All 'Breaking Bad' Episodes Are Now on Netflix

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By Brian Anthony Hernandez2014-02-24 15:00:57 UTC

Tread lightly, but binge heavily, Netflix subscribers. Every Breaking Bad episode from the critically acclaimed drama's five seasons is now available to stream.

Netflix uploaded the second half of season five (episodes 9 through 16) on Monday as part of its content deal with AMC, which originally aired the series from 2008 to 2013. Netflix users already had access to the first four seasons and the first half of the final season.

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan previously told Mashable that the show may have met its demise after season two, had it not been for streaming video on demand. It ushered in new viewers and encouraged time-starved people to keep watching at their own pace, resulting in enormous growth from season to season, reaching its climactic end in September with 10.3 million viewers — the show's highest viewership ever.

"I think Netflix kept us on the air," Gilligan said in September at the Emmy Awards.

Episode 9 of the final season features anti-hero Walter White's notorious "tread lightly" line: "If that's true — if you don't know who I am — then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly," White (played by Bryan Cranston) said threateningly to his brother-in-law and DEA agent Hank Schrader (Dean Norris).

Though Breaking Bad is over, the story will live on in a spinoff about quirky criminal lawyer Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk). Titled Better Call Saul after Goodman's office slogan, the series will air on AMC before becoming available on Netflix. Following the spinoff's TV finale on AMC in the United States, Netflix will exclusively stream each episode for subscribers in Latin America and Europe "within days." Netflix will also offer the complete season to U.S. subscribers after the finale airs, which could be months later.

AMC and Netflix describe the spinoff as such:

Better Call Saul tells the story of mall-based super lawyer Saul Goodman in the years before he became Walter White's attorney. From parking tickets to mass murder, from slip-and-fall to bond fraud, Saul handles it all.

At the Golden Globes in January, Gilligan assured fans that his new show would include cameos from Breaking Bad characters: "We are having fun with that, and I am going to say the people who are creating the show with me will be hitting up cameos from all these great actors. We have to figure that out story-wise."

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