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10 years ago I was diagnosed with cancer and all my family and friends told me to go Breaking Bad. I never saw the show. Since I survived, I watched the show.

The protagonist is not always the hero. Breaking Bad exemplifies this and that’s what makes it so good.

Another time where Walters' pride got in the way, was when his son set up a gofundme. Walter hated the idea of strangers giving him hand outs. Like the world knew he couldn't provide for his family.

A man who knows he is going to die is dangerous

It’s always amazing how well the basic stuff, when done well, really works. If Aristotle wanted a perfect tragic hero for Poetics, it would be Walter. The fear, pity, and flaw are all plainly there from episode 1. Gilligan and Cranston made it perfectly, but Gilligan was already building on a VERY strong foundation.

I wonder if Hank ever thought to partially blame himself for taking Walter out on the ride along and displayed the money seized at these events.

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain!”

I don't think he had real security with Gus. Gus was clearly going to kill him once their contract expired if the cancer didn't do him in first. Mike and Gail were merely Gus's lackeys. But Walter was his competition.

so I was late to the breaking bad train. I watched it for the first time like 5 years ago. AMAZING SHOW

Great video man! A different route than im used to but absolutely here for it! I could watch u breakdown anything and find it enjoyable! Keep em coming! 🤘🔥

this show is so old and still fresh videos on major themes like these are popping up. truly a masterpiece

Walt is insecure and weak, lashing out and also seeking attention and thrills because of his insecurities.

I think him turning down the grey matter offer was not only not wanting to be a lackie, but to be pitifully “employed” by a company you helped create. It’s definitely a slap in the face and just adds to his Rolodex of bad luck in life, for lack of a better term

Amazing show Bravo Vince

👊 Amazing review..! 💯

"I do [blank] for my family/to put food on the table!" is used as a get-out-of-consequences-free card routinely. Once we hear that, we are supposed to immediately, instinctively nod our heads solemnly and, no matter the details, switch to admiration for whoever said it. Walt's use of this chest-puffing excuse is very real-world in that regard.

This show is so old yet this video is so new and refreshing and I’m so glad you made it 😊🤍

Please do a breakdown for the wire.

wow crazy you did this i watch you all the time and i literally just finished breaking bad 2 days ago

Crazy timing, my wife and I just started a rewatch a few weeks ago 🤙

I absolutely love your videos. Phenomenal analysis!! Did you have to purchase the rights of this show to use the footage on youtube?

"May I see her" By far the saddest scene.

Breaking Bad is like watching a train wreck in slow motion. The creator of the show accentuates the fatal psychological flaw of his main character, and did so to a lesser extent in " Better Call Saul". Walter White discovers a way that proves he's a genius and that he's important. In his endeavors he destroys his life and everyone else around him in an occupation that will never be accepted in society.

It's crazy how this video came out the exact moment I finished watching season 5. Talk about coincidences

Walter White could literally be ANYONE! Breaking Bad shows us why seemingly "good" people "break bad" (Meaning under enough strain ANYONE would do whatever they could to financially survive and provide... it's just that Walt liked the "power" that came along with it too... which alot of "Kingpins" fall into as well)

I disagree that Walt's life would've sucked either way. If he'd been able to overcome his pride he could've accepted the offer from Gretchen and Elliot and allowed them to pay for his treatment, or even come back to work for Grey Matter. He might not have been his own boss, but he would've lived out his life with a clean conscience and his family still at his side, as well as likely being able to work in a stimulating chemistry based environment again.

Please do all seasons 🙏🏽

I was kinda sad this was only 10 minutes because I love your breakdowns

Hubris: the heart of every Greek tragegy

This was really good.

I disagree when you show the scene of Walt saying Gale was a fraud. I don’t think he wanted to be caught I think his ego was being crushed by Hank giving the credit for his genius to gale so he stepped in

@heavyspoilers I’d love for you to watch “the shield” and break the character of “Vic Mackey” down like you did Walter. Those it wasn’t as popular as breaking bad, I feel like it was one of the shows that opened the door for shows like breaking bad to do some of the shock and surprising reveals and dark character archs they did to be appealing to a general audience

Black Sails, in my opinion, is the best TV show ever made. Tragically underrated. Had it aired on HBO and not Starz, it would have been a phenomenon.

the most heartbreaking thing about this character is he was born in the USA - the United States of Barbarians ... where the rich stay healthy and the sick stay poor ...

Was Walter White the villain of the show? Yes, hands down. Was the bigger villain the USA health care industry? Yes, hands down. Dude wouldn't even have considered selling meth if he was in some place like Germany because everything would have been taken care of. But that begs the question posed in the video of if you knew your end date, would you do things for good or bad. Perhaps Walter White always had a Heisenberg inside him and no matter what the reason, it would eventually come out. So, now I will start my fan fiction of Breaking Bad: Germany.

Ok the dinner scene, he didn't say all that because he wants to be caught nor was the case reopened nor did Walt get away with it, because the case was never officially closed. Hank felt like he got his Heisenberg and was ready to let go of the chase but the case of blue sky was still ongoing with the gale thing being an apd case given to hank to help him get on his feet. And walt never said all that to taunt Hank. He hated that gale who he considered lesser then him to get all the credit so he said what he said because of his prideful nature wanted to let slip that Gale was nothing to him without saying, not to taunt hank but to taunt gus and gale.

To see a man lose his mind... Is a scary thing

I just recently rewatched Breaking Bad & El Camino, this franchise is so damn good, and yeah I consider it a tragedy too, as how things play out with Walt's character, although people like Jesse & Jimmy find a way to save themselves, I'm currently gonna rewatch Better Call Saul as well & I'm excited for it

We all like to watch a great spiral. Joining a flawed character as they struggle and are ultimately destroyed is a primitive feeling of justice, and watching a pure character do the same evokes tragedy. Breaking Bad and Succession both excel at giving the audience a front row seat to wonderful dumpster fires filled with human lives, and I think both shows make me feel similar ways about the characters.

Thanks, Paul.

Thank you Paul.

Walter White breaking bad was a brilliant TV series 👍👍

Walt should have took a hit of blue right before he passed. He never tasted his product.

yeah idk why this show had such a hold on my emotions but the scene of him having to watch walt jr get off the bus and walk to the door of their crappy apartment. he started making meth to provide for his family and in the process ended up losing it :(

What is the movie where the actress sees words float on screen that paul keeps using

Can you please do more breaking bad content

The story of Walter White is a tragedy from the first episode, where he is given a death sentence. We know this character has a premature end coming due to the cancer diagnosis, and from that first loss of consciousness, his path is set. It makes us confront our own mortality and we sympathize with him initially, then as his spiraling behavior exposes a ruthlessness and determination to beat his fate, we are conflicted. Do we side with Walt trying to stay alive and maybe, just maybe beat the C, or do we pray for justice, that retribution must follow for a murdering drug dealer? Great analysis Paul!

Walt did not have “safety and security” with Gus. Once Walt saved Jesse, Gus decided to kill him. - Jesse tries to poison thugs who work for Gus, because they killed Combo. - Walt told Jesse not to and alerted Gus. - Jesse, Walt, and thugs meet with Gus to squash beef - Thugs kill Andrea’s brother - Jesse goes to shoot thugs, thugs go to shoot Jesse - Walt runs thugs over with a car, saving Jesse. “Run.” It was at this point that Gus decided Walt needed to die, and prepares Gale to replace him.

Good take. But I wonder what Definition would think?

It was similar to 'the Shield' in the sense that the protagonist was powerful yet corrupted to the core. The greatest thing about BB was that it showcased a show where there weren't any good main characters, they were all various gradations of bad (even Walt's son and Hank.)

8:58 Maybe. But I would argue that it is better to do BAD things fir a goos outcome for everyone else while damning your own soul than to do only good things while condemoning everyone else to a horrible fate....

Walt was not against working for someone else. He was against being offered a job due to pity as a result of his cancer. This was clearly displayed when his demeanor only changed after the mention of health care.

After watching Better Call Saul I can't see Walter as anything other than a villain.

I’ve noticed that most villains’ downfalls or deaths are due to their pride and ego. Pride truly is the deadliest sin.

Mad Men was a high-quality show that came in just before Breaking Bad. You might also want to review Six Feet Under as part of quality TV.

0:16 never watched the sopranos, but I don't think lost was that outstanding in quality. what absolutely belongs on the quality standout list, unless you disqualify it for only being a one season miniseries, is band of brothers from 2001 (HBO). that was incredibly high effort and well done.

You know what's funny about the pink teddy bear? It was never meant as foreshadowing... Vince Gilligan just kidna lucked out haha. But I choose to see it as foreshadowing lol

Walter White was the ultimate mix of the antihero and the tragic hero at the same time.

Walter maybe the main character, but he’s not a hero. He’s not even an anti-hero. He’s a villain and I watched the series routing for him to go down.

IMO Breaking Bad edges out The Wire because of their finales. I have a problem with how Omar get's taken out.

That's why he didn't take the Grey Matter offer he wanted to take the world by storm before he died something Grey Matter had already done and honestly what could Walt have done that Grey Matter hadn't already done. It was pity that he had cancer not because they recognized his brilliance and you're right if he had done it the right way it would've left the family completely bankrupt and probably worse off then they were in the finale. Because he had chosen the wrong way he was still able to salvage the situation despite his family hating and disowning him and the country hunting him simply because he had nothing left to lose. Yes Walt was fucked either way but because he chose the wrong path I'd say he was less fucked than if he had chosen the right path.

The part where you are wrong is with Gus. Walter was comfortable working for him, but he rightly realized Gus was planning on killing Walter, and sooner or later one of the two was going to die.

I love this series and its successor Better Call Saul. I didn't realize how much of a perfect bastard Walt is.

Deadwood… The Sopranos… The Wire… Breaking Bad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What I loved most about Breaking Bad is the complete flip of who you love and hare. Walt at the start is the good guy, the man were all rooting for and want him to succeed. by the end you despise this man. Then Hank, he was the dooche bag brother in law cop who toi just thought was the biggest dick going around. but when he died it was one of the greatest and most heartbreaking scenes in TV history. Truly great writing to get us to thag point!

What is Vince up to now ?

BETTER CALL SAUL NEXT PLZ

I rooted for Walter White in the very first episode. I couldn't understand why I kept rooting for him as the series continued! Walter turned into a monster, but I kept on rooting for him. Somehow, I expected he would eventually feel remorse. I believe in second chances. But Walter died as a broken criminal, undone by greed & cruelty. In the very end, it was Jesse who got my sympathy.

Walter White's one of the best Anti-Heros... just like Tony Soprano!!!

So the strange thing is, I do believe that ABQ is a better place ultimately after Walter White had his way with it. Obviously a lot of what he did was bad, but he also took on and took out or indirectly destroyed a lot of even worse entities. Gus was objectively worse, his feud with the Salamancas was getting even more innocent people involved and killed. He is responsible for the entire destruction of the criminal underworld of ABQ, in the same way he's holds a degree of responsibility for the plane crash. I also believe there to be a very complex conversation regarding him and Jesse. He obviously did many terrible things to Jesse, but he's also why Jesse isn't either dead or in Prison for the rest of his life. Without Walter White, Jesse never gets a fresh shot at life, and he doesn't have a person to mentor him into something more than what he had become. Walter's pride and ego damaged everything around him, but part of that collateral damage was taking out entities worse than himself, and an infrastructure that will take decades to rebuild.

S1 of True Detective, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad (which wouldn't have been as good if not for sopranos doing major acts of violence first breaking cable barriers).

The Irony of all this was that Walter was always trying to avoid getting killed by the bad guy (Tuco, Gus, ect) but at the end of the day he WAS killed by the bad guy... Himself

Alcohol can really cause ppl to do and say things they wouldnt do in their normal mindset. With no memory of it, most times. Prob just as bad a chemical as meth.

I know its a small thing, Mr Spoilers, but the music choices on this show were always top notch.

yeah, I couldn't get through the first few episodes. The town that I grew up in was the meth capital of the area. All I saw was a show that glorified the drug makers and dealers.

What do you think was Walt's cause to come back for a showdown with Jack's gang? Pride? Revenge? Justice? Rescue?

I was also diagnosed with stage 3 cancer in 2022. It's looking like I beat it, so won't be having to break bad either :P

He was a total POs, and a horrible criminal. He made every mistake and wrong turn that he could and now, having watched through the whole series again, after finishing better call Saul, I realize how Hollywood they all are. None of it would go down this way. It’s fun to watch, but also, not at all realistic.

Anyone see the episode of Sunny with walt and jesse? Hilarious. Cranston is the man. I want some audiobooks narrated by Cranston. And Geoffrey Wright. Brilliant

Sheer dominance for the sake of sheer dominance

8:20 i disagree. He only would have been broke if he decided to not take the job. He did this to himself. His pride is what killed him and destroyed his family, not lack of money or job opportunities. He would have made so much money if he joined gray matter and would have been able to pay his bills and still keep his family intact. He was too stubborn and egotistical that he couldn’t handle the thought of not being in charge and the absolute best. There were other options that he refused to take and it’s all on him🤷🏻

In this analysis, you are the one who knocks

He can't keep getting away with it!!!!!!

4th Best tv show - AoS - Bojack Horseman - BCS - BB

What was the best show that appeared on TV? I answered Lost 😄

😊 indeed

You would love “Better Call Saul” in its deeper meaning

I'm waiting for the day when the Friends series is torn apart.

Saul goodman was even a sadder character

Band of Brothers! ❤

I actually think Better Call Saul is superior. Obviously BB ran so BCS could walk but it's just a better more polished show for me. Sauls relationship with his brother in the early stages was immense.

Glad you brought up this debate Paul. Great analysis! I think a lot of people don't realise how he is actually the villain. I guess, like you said: we also can relate and pity him so we rationalise his actions.... but still... here's my take: Walter White is, in my opinion, one of the greatest and most iconic television characters of all time. It's common for us, the audience, to feel sympathy for the bad guy and root for them, but with Walter, it wasn't the same. Recently, I saw a discussion about who was the most evil character in Breaking Bad (BB), and I also saw another one about how so many people hated Skyler. Most people think Gus is much worse than Walter. I used to think that. I also agree Skyler is annoying at times. But... wait. Imagine being her... with Walt. You can't really blame her for acting the way she did. And Gus, yes, he is a psychopath, possibly sociopathic too, but we don't get enough insight into who he is. But I feel he led his business and his life with some morality at least, compared to Walter at least. If you look at Walter properly, you really see the sad truth: the scary truth. The things he did to get what he wanted... how and why would someone act this way? I had to look further into it. I came to this conclusion: Walter is a covert narcissist, whose actions, in my opinion, make him THE villain of the show, way worse than Gus, more evil in fact. Of course, while watching the show, I rooted for Walt the whole time. I never thought twice about the bad things he did, the way he treated Skyler, how he manipulated everyone around him, a lot of the time in the most awful way. He was doing it all for family, right? Walt was playing not only the characters in the TV show but also the audience watching. The reason I say "covert" is that it's not really that noticeable in the beginning, even later on in my opinion (at least for me when I watched the first time around 10 years ago). He makes you rationalize his motives and actions without you even noticing that he is manipulating you. We really should have drawn the line once he decided to "break bad and make meth," seeing as Elliot offered him a job and money for his treatment. Like, come on, man, you are going to die, take the offer and enjoy the rest of your time with your family, huh? He would rather turn to a life of crime than accept charity because of his pride. The cancer diagnosis freed him from his mental prison. He can do anything and not have to suffer the consequences or humiliation. It doesn't occur to him that doing this will hurt many lives and potentially destroy his family along the way. But why? Maybe he was expecting some break, maybe become a professor? Or maybe he just gave up, and being a teacher was a satisfactory amount of respect he needed for him to supply his ego. He thrived though Heisenberg. Heisenberg allowed him to become who he always wanted to be. This kind, caring husband and father was essentially a facade. In only a span of two years, he killed almost 300 people and destroyed countless more lives. He went into hiding for 6 months, and this definitely changed him. I do think he would have stayed away longer if it wasn't for that interview of Elliot and Gretchen. He hated how they belittled him; if it wasn't for his genius, they'd be nothing. So for his final act of pride, he shows them that he's more superior, and also helps him achieve his original objective of leaving money for his son's future. Also, take revenge on the Nazis in the meantime too, why not? I don't think he planned on dying there, but he was definitely at peace once he realized he was about to die. Now comparing Walt to Gus, you can also see that Walter is clearly the more evil one. Gus was in business for over 20 years. He had no family (that we know of). His motivation was essentially vengeance; his partner Max was murdered by the cartel. Better Call Saul hints there was a romantic thing between them too, so vengeance, love loss. He made Hector suffer because of this and eventually took the cartel out. He carefully constructed this plan over many years. But his pursuit for vengeance led him to his death. It was his only weakness, which Walter used to kill him. If Gus is so evil, he could have easily killed Walter as soon as he became a problem, or at least hurt someone close to him, right? I'm sure he could have wiped him and his family out with ease. Walt never really hesitated when it came to making evil decisions. He poisoned a child, bombed a nursing home, watched Jane choke to death (causing a plane crash), he used innocent people to carry out his needs, and didn't care who got hurt. At least in the end, he tells us that he did it all for himself. With Gus, it's vague. There's so much more to be explored in this character. Hopefully, we get a spin-off someday. You may argue that Walter's transformation from a sympathetic character to a ruthless drug lord makes him more evil, while others may view Gus's calculated and methodical approach as more sinister. Maybe that depends on our individual sense of morality? TL:DR - Walter is an evil selfish bastard 😂

breaking bad will always be my go to #1 show of all time!!!!

He looks more like Gary Ridgeway

I'm not in danger. I AM THE DANGER.

Breaking bad the best 1 hour show ever

Breaking bad is the goat for sure, and the office is #2

BCS & BrBa are the two greatest shows oat

Did you also watch Better Call Saul?