Breaking Bad is a crime drama franchise created by American filmmaker Vince Gilligan. The following is an abridged list of characters appearing across the productions.
Walter Hartwell White also known by his alias Heisenberg played by Bryan Cranston is an overqualified high school chemistry teacher from Albuquerque, New Mexico. After being diagnosed with lung cancer, he starts manufacturing methamphetamine to provide for his family upon his death.
Knowing nothing about the drug trade, he enlists the aid of his former student, Jesse Pinkman , to sell the meth he produces. Walter's scientific knowledge and dedication to quality leads him to produce crystal meth that is purer and more potent than any competitors'. To avoid the tedious collection of pseudoephedrine required for production, Walter devises an alternative chemical process utilizing methylamine , giving his product a distinctive blue color.
His methamphetamine, which is given the street name "Blue Sky", dominates the market, leading to confrontations with established drug makers and dealers. Walter is initially opposed to the use of violence, but gradually comes to see it as a necessity. He also comes to find his new status as a drug lord psychologically rewarding, leading him to become increasingly willing to resort to criminal acts such as theft, extortion , money laundering , depraved indifference , and murder.
Walter's descent, Macbeth -like, [ 1 ] into the criminal underworld unearths immense levels of deeply repressed ambition, rage, resentment, vanity, and an increasing ruthlessness which alienates him from his family and colleagues. She has had several meager sources of income: writing short stories, selling items on eBay , working as a bookkeeper, and ultimately helping her husband launder money.
