"Breaking Bad" was not a traditional series, it was one of the most famous and most watched TV series of all time, so that two years after the end of it, another derivative of it was produced, "Better Call Saul".
Many expected this experience not to be successful, but the series achieved great success at the public level and at the level of awards it received, and it is still continuing until now and we are waiting for the next season.
In the last quarter of last year, Netflix announced the movie "El Camino", which tells how Jesse Pinkman escapes after the murder of Walter White, and the makers of "Breaking Bad" are still producing other works around the series, this time the company produced A short documentary series in which Giancarlo Esposito, the actor as Gus Fring, explains the fictional and realistic space between "Breaking Bad" and "It's Better to Connect with Soul" and reality.
World of Breaking Bad
The events of the series "Breaking Bad" revolve around Walter White, a chemistry teacher who discovers that he has lung cancer in its advanced stages, and since then begins his journey into the world of drugs, where he partners with Jesse Pinkman (his former student) to start their project in the manufacture of methamphetamine drugs, and the series is shown during this trip Glimpses of the life of drug traffickers, whether in America or on the other side in Mexico.
Several other central characters also appear in the series, all related to Walter White, starting with his wife Skyler and his cousin, police officer Hank Schrader, in addition to Gus Fring, one of the largest drug traffickers who has close ties to cartel gangs in Mexico, and he is based on the chain of restaurants he owns A curtain for him to do his trade, and after a while Walter White and Jesse enter the drug world, they get to know Gus Fring and start working relationships, and through that we get to know the world of drug trade in America and Mexico.
The character of Gus Fring
The character of Gus Fring has moved away from stereotyping and stereotyping for drug traffickers. The man has moved away from the stereotype that characterized gang members in the series in general or the series "Breaking Bad" in particular. Shirt, pants, and necktie most of the time and is keen on his appearance, and works hard in his restaurant, and he also supports charities for community service, and has extensive relationships even within the police force itself.
Truth and fiction
As for the series "The Broken and the Bad", which is shown on the digital platform "AMC" in the United States, it is a documentary that was released last July, and consists of only six episodes, in which the actor reveals Giancarlo Esposito, who as Gus Fring, said the distance between truth and fiction in "Breaking Bad" and "It is better to contact Sol."
Throughout the six episodes, the series introduces the psychology of drug gangs and mafia members, explains their methods of work and their dealings with each other, in addition to the economy based on drug trade in some countries, as well as reveals some strange diseases such as electromagnetic hypersensitivity that Chuck Miguel was suffering from. One of the heroes of the series "Better to Call Soul".
Some producers are not satisfied with the success of the series or their artistic work, but rather they manufacture other parts even if it does not need to be, and often this series ends with the failure of the new parts and the work loses a large part of its luster.
But the world of "Breaking Bad" was an exception. With the great success achieved by many people expected that the series derived from "Better to Call Soul" which surprised everyone with great success until its fifth season, and there is a great anticipation of the followers of the date of the sixth season of it, so that some Followers compare it to the original series it was derived from, something that counts for its manufacture.