Breaking Bad did just that.The series, which debuted on AMC in January 2008, followed a high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who begins cooking meth with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after learning he has stage-three lunch cancer.The drama, created by Vince Gilligan got off to a slow start with critics, but by the second season, became one of the most talked-about shows on television.
Breaking Bad ran for five seasons, officially airing its season finale on September 29, 2013.“I remember reading things [like] ‘Shame on Sony, shame on AMC for greenlighting a show that’s glamorizing the cooking and selling of meth,'” Paul told Entertainment Weekly in 2018.
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