Enjoyed the episode of Breaking Bad yesterday? Megan Kamerick and Chris Gray Faust both wrote about the economic impact that Breaking Bad is having on Albuquerque – the New Mexican city which the show is set in:

• Each episode results in $1 million in direct spending in the city.
• A tourist industry has also sprung up around the show. For $65 visitors can take a 3.5 hour trip of 13 famous locations from the show.
• It is possible to buy bags of blue rock candy that resembles the blue meth depicted in Breaking Bad.
• “Bathing Bad” makes bath salts that promises to “relax away the bad”.
• Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, the stars of the show, also bought houses in Albuquerque to live in while they were filming.
• Some aren’t happy that New Mexico – which has the highest overdose rate in the United States – has become popular for a show about meth.

If you’re a fan of the show (and, let’s face it, it seems like most people are) you’ll enjoy the articles here and here.

Source: NPR, USA Today