Breaking Bad - The Complete First Season (R1)

Amazon.com Review
No one would confuse the desperate dad Bryan Cranston plays in this character-driven drama with the fun-loving Hal from Malcolm in the Middle. In AMC's Breaking Bad, Walter White lives in the suburbs with his wife--and wears tighty-whiteys--but the similarities end there. During the pilot, the cash-strapped chemistry teacher finds out he has inoperable lung cancer. He and Skyler (Deadwood's Anna Gunn) have one son, Walter Jr. (R.J. Mitte), and a daughter on the way. With two years to get his affairs in order, Walter comes up with a wild plan: he and former student Jesse (Aaron Paul), a drug dealer, will open a meth lab.
In the hands of creator Vince Gilligan (The X-Files), Bad's first season plays like the improbable offspring of Weeds and The Shield. With nothing left to lose, the Albuquerque 50-year-old uses his death sentence as a catalyst to break every rule he's ever followed while keeping his family--including Skyler's radiologist sister, Marie (Betsy Brandt), and her DEA agent husband, Hank (Dean Norris)--out of the loop. Throughout these seven episodes, Walt takes on a hostage, a dead body, and a partner who likes to sample his own product. Based on the description alone, the program shouldn't work as well as it does, except Gilligan and company keep the situations psychologically believable and Emmy winner Cranston makes Walt surprisingly sympathetic as he swings between compassion and self-interest. As he tells his students, "Chemistry is the study of change," a statement that applies equally well to the show, since Walt ends up in a very different place than the one he began. This three-disc set comes complete with cast and crew commentary, an installment of AMC's Shootout, two featurettes, deleted scenes, and screen tests. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Product Description
Popular water-cooler drama about an unremarkable and uncharismatic chemistry teacher, Walter, who discovers new passion in his life after he learns he has terminal cancer. Once a successful chemist, Walter now teaches apathetic high school students and works part-time at a car wash to help support his family - wife Skyler, who earns a modest income buying and selling items on eBay, and son Walter, Jr., a strong-willed 17-year-old suffering from cerebral palsy. Realizing he has nothing but his family left to live for, Walter's new sense of purpose reinvigorates him into a man of action as he turns to an exciting life of crime to provide for the ones he loves.

In the UK this is very overpriced for some reason, almost as if people dont know about the show so they just milk it for the rare copies you happen to come across

I'm from the UK as well actually. Hopefully it comes out properly over here, at the moment the only choices are getting a foreign packaged dvd or getting the American dvd with a multi-region player.

wow someone else in the UK who has heard of breaking bad...im stunned

Yep.. Apparently season 1 aired on FX over here but just like anything on FX no-one watched it.

u didnt happen to catch Generation Kill on there did you?

Nope, never heard of it.

You guys can get it on Itunes right? It's not great, not awful if you have an Ipod to watch it on, but its not really worth it compared to the DVD.

At wal mart in the states its only 19.99us

i orderd it from amazon for 29.99 i think i thought it said 10 dollars off so about 40 bucks for it i would have even payed 50 im so glad i have it

There's another quiz on to win a dvd:

Breaking Bad Gun Quiz

It takes more than chemistry know-how to survive the streets of ABQ: You need wits, brawn and of course a trusty sidearm. Match each weapon in our gun quiz to the character that wields it, then answer the bonus question in the comments section below. If you answer correctly, you'll be entered in a random drawing to win a Season 1 DVD set. Ready, aim, fire!

http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/05/breaking-bad-gun-quiz.php

Rob wrote:There's another quiz on to win a dvd:

Breaking Bad Gun Quiz

It takes more than chemistry know-how to survive the streets of ABQ: You need wits, brawn and of course a trusty sidearm. Match each weapon in our gun quiz to the character that wields it, then answer the bonus question in the comments section below. If you answer correctly, you'll be entered in a random drawing to win a Season 1 DVD set. Ready, aim, fire!

http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/05/breaking-bad-gun-quiz.php

just curious i know this isnt exactly related but i was reading the one were you win the hoodie this dude commented like 100+ times in a row would that be aloud seems unfair just kinda sad that i might not win the hoodie lol

Shawn wrote:

Rob wrote:There's another quiz on to win a dvd:

Breaking Bad Gun Quiz

It takes more than chemistry know-how to survive the streets of ABQ: You need wits, brawn and of course a trusty sidearm. Match each weapon in our gun quiz to the character that wields it, then answer the bonus question in the comments section below. If you answer correctly, you'll be entered in a random drawing to win a Season 1 DVD set. Ready, aim, fire!

http://blogs.amctv.com/breaking-bad/2009/05/breaking-bad-gun-quiz.php

just curious i know this isnt exactly related but i was reading the one were you win the hoodie this dude commented like 100+ times in a row would that be aloud seems unfair just kinda sad that i might not win the hoodie lol

People do that a lot, I guess the rest of us just have to cross our fingers right?

BTW, Combo had a pretty nice/expensive looking piece.........