The 17 Greatest TV Antiheroes of All Time

Some of these men are monsters you root for anyway; others just wear a nicer suit. Nobody here is the good guy.

1

Tony Soprano

The New Jersey mob boss of The Sopranos who ran a crew and a panic disorder at the same time.

2

Walter White

The Breaking Bad chemistry teacher who turned a terminal diagnosis into a meth empire.

3

Don Draper

Mad Men's advertising genius, selling happiness he could never hold on to himself.

4

Omar Little

The shotgun-carrying stick-up man of The Wire who robbed drug dealers and kept his own code.

5

Dexter Morgan

The Miami blood-spatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer of serial killers.

6

Saul Goodman

The strip-mall lawyer of Better Call Saul, talking his way into and out of everything.

7

Tommy Shelby

The Peaky Blinders boss who took a Birmingham street gang into politics and finance.

8

Jax Teller

Sons of Anarchy's biker president, trying to reform a club that keeps pulling him back.

9

Nucky Thompson

Boardwalk Empire's Atlantic City treasurer and bootlegger during Prohibition.

10

Frank Underwood

The House of Cards congressman who climbs to the presidency and tells you how, directly.

11

Rust Cohle

True Detective's nihilist detective, chasing a Louisiana case across seventeen years.

12

BoJack Horseman

The washed-up sitcom horse whose self-destruction is played for jokes and then not.

13

Villanelle

Killing Eve's assassin, dressing beautifully and killing without a flicker of guilt.

14

Marty Byrde

The Ozark accountant laundering cartel money out of a Missouri lake resort.

15

Elliot Alderson

Mr. Robot's hacker, dismantling a global conglomerate from inside his own unreliable head.

16

Logan Roy

Succession's media patriarch, running a company and four children on the same contempt.

17

Nancy Botwin

The suburban widow of Weeds who starts dealing to keep the lifestyle her husband left behind.