Breaking Bad

Series Summary

Mild-mannered high school chemistry teacher Walter White thinks his life couldn't get much worse. He gets no respect from his students, and his salary barely makes ends meet, a situation that isn't likely to improve once his pregnant wife, Skylar, gives birth. Complicating matters further, their sensitive teenage son, Walter Jr., is battling cerebral palsy. Even so, Walter is dumbstruck when life hands him another lemon: He has terminal lung cancer. Realizing that his illness probably will ruin his family financially, Walter makes a desperate bid to earn as much money as he can in the time he has left by turning a battered RV into a meth lab on wheels, abetted by Jesse Dupree, a streetwise former student who knows his way around the drug world.

Premiered on: January 20, 2008

Cast

Bryan Cranston … Walter White
Anna Gunn … Skyler White
Aaron Paul … Jesse Pinkman
RJ Mitte … Walter White, Jr.
Dean Norris … Hank Schrader
Betsy Brandt … Marie Schrader
Jessica Hecht … Gretchen Schwartz
Adam Godley … Elliot Schwartz
Raymond Cruz … Tuco