Is Breaking Bad Shakespearean?

Someone on the radio was talking about the greatness of Season 4 of "Breaking Bad," particularly the last several episodes, and he said these episodes are practically Shakespearean. That overstates the case by a wide measure - go back and read or see a production of Hamlet of King Lear and then tell me whether Breaking Bad or anything on TV measures up, even though I believe that if Sh. were alive today he would write for series television, which offers the greatest possible range for a brilliant writer to use and explore his or her talent and vision - O, for a muse of fire! - but Breaking Bad Season 4 is highly entertaining, very tense, some finely crafted dramatic scenes, and a deepening sense of the character and the complexity, even the sinister aspects, of Walter White (Bryan Crandall) in particular but also his partner in crime, Jesse (Aaron Paul). The ending, like the end of Season 3, is puzzling and eerie and mysterious and will have you talking and thinking back and trying to figure things out. I would say that, as with many high-drama series that carry a plot over several seasons the final episodes of the season are a little too tied tight to the mast of plot mechanics: a lot of strings to draw together, random plot elements to explain, etc. The plotting that moves the season to its conclusion is a bit preposterous, once you think about it (which you don't while watching) - in fact it depends on so many unlikelihoods that it could never play out in reality as it does on the screen - but we, or at least I, am very forgiving because of the high entertainment value and the building depth and complexity of the characters that creator Vince Gilligan has mastered over the course of 4 seasons, and I eagerly await the 5th.