Breaking Bad: The Complete Series

The Ultimate Breaking Bad Experience Comes to Blu-ray™ Nov. 26

Collector’s Edition Full Series Set Features an All-New, Two-Hour Documentary and More Than 55 Hours of Special Features in a Collectible Replica Barrel with

Commemorative Memorabilia from Creator Vince Gilligan

BREAKING BAD follows protagonist Walter White (Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife (Gunn) and teenage son (Mitte) who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a slim chance to survive. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family’s financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how this fatal diagnosis transforms Walt from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.

 BREAKING BAD: THE COMPLETE SERIES Barrel Set Special Features Include:

No Half Measures: Creating the Final Season of Breaking Bad - An all-new, exclusive two hour documentary that chronicles the filming of the final eight episodes.

Additional bonus features include all previously released featurettes and retail exclusives:

Bad Memories – Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul talk about the show ending and some of their favorite moments.

Bryan Cranston: Director – Go on set with Bryan Cranston as he directs the first episode of the season entitled “Blood Money.”

Scene Envy – The Cast tell us which scene they wish they could have been in.

Shocking Moments - The stars reveal the moments that shocked them most.

From Walt to Heisenberg – From high school teacher to deadly meth dealer, watch as Walter White quickly transforms into Heisenberg.

How Will It End? – At the beginning of the season, the cast was asked to give their thoughts on how they thought the show would end.

Avenging Agent: Dean Norris as Hank Schrader – A look at the character Hank Schrader and the man who played him, Dean Norris.

Scene Stealer: Betsy Brandt as Marie Schrader – A look at the character Marie Schrader and the woman who plays her, Betsy Brandt.

A Criminal Attorney: Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman –A look at the character Saul Goodman and the man who played him, Bob Odenkirk.

Jesse’s Journey:  Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman – A look at the character Jesse Pinkman and the man who played him, Aaron Paul.

Skyler Breaks Bad:  Anna Gunn on Season Four – Actress Anna Gunn and series creator Vince Gilligan explore Skyler’s character evolution through the fourth season.

Growing Up in the White House:  RJ Mitte on Walter, Jr. – RJ Mitte, Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston and series creator Vince Gilligan discuss the extraordinary dynamics of the White family, and Walter, Jr.’s unique role.

The Ultimate Chess Match – Members of the cast and crew discuss Walter White and Gus Fring’s extraordinary and complicated battle of wits and their struggle for Jesse’s allegiance.

Looking Back:  A Season Four Retrospective - Season Four’s most surprising and memorable moments.

Ted’s Wipeout – In Episode 411, “Crawl Space,” Ted Beneke suffers a head injury while trying to escape from Saul’s goons.  In this featurette, Christopher Cousins (Ted) explains how this shocking stunt was accomplished.

The Truck Attack Storyboard Comparison – A side-by-side comparison of the Los Pollos Hermanos truck attack and the brilliant shot-by-shot storyboards that were created for the episode “Bullet Points.”

Walt and the Challenger Storyboard Comparison – A side-by-side comparison of the sequence where Walt indulges in some crazy stunt driving in Walt Jr.’s Dodge Challenger and the storyboards that were created.

In addition to releasing the complete set on Blu-ray, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release BREAKING BAD: THE FINAL SEASON on both Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet™ on Nov. 26. The final season includes the series’ final eight episodes and is loaded with special features, including all-new featurettes, cast and crew commentaries, deleted scenes and more. Episodes include: Blood Money, Buried, Confessions, Rabid Dog, To’hajiilee, Ozymandias, Granite State and Felina.

BREAKING BAD: THE FINAL SEASON Blu-ray Includes:

Blood Money” Table Read – A rare look at the only final season Breaking Bad table read.

BREAKING BAD: THE FINAL SEASON Blu-ray & DVD Include:

Cast and Crew Commentaries on Every Episode

4 Featurettes

The Main Event

The Final Showdown

Life of a Show Runner

Behind-the-Scenes of the Alternate Ending

Alternate Ending – A 3-minute alternate version of how Breaking Bad could have ended.

Deleted & Extended Scenes

Gag Reel

Walt’s Confession

The Layers of a Sound Mix

Over 15 Episodes of Inside Breaking Bad

Uncensored and Extended Episodes

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Boss TV - Breaking Bad

When Vince Gilligan pitched “Breaking Bad” to AMC, he presented a mission statement, which amounted to a monumental spoiler: he would turn Mr. Chips into Scarface. The show’s protagonist was Walter White (Bryan Cranston) is a high school chemistry teacher working a second job to support his family: his pregnant wife, Skyler (Anna Gunn), and his teenage son, Walt Jr. (R.J. Mitte), who has cerebral palsy. Desperately hard up for money and constantly put down by those around him, Walt reaches the breaking point when he's diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. He connects with former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to start making and selling methamphetamines in order to raise money for his struggling family.

Vince Gilligan has learned from his time on "The X-Files." That show gave Gilligan an education in how to get an audience hooked and keep them on the edge of their seats, and Gilligan has never forgotten those lessons. If anything, he and his writers have inventively expanded on them during "Breaking Bad's" nail-biting five-season run. There are elements of The Godfather and The Sopranos in Breaking Bad "If you're going to steal, steal from the best," says Gilligan.

Set against the dusty, acrid atmosphere of New Mexico, the perfect place for some meth cooking in the old camper van. At its core, “Breaking Bad” has charted the moral descent of its central character, Walter White, Cranston’s performance takes us on a journey with Walt -- from the henpecked husband and chemistry teacher to underpants sporting meth maker to would-be kingpin alter ego the murderous “Heisenberg” with his iconic pork pie hat, each step he takes up the criminal ladder has fed the monster within as he gets further and further from who he was. Even though Walter is the lead character, Jesse Pinkman is the heart of the show His character was supposed to be written off after the first seven episodes, but actor Aaron Paul absolutely nailed the character and turned him into a fan favorite.

His partnership with Walt is pure television gold as the two are such an unlikely pair, yet they actually compliment each other. Jesse is a dope addict and dealer who is stuck in an awful pattern of bad life choice after bad life choice. But his connections on the street provide the cash flow that Walter needs for this meth experiment to work. As for Albuquerque’s finest, his cooking provides Jesse with the best product he’s ever seen and lets him move up the chain in the local drug scene.

"All Bad things must come to an end."

That's the tagline for the second half of Breaking Bad's fifth and final season, which premieres August 11 on AMC. Vince Gilligan recently admitted that he wept after writing the final episode of the show. "I haven't told my crew this, I actually cried writing the end."

Breaking Bad season 5 concludes in August will be available only on Netflix in the UK.

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