Breaking Bad: The Complete Second Season |  | Actors: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  66 reviews
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Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 99
Discs: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Running Time: 615 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.8 x 0.8
MPN: 043396332607
UPC: 043396332607
EAN: 0043396332607
ASIN: B001RTSPVY
Release Date: March 16, 2010
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Walter, a modest high school chemistry teacher, discovers a new purpose in life when he learns he has terminal cancer and turns to a life of crime usi
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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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Incredible August 30, 2010
W. Wilson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In a time when you can download (ie, illegally pirate...) just about anything you see on tv or in the movies or hear on the radio, we start to question how much we truly value a show. If we can watch it whenever we want we kind of start to take it for granted, or at the very least appreciate it less. I have this dilemma with just about any type of media, is it worth paying for it when I can watch it free on youtube? But Breaking Bad had me so totally drawn in that I didn't even ask myself if it would be worth buying. It was, and I did. Vince Gilligan created a universe so real but so unbelievable that you have to see what happens next. Season 2 really picks up the pace and, along with season 3, it's just one "I can't believe it" moment after another. Just when you think, "there's no way they can top that", they top that. I just don't know what I'll do in this long wait to season 4. July can't come fast enough.
Intense August 27, 2010
JT
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This season is about the 2 cousins who worship an image of death and are out for revenge. You see how pure evil lives and how they are controlled. You also see the price walter pays for going to the dark side, murder is a survival instinct, and dealing drugs in a small town you are bound to meet your competition.
My favorite's are of course Walter but also Hank who not only acts tough but in the heat of the moment there's no one better.
PS; To the writers, please get rid of walters wife, in real life she would be two hot blondes.
Even better than the first August 17, 2010
D. Runge
The second season builds on the first and is mapped out extremely well: acting, directing, writing, and storylines are superb and it shows why this show is so buzzworthy and constantly praised. I highly recommend it.
When good scientists go bad... August 6, 2010
William Sommerwerck (Renton, WA USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Breaking Bad" isn't in the same exalted ranks as "The Sopranos", but it's good enough and different enough to easily get five stars.
Vince Gilligan, the series' creator, says it can be viewed as a comedy, and the first two episodes are blackly funny throughout. The tone is Hitchcockian, and Gilligan borrows freely from The Master, even going back as far as "The Lodger". I leave it to you to find the other references and takings. (The following episodes are more-fitfully funny, with the theft of the methylamine being the most-broadly humorous.)
The most-obvious Hitchcockian element is having the audience thoroughly identify with the character we /aren't/ supposed to identify with -- Walter White. He didn't /need/ to cook meth -- his former business partner would have covered his medical expenses -- but he does it anyway. Gilligan enhances our sympathy for Walter by surrounding him with thoroughly unlikeable and/or stupid people * -- his sister-in-law (a shoplifter), his brother-in-law (a macho DEA cop), his drug-dealer associate (who, as they say, couldn't pour piss from a boot if the instructions were printed on the bottom), and worst of all, his wife. Skyler White (her name "says it") is a self-centered, judgemental, ungrateful person who's more interested in "communicating" with her husband than in loving and supporting him. When Walter is finally willing to tell her everything, she refuses to listen: "I don't think I could handle it." (What did he ever see in her? What did he ever do to deserve such an uncaring b****?) The only sympathetic major character is Walter's son, played charmingly by R J Mitte.
Gilligan also borrows another Hitchcock theme -- we never /really/ know what's going through the minds of the seemingly "good" people we associate with. Much of "Breaking Bad" riffs on this theme.
Gilligan has no problem appropriating scenes from famous films, such as "GoodFellas" and "The Manchurian Candidate". He doesn't do this often enough to be annoying, though.
The quality of acting is not particularly high. John de Lancie, an actor I normally don't much care for, gives an understated and effective performance as the father of a junkie, and Bob Odenkirk is just plain wonderful as a corrupt lawyer with high ethical standards, but most of the actors (especially Christopher Cousins) seem to have been rounded up at a garage sale, Aaron Paul being the principal exception.
Bryan Cranston pretty much carries the series. The scripting is rarely less than acceptable -- but similarly hardly ever inspired. For Cranston, it doesn't need to be, because he's given many opportunities to /show/ us, with his face and body, what his character is thinking, rather than reading lines. It's a solid performance.
There are surprising technical errors. An explosion strong enough to blow out windows would also likely blow out the eardrums of anyone present. And it's unlikely that two gallons of hydrofluoric acid would be enough to dissolve a human body /and/ take out the tub and the floors beneath. It's such nasty stuff that it's /highly unlikely/ gallon jugs of it would be sitting in the supply room of a high-school chemistry lab.
* It took a while to figure this out. My initial reaction was that the actors were either miscast or poor actors. But the characterizations appear to be intentional.
Walts worlds are colliding and it's not good... August 2, 2010
M.V. (TX, USA)
Season 1 got you started and hooked on this season. Season 2 however, is pretty much having Walts worlds collide into each other. This is a superb show, you have to just go with it and see where it takes you.
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