What Is Breaking Bad

American's Drug Kingpin

Breaking Bad is an American crime drama series that depicts a story about love for a family, acceptance, drugs, and justice. Ranking the number one most successful and watched drama aired on prime time television. Although entertaining and filled with dark humor, the story delineates what people will do for family and power. Walter White, the main protagonist turned drug kingpin is a meek overqualified high school chemistry teacher and family man. Things go sour while working at his part time job at the car wash, he collapses and is brought to the hospital and is awaken with impending death. He is diagnose with incurable lung cancer. Upon learning of the terminal illness that he faces and for fear of leaving his family with no financial assets, Walter with his extensive background and expertise in chemistry collaborates with his former student, Jesse Pinkman to cook and sell methamphetamine also known as "meth." With much success, Walter and Jesse produce a most purest quality of meth.

In the earlier episodes, Walter character is linear at face value. He appears boring, straight-laced, law biding person who lives a mundane lifestyle. This all changes once he finds out he has stage-three terminal lung cancer. Barely making enough income to support his pregnant wife, Skylar and son, Walter Jr., Walt embarks on illegal business in the drug underworld. As the story progresses and unfolds, the once nerdy and timid Walter does a character turnabout. He turns into an anti-hero consume by power and greed who finds his life in a spiral of twists in the gloomy dark world of bloodshed and lives lost.

Walter persona is perfectly orchestrated and brilliant. He is introverted man, drives an old va...

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...his identity has accepted his secret life.

Although Walter states he entered the drug underworld for his family, this slowly shifts. Walter begins to do it for his own ego and this is depicted when Walter manipulates Jesse into doing things that will benefit Walter, himself. This is a definite sign of narcissistic trait that Walt hides for most of his life until he turns into the meth kingpin. Walter is in denial, but later begins to show a lack of remorse or even flinch if hurting a person is what needs to be done to acquire more money. Unlike his partner, Jesse, who has a good heart and keeps loyal to him; Walter has no heart and could care less who he hurts as long as it will benefit him. Even though he hides this fact, Walter is manipulative, cunning, a pathological liar, and a man who has hidden agenda up his sleeve. And that agenda is up to no good!