Vince Gilligan's radical pitch was that Walter White would fundamentally transform — from a good, honest man into a killer — across the arc of a single television series. Cranston notes this had never been attempted in series television before. The willingness to let a protagonist become the antagonist over five seasons is what made Breaking Bad feel like a novel unfolding in real time.
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