AMC's Breaking Bad Returns Sunday

Did anyone else watch Season 1 of AMC’s Breaking Bad? It’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea and honestly, it can be difficult to watch at certain points. Aly watched the first two episodes and gave it up. Shows this dark aren’t entertainment for her, but The Blot couldn’t turn away. I think the most difficult part was seeing Malcolm in the Middle’s Bryan Cranston in a whole new light. But once I was able to do that, Breaking Bad’s dark comedy became addictive!

The End Justifies The Extreme

Cranston won the 2008 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and it was definitely well deserved. He plays Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico and was recently diagnosed with Stage III cancer. With a prognosis of only two years left to live, he begins to panic about the thought of dying and leaving his family penniless. So Walt devises a plan to set his family up financially for life, he uses his knowledge as a chemistry teacher to start making and dealing Meth.


Breaking Bad “explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.” (link) Needless to say, Breaking Bad Season 2 is sure to even more intense and shocking as the show begins to explore Walt and his partner Jesse Pinkman’s (Big Love’s Aaron Paul) newly created drug empire that was established at the end of Season 1.

Breaking Bad Season 2 premieres on AMC Sunday, March 8, 2009 at 10/9c. After that, you can catch all new episodes of Breaking Bad every Sunday on AMC on 10/9c.