Breaking Bad fans have been entranced by the journey of Walter White (Picture: AMC)

Breaking Bad has entered the Guinness World Records 2014 edition as the ‘Highest-Rated TV Series’.

The AMC drama has accrued a metascore of 99 out of 100 on metacritic.com, the site which aggregates reviews from critics across the globe.

Following chemistry teacher Walter White’s slide into the criminal underworld, the show has received consistently glowing reviews ever since the pilot.

It is currently midway through the second half of its final season, with nerves being shredded as the fate of the anti-hero begins to unfold.


Vince Gilligan previously told Metro of the finale: ‘My writers and I discussed our ending for many months, maybe even years, and everything was on the table.

Breaking Bad has packed an emotion punch in its final season (Picture: AMC)

‘The happiest of happy endings, the saddest of sad endings, the open ending; we discussed every possibility. All we cared about, though, was that it be satisfying, and in a sense satisfaction operates independently from ideas of happy and sad, it’s removed from emotion.



‘I can tell you for sure it is an ending though, we have not taken the Sopranos route [which infamously cut to black] here; it’s a very exciting ride and these last eight episodes certainly do not go out with a whimper.’

Fans will be left grieving after the show takes its final bow on September 29, though there are rumours that a spin-off show centring around crooked lawyer Saul Goodman is already in the works.

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