It’s a pitch so famous that it’s more like an origin myth: A guy walks into the executive offices of AMC and says, "Hey, want to see something awesome? I’m going to take Mr. Chips and turn him into Scarface."
This is the baby-in-the-manger beginning of Vince Gilligan’s hit series Breaking Bad, and over the past five years, the proposed radical transformation of sympathetic chemistry teacher Walter White to meth-cooking kingpin has not gone underserved.
(Warning: major spoilers after the jump. If you want to catch up with the show go here, and come back. Otherwise, please peruse more Eye content.)
