Breaking Bad: What Does That Phrase Actually Mean?

This is the first part of a weeklong series of Breaking Bad-related stories, all leading up to the series finale airing this Sunday. Tomorrow: Breaking Bad Unseen: What You May Have Missed Here’s a question that’s been hovering in the Breaking Bad fandom for years, but now worth revisiting as the series’ finale is almost upon us: What does it actually mean to break bad? Show creator Vince Gilligan has said (as in the video above) that he had thought it was a commonly used phrase when he de...