Bryan Cranston’s GIF Masterclass of Face Acting

Some actors don’t need words. Some actors don’t need to say a thing and you can tell exactly what their character’s going through emotionally and mentally. Tuesday’s guest Bryan Cranston is the emperor of those actors.

Few can pull off a complex emotion (or more likely, gamut of emotions) using just their facial expressions quite like Cranston. In fact, had he been around, Bryan Cranston would have likely been a Chaplin-level silent film star in the ’20s before those damn talkies took over. Especially as Walter White, Cranston held an episodic masterclass on facial understatement. What better way to celebrate understatement than with the internet’s greatest tool for displaying understatement: GIFs!

Here is the complete course for Cranston’s “Breaking Bad” face-acting masterclass. Each moment is a lesson unto itself, and by the end, you too can be the one who knocks (people out with their face acting).

Lesson 1: The Silent “F*ck Yeah!”

Lesson 2: The Oh God Oh God Oh God OH GOD

Lesson 3: The Accidentally Texted Mom A Dick Pic

Lesson 4: The You Animals, You Blew It Up!

Lesson 5: The Sunday Morning

Lesson 6: The Best Part of Waking Up…

Lesson 7: The Sneaky Pete

Lesson 8: The 2 Girls 1 Cup Reaction Video

Lesson 9: The Hearing Someone Improperly Use “Literally”

Lesson 10: The Giants Fan

Lesson 11: The Mother In-Law Chews With Her Mouth Open

Lesson 12: The Staring Contest With the Abyss

Lesson 13: The Mona Lisa Death