Everyone raves about Breaking Bad but I just saw the numbers and it didn't actually get huge viewership until season 4.

Found this on a Nielsen ratings breakdown while scrolling last night, and it's crazy to me that a show considered the gold standard barely had 1.5 million viewers for its first two seasons, so how many people are just repeating what they heard online?

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benreed18h ago

Remember watching Lost religiously back in the day and thinking everyone I knew was tuning in, then years later finding out it was actually a pretty niche show compared to something like CSI or American Idol. My brother in law worked at a TV station around then and he'd always say the shows people talked about the most weren't the ones pulling the biggest numbers. Kinda makes you wonder how much of Breaking Bad's reputation got built after it hit Netflix and people binged it all at once later on.