6. Breaking Bad - Walter goes to the Dark Side
I was surprised to find out how much I was actually willing to forgive Walter White up until the final episode of Season 4. When he decided to start cooking meth in the pilot, I forgave him because he was dying. When he killed the man he had tied up in his basement I actually thought he did the right thing in that moment- there was no way either he or his family would have survived had he let the man free. When he even watched Jesse's girlfriend choke to death at the end of season 2, it took me a little while, but eventually Walter charmed me into forgiving him of this act too. He was only really trying to protect his business partner Jesse, who has become almost like his adoptive son, from suffering the same fate. Plus, had he not been in the house at the time anyway (like he wasn't supposed to be) she would have died all the same. Even when the plane crash happened which was kind of his fault, I forgave him, because he couldn't really have been blamed for the massacre. However... the slow zoom into the plant pot in Walter's garden that ended Season 4's crazily good season of television, which revealed that Walter White had poisoned a child which could have very easily have been fatal in order to save his own skin was unforgivable, and as much as I want to like the protagonist of my favorite drama currently on television, I simply will not allow myself to, and neither should you. That doesn't mean we can't feel some level of sympathy for the character, and the creators of the show have been magnificent in the way they have made who would arguably have been a villain on another show, a hero on theirs. Forget Walter though, Jesse is my hero now.