The New York Times' 'Breaking Bad' verdict opens fifteenfold
An argument naming the best series of the century neared a hundred thousand views within a day of going up.
The New York TimesStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 233,905 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (14,938).
Why ‘Breaking Bad’ Is the Best Show of the 21st Century
Nearly a hundred thousand views in a day, for a video built entirely around one argument: "Why ‘Breaking Bad’ Is the Best Show of the 21st Century." The New York Times posted it on Sunday, and it has been moving at about fifteen times the pace a new upload on the channel usually starts with.
The title does not hedge. It names one winner for a whole century of television, and maybe a claim that bold is hard to scroll past for anyone who has a favorite of their own.
The show at the center of it needs little introduction. Vince Gilligan's drama ran on AMC from 2008 to 2013 and followed Bryan Cranston's Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turned to making methamphetamine.
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- Channel
- The New York Times
- Subscribers
- 5,280,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 347,587
- Video published
- September 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 98,523 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 233,905
The numbers
The figures below show how far this first day sits above a typical start on The New York Times' channel.
