Walt (two-time Emmy® award winner* Bryan Cranston) and Jesse
(Aaron Paul) are in way over their heads in Breaking Bad: The
Complete Second Season. As their partnership reaches new heights,
Walt and Jesse begin to see the extremes of the drug trafficking
business. Their trademark blue meth is making them rich, but it's
getting more difficult than ever for Walt to conceal the truth
from his wife Skyler (Anna n), his son Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte),
and his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank (Dean Norris). Walt
struggles to maintain control of his life as he contends with
vicious drug dealers, an increasingly distant wife and son, the
impending birth of his daughter, and a strung-out business
partner – all while battling terminal lung cancer. Breaking Bad:
The Complete Second Season includes cinematography from Michael
Slovis as well as Emmy® award-winning** editing from Lynne
Willingham, A.C.E. Executive Produced by Vince Gilligan and Mark
Johnson.
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As Breaking Bad's first year concluded, chemistry teacher Walt
(two-time Emmy-winner Bryan Cranston) and his meth-making
partner, Jesse (Emmy-nominee Aaron Paul), hooked up with drug
kingpin Tuco (Raymond Cruz), and the money started to roll in.
They expected some degree of danger--but not a homicidal maniac.
When DEA agent Hank (Dean Norris) starts to close in on Tuco, he
kips the duo, who eventually escape, but the experience
creates a host of new complications, leaving Jesse temporarily
homeless and driving a wedge between Walt and his pregnant wife,
Skyler (Anna n), and their 15-year-old son, Walt Jr. (R. J.
Mitte). In his commentary, creator Vince Gilligan explains that
the "chickens come home to roost" in season 2 as Walt's criminal
activity catches up with him. In effect, he lives out the
psychological version of The Fly, with his double life merging
into one, such that he starts to become as ruthless as Tuco.
Hank, meanwhile, gets a promotion that expands his jurisdiction
to El Paso, while Skyler takes an accounting job that could cause
her to "break bad" in season 3.
If this AMC hit lacked a sense of humor, it just might be too
hard to take. Aside from Walt's incurable illness and Hank's
post-traumatic stress disorder, there's a head crushing, a
shooting, an explosion, and an overdose. Though Walt and Skyler
get few humorous moments, Jesse, Hank, and ambulance-chasing
attorney Saul (Mr. Show's Bob Odenkirk, an inspired addition)
make the most of theirs. Jesse even gets a girlfriend (Krysten
Ritter), who comes with a wary her (John de Lancie)--but
there's still more shadow than light (not counting those
panoramic desert s). Strong stuff, but it's impossible to
look away. Extensive extras include commentaries, deleted scenes,
and featurettes on every episode. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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