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

    '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.

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    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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