Breaking Bad (AMC-TV) First Season

So glad Bryan Cranston won an Emmy for the leading man in Breaking Bad. This show was nasty and Jack & I watched every episode. Cranston, best known as the dumb dad on Malcolm in the Middle, plays Walt, a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, who is used to getting the short end of the stick. After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he teams up with a young thug to cook up crystal meth to provide for his family after he's gone. Like I said, it's nasty (the thing that happens in the bathtub in the second episode? OMG!) (if you can handle the second episode, you're good to go for the season). But it's gooood. Walt has a teenage son with cerebral palsy (I had to look up that detail; it's not very clear what's wrong with Walter Jr.), a pregnant wife, and a brother-in-law who is a DEA cop. There are surprises in every episode. Even before the Emmy win it was renewed for a second season. Watch the first season first.