Breaking Bad is an award-winning American TV show, praised by critics as one of the greatest television series of all time, attracting millions of viewers. It has 62 episodes and that's a reference to the atomic number of Samarium, which is used in cancer treatment. The main character of the show is a chemistry teacher and he has lung cancer, so it is symbolic.

That is one of the reasons why the creator and producer of the series, Vince Gilligan, refused $75 million to make an additional three episodes in the last season. On average, one episode would cost about $3.5 million, so the show creator could have profited from it. But he also would have needed to rewrite the ending completely, because at the time he received the offer, he had already written it with almost everyone in the series dead.