Breaking Bad o del diventare se stessi

Many keys of interpretation have been proposed in these months for Breaking Bad, the popular award-winning tv show: the Walter White’s descent to hell; the turning of the hero into an anti-hero; the powerless man’s nietzschenean Will of Power; the possibility of understanding life’s meaning through death… many different ways to gain un understanding of the plot. Here the authors point out a different line of interpretation: chemistry as the main Walter White’s interest and as the core motion of the entire series. This conversation with Alessandro Alfieri, which took place in 2014 during Popsophia Festival’s edition, is an attempt to interpret the plot through a philosophy of chemistry