Breaking Bad At 10: 8 Ways It Changed TV For Good

2. A New Generation Of Antiheroes And 'The Next Breaking Bad'

Walter White wasn't the first white male antihero of the Golden Age, and his popularity also ensured he wasn't the last. Without White it's easy to imagine a bigger gap after Tony Soprano - Don Draper was brilliant, but Mad Men hasn't quite had the same broader cultural impact as Breaking Bad, although it's very much deserving of it.

Instead White ensured the trend continued, as the search for 'the next Breaking Bad' went on. Without him it's easy to believe we never would've gotten to the likes of Matthew McConaughey's Rust Cohle, or either of the Underwoods on House of Cards.

We definitely wouldn't have got Ozarks, which strives for something along the lines of 'Breaking Bad in Missouri', but there are slightly more obscure inspirations too: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a musical show about a women suffering from mental illness, owes a surprising amount in its lead character's often unlikable nature and dark turn to Breaking Bad.

Low Winter Sun, meanwhile, was AMC's own failed effort at creating the next Breaking Bad. The Killing came closer, but not close enough. Other prestige shows, from The Americans to Narcos, The Night Of to Mr Robot, have elements of Breaking Bad in them.None, however, have topped Walter White yet.