Breaking Bad - the only series to get consistently better episode by episode

I will join the chorus and sing in praise of the final season of AMC's Breaking Bad - if there was ever a series that got consistently better season by season and even episode by episode it's this one. This final season once again contains great drama, with all the characters in crisis - as Hank moves in on Walt and tries to arrest him while protecting his sister-in-law Skylar, not realizing, at least yet, how deeply involved Skylar is in the crimes. Each of the first three episodes has tremendous surprises - e.g., the DVD "confession" that Walt records, which has everyone, I'm sure, completely fooled until Hank and Marie play it at home and we see Walt's message, or threat - and scenes that could be studied and played out in any acting workshop anywhere: a great example being the long diner scene with just Skylar and Hank - he doing most of the talk, trying to convince her that he can protect her if she'll just tell him about Hank's crimes, and we just watch her face go through a transformation as she croaks out that she thinks she needs a lawyer, and Hank just can't understand - tremendous scene. It would be a great scene to improvise of course - give the two actors their basic condition and motivation and see if he can persuade her and if she can resist without drawing down too much suspicion. Clearly, over the course of the season, we are seeing Walt (and Skylar) as increasingly monstrous, but in that crazy way of this series also as utterly conventional and fiercely protective family. As M pointed out, it's the counterpoint to the Sopranos, in which in this case an ordinary, good, high-minded, somewhat nebishy man becomes increasingly evil - a villain in sheepish clothing.