JESSE PINKMAN

Jesse Pinkman is a character from the TV show Breaking Bad portrayed by Aaron Paul. He is a young drug dealer from Albuquerque who sets up a meth dealing business with Walter White (Bryan Cranston), his former chemistry teacher. We know he wasn’t a great student and that after high school he started taking drugs and eventually became a drug dealer. He was kicked out of his own house by his parents because of this; he comes from a middle-class (or upper) family who denies him in order to maintain appearances, and he has a little brother who despite giving an impression of the perfect kid, resembles his brother more than he should.

He is some kind of ‘street survivor’. He deals because he doesn’t know how to do anything else (plus he is very keen on the monetary profits of this business), and even though Mr. White considers him rather stupid, I would describe him as ‘street smart’, or ‘practical’, he doesn’t pay much attention to the consequences of his acts until he has already screwed up, he just seeks the easiest solution. However he is clever enough to not have been caught, so apparently most of the time he knows what he’s doing.

His most apparent for his cocky, sassy quotes and using street-like language to everybody, especially Mr. White (he keeps calling him that although he is not his teacher anymore). It is just impossible not to love him when he says this kind of things:

“I uh… I eat a lot of frozen stuff… It’s usually pretty bad, I mean the pictures are always so awesome, you know? It’s like “hell yeah, I’m starved for this lasagna!” and then you nuke it and the cheese gets all scabby on top and it’s like… it’s like you’re eating a scab… I mean, seriously, what’s that about? It’s like “Yo! What ever happened to truth in advertising?” You know?”

“Right on. New Zealand. That’s where they made Lord of the Rings. I say we just move there, yo. I mean, you can do your art, right? Like, you can paint the local castles and shit. And I can be a bush pilot.”

I have not finished the whole series but I could give some more information that would end up in spoilers so I won’t! :D

Jesse Pinkman es un personaje de la serie de televisión Breaking Bad interpretado por Aaron Paul. Se trata de un joven traficante de drogas de Albuquerque que empieza un negocio de tráfico de metadona con Walter White (Bryan Cranston), su antiguo profesor de química. Sabemos que no era el mejor estudiante y que al dejar el instituto empezó a consumir drogas y terminó convirtiéndose en traficante. Por esto, sus padres le echaron de casa; es de una familia de clase media-alta que acaba renegando de él para intentar mantener las apariencias, y tiene un hermano pequeño que a pesar de dar la imagen de ‘niño perfecto’, se parece más a él de lo que probablemente debería.

Es una especie de ‘superviviente de la calle’. Trafica porque no sabe hacer otra cosa (además de estar muy interesado en los beneficios monetarios del negocio), y aunque Mr. White le considera bastante estúpido, yo lo diría que es un ‘hombre de la calle’, espabilado cuando tiene que serlo, y práctico. No presta mucha atención a las consecuencias de sus actos hasta que ya no hay remedio, siempre busca la solución más rápida, pero es lo suficientemente inteligente para que no le hayan pillado así que la mayor parte del tiempo sabe lo que se hace.

Se le conoce sobre todo por su lenguaje arrogante y maleducado con todo el mundo, en especial Mr. White (le sigue llamando así aunque ya no es su profesor).

                No he terminado la serie aún pero podría dar más información que supondría spoilers así que, ¡no lo haré! :D