Breaking Bad Season 1-3 DVD

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play 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 & Skyler (Deadwood&s Anna Gunn) have one son Walter Jr (RJ Mitte) & a daughter on the way With two years to get his affairs in order Walter comes up with a wild plan he & former student Jesse (Aaron Paul) a drug dealer will open a meth lab In the hands of creator Vince Gilligan (The X-Files) Breaking Bad plays like the improbable offspring of Weeds & 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) & her DEA agent husband Hank (Dean Norris)--out of the loop Based on the description alone it shouldn&t work as well as it does except Gilligan & company keep the situations psychologically believable & Emmy winner Cranston makes Walt surprisingly sympathetic as he swings between compassion & 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 Product Description A blackly comic drama series starring Bryan Cranston as Walter White a high school chemistry teacher in the throes of a midlife crisis who discovers that he is dying from inoperable lung cancer In an attempt to sort out his disastrous financial affairs he decides to turn to crime & enlists the help of a good-for-nothing ex-student to set himself up as a crystal meth dealer