He partners with one of his former students, the lovable burnout Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul).
Vince Gilligan’s propulsive drama brought us one of TV’s most notorious antiheroes in Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a high school chemistry teacher who unlocks his capacity for brutality when he starts making and distributing meth. He partners with one of his former students, the lovable burnout Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Over five seasons, they descend into the dangers and horrors of the drug trade and get entangled with the cartel. Once you finish the series, you can check out its prequel, Better Call Saul, which tracks the transformation of scrappy attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) into the flashy criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. If you love stories of moral decline, you can’t get much better than these two.