Pilot
A chemistry teacher with terminal cancer starts cooking meth in an RV.
"Pilot", titled "Breaking Bad" on DVD and Blu-ray, is the series premiere of Breaking Bad. Written and directed by series creator Vince Gilligan, it first aired on AMC on January 20, 2008.
Quick Facts
- Series
- Breaking Bad
- Season
- 1
- Director
- Vince Gilligan
- Photographer
- John Toll
- Editor
- Lynne Willingham
- Air date
- 20 January 2008
- Length
- 58 minutes
Lore & Background
Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque who works a second job at a car wash, is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Keeping it from his pregnant wife Skyler and their son Walter Jr., he decides to spend his remaining time making money for his family. On a ride-along drug bust with his DEA brother-in-law Hank Schrader he spots his former student Jesse Pinkman, and later blackmails Jesse into cooking methamphetamine with him in an RV. At the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards Bryan Cranston won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the episode and Gilligan was nominated for directing.
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