I dunno, BB was an outlier for me in that it kept getting better. We're there some crap filler episodes? Of course. Did the story wander a bit? Sure. But I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish.

It's also worth noting that many of these shows from the traditional TV days were a once a week affair and weren't intended to be binged. It was a different way of watching back then.

I had a different problem with breaking bad, but it killed my watching at around the same point: I just couldn't stomach what a terrible human being Walter is. I dropped it after he (almost?) sexually assaulted his wife, and then years later someone managed to convince me to pick it up again and I dropped it once more when he allowed Jesse's girlfriend to die as he watched

I know the point is that Walter is the bad guy, despite how many chuds idolize him and his Heisenberg persona, but fuck.