Breaking Bad
It's from 2008, when you were 2.
- Network
- AMC
- Genre
- Crime drama
- Creator
- Vince Gilligan
- Premiered
- 2008
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About
As of 2026, it's 18 years old.
Breaking Bad took one of television's all-time great pitches — a mild-mannered chemistry teacher with cancer starts cooking meth — and turned a meek man's transformation into a ruthless kingpin into one of the most acclaimed dramas ever made. 'Mr. Chips becomes Scarface,' as the creator put it.
Tense, immaculately plotted, and anchored by a career-defining Bryan Cranston, it perfected the slow-burn descent and gave the world a permanent warning to never make a chemistry teacher angry.
Gripping, precise, and morally pitch-black, Breaking Bad is the show that charted an ordinary man's fall so completely it became the gold standard for the antihero drama.
Breaking Bad season by season
Breaking Bad ran for 5 seasons (2008–2012) across 62 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
