Breaking Bad did just that.The series, which debuted on AMC in January 2008, followed a high school chemistry teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) who begins cooking meth with his former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) after learning he has stage-three lunch cancer.The drama, created by Vince Gilligan got off to a slow start with critics, but by the second season, became one of the most talked-about shows on television.