The Breaking Bad Universe

Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and the El Camino film that closes the story.

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Where to start with The Breaking Bad Universe

Three things made across fourteen years, and release order is the right order for all of it. Better Call Saul begins six years before Breaking Bad but was written for people who already know how everybody ends up, and watching it first turns its best moments into scenes about strangers.

  1. 1
    Breaking Bad, series 1 Breaking Bad

    Seven episodes, cut short by the 2007 writers' strike, and still the cleanest hour-for-hour introduction to anything on this site. Nothing before it.

  2. 2
    El Camino (2019) El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie

    Picks up in the minutes after Breaking Bad's last scene and answers the one question it deliberately left open. Watch it straight after the finale or not at all. It means nothing on its own.

  3. 3
    Better Call Saul, series 1 Better Call Saul

    A prequel about a lawyer you already met, which is exactly why it works better second. Slower than Breaking Bad on purpose, and the patience is the point.

Then what? After that, Better Call Saul runs six series and its final one catches up to and passes Breaking Bad, so it is genuinely the last thing to watch even though it started as the earliest. The two shows share a fair amount of cast, and almost every appearance lands harder in this order than the other way round.

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The Series

  • Breaking Bad 2008, 5 seasons, 62 episodes
  • Better Call Saul 2015, 6 seasons, 63 episodes

Film

  • El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie 2019

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