‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game Of Thrones’ fans are fighting over perfect IMDb scores

admin February 20, 2026

'Breaking Bad' Season 5. CREDIT: Ursula Coyote/AMC

Fans of Breaking Bad and Game Of Thrones are fighting over having the highest-rating episode on IMDb.

For years now, Ozymandias – the 14th episode of the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad – has been the only television episode to secure the perfect 10/10 rating on IMDb. It has maintained the score since it first aired in 2013, and has over 300,000 ratings from users.

The episode, directed by Rian Johnson and written by Moira Walley-Beckett, marked a pivotal moment in the series, coming to a dramatic end with the unexpected death of one of the central characters.

Now, for the first time in 13 years, the episode has lost its perfect score on the site, and has dropped down to a 9.9 rating. It is currently not even in second place on IMDb, but has dropped down to Number Nine, due to a sudden surge in one-star ratings.

This abrupt surge of low reviews, it appears, may be caused by Game Of Thrones fans who are eager to have the latest episode of spin-off series, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, take the top spot instead.

Since it aired earlier this week, episode five of the series has been widely praised by fans and hailed as potentially the best episode in the entire Game Of Thrones canon.

While there is no way to prove that the sudden spike in one-star reviews for Ozymandias came from Game Of Thrones fans, it does seem highly unlikely hundreds of people decided to rewatch the Breaking Bad episode and go against the overall positive response by coincidence.

“Go look at the recent 1/10 reviews in the past few days. Just jealous review bombing it won’t change this 10/10 masterpiece,” one Breaking Bad fan wrote on X/Twitter, convinced that the change in rating was deliberate. Another chimed in: “I was about to say what happened? Gotta be people hating suddenly to get that score down…..masterpiece!”

“Yes I noticed that as well. All ratings of one and two were submitted in the last week. Dozens of them,” a third added, while someone else shared a screenshot of the sharply polarised reviews and quipped: “yeah thats completely natural alright lol”.

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While the latest episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms did briefly hold the title as having the perfect 10/10 score on IMDb, it has since dropped down to 9.8, and is now not even in the Top 10 list on the platform.

This comes as IMDb calculates ratings down to the small decimals, so while both Ozymandias and an episode of Bojack Horseman have a 9.9 rating, the latter is technically placed higher.

Currently, the series finale of Six Feet Under holds the Number One spot on IMDb with a 9.9 rating based on 16,000 reviews. Bojack Horseman is in second place, and Vinland Saga rounds off the Top Three. While Ozymandias is currently in ninth place, it does have the most reviews of any of the other episodes in the Top 10.

It isn’t clear whether the drop from 10/10 to 9.8 for Episode Five of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is due to genuine mixed reviews for the episode, or from Breaking Bad fans acting in retaliation for the apparent review-bombing of Ozymandias.

In other Breaking Bad news, last year the Vince Gilligan series was voted the best TV show of the past 25 years by Rotten Tomatoes. It beat Game Of Thrones and The Sopranos to the title.

The series ran for five seasons, with the final episode Felina also having a 9.9 rating, and it has since spawned spin-off series Better Call Saul and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.

As for A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms, the show is set about a century before the events of Game Of Thrones, and based on the Tales of Dunk and Egg novellas from George R.R. Martin.

It is the second spin-off after House Of The Dragon, and follows Dunk, a hedge knight, and his squire, Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell).

NME gave the first season a three-star review, writing: “A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms is a relatively slight affair. Even though the six episodes clock in at around 30 minutes each, it still takes a while to find its feet. The second half of the season is stronger than the first but even then, there are wobbles. The dramatic penultimate episode is padded with an exposition-heavy flashback that really saps its momentum.”

The series has been renewed for a second season, which is expected to air in 2027.

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‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Game Of Thrones’ fans are fighting over perfect IMDb scores
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