"Breaking Bad" is amazing - I would rank it up there with the top shows I've ever seen, and you know I wouldn't say that lightly. (It is somewhat gory and violent and has some very macabre scenes, so I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but I don't think that this will bother you - it doesn't bother me.) The writing is exceptionally clever and the acting is fantastic. The lead, Bryan Cranston, is just perfect, and many of the other characters are like this too and there are some very, very funny parts (although the main story, that of a chemist who becomes a producer of methamphetamines because he was diagnosed with incurable cancer and doesn't want to leave his family destitue, is quite grim and sad.)