Breaking Bad: 10 Best Characters Who Appeared After Season One

10. Todd Alquist

One thing Breaking Bad does especially well is examine all kinds of evil. There are characters whose backstories explain their villainy; there are those who commit misdeeds for understandable reasons, or who revel in the banality of wickedness.

Todd Alquist is different. He’s one of the few characters who feels like there’s something - empathy, emotion, a soul - entirely missing. He never seems to enjoy any of the terrible things he does, but he can carry out the most heinous of acts without so much as a flicker.

His list of sins is as long and ghastly as anyone’s. He’s killed innocent women and children, and kept a former colleague a slave to impress a girl. Indeed, his one-sided love for Lydia is just about the only humanising thing about him.

Jesse Plemons’ talent is on hand to make Todd far more than a one-dimensional sociopath, though. Todd does care - about impressing Walt, about Lydia. His “passion” simply comes across in the most horrendous manner imaginable. He never seems to mean anyone harm, and that makes him all the more frightening.