So my wife and I started watching the first few episodes of Breaking Bad over the weekend. I really liked it and my wife liked it but was put off by what she termed “the gore.” Essentially, she’s talking about what fell out of the tub and the cleanup afterwards. So the question is, does the show, in general, have a lot of “gore” or will she be able to watch it with me?
Some here and there, but mostly not at that level.
there is plenty of black humor in the show, makes it outstanding.
not gory.
The show can be very intense at times, including scenes with violence and gore. I’m not much for all of that, but I just peek through my fingers at times like those, because a)these scenes aren’t gratuitous- they are very germane to the story and b)it’s such a good show that it’d be a shame to skip it because of sensitivities.
There really isn’t a lot of gore later on, I think the early deaths are necessary to show Walts transformation.
That said, you better get use to seeing him in his tighty whiteys cause that doesn’t stop. 
Thanks for the replies so far.
I agree the black humor and the intensity of the show are part of what makes it great. I don’t think my wife minds the violence so much as the cleaning up of a partially dissolved body.
Yeah, thats not typical of the rest of the show.
Just tell her to stop watching now. Part of the fun of this show is just how instantaneously shocking it can be. Your wife is not going to like it.
Hmm…she might want to skip the latest episode…
But yea, all things considered the gory bits are pretty few and far between.
Shocking, certainly, but I don’t think there’s a lot of gore in seasons 2-4. The shock value is more along the lines of “Did he just do THAT?”
Hey, my wife and I just started watching too! And by “just started” I mean “tore through 15 episodes in a week because the show’s that good.”
The bathtub has definitely been the goriest thing on the show as far as I’ve seen, by a mile. Second place where we’re at, which is halfway through season 2, would probably be the beheading of Tortuga and the bombing of the DEA agents therewith.
It is an intense show, though. My wife frequently says, “This makes me so anxious, I can’t take it!” My mother says the show is about “how bad decisions follow bad decisions, one after another, and everything goes wrong.”
On your spoiler: Well, yeah, there is that. I guess it slipped my mind.
And I think your mom is dead on. Think of everyone you know who ever ruined their life. It’s not about one turning point; it’s bad choices begetting bad choices. Most of us fall into a net somewhere on the way down, but not all of us.
Well, there is one scene which may be avoidable, but describing it involves some fairly major spoilers so I’m not sure what to say.
In spoiler box, remaining as nonspecific as possible:
At one point, someone’s throat is cut open and we watch him struggle and bleed out while another person, while someone else holds his head at an angle to force the neck wound to remain open.
I don’t even know how to warn you when the scene is coming without giving away some plot…
That won’t be the only body that will require disposal. Also if your wife has problems with intense scenes, there are some real doozies coming up. To me that’s what makes the show so good. Moments of incredible suspense, great acting, great characters, and unpredictable plot development. You’re always wondering what will happen next. Can’t wait for the final season to start.
There’s also *that *scene. You know which one I mean. But you really can’t say anything about *that *one without giving away the surprise.
Thanks everyone and thanks for keeping things spoilered.
If you ignore the intense scenes that are intense due to the violence, there are not IMO a large number of really “gross” scenes overall.
Maybe you could watch them first, then watch them again with the wife and you can give her a heads up right before the really bad stuff happens? This show is SOOO good I would often watch and episode once and then watch it again a short time later to really appreciate it and catch all the stuff I missed the first time around.
Thanks everyone. She just read the thread and said she wants to keep on watching it.
I’ll keep you posted. 
The violence and bloodshed in Breaking Bad is more viscerally displeasing than truly gory. There’s nothing as explicit as the scene you mention in your OP, but the show does come close a few times, especially in the first and last episodes of the 4th season.
Here’s some ultra-vague, non-specific incidents that you might find disturbing:
2.01
A man, having been beaten unconscious, lies bloodied on the ground as he foams at the mouth, struggles to breathe, and then dies.
2.06
A man’s head is crushed. You see the crushing implement fall on his head, and see him twitch, but there’s little if any blood.
2.07 (mildly spoiler-ish)
A tortoise walks slowly across the desert as men watch from a distance. They rush to investigate when they notice a decapitated head seated on the tortoise’s shell; when they get close to the head-on-a-tortoise, it explodes, sending some of the men flying and tearing the leg off of one, who sits and clutches at his stump.
3.03
A man is pinned to a table and his head is severed with a machete. The incident is shot from such an angle that very little blood is seen, but the camera is also very close to his face, and you can see, briefly, that his head moves in a very disturbing way, a way in which normal heads do not usually move unless they’re being hacked off, presumably.
3.07 (not specific, but hugely spoiler-ish)
A man is shot three times. Another man’s legs are crushed when he’s pinned between two cars. A shot of a man lying on the ground, bloodied, grabbing a bullet with fingers that are slick with, you guessed it, blood. The back of a man’s head is blown off and blood and brain material is thrown onto the camera lens.
3.08
A man with zero legs crawls across a linoleum floor, smearing blood all behind him, which somebody will now certainly have to clean up.
3.12
Two men are hit by something that’s pretty large. One does a cartwheel ten feet into the air, while the other is rolled violently beneath the object, resulting in a lot of tangled limbs. A man is shot in the face and it’s pretty bloody, but nothing the modern viewing public would find extreme.
4.01
A man’s throat is cut and arterial blood spurts everywhere, soaking a few people who are watching him die. He takes awhile to expire, all breathing and clutching at his throat. It’s gross, but not so gross that you won’t be able to eat breakfast, apparently.
4.08
A man is shot in the head. Spurting blood, falls down. Another man is forced to look at the corpse while the blood is still flowing.
4.13
An explosion rips a man’s face off. The man walks a short distance, adjusts his tie, and then falls dead. Now he’s clearly dead, as you can tell by the lack of a face, and we don’t have to spend seven or eight months wondering, “Hey, is he really dead? Isn’t it curious how we didn’t see him during the explosion? Maybe the bomb tilted away at the last second.”
The last one 4.13 is spoilerish enough that the OP should NOT read it. Its one of the best suprises on TV in the last few years.
Don’t read it OP! PLEASE!