Can't wait to see this one!

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/19/mythbusters-breaking-bad-trailer/
 
I love Breaking Bad, but as with anything involving science, it often leaves you wondering how exaggerated that stuff is - especially when you're like me and chemistry and all that fun stuff has never been your forte. 
 
I'm glad that the Mythbusters decided to put a couple of those things to the test.

I've never seen Breaking Bad. Isn't that the one about the science teacher who makes crack? The concept sounded a little thin to me, which is why I never watched it. Should I?

I’ve been teaching college level chemistry classes now since the late 90’s.  The students over the years … after they became comfortable with me, would start asking questions that were outside the scope of the class and at one time, fun to answer.
 
I started taking notice sometime around 2006 or 2007 that the nature of the questions that I got asked (the off the wall questions that you get after class) changed.
 
They shifted from fairly innocuous stuff to things that I think were weighing very heavily upon these kids to things that just outright disturbed me.  I make this observation because some of the questions would come from the show Breaking Bad (and I will add that I have never seen the show) and movies like Fight Club.  To keep things in perspective, my recent students had been watching Breaking Bad all through high school (i.e., starting at 13 or 14).
 
But, beyond the macabre (and unsettling) questions with their roots in the HBO series and various movies, the stuff that really got me were the questions I would get about the drugs these kids had been taking since they were little (e.g., Ritalin).

I haven't seen Breaking Bad either.
 
Until the seventies getting a bottle of cinnamon from the pharmacist to soak toothpicks in was the
extent of my chemical experiments.
 

Yes. I am sad that this is the end of the show. This is the best drama ever produced for TV in my opinion. Maybe not for everyone's taste. If interested though, I would recommend renting or buying the prior seasons. Start at episode one.

bitflipper
I never watched it. Should I?

Only if you're a fan of superior acting and writing.  Seriously, this is one of the finest, and most original, shows ever aired.  It's somewhat of a miracle that, given its subject matter, it ever got a green light.  But it is dark ... starts a little dark and gets progressively more so.  It does not, however, glorify the crystal meth culture in any way.  But the users of the drug portrayed are such low-life scum that you don't feel particularly outraged at what our dark hero is engaged in.
 
So give it a try ... but starting at episode one is essential.