Breaking Bad Breaking Bad Breaking Bad is an American neo-western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show originally aired on AMC for five seasons, from January 20, 2008 to September 29, 2013. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling and depressed high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with lung cancer. Together with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), White turns to a life of crime by producing and selling crystallized methamphetamine to secure his family's financial future before he dies, while navigating the
Aaron Paul castmate Bryan Cranston both got "Breaking Bad" tattoos on the last day of filming; Paul had 'no half measures' tattooed onto his bicep, while Cranston got the show's logo tattooed on one of his fingers. In 2013, Paul and his wife helped raise $1.8 million for the Kind Campaign, a non-profit anti-bullying organization. The winners of the contest won a trip to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery screening of the final episode of "Breaking Bad". During a ceremony at the Egyptian Theatre in Boise, Idaho, Idaho governor Butch Otter declared October 1 "Aaron Paul Sturtevant Day". Aaron Paul Aaron Paul Sturtevant