Breaking Bad

Awesome show. Almost as hard to stop watching as it is to watch. This is one of those shows that despite being piss-your-pants exciting is almost too stressful to cope with, because damn. It's about a high school chemistry teacher, Walter a.k.a. Eisenburg (played by Hal from Malcom in the Middle!) who finds out he has lung cancer and is going to die leaving his family broke with a baby on the way. He is inspired to cook meth to secure his family financially when he accompanies his brother-in-law in the D.A. to a drug bust in which he runs into an old student Jessie Pinkston. The two of them begin doing business together and a whole bunch of bullshit started going down that I won't tell you cos you've really got to see it for yourself for the full impact.

Probably one of the most original ideas for a show I've seen in a while, but like I said, if you get caught up in your own crazy shit you might need to give the show a break and come back to it when you cool down because it will most likely do one of two things: It will either stress you out enormously on top of everything wrong with your own life, in which case, like I said, you should stop watching. OR it will be so stressful it will distract you from your so-called problems and remind you that at least you're not dying and cooking meth in New Mexico with the D.A. and numerous drug lords and your scary pregnant wife hunting you down.
So watch it or don't. Some people have a better tolerance than I do for insanity. But at least it accurately conveys the transition of a regular middle-class chemistry teacher into the roller coaster reality of dealing and doing meth. Walt is a man who doesn't belong in the drug business but finds his place there after losing himself in the real world. This show is about how it changes him. I'm not gonna lie, for a chemist he's quite the badass when he wants to be. I mean just look at him. Look at that hat. It's got badass drug daddy written all over it.