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Better Call Saul
Better Call Saul premiered on AMC in February 2015, created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould as a prequel spinoff to "Breaking Bad," following the transformation of small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill into the morally compromised criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman years before the events of the original series. The show earned a genuinely unusual critical reputation as a spinoff that many critics and viewers came to regard as artistically comparable to or even exceeding its acclaimed predecessor, a rare outcome for a prequel series built around a supporting character from an already beloved original show. Bob Odenkirk's lead performance, along with Rhea Seehorn's role as Jimmy's partner and eventual wife Kim Wexler, drew sustained critical acclaim across the show's six-season run, and the series became known for its meticulous, patient pacing and visual storytelling techniques directly inherited from Breaking Bad's own production team. Better Call Saul's combination of its rare success as an artistically comparable prequel spinoff and its meticulous inherited visual craftsmanship has made it one of the most critically acclaimed crime dramas of the entire television era, regardless of its connection to Breaking Bad.
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Narcos
Narcos premiered on Netflix in August 2015, created by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro, dramatizing the rise and fall of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and the broader Colombian and later Mexican cocaine trade across its multi-season run, blending scripted drama with documentary-style narration and archival footage. Brazilian actor Wagner Moura's performance as Escobar drew significant critical acclaim, and the show's decision to film substantially on location in Colombia, with extensive Spanish-language dialogue subtitled for English-speaking audiences, represented a genuinely different approach to how English-language streaming platforms had previously handled international crime stories. The series later shifted its narrative focus for its final two seasons, retitled "Narcos: Mexico," to the rise of the Mexican drug trade following Escobar's death, following real DEA agent Kiki Camarena's investigation into the Guadalajara Cartel, extending the franchise's exploration of the broader hemisphere-wide drug trade. Narcos's combination of its willingness to embrace substantial Spanish-language dialogue and Colombian location filming and its dramatization of real, historically significant drug-trade figures has made it one of the most internationally significant crime dramas produced for an American streaming platform.
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