The Emmy Award-winning television series Breaking Bad put Albuquerque on the map. But for less-than-desirable reasons. While the police force came off well in the show, the weekly raids on dilapidated, drug-infested motels or flophouses made the city look bad. Then a few years later, in 2008, another TV show began filming in the New Mexico city and starred Bryan Cranston as Walter White, a middle-aged high-school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
In order to secure his family's financial future, he teams up with one of his students, Jesse Pinkman, to begin manufacturing crystal meth