cover art  Breaking Bad  Season Four Premiere Creator: Vince
Gilligan Cast: Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Aaron Paul, Dean
Norris, Giancarlo Esposito Regular airtime: Sundays, 10pm ET
(AMC; US: 17 Jul 2011)  Review [26.Jan.2008]  Following a Recipe
Season Three of Breaking Bad ended with Walter White (Bryan
Cranston) and Jesse (Aaron Paul) on opposite ends of different
guns. Deemed expendable by his boss, meth kingpin Gus (Giancarlo
Esposito), Walter had rigged an insurance policy: as he faced
his apparent end, he had instructed Jesse to kill his
replacement, the hapless Gale (David Costabile). Jesse pulled
his trigger as the show cut to black.  Everyone in Breaking Bad
is transformed. Walt’s own change from harried high school
chemistry teacher to ruthless entrepreneur spurred a chain
reaction, affecting friends and family. His embrace of his
darkness begs the question whether he merely revealed who he
always was—all repressed rage and aggression and dishonesty—or
whether his desperation (initiated by his can