2008 · AMC · Drama, Crime
How long does it take to watch Breaking Bad?
Breaking Bad takes about 50 hours to watch: 62 episodes across 5 seasons, 2,995 minutes in all.
Updated October 2, 2026
- Episodes
- 62
- Seasons
- 5
- Per episode
- 48 min
- Status
- Ended in 2013
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.
Season by season
| Season | Length | Hours | Episodes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 5.9h | 7 eps | |
| Season 2 | 10.4h | 13 eps | |
| Season 3 | 10.4h | 13 eps | |
| Season 4 | 10.3h | 13 eps | |
| Season 5 | 13.0h | 16 eps |
Longest: season 5, 13.0 hours. Shortest: season 1, 5.9 hours.
At your pace
- 1 episode a night
- 62 nights, about 2 months
- 3 episodes a night
- 21 nights, about 3 weeks
- Weekend binges, 8 hours a day
- 4 weekends
- Straight through, no sleep
- 2 days, 1 hour
Counts aired regular-season episodes only; specials are excluded. Runtimes come from TMDB, so totals can differ from other sources.
How it holds up
- Best-rated season
- Season 5 9.0
- Lowest-rated season
- Season 1 8.4
- The finale
- Rated 9.3 against a 8.6 series average
Season scores are vote-weighted averages of TMDB episode ratings.
The details
- Status
- Ended in 2013
- Network
- AMC
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- First aired
- 2008
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