TV critics, fans, and Hollywood insiders. It was one of the rare shows whose viewership increased each year. Like I said, you're opinion but it's like being a Bills football fan in New England.
And kindly dont make this show look like a “pioneer” that it “made” Game of Thrones etc Cmon dude. I know you’re a fanboy of the show but get real.
BB pioneered the binge-watching streaming concept and it gave other channels like AMC, FX, and even Hulu and Netflix themselves greater artistic freedom. It broke up the monopoly that the traditional networks and HBO/Showtime had and forced them to produce higher quality shows.
BB wasn’t quite the one that broke that mold. The Shield on FX was the first big step to prestige TV on basic cable, then AMC put on Mad Men, followed shortly by BB. Those proved that Shield wasn’t a one time thing. Kind of like how Jaws was the first summer blockbuster but it took Star Wars and Close Encounters to establish a trend which continues to this day. We still get GoT without BB since HBO was well established as a prestige TV network before BB ever showed up. Probably helped Netflix establish its TV model since BB got a lot of audience there first.
If you’re into that kind of stuff I highly recommend Alan Sippenwall’s book The Revolution Was Televised and his Uproxx column. Good TV commentator and analyst, in the book he goes through all the building blocks to the modern age of TV drama.
Your opinion. I’ll repeat again, I get it you are a fanboy of a meth making show. And what was the objective of the show again? Making drugs? Sure. LOL