As far as he knows, he killed Jesse, but not before sadistically, pointlessly rubbing Jesse's face in the easily preventable death of one of the few people who ever loved him. He's driven by insecurity, by fear, by wanting to leave his mark, by something other than being a terrible person.īut everything that happened in "Ozymandias," Sunday night's episode, is Walt's fault. Understanding that these are not bad people is part of how you prove that you get it.Īt times, Breaking Bad has seemed to be a show in this same vein: Walter White sincerely believes he's helping his family - or that's been his argument, at least. Stringer Bell kills people, but he's a businessman. Vic Mackey kills people, but he thinks he's doing good. In fact, defining viewer sophistication in terms of the ability to ignore the appearance of evil has been a hallmark of the anti-hero era: Tony Soprano kills people, but really, he's a family man. A person acted upon - a murderer arrested by a heroic detective, a person punished by an avenging victim - may be evil, but a subject around which a show revolves is not. Television often appears not to believe in evil as a subject, but only as an object. There are those who don't really believe in evil, who believe that anyone who cannot be redeemed is more ill and broken than infected with wickedness and viciousness and brutality. Bryan Cranston as Walter White on AMC's Breaking Bad.
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