Here’s an article comparing the two great anti-heroes Tony Soprano (played by James Gandolfini in The Sopranos) and Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad), exploring why fans fight about them—and what each character says about our age of TV.
The Sopranos debuted in 1999 and changed television forever by placing a mob boss in therapy, forcing us to care about someone who kills for a living. Meanwhile, Breaking Bad began in 2008, and its creator Vince Gilligan explicitly acknowledged that “without Tony Soprano there would be no Walter White.
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