Better Call Saul To House of The Dragon: 4 Spin-Offs As Good As The OG Shows

While there have been several hit shows in the recent past – some underrated, some overrated – here are few shows that you feel like binge-watching again and again. These are shows that they make you a part of their world as well. You invest so much time and emotion behind them that you don’t know what to do once they end. At times like this, spin-offs can come to the rescue.

There is always a fear that spin-offs may ruin the charms of the original series. However, there are some that are as good as the originals (if not better).

With the recent critically acclaimed Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul and Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon, here are a few more spin-offs for you to watch.

House of The Dragon

House of the Dragonis an American fantasy drama television series. It is the prequel to the iconic seriesGame of Thrones. Created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal, both the shows are based on Martin’s novelA Song of Ice and Fire. The spin-off that was released in August 2022 is set around 200 years before the events ofGame of Thronesand 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. Though it is too soon to give a verdict on House of the Dragon as only three episodes have been aired till now, the series has already made history by becoming one of the most viewed HBO original series with nearly 10 million views upon premiere.

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Better Call Saul

Better Call Saul is primarily a prequel but also serves as a conclusion to Vince Gilligan’s neo-western crime drama franchise Breaking Bad. The Breaking Bad franchise is a fictional universe, informally called the Gilliverse, that revolves around a chemistry teacher Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston), who turned into a drug lord to pay his medical bills. His former student Jesse Pinkman (played by Aaron Paul) is his fellow methamphetamine cook and drug dealer. The series is followed by the movie El Camino: A Break Bad Movie, which focuses on Pinkman after the events of the series. Created by Gilligan and Peter Gould, Better Call Saul is set in the early 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It explores the origins of the character Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) who is a criminal lawyer, White and Pinkman eventually hire in Breaking Bad.

Young Sheldon

Set in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Young Sheldon is an American coming-of-age sitcom series. It is a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory. The original series that premiered in 2007 and ended in 2019, with over 12 seasons, was about five characters living in California: two physicists Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper who share an apartment, Penny, a waitress and aspiring actress, who lives across the hall, Hofstadter and Cooper's similarly geeky and socially awkward friends and co-workers, aerospace engineer Howard Wolowitz and astrophysicist Raj Koothrappali. Young Sheldon follows Cooper’s high school days and growing years in a fictional town in Texas.

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The Ring of Power

Based on the novel The Lord of the Rings and its appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings franchise is another set of three classic fantasy adventure films- The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003). The franchise is set in the fictional world of Middle-earth that follows the hobbit Frodo Baggins as he and the Fellowship embark on a quest to destroy the One Ring, to ensure the destruction of its maker, the Dark Lord Sauron. The Ring of Power, which began airing this September, is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. The copyrights deal between the makers of the franchise and Amazon for making a five-season production commitment is apparently worth at least US$1 billion, making it the most expensive television series ever made.