to secure his family’s financial situation after he’s gone. Walter White turns to crime when he is reintroduced with his former student, Jessie Pinkman. Once the pair began cooking meth, their lives were forever changed. Breaking Bad is an exhilarating show that captivates its viewers more ways than one. When I was first introduced to the series, the very first episode of season one had me hooked. It was not the cheesy predictable show that I was used to seeing, it was a refreshing change. In a matter of weeks …show more content…
We have all seen shows that left us at a cliffhanger or the ending simply made no sense. What makes Breaking Bad so wonderful is the fact it all makes sense. In the finale, Vince Gilligan successfully answers all questions and theories that its viewers have been unsure about. The most significant part of the finale was when the machine gun Walt created in the trunk of his car protected him and Jessie from getting killed from Todd and his uncle jack. This scene from the show captures Walter White 's personality. Walt had a strong determination to keep fighting and to never let anything defeat him. He successfully outsmarted the bad guys using his scientific brain. Another highlight about the finale was how it told us what happened to the other characters. Saul Goodman, Walters lawyer, was forced to change his identity and relocate due to legal reasons. Breaking Bad didn’t force its viewers to ponder what happened and helped ease our minds of what happened to our favorite characters. Also, the transformation and deterioration of some of the characters is shocking yet realistic. In the beginning Jessie Pinkman was a fairly happy young man living his life on the edge. By the end he has become a slave and his mental health has suffered. This show did not sugar coat any of its character situations and the finale finished it off by showing the real destruction drugs leaves on