Breaking Bad
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 Breaking Bad facts

• The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons, from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013
• It tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer
• Together with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), White turns to a life of crime, producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal world
• The title is from a Southern colloquialism meaning to "raise hell"
• Breaking Bad is set and was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Walter's family consists of his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) and children, Walter, Jr
• (RJ Mitte) and Holly (Elanor Anne Wenrich)
• The show also features Skyler's sister Marie Schrader (Betsy Brandt), and her husband Hank (Dean Norris), a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent
• Walter hires lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk), who connects him with private investigator and fixer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) and in turn Mike's employer, drug kingpin Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito)
• The final season introduces the characters Todd Alquist (Jesse Plemons) and Lydia Rodarte-Quayle (Laura Fraser)