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Breaking Bad (2008)

  • Crime
  • Drama
  • 5 seasons
  • 16 age guide
  • ★ 9.0/10 from 19,014 ratings

Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Created byVince Gilligan

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What to watch after Breaking Bad

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  1. 01

    Better Call Saul

    Same creator

    2015 · Crime · Drama

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    Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Ehrmantraut. The series tracks Jimmy’s transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".

    Why it connects

    • the same creator
    • strong shared themes: albuquerque, new mexico and criminal lawyer
    • similar audience response
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  2. 02

    Pluribus

    Same creator

    2025 · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.

    Why it connects

    • the same creator
    • strong shared themes: albuquerque, new mexico and dark comedy
    • similar audience response
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  3. 03

    Narcos

    Similar atmosphere

    2015 · Crime · Drama

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    A gritty chronicle of the war against Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.

    Why it connects

    • strong shared themes: cartel and dark
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  4. 04

    The Shield

    Similar atmosphere

    2002 · 45 min · Action & Adventure · Crime · Drama

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    The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.

    Why it connects

    • strong shared themes: drug dealer and drugs
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  5. 05

    The Wire

    Similar atmosphere

    2002 · Crime · Drama

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    Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  6. 06

    Fargo

    Similar atmosphere

    2014 · Crime · Drama

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    A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared themes: criminal and dark comedy
    • similar audience response
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  7. 07

    Hannibal

    Similar atmosphere

    2013 · 45 min · Crime · Drama

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    Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him with a highly respected psychiatrist – a man with a taste for the criminal minded – Dr. Hannibal Lecter.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  8. 08

    Narcos: Mexico

    Similar atmosphere

    2018 · Crime · Drama

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    See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.

    Why it connects

    • strong shared themes: dark and drug lord
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • similar audience response
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  9. 09

    Animal Kingdom

    Similar atmosphere

    2016 · 50 min · Crime · Drama

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    17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" Cody and her right-hand Baz, who runs the business and calls the shots, the clan also consists of Pope, the oldest and most dangerous of the Cody boys; Craig, the tough and fearless middle son; and Deran, the troubled, suspicious "baby" of the family.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  10. 10

    Queen of the South

    Similar atmosphere

    2016 · 42 min · Crime · Drama

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    Teresa flees Mexico after her drug-runner boyfriend is murdered. Settling in Dallas, she looks to become the country's reigning drug smuggler and to avenge her lover's murder.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared themes: cartel and drugs
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