10 Shows We Thought Would Be the Next ‘Breaking Bad'

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On January 20, 2008, AMC debuted Vince Gilligan’s Neo-Western crime drama, and little did anyone know, it was history in the making. Breaking Bad took the concept of a heroic protagonist and swapped him out for a newfound antihero like never before. The series took comedic actor Bryan Cranston and had him embody the character of Walter White, an over-qualified, dispirited high-school chemistry teacher struggling with a recent diagnosis of stage-three lung cancer. To keep his family afloat financially before he dies, Walter breaks bad, turning to a life of crime and partnering with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), to produce and distribute methamphetamine. Chronicling Walter’s moral downfall and rise into a drug kingpin, Breaking Bad cooked up the recipe to become the greatest drama of all time.

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