I believe that we are still living the era of antiheroes or that they still have impact in today’s television. The man with problems is the prototype of the protagonist of this television era. Persons with a very flexible morality, for whom the end justifies any kind of means and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goal. Their decisions are not always the right ones, and they have to bear the consequences of their actions often alone. Maybe this is one of the reasons that we feel empathy for the antiheroes: we also make bad decisions and aren’t perfect, but on a different scale.
Breaking Bad aired its last episode on September 29, 2013, but the internet is still flooded with Walter White memes and posts. The antihero that little