10 Insane TV Theories You Won't Believe

4. The Breaking Bad Colours Theory

People had a lot to say about the use of colour in Breaking Bad. People had a lot to say about Breaking Bad in general, although usually those conversations didn't stretch to anything more intellectually taxing than "I can't believe so-and-so died!" or "I can't believe you haven't watched Breaking Bad yet!"

Like any show that's party to that much hysteria and analysis, however, there were people looking a little deeper with their constant chatter about the series which saw the dad from Malcolm In The Middle turning to the crystal meth business in order to support his family as he dies of cancer. Then he starts wearing a magic hat that makes him PURE EVIL. Also, Eminem's his partner in crime. That's pretty much the jist of it, right?

Anyway, the theory goes that colour is very, very important in Breaking Bad. It's not just something that a set designer and costume person throws together randomly, but a calculated effort to foreshadow certain events before they happen. For example: yellow tends to represent the meth business, appearing any time something druggy occurs (the boiler suits they cook in, basically everything Gus wears has yellow, Marie is wearing yellow when Hank realises Walt is Heisenberg).

Purple is Marie's usual colour, however, with the Schrader house being almost exclusively decked out in it; orange means danger, as in the colour Gus wears when he box cuts that dude's throat and the uniforms worn by all the prisoners Walt orders to be shivved; and pink represents tragedy, as in the raggedy bear that falls from that plane wreck, which led many to expect a sticky end for the Whites' infant baby daughter Holly...