season premiere

It’s been a year since television’s finest hour of drama was on the air but this Sunday Breaking Bad returns for its fourth season. It’s difficult to express exactly what the show has become since its high-concept beginning. For those who are completely in the dark, Breaking Bad is about the exploits of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with lung cancer and turns to producing and selling pure crystal meth in order to support his family and pay his medical bills. White enlists the help of a former student turned middling drug dealer Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and together they provide delicious meth for the children of New Mexico. Along the way they run into the usual: Drug cartels, twin assassins, elderly men who can only communicate via bells and sexually unsatisfied women. Continue reading →