El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie Attracted an Impressive Number of Viewers

The movie presented a fitting ending to the series

The first three days of streaming of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie on Netflix attracted 6.5 million TV viewers since its October 11 opening.

 

The film would trace remorseful meth dealer Jesse Pinkman’s (Aaron Paul) flight from captivity and personal reckoning following the events of Breaking Bad 2013 finale where death was Walter’s fate. It also stars Jesse Plemons, Krysten Ritter, Jonathan Banks, Larry Hankin, Matt Jones, Charles Baker, Robert Forster, Scott Shepherd, and Tess Harper, among others.

 

The first day audience of 2.6 million viewers was the biggest of the three days El Camino movie was shown. And reached under 8.2 million unique TV viewers.

In terms of traditional movies in theaters it is considered a hit with a large first-day audience. But, translating theatrical movie-going dynamics to streaming viewing, of course, is not an exact science — especially when the numbers are only from the U.S., which accounts for less than 40% of Netflix’s global subscriber tally.

 

Viewers aged 18-34 accounted for 36% of weekend viewers. The audience skewed heavily male, with nearly 40% of the opening-weekend viewership males aged 18-49.

In preparation for the stealthily marketed sequel movie that revisited the AMC drama classic, Nielsen said viewing of the original series on Netflix surged. During the week of the premiere, October 7-13, the average minute audience of U.S. TV viewers for Breaking Bad topped 153,000, a spike of 147% from the 62,000 watching it in mid-September.

 

The El Camino review from critics show different opinions but in the end, most agree that El Camino is an ideal epilogue to a perfect ending, not another chapter of Breaking Bad.

 Vince Gilligan made sure that viewers will see what transpired after the finale of the Breaking Bad series. Walter White remains dead and Jesse Pinkman lives a new life leaving his muddled past. People who wanted to see more of White and Pinkman in their meth ways are frustrated and has to respect how their stories ended in the award-winning crime saga. Rare is it to find such a fitting yet fulfilling ending to a long-running, highly respected drama series, and rarer still for just about everyone to agree that the show nailed its series finale.