I started watching this a few weeks ago based on a friends’ recommendation, and I’m extremely glad I did. It outclasses a lot of stuff on TV at the moment and doesn’t quite deliver what you’re expecting – in a good way.

Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston (Malcolm in the Middle) as Walter White – an underpaid, overqualified High-School Chemistry teacher. After being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer, he contacts an old student of his – Jesse Pinkman, a young man he recently learned is a renowned Crystal Meth dealer known as Cap’n Cook. The two quickly source materials and a mobile HQ and begin to apply Walter’s superior chemistry know-how to cook up the very best product the Methamphetamine market has ever seen.

From these whimsical beginnings, I was expecting something that sat somewhere between Dexter and My Name is Earl, but things escalated extremely quickly and people were dead before the end of the first episode.

This show can be extremely heavy at times, with some extreme violence, complex moral decisions and Walt’s ongoing battle with cancer. I generally like to binge on TV and can get through 4 or 5 episodes of a show in one sitting, but with Breaking Bad, I usually feel emotionally drained after just 1.

A show that can actually makes you feel something is definitely worth a look in my book.

At the time of writing US TV is up to Season 3 Episode 7.

You can check out the very first episode here.