20 TV Shows Like Breaking Bad (And Where To Watch Them)

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Breaking Bad is one of the most successful series of the 2000s. Created by Vince Gilligan, the crime drama show stars Bryan Cranston in the iconic role of Walter White. Read on to discover our favourite series that are similar to Breaking Bad, with details on where you can stream each of these TV shows like Breaking Bad online in the UK!

Crime Dramas Like Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad’s prequel series Better Call Saul is a great place to start if you’re looking for similar shows. The series begins six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. Other notable crime dramas that are in our top 20 are The Sopranos and The Continental: From The World Of John Wick.

Shows About Drugs

When Walter White is diagnosed with cancer, he begins making and distributing methamphetamines in order to provide for his family. This is a pivotal part of Breaking Bad’s storyline. There are a few other TV series that deal with similar themes such as Narcos and Wentworth. For a slightly lighter tone, there’s also the Netflix series How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast), which is a German show but available with English dubbing and subtitles.

Ethically Questionable Characters

One of the things that makes Breaking Bad so good is the character arc of the show’s protagonist, Walter White. From a suburban chemistry teacher to a notorious drug dealer, Walter becomes an unimaginable version of the man we meet in the first episode.

In a similar vein Dr Gregory House, the star of House, is a drug-addicted diagnostician with a flare for unorthodox practises and a heartless attitude towards his patients. Likewise, the comedy drama Nurse Jackie follows an alcoholic emergency medicine nurse in a busy hospital.

20 TV Shows Like Breaking Bad

These are our top picks of shows like Breaking Bad. They include a range of crime dramas, ethically questionable characters and dark comedy series.

Where To Watch These TV Shows Like Breaking Bad Online

These TV shows are available to stream on a range of streaming platforms. For example, you can watch Ozark and Bloodline on Netflix, Fallout on Amazon Prime Video and The Sopranos on Sky. Check out the full list of TV shows like Breaking Bad below, including all the details on where and how to stream them online!

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  1. Better Call Saul

    Better Call Saul

    2015

    #1

    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".

  2. Narcos

    Narcos

    2015

    #2

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

  3. Ozark

    Ozark

    2017

    #3

    A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.

  4. How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)

    #4

    To win back his ex-girlfriend, a nerdy teen starts selling ecstasy online out of his bedroom -- and becomes one of Europe's biggest dealers.

  5. The Wire

    The Wire

    2002

    #5

    Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

  6. Peaky Blinders

    Peaky Blinders

    2013

    #6

    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.

  7. The Gentlemen

    The Gentlemen

    2024

    #7

    When aristocratic Eddie inherits the family estate, he discovers that it's home to a huge weed empire, and its proprietors aren't going anywhere.

  8. Griselda

    Griselda

    2024

    #8

    Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization shows Griselda Blanco's journey from Medellín to becoming "the Godmother" of Miami's drug empire.

  9. House

    House

    2004

    #9

    Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.

  10. El Chapo

    El Chapo

    2017

    #10

    A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.

  11. Too Old to Die Young

    #11

    Detective Martin Jones, who leads a double life as a killer for hire in Los Angeles' deadly underground, suffers an existential crisis which leads him deeper into a blood splattered world of violence.

  12. Fallout

    Fallout

    2024

    #12

    In a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought about by nuclear decimation, citizens must live in underground bunkers to protect themselves from radiation, mutants and bandits.

  13. The Continental: From the World of John Wick

    #13

    Winston Scott is roped into a world of assassins and must make things right after his brother's attack on the Continental hotel.

  14. Black Bird

    Black Bird

    2022

    #14

    As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: If he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, Jimmy will be freed. Completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

  15. Bloodline

    Bloodline

    2015

    #15

    A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.

  16. The Sopranos

    The Sopranos

    1999

    #16

    The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.

  17. Snowfall

    Snowfall

    2017

    #17

    Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and its name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.

  18. Painkiller

    Painkiller

    2023

    #18

    The causes and consequences of America's opioid epidemic unfold in this drama following its perpetrators, victims and an investigator seeking the truth.

  19. Wentworth

    Wentworth

    2013

    #19

    Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.

  20. Nurse Jackie

    Nurse Jackie

    2009

    #20

    Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.