I just finished watching the entire series, front to back, with my wife. We watched two or three episodes each night on consecutive nights. I don't know a television series that has characters as well developed as *Breaking Bad*. Every character is fully rounded and complex. Walter goes from being a milktoast, hen-pecked husband to being a full-blown psychopath, and yet the character remains interesting and even sympathetic to a degree. Jesse is just pathetic from start to finish, a true loser in every sense of the word, but at the same time a nice guy with a sense of loyalty and basic decency. Skyler is a bitch. Love him or leave him, Skyler, but stop blaming him for your own decisions. The gimpy son whose name I forget was the weakest character in my view. He was just there, kind of dumb all the time. My wife thought he might be retarded. I don't blame her. Hank was great, a real bulldog, loud and rough but pretty decent. His wife Marie was the least likeable character, with the exception of Skyler, who was truly hateable. The writers gave her a shop-lifting problem, but never really did anything with it, which was a disappointment. The old guy in the wheelchair was a hoot. Ding-ding-ding!