Breaking Bad’s highest rated episode Ozymandias has officially dropped it’s 9.9 rating 

Breaking Bad just saw its most legendary and iconic episode lose its perfect score on IMDb.

After having a 10/10 score on IMDb for 13 years, Ozymandias has dropped its score to 9.9.

Now, this does not change the fact that the episode is still as iconic as it was all of those years ago, and this might not even sound like a huge deal to an average viewer, but for die-hard fans of the show? This is kind of a massive deal.

This was the one episode people used as proof that Breaking Bad reached a level no other show could touch. Now the perfect 10 is gone, does that 0.1 drop actually change anything about the episode’s place in TV history?

Why Ozymandias was the untouchable peak of Breaking Bad

If you have watched Breaking Bad, you already know why Ozymandias is the episode people always point to. In Season 5, Episode 14, everything seems to explode in a way that rips the story apart.

The desert shootout leaves Hank Schrader wounded and Steve Gomez dead. Walter White throws away his pride and begs for Hank’s life, offering every dollar he has. Hank knows it will not matter. Jack pulls the trigger anyway.

From there, Walt loses almost all of his buried money. Jesse is exposed, is dragged away, and later forced to cook up some meth in captivity. Walt rolls one lonely barrel through the desert after his car fails.

From a perfect 10 to a 9.9: Does the drop really mean anything?

For over a decade, “Ozymandias” held something no other episode from any other TV show managed to bag. A perfect 10 on IMDb and that is wild.

Look around at other iconic TV shows like Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, or even Fleabag. None of these shows ever had an episode that scored a spotless 10. Even newer shows like Severance did not manage to hit a perfect 10 score.

The last four episodes of Breaking Bad also all received 9.7 or higher, but “Ozymandias” was their true diva, and it still is. The flashback to Walt and Jesse’s first cook. Skyler suggests the name Holly. Then the present-day nightmare that strips Walt of whatever illusion of control he had left.

Dropping to 9.9 does not erase any of that. It just is one decimal point lower, still ahead of almost everything else we see on TV.

At the end of the day, Breaking Bad losing that perfect 10 is more symbolic than anything else. Ozymandias is still sitting at 9.9, which is higher than almost every episode of television ever made.

Hank still dies in that desert. Jesse is still dragged away. Walt still watches his world fall apart in one brutal hour. None of that changes because of a decimal point.

The rating slipped. The episode did not. And honestly, that is everything you need to know.

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