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Shows that feel likeBreaking Bad (2008–2013)

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.

If you loved Breaking Bad, the closest series we have are Better Call Saul (2015), Fargo (2014) and Six Feet Under (2001). All three share Breaking Bad's contemplative and darkly funny feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Time (2021).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 9.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗5 seasons · AMCcreated by Vince Gilligancontemplativegrittydarkly funnymelancholy
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If Breaking Bad hit the spot, these will too

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Better Call Saul
2015–2022 · 6 seasons · AMC
★ 9crime · dramaNetflix

The same universe's other tragedy — a good man talking himself into the fall

The difference: Slower burn, character-first

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".

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Fargo
2014–2024 · 5 seasons · FX
★ 8.8crime · dramaHulu

Ordinary people making one bad choice in a merciless moral universe

The difference: Anthology snow-noir, Coen irony

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

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Six Feet Under
2001–2005 · 5 seasons · HBO
★ 8.7dramaMax

Common ground: dark comedy

The difference: Trades the grit of Breaking Bad for an angle of its own

When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as—and far less predictable than—the one inside.

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Time
2021– · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.1drama · crime

The same preoccupation in both: drugs

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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Weeds
2005–2012 · 8 seasons · Showtime
★ 7.9comedy · crime · dramaParamount+

A suburban parent turning to the drug trade and getting good at it

The difference: Comedy first, and it never risks anything real

After the unexpected death of her husband, a suburban mom resorts to selling weed to support her family.

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Pluribus
2025– · 1 season · Apple TV
★ 7.9drama · sci-fi & fantasyApple TV+

The same creators, the same interest in one stubborn person against everything

The difference: Science fiction and a joke at its centre

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

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Barry
2018–2023 · 4 seasons · HBO
★ 8.3comedy · crime · dramaMax

A man who is very good at something terrible and wants a different life

The difference: Comedy structure, and it goes stranger places

A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

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Broadchurch
2013–2017 · 3 seasons · ITV1
★ 8.3crime · drama · mysteryNetflixPeacock

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Breaking Bad does

The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.

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Sons of Anarchy
2008–2014 · 7 seasons · FX
★ 8.5crime · dramaHulu

Family loyalty twisted around a criminal enterprise

The difference: Biker-club Shakespeare, operatic

The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.

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Peaky Blinders
2013–2022 · 6 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.7drama · crimeNetflix

A brilliant man building an empire that costs him his soul

The difference: Period Birmingham gangland style

A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.

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Narcos
2015–2017 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.7crime · dramaNetflix

The drug trade's machinery from product to power

The difference: Documentary-flavored cartel saga

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

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13 Reasons Why
2017–2020 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.4drama · mysteryNetflix

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

High school student Clay Jensen lands in the center of a series of heartbreaking mysteries set in motion by a friend's tragic suicide.

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