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62 episodes. ~200 deaths. $80 million. Tracking the transformation from Mr. Chips to Scarface, one data point at a time.
01 THE CLIMB
Most TV shows peak early and coast. Breaking Bad did the opposite. The average rating climbed from 8.7 in Season 1 to 9.6 in Season 5. Only one episode dipped below 8.0.
IMDb Rating
Every episode, rated
02 THE BODY COUNT
Walter White started as a man who couldn't even stomach killing in self-defense. By the finale, his body count topped 200, direct and indirect. The Wayfarer 167 crash alone accounts for the Season 2 spike.
Deaths by Season
When the bodies started piling up
03 THE MONEY
Walt calculated exactly $737,000 to secure his family's future. He made 108 times that. Then lost almost all of it. The rise and fall of Heisenberg's empire, in dollars.
Net Worth
Walter White's fortune
04 THE EMPIRE
Bryan Cranston appears in all 62 episodes. 1,633 minutes of screen time. That's 27 hours of Walter White. Gus Fring, one of TV's greatest villains, had just 112 minutes. Impact isn't about time.
Screen Time (minutes)
Breaking Bad screen time, ranked
05 THE AUDIENCE
Breaking Bad premiered to 1.4 million viewers. The finale drew 10.28 million. A 636% increase. It was one of the first shows where Netflix streaming of old seasons supercharged live viewership.
Viewers (millions)
How Breaking Bad conquered America
06 THE RECORD BOOK
10.0
PEAK IMDB RATING
Ozymandias (S5E14). The only TV episode to ever hold a perfect 10 on IMDb.
99
METACRITIC SCORE
Season 5. Guinness World Record for highest-rated TV series of all time.
$80M
PEAK EARNINGS
Walter White's total cash at peak. 108x his original $737K goal.
~200
TOTAL DEATHS
Direct + indirect kills. Including 167 from the Wayfarer 167 plane crash.
636%
VIEWERSHIP GROWTH
From 1.4M pilot to 10.28M finale. The Netflix effect in action.
1,633
MINUTES OF WALT
Bryan Cranston's screen time. 27+ hours. Every single episode.
99.1%
METH PURITY
Heisenberg's signature blue. The purest product in the Southwest.
7.9
LOWEST RATED
Fly (S3E10). The bottle episode. The most polarizing hour of TV ever made.
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