Breaking Bad: Is Hank turning into another Heisenberg?

In a show full of characters willing to make selfish moral compromises, it's becoming awfully clear that we don't have any heroes — and never did

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Breaking Bad's greatest trick was making its audience believe the show ever had a hero.

When the series began, it seemed obvious that our "hero" was Walter White. Sure, he cooked some meth and killed a couple of drug dealers — but he was only reacting to circumstances that might have made the best of us break bad, and it was hard to root against him. Of course, so much has changed since then; as Walt's partner and protege Jesse Pinkman warned in last Sunday's episode, Walt has essentially become the devil himself.

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Eric has written about TV, music, and books for The A.V. Club, Jewcy, and This Was TV. He is a third-year undergrad at the University of Chicago majoring in philosophy, where he is one of the Arts & Culture editors for the Political Review. Follow him on Twitter to learn how big a Futurama binge has to be to be lethal.