Vince Gilligan

Breaking Bad is an AMC American crime drama television show created and produced by director Vince Gilligan. The show follows 50-year-old protagonist Walter White, a miserable, overqualified high school chemistry teacher, along with his wife, Skyler, their 15-year-old disabled son, Walter Jr, and an unexpected baby on the way. The White’s are first introduced to the viewers as a classic American, middle class family who appear to be struggling financially. In the very first episode, Walt is…

Vince Gilligan’s American crime drama television series called Breaking Bad can be categorized as an addiction for many viewers. Walter H. White can be considered as a genius chemist, but instead of working as a scientist and earning his well deserved fame and money, he works as a chemistry teacher in an Albuquerque, New Mexico High School. His already pathetic life is turned upside down after being diagnosed with stage three terminal lung cancer, and given a short amount of time left to live.…

When thinking of notable shows-- both older and more recent ones-- several come to mind, but throughout the entirety of television's history, it is 2008 that lays claim to the beginning of what may be the greatest show to ever air on television: Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad. For…

attempt, Saul has two individuals (who tried to hustle him) help pull off a plan that involves a government official embezzling millions of dollars. Unfortunately, things go south and Saul is stuck with a difficult situation with the wrong people. Vince Gilligan (producer) and Peter Gould (producer) use dialogue, provides good acting to form a realistic plot coinciding…

THE MODERN HAMLET Breaking Bad is widely considered one of the best TV shows of all time and for a good reason. It has one particular plot that resonates with Hamlet - tragedy. The hook of this TV show is it’s brilliant deviation from a basic storyline and hero to one where it makes the viewer question their own values and make judgement calls. Walter White is debated heavily as being either a hero, an anti-hero, or just a faulty hero. To set the scene, he is a high school chemistry teacher who…

almost 200 years apart, the similarities in each story can mirror the ideas and concepts each, author or producer, trying to get across. Many television shows and film ideas are drawn from key historical writings, produce a spinoff of a specific story, or use similar ideas to help convey a fresh new story. Goethe’s Faust, for example has very similar ideas to those contemporary ideas of “Breaking Bad”. The similarities between such a contemporary story, like “Breaking Bad”, as a form of the…

a famous crime drama television series which involves with drug, violence, health, and family. It is typically a TV series which has included many of “cool” social issues. Knowing that dealing of drugs is a serious social problem, the director Vince Gilligan created a tragic hero who produces and sells drugs throughout the movie. The story tells Walter White, a high school teacher changes into a drug dealer with his former student, and achieves a great success in the whole game. This is one of…