| Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season (4 Discs) |  | Directors: Bryan Cranston, Adam Bernstein, Charles Haid, Colin Bucksey, Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Actors: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt
Studio: Columbia/Tristar Vid
Category: DVD
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 608
Format: AC-3, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Discs: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
MPN: COLD33260D
UPC: 043396332607
EAN: 0043396332607
ASIN: B001RTSPVY
Release Date: March 9, 2010
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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 kidnaps 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 Gunn), 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 father (John de Lancie)--but there's still more shadow than light (not counting those panoramic desert shots). 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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Great Great Greater May 5, 2010
Beverly Anne Wright (Moose Jaw Sask canada)
I had heard about this TV show from a friend and unfortunately do not get the TV channel which produces this show.
It is the most entertaining program EVER. There are plot twists and turns in every episode. It is captivating and you cannot believe what happens. I would highly recommend this show, but watch it when you have lots of time, because you can't stop watching it, once you start. Kind of like being addicted, like the show's topic!!
True "MUST SEE TV!" April 23, 2010
Kevin Ogren (Port Hardy, BC Canada)
This is one of those series that you just can't stop watching. The great thing with DVD's is you don't have to wait until next week to see what happens. Bryan Cranston is fantastic! Best show to come out in years!
Cool stuff April 11, 2010
B. Kalinowski (Saskatchewan, Canada)
You kidding me, if you haven't watched this show........shut the doors, turn off the phone, and sit down with the DVD series. Cool plot, cool music, cool characters..........and some great episodes.
Addictive! April 10, 2010
Karen Bothwell (Vancouver, B.C.)
This show is so great! It is also so addictive! I Love It!!!! It reminds me of watching Twin Peaks years ago and never wanting it to end.
 Breaking Bad season 2 is still great television - though the season is a bit more scattered this time around March 26, 2010
Nathan Andersen (Florida)
I just finished watching Season 2 again, this time on dvd. It's easily entertaining enough to watch twice, and still much better than most television, but the second season feels a bit less coherent and driven (though certainly not less intense) than the first. What carried me through the first season was the character arc - of a man on the edge, having reached his limit and the question was always how far he was going to be willing to go, and it seemed he went all the way. In this season, though, the real question was where things could go from there, how could they ramp things up further?
At first it seemed the key was to put Walt and Jesse in a really scary situation, with a truly dangerous and unhinged gangster. The possibilities of that encounter formed the culmination of the first season, and promised to take this season in new and unexpected directions, but .... they found a way not to make this season hinge on that connection. As it turns out, Season 2 went in a number of different and disconnected directions, and in many cases shut certain elements of the plot down (I'm trying to be vague enough here to avoid spoilers) just when they were beginning to get interesting - and then there's the big red herring that seemed like it might be a culminating moment that would tie the season together but turned out to be almost a Deus ex machina, an almost supernatural (at least wildly coincidental) intervention that arbitrarily ends things .... I'm not complaining and the characters are still top notch and the dialogue compelling and the show looks good and kept me wanting more. It's clear the writers tried to pull off the balancing act of having Walt and Jesse become involved in all of the intensity and danger that are associated with high profile drug-related crime, but still retain the sense that they are basically ordinary people in over their head and wanting just to lead normal lives. Still, the limits of credibility were stretched pretty thin with some of the elements this season, and it didn't feel as though it hung together quite as well as the first time around. Some of this may be attributable to the writer's strike, which I have heard caused some difficulties for this season. Still, the team managed to pull something off that, while not as good as I expect it might have been, is never less than fascinating. I've already seen the first episode of season 3 on AMC, and can't wait to see what happens next.
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