Critic Reviews

For all its bleakness and darkness, there's a glowing exhilaration about this series: It's a feel-good show about feeling really bad.

Breaking Bad is extraordinary, and if the rest of the season matches Sunday, an Emmy nomination for best drama seems certain.

The first three episodes of Season 2 that AMC sent out continue that level of achievement with no evident missteps.

This show--still TV's best--remains utterly true to itself.

Soak in the visuals, listen to the mesmerizing use of sound. The writing and acting will lure you in, but have appreciation for all the details that go into making this series so great.

The show keeps delivering the kind of mind-expanding dramatic highs that ought to require a prescription.

The Show has evolved into a modern underworld Western--there's nothing else like it. [18 Jul 2011, p.41]

Either appropriately or ironically for a show about meth cookers, Bad is simply one of TV's great addictions.

They know how great the show looks, they know how much their actors can give them, and they know just how much they can get away with.

Breaking Bad is unquestionably one of the greatest dramas in TV history. What it should be rewarded and applauded for is the wanton willingness to throw the concomitant success of all that away in the service of the story.