Creator "Breaking Bad" Vince Gilligan was this year's winner of the American Paddy Laurel Writers' Award for achieving television writing - Annual Lifetime Achievement Award that honors the best of the best in television writing. (The recipients so far include Rod Serling, Larry David and David Chase.)

In his acceptance speech (reported by diversity), Giligan shared a few mixed considerations about the legacy of his most famous work ever. Quoting the prevalence of bad guys in the current political landscape, he feels time to take a break from anti-heroic protagonists like his own teacher-privilege in Met-Cook, Walter "Heisenberg" white (Brilliantly played by Brian Cranston). Giligan explained:

"Walter White is one of all time of all time. But all things are equal, I think I would rather be celebrated for creating someone a little more inspiring. In 2025 it is time to say that loudly because we live in an era Where the bad guys, the real life, are stretched out. "

"Breaking Bad" was by no means the first anti-heroic TV drama. In his own words to Cranston, "Without Tony Soprano there is no Walter White." The last season of "Breaking Bad" also aired at the same time with Dexter's 8th season and utilized it, despite the fact that Dexter started his head with his earlier debut.

And there lies in friction. "Breaking Bad" locked 12 years ago, but left an indelible mark on pop culture: old fans are attracted to rethink, and new fans are experiencing it for the first time. Some other anti-heroes faded from cultural memory, but not in Walter White. For Gilligan, Heisenberg stands among other "cool" villains of films and TV such as Michael Corleone, Hannibal Lesseter, Darth Weder and the aforementioned G -Din soprano. It is part of his problem.

Gilligan had previously discussed his desire to "write a good man" during Interview of 2022 with a newujorer. During that interview, Illilligan admitted that he was questioning Walter's story in the Breaking Bad final.

"The farther I got from" Breaking Bad ", the less compassion I have for Voltaire. He threw his life. And if it was a better human being, he would swallow pride and seize the opportunity to heal his cancer with money that They offered him his former friends.

Unfortunately, not all "Breaking Bad" fans were there as reflective like Illiligan. When the show aired, many fans would last year's Walter and turn the excuses for his actions as the character himself did. Some of those same fans have notored Walter's wife, Skiller (Anna Gan) for entering the path of his crimes. Wrote Gun Opujork Times Op-Ed In 2013, addressing Skiller's reaction, driven by misogyny, and how she had to deal with it.

For Gilligan, the audience began to repair too much on cool guys. This is inevitable because there are so many of them in pop culture, because how antichero has become a standard lead for dramatic television, and Giligan is concerned about the possible impact on the real world:

"(The audience) say," Man, those dudes are bad. I want to be so cool. ”When that happened, fictional bad guys stop being warning players that were created to be.

For what is worth, "Breaking Bad Bad" Prequel/Sequel "Better Call Saul" ends Saul (Bob Odenkirk) publicly repents and accepted a prison, La "crime and punishment". It is a completely different fate of Walt who made a last victory and died on its own conditions.

Speaking of "Better Call Saul", Gilligan also mentioned the upcoming Apple TV+ series during the speech. It is a little known for the parcel, but it is a series of science fiction set in Albuquerque, which Starswolves Reage Sehorn (aka Kim Wexler) as a good man. Comparisons with "Breaking Bad" will be inevitable (as Giligan was well aware of when I was lucky enough to talk to him in 2023), but it sounds like he is okay with this series to be a very different beer from his previous albuquer stories.

"We have to start celebrating heroes again, again good people. As the years went by, we have more shows and movies and novels and stories of all sorts where the point missed somewhere (...) If you have enough stories with bad guys in Him, which should be rooted? "

Brian Cranston said Walt would play again if Giligan had a strong terrain, But from Gilligan's own words, he is probably not inclined to develop one in the first place.