'Breaking Bad' Turns 10: The MOMENTS that redefined television when Walter White broke BAD

Television viewing is a lot different than it was years ago, and especially one wouldn't cease to mention the brilliance of some vintage shows back then.

However, we belong to the fortunate generation to have been treated with probably the best TV series of all time, Breaking Bad.

The iconic show completed 10 years a couple of days ago and here are some moments which redefined television, when Mr. Walter White (Bryan Cranston) broke bad.

I have always loved TV shows that provide a glimpse of something extremely thrilling from the first frame itself and then you are enlightened that, even though real-time, you are being toyed with as a viewer, where you have no idea, why is there such hustle-bustle around. A semi-naked man driving an RV recklessly in a dessert-appearing area, with chemicals in the back makes you think instantly. And that was THE moment you knew, you're in for genius mayhem.

Talk about badass, thrill and goosebumps. Bryan Cranston aka Walter White, in a flicker of a few seconds turned from being a still-trying-to-adapt-to-drug business man to a hardcore methman! The way the camera was zoomed into Bryan's hand and a slo-mo woosh to breaking in on the ground leading to an explosion should have and would have given you goosebumps.

You may be enjoying yet another fantastic show these days in the form of Better Call Saul which stars actor, Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman. But, the origination of the same happened in Breaking Bad, where the shady, witty and funny lawyer Saul was introduced to us. We did not know we are in for some mad adventures between Saul, Walter and Jesse (Aaron Paul); but boy, did we enjoy them later!

I still remember how I had the chills for real when I saw this one. Infuriated with Jesse's changing attitude and a lot other things, Walt invaded Jesse's house only to find that both Jesse and Jane have passed out from their drug-intake session. Neither was Walt, nor was I expecting what followed, where Jane began to suffocate and vomit. However, Walt, who exactly knew what to do to save her did not do so. He let Jane die and just stood there watching by. Why? Because, she would be the obvious blackmailer, duh!

Just when we thought we had seen it all and there can never be someone as bad as Tuco (except Gus of course), we had the Salamanca Twins introduced to us. Up a desert road, the lookalike cousins go towards a candlelit shrine to Santa Muerte, a cultural representation of death. Guess what do they put there? A sketched portrait of the vintage, Heisenberg. They're ready to hunt down Walter White or rather Heisenberg, as we say.

No one, and I mean no one would have anticipated this one here. When I read about how the episode was merely titled 'Fly', I had many thoughts running in my mind on what to expect. Of course, I was wrong about everything, as I saw Walt and Jesse run around to catch a fly for 40 plus minutes, thus making it a standalone episode. But, it is the confessions and discussions that the duo have in the episode that makes Fly, an unconventionally genius episode to watch. This also became the first time, we saw Walt open Jane to Jesse. 

Easily, the second best season of the series, Season 4 had a ton of moments which will continue to stay fresh in the memory forever. However, in the most unanticipated of occurrences, the sixth episode of Season 4, Cornered had Walt being the badass, we knew he had become by now! Where Skylar (Anna Gunn) continues to worry about her family being affected by Walt's business, Walt makes things abundantly clear to her. In the most free-flowing way, we had one of the most iconic dialogues being mouthed by Walter White. What was it? Re-read the image above.  

Oh man! I still remember how I had my jaw-dropped at this one and couldn't help but re-watch it again, again and again! The cunning and dangerous Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) walked into the hospital, where Hector Salamanka stayed to once again announce his domination. But the writing, execution and sheer brilliance that the actor's produced in Gus' death scene will never be forgotten. Gus does his usual of torturing Hector asking him to look at the former, but he knows, just like everytime, that will not happen. But, guess what? Hector does and that's when Gus realizes something's terribly wrong. The continual bell-ringing by Hector makes Gus realize he is in danger. As soon as he gets up, BOOM! An explosion happens and surprisingly, we see Gus still coming out of the room fixing his tie. TILL, the camera takes his close-up; he has become Harvey two-face now and BAM! he falls dead. I am still jumping up and down writing about this.

An episode with two of the most iconic moments. Season 5 is clearly amongst the best of TV seasons of a particular series of all time. For the first time, you see Walt leading charge with Mike and Jesse in the background and Walt demands respect when he asks Declan to say his name. 'Heisenberg' he says and Walt replies, 'You're GODDAMN right!' This is how scene stealers are meant to be. The same episode also saw Walt kill Mike, which seemed inevitable, but happened in the most unanticipated of instances.

It would have been plain unfair to not include both these episodes, even though we intended ten moment. Here, I wouldn't say much. Why don't you just go see one of the emotionally chilling and Walter White's conclusion episodes yourself again? You will know.

At the end, I can simply conclude by saying that there never was and there never will be anything like 'Breaking Bad.'