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The Breaking Bad Season 1 DVD includes all 7 episodes of the 2008 season on 3 discs. Bryan Cranston stars as Walter White, a chemistry teacher who starts cooking meth with former student Jesse Pinkman after a cancer diagnosis. Extras include two commentaries, a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and screen tests. In stock and dispatched within 2 business days, so add it to your cart today.
| Format | DVD |
|---|---|
| Discs | 3 |
| Studio | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Released | June 7, 2011 |
| Run time | 5 hours and 46 minutes |
| Condition | Not specified |
| Availability | In stock |
The Breaking Bad Season 1 DVD set holds all 7 episodes of the first season, which aired on AMC from January 20 to March 9, 2008. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released this three-disc set on February 24, 2009, with two audio commentaries, deleted scenes and screen tests.
As a standard DVD, it plays in any DVD player and in Blu-ray players as well. The episodes have Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, closed captions and optional French, Portuguese and Spanish subtitles.
Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a high school chemistry teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When he is diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer and given about two years to live, he partners with former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to cook crystal meth and provide for his family.
Anna Gunn plays his wife, Skyler, with Dean Norris as Hank Schrader, Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader and RJ Mitte as Walter White Jr. Season one was planned at nine episodes, but the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike cut it to seven.
The first season made an immediate impression. Bryan Cranston won the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the pilot, and Lynne Willingham won an Emmy for picture editing.
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Breaking Bad Season 1 DVD: Questions Buyers Ask
Why does Breaking Bad Season 1 have only 7 episodes?
The 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike cut the season from nine episodes to seven.
How many discs are in the set?
Three DVDs, with about 346 minutes of episodes.
Will it play in a Blu-ray player?
Yes. Blu-ray players also play standard DVDs, so this Breaking Bad Season 1 DVD works in either type of player.
Which Emmy did season one win?
Bryan Cranston won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and the season also won for picture editing.
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Rapid delivery and quality product. Very good.
Rapid delivery and quality product. Very good.
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The start of one of the very best series of all time
What can be said about this spectacular saga that hasn’t been said before? One of the very
few series that competes with the best films in history for achievement in cinematic storytelling.
Like a great novel slowly unfolding, it’s funny, heartbreaking, incredibly tense, deeply disturbing.
A nebbishy high-school science teacher finds he has lung cancer, so becomes a meth dealer to
make money for his family before his death. Often visually stunning, with a breathtaking
performance by Brian Cranston in the lead, and great work from all the supporting roles,
this portrait of a man’s decent into hell couldn’t be much better, and it just grows darker and
more disturbing each year.
In a way, thematically it recalls “The Godfather I and II” in how that epic charts Michael’s journey
from innocence to darkness, along with the moral murkiness of the endless drive for money
and success – how we lose ourselves, so that succeeding and having ever more becomes an
end in itself for which we will pay any price, rather than a route to happiness, trapping us in a
game we can never win.
It may take a few episodes to get into, in this first season there was a lot of groundwork to lay,
but you owe it to yourself to try. This is powerful, important and utterly enthralling stuff.
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Lives up to expectations
This is the second of two AMC series I went to catch up with, because this and “Mad Men” were constantly winning awards, and my favorites were being left in the dust. Both series had a hurdle for me. How can I possibly empathize with a meth manufacturer and dealer (the two lead roles). As it turns out, the story line is so inventive and so believable that it is hard not be be drawn into the perils of these characters which are so totally under water. The story on the face of it is so tense, that the show’s creator had to add to the premise the fact that the brother in law of the Walter White (Brian Cranston) is a lead DEA agent, and, in most regards, a pretty good one. Perhaps one of the only improbabilites of the first season is that this DEA agent comes so close to gathering evidence which implicates Walter, but he doesn’t catch on.
Perhaps the most compelling aspect of the story is seeing the extent to which people will do totally out of character things, things which are not only illegal (as one may think about drug business as a victimless crime), but violently illegal, including multiple murders. The acting by Cranston and Brian Paul, his “dealer” is superb, worthy of their Emmy wins. I must also give a good word for Raymond Cruz, who does a character far, far different from his police detective role on “The Closer / Major Crimes”. The tension between his character Tuco and Walter White holds one’s attention like little I’ve seen elsewhere.
This is not for everyone, but watching one or two episodes shows why this one wins awards, and shows such as “White Collar”, “Royal Pains”, and “Suits” do not.