Man is diagnosed with incurable lung cancer. Man, faced with crushing medical expenses that his insurance won't cover, turns to cooking methamphetamine and builds himself a drug empire. Man buys a hat, yells at his handsome partner a lot and uses hydrofluoric acid to dissolve a bunch of dead bodies in plastic bins.

"Breaking Bad": Only in America!

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No, seriously.

Here's why the premise of the show really only works in the United States and not other wealthy nations, as articulated (and illustrated in a five-panel comic strip) by writer and artist Christopher Keelty: