Show me the Money

Breaking Bad series review

The TV series Breaking Bad the story featured, a chemistry teacher, who found out he had terminal cancer, and wanted to leave his family a nest egg and decided to start a new part-time job on the side as a meth cook.

The entire plot of the series follows the reading materials outlined in our course story spine

If you were faced with similar circumstance would you consider turning to a life of crime to support your family?

Most people get excited about cold hard cash, what would you do if you had 80 Million Dollars?

This is the amount of money that Walter White had stashed away.

Most would retire, travel, buy a business, donate some of it, help family, you get the point.

The overall plot of the show showed the lead charter Walter White turn from a shy unassuming teacher to a killer, who was more motivated by money than everything else.  He would keep saying that he was doing this for his family, but at the end of the series admitted that he liked cooking crystal meth because he was good at and world renowned.

His family was totally in the dark regarding his crime spree until later in the series he kept everything a secret from his wife Skyler and son Walter Jr.

Walter’s, brother in law Hank who worked for the DEA was hot on his trail throughout the series finally catching up to him near the end of season 5. 

In one of the episodes, Walter ended up burying 10 barrels full of cash valued at 80 million dollars in the desert in New Mexico.

Most of us have fears of leaving the planet before we are ready and leaving our families in a tough spot financially and we can relate to this.

He ended up working with one of his former students Jesse who turned into his full-time business partner, they would take on rival drug gangs and have many confrontations over the course of the series.

Jesse was an interesting character, a high school drop out, who cashed in bigtime as a meth cook.

Throughout the series, the life of crime took a toll on him and eventually he made a run for it relocating to Alaska.

Throughout the series Walter developed a major loyalty and friendship for his partner Jesse and would have done everything for him.

In a strange twist at the end, Walter ordered a hit on Jesse but ended up instead of having him killed he saved his life.

The major characters in the story followed the 22-rules-of-storytelling/

The story also had some comical moments to it one episode featured a fly which would have contaminated the lab where the cooking was taking place, and it ground everything to a halt for a full 2 days, as Jesse and Walter tracked down the The Fly.

Also, a highlight for me was when Walter White purchased a new Red Charger for his son, his wife Skyler made him return the car.  On his way back to the dealership he did several doughnuts lighting up the tires he turned into a total badass Walter’s Driving.

The final episode was sad, as Walter said goodbye to his young daughter Holly, he knew that everything had caught up to him, his cancer returned, and he didn’t have long left to live.   

 The final episode featured Walter taking out rival gang members before he was shot, he freed his partner Jesse.

Walter made me feel good at the end he sent a large amount of money through his former business partners to his family through his son Flynn (Walter Jr.).

To wrap it was a wild ride Five memorable seasons filled with every twist and turn imaginable and really it will test a person’s thought process of what would you do if this was you?   # 80 million dollars

Would you consider a life a crime to support your family? # Family Values Breaking Bad wrap up Breaking Bad followed the 5 W’s