Breaking Bad ''Breaking Bad'' is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an underpaid, overqualified, and dispirited hig ...

'' is an American

television drama series In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-gen ...

created by Vince Gilligan, which premiered in 2008 on the cable network AMC. The story is about Walter White ( Bryan Cranston), a 50-year-old high school

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

teacher in

Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in ...

. After White is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he uses his chemistry expertise to cook crystal meth, assisted by his former student

Jesse Pinkman Jesse Bruce Pinkman is a main character in the American television series '' Breaking Bad'', played by Aaron Paul. He is a crystal meth cook and dealer and works with his former high school chemistry teacher, Walter White (Bryan Cranston). Jess ...

( Aaron Paul), to secure his family's (played by Anna Gunn and RJ Mitte) inheritance before he dies. The

pilot episode A television pilot (also known as a pilot or a pilot episode and sometimes marketed as a tele-movie), in United States television, is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell a show to a television network or other distri ...

was first aired on January 20, 2008, and the

series finale A series finale is the final installment of an episodic entertainment series, most often a television series. It may also refer to a final theatrical sequel, the last part of a television miniseries, the last installment of a literary series, or ...

, was broadcast on September 29, 2013. ''Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes'', which consisted of several one- to five-minute clips, released 17 short episodes over the course of three years throughout ''Breaking Bad''s run. On October 11, 2019, Netflix released '' El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'', a feature film continuation of ''Breaking Bad'', written and directed by Gilligan. An additional short film '' Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short'' was released on February 17, 2020.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2008)

Season 2 (2009)

Season 3 (2010)

Season 4 (2011)

Season 5 (2012–13)

Other media

''Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes'' (2009–2011)

''Breaking Bad: Original Minisodes'' is a web series based on the television series ''Breaking Bad''. A total of 17 "minisodes", which are more comedy-oriented than most full episodes, were released over the course of three years.

Season 1 (2009)

On February 17, 2009, five "mini-episodes" were made available online before the premiere of the show's second season. These five were eventually included with ''Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season''.

Season 2 (2010)

Before ''Breaking Bad''s third season, ten more webisodes were released, each mostly focused on Saul Goodman.

Season 3 (2011)

Additional minisodes were produced before the premiere of ''Breaking Bad''s fourth season; two would eventually be released.

''Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short'' (2020)

In conjunction with the television premiere of '' El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'' on AMC, the network released a three-minute short film ''Snow Globe: A Breaking Bad Short'' on its official YouTube account on February 17, 2020.

Ratings

Notes

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Breaking Bad Lists of American crime drama television series episodes