Jonah Goldberg's excellent article re: Breaking Bad's Emmy, the evolution of television and the thin veneer of civilization

What he becomes is not an antihero but simply, straightforwardly, a villain. What begins as a kind of play on the Thomistic principle that it is moral for a man to steal bread to feed his starving child grows into a painfully realistic tale of how a good man becomes evil.

Go read the whole thing.