If you're dying to watch the series finale of Breaking Bad but don't have a cable subscription, perhaps it's time for a quick UK vacation.
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, Breaking Bad's final episodes will stream exclusively on Netflix the day after their U.S. broadcast. The popular drama about a school teacher turned meth dealer airs on AMC in the United States, with the final eight-episode run beginning on Sunday, August 11.
"Netflix has been instrumental in making Breaking Bad the success that it is—particularly in the UK and Ireland, where it has built an audience and become a huge phenomenon," creator Vince Gilligan said in a press release.
Gilligan has shown his appreciation for Netflix before. In an interview with Wired last month, he theorized that binge watching of old Breaking Bad episodes on Netflix allowed people to catch up with the series and eventually watch new episodes as they aired. "Under the old paradigm—using the old technology of simply having first runs and then reruns on networks—I don't know that we would've reached the critical mass that we reached," he said.
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