Breaking Bad vs The Americans
Breaking Bad has the higher audience score (8.9/10 against 7.9/10 for The Americans). Breaking Bad is the older of the two (2008 against 2013). Both are crime, drama shows, so they suit a similar mood.
Breaking Bad
The Americans| Breaking Bad | The Americans | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.9/10 | ★ 7.9/10 |
| Year | 2008 | 2013 |
| Seasons | 5 | 6 |
| Genres | Crime, Drama | Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Creator / director | Vince Gilligan | Joe Weisberg |
| Main cast | Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, RJ Mitte, Dean Norris | Margo Martindale, Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati |
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.
The Americans
Set during the Cold War period in the 1980s, The Americans is the story of Elizabeth and Philip Jennings, two Soviet KGB officers posing as an American married couple in the suburbs of Washington D.C. and their neighbor, Stan Beeman, an FBI Counterintelligence agent.
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