Breaking Bad: The Complete Series [DVD]

This is the complete series of "Breaking Bad" - and I'm reviewing the Blu-ray set. You get a sturdy and deluxe outer-box, within which are the cases for each season of the show. In total, there are 15 discs, on which are 62 episodes. It's well packaged, and manufactured to a high standard. The quality of the Blu-ray discs is superb - with both fantastic picture and sound. Everything is crisp and clear. The show itself concerns the two main characters - Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a gifted chemist who's working as high school teacher, and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), a former student of his. Walter is diagnosed with lung cancer and, thinking he is going to die in the near future, he approaches Jesse - who operates as a small town drug dealer - with a business proposition: to produce and sell crystallized methamphetamine. And so the two of them turn to a life of organised crime in Albuquerque, New Mexico - making vast sums of cash - while getting involved with the criminal under-world and being pursued by the police. Each season explores the antics that Walter and Jessie get into, as they struggle to avoid getting caught by the authorities or killed by drug lords. And, slowly, Walter shifts from being a kind and caring man into a hardened and unsympathetic bad-ass. While Jessie develops from being an under-achieving 'meth-head' into a decent and responsible adult. These transformations - and the effects they have on the loved one around then - are mesmerising. This drama is a dark comedy - often involving black humour. The show deals with drug overdose, murder, systematic lying to family members, and a descent into chaos. It's an exceptionally well-made series, with a great story. The events of the entire show (aside from the latter half of season 5) all take place within about one year - so it's an eventful period! As a viewer, it's easy to get drawn in and captivated by the characters and plot. As one episode ends, you look forward to the next! Finally, when it did end, I was glad to hear that a spin-off show - featuring one of the best secondary characters of the series - is being made. I didn't watch this on TV when it was originally broadcast. Rather, I bought this box-set and watched the whole thing over a month. It's fantastic - and I thoroughly recommend it.

Brilliant, dark and pulls no punches, the metamorphosis from downtrodden school teacher to ruthless drug dealer is Brilliant, and all characters portraid Brilliantly

Breaking Bad, what more can i say, great series, for me the best series ever made. Just one warning though, when you first load the disc in your player, it might take a while for it to load and start playing. At first , i even thought the discs were faulty because it took so long before anything showed on the screen, i mean literally about 5 to 8 minutes without exagerating! But do not worry however, because this is not unusual on certain types of players, just wait it out, and you'll see after some time when it's fully loaded that the discs just play perfectly without interruptions. Just be warned that this might happen. I think this is something important that should be mentioned somewhere on the description of the box or something, because at first i was at the verge of returning them, before i noticed the discs just take quite some time to fully load on the beginning. Just so you know....

This is a genre-busting triumph l.on every conceivable level. It has been nominated for practically every award under the sun, but deserves more - it deserves to win them... It is a triumph of writing, production, direction and acting. What makes it so is the anti-existential journey of Bryan Cranston's brilliantly portrayed Walter White. We are not in the realm, on the one hand, of a whodunit, or, on the other, gangster schmaltz with the odd punch-up thrown in for good measure. This is unknown, brilliant, territory. Even better, and this is no spoiler, is the fact that it leads us, not to a happy or sad ending, but to the right ending. It can't be highly recommended enough. This is to television what Dr Zhivago was to the cinema. Breaking Bad: The Complete Series [Blu-ray ]

A very nice Box set indeed, no plastic. Nice prints of the shows characters throughout the two folding disc books, each disc slots into the cardboard pages with two discs per page and episode descriptions printed behind each disc. All printed images are high quality with a high gloss finish. The outer box is very clean with nothing other than the shows name, no DVD technical details like region code or play time. Im quit happy with this Box set

Don't get me wrong, I love the outer packaging because it is very well designed and made. Unfortunately the inner packaging is the complete opposite, offering no protection to the discs. The artwork and images on everything from disc to internal packing and external packaging is good and consistent. Luckily I purchased this on blu ray, because it is a hard wearing format. All of the discs are held in cardboard sleeves, separated into the individual seasons. There is no protection for the discs and mine regularly fell out when I was changing discs. I don't get how they can get so much right and so much wrong. I would give 5 stars for outer packaging, 5 stars for the disc design and 1 star for inner packaging (due to the artwork saving it). Overall 4 stars. I know that I haven't reviewed the series, there are enough reviews that do. Personally I think it is well worth watching and I would give it 4 stars, it is very good but not one of my favourite shows. I think that you're supposed to have a love hate relationship with the characters as they go through their roller-coaster of actions and emotions. I know that I certainly did.

Una de las mejores series en la historia, no hau mucho que agregar

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全シーズン収録なのにこの安さは素晴らしい。 梱包は紙ケースですが、おかげでコンパクト。変にかさばったプラケースよりこっちのほうが良いです。 字幕は、シーズン2の場合、英語、ドイツ語、ヒンディー、アラビア語等。(シーズンによって違うかもしれません) 英語の勉強用に最適です。(レンタルのブレイキング・バッドは英語字幕がありません)

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