Breaking Bad gets better with each episode

Last night finished Season 3 of "Breaking Bad," and find it's a series that gets better with each episode. Initially I had some trouble buying into the premise - Walt is a high-school chem teacher diagnosed with terminal cancer who gets into cooking meth to raise a great deal of cash for the family he will leave behind, and then inevitably gets in way over his head with various drug runners and gangs - but over time came to care less about the likelihood of the premise and more about Walt and the other characters and what will happen to them. Walt (Bryan Crandall) is an underplayed, serious, analytic guy - not the typical protagonist of a TV series, especially a drug/crime series (and it's not a "comedy," despite the weird genre labeling sometimes attached). Other characters are adequate or better, but the series is really his. What's most striking of all, to me, is the writing - highly smart, literary, some very long monologues that are almost unique in TV, in any medium. Many of these episodes could be stage plays, and certainly some of the dialogs/monologues could be used very well for auditions or for acting workshops. One episode in particular, Fly, is a classic in that the entire 47-minute episode has only two speaking characters, most of the time in a meth lab, and it's completely captivating - again, could be done very effectively on stage. A strong series, and we await availability of Season 4.