Breaking Bad
HBO, Showtime, and, ultimately, FX passed on this dark drama about a disillusioned chemistry teacher turned meth dealer. “It was dead as a hammer,” says creator Vince Gilligan, 48, when his agent at ICM sent it to AMC, which was desperate for original series. “Why don’t you send it to the Food Network? It’s a show about cooking, after all,” Gilligan recalls saying. In 2006, AMC picked up the series and approached John Cusack and Matthew Broderick to star. But Gilligan, a former writer of No. 3 on this list, remembered an X-Files episode with Bryan Cranston and cast the actor as his lead.
Originally aired on the AMC network from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013. It tells the story of Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, a struggling high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. Together with his former student Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul, Walt turns to a life of crime by cooking and selling crystal meth before he dies, while navigating the dangers of the criminal world.
Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on the AMC network for five seasons, from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013. The series tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling and depressed high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with lung cancer. Together with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), White turns to a life of crime by 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 comes from the Southern colloquialism “breaking bad”, meaning to “raise hell” or turn toward crime.[5]Breaking Bad is set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico.