Breaking Bad vs Prison Break

Breaking Bad has the higher audience score (8.9/10 against 8.1/10 for Prison Break). Prison Break is the older of the two (2005 against 2008). Both are crime, drama shows, so they suit a similar mood.

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Breaking BadPrison Break
Audience score★ 8.9/10★ 8.1/10
Year20082005
Seasons55
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama
Country––
Creator / directorVince GilliganPaul T. Scheuring
Main castBryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte, Dean NorrisWentworth Miller, Dominic Purcell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Paul Adelstein, Rockmond Dunbar

Synopsis

Breaking Bad

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.

Prison Break

Due to a political conspiracy, an innocent man is sent to death row and his only hope is his brother, who makes it his mission to deliberately get himself sent to the same prison in order to break the both of them out, from the inside out.

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