"Just when you think it can't get any bigger, badder, darker, it all does," says Anna Gunn, the actress who plays "Breaking Bad's" Skyler White, during a Season 5 preview.

Well, that's just ... peachy.

After four meticulously crafted, soul-crushing seasons, AMC's complex tale of a science-teacher-turned-methamphetamine-producing-monster has emerged as the only real challenger to "Mad Men's" Emmy-plated throne.

"Breaking Bad's" anti-hero narrative is unique, too: While other dramas flirt with bleak possibilities, "Breaking Bad" gleefully drives off the cliff, hoping your eyes will still be open as the wreckage burns.