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The Sopranos influenced Breaking Bad
Added by Media Influence Map · 5 October 2026
The evidence
Vince Gilligan has said Breaking Bad would not have been made without The Sopranos, which proved that a television drama could keep a criminal, and an increasingly monstrous one, at its centre for years.
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