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Breaking Bad: The Essentials

Triangulated against outside sourcesHow paths are chosen

Only two episodes have real consensus behind cutting them, and rewatch guides that cut ten would break a first viewing - several of their picks are load-bearing. The six threads below run underneath each other rather than one after another, which is why so little lifts out.

For first-time viewers.

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60
of 62 episodes
97%
of the catalogue
5
seasons represented

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Where the story lives

Skyler and the family
42/43 kept · spine
Hank's investigation
28/29 kept · spine
Walt and Jesse
21/22 kept · spine
Gus Fring's operation
14/14 kept · spine
Becoming Heisenberg
12/12 kept · spine
The Salamancas and the cartel
8/8 kept · spine
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