Some of these men are monsters you root for anyway; others just wear a nicer suit. Nobody here is the good guy.
1Tony SopranoThe New Jersey mob boss of The Sopranos who ran a crew and a panic disorder at the same time.
2Walter WhiteThe Breaking Bad chemistry teacher who turned a terminal diagnosis into a meth empire.
3Don DraperMad Men's advertising genius, selling happiness he could never hold on to himself.
4Omar LittleThe shotgun-carrying stick-up man of The Wire who robbed drug dealers and kept his own code.
5Dexter MorganThe Miami blood-spatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer of serial killers.
6Saul GoodmanThe strip-mall lawyer of Better Call Saul, talking his way into and out of everything.
7Tommy ShelbyThe Peaky Blinders boss who took a Birmingham street gang into politics and finance.
8Jax TellerSons of Anarchy's biker president, trying to reform a club that keeps pulling him back.
9Nucky ThompsonBoardwalk Empire's Atlantic City treasurer and bootlegger during Prohibition.
10Frank UnderwoodThe House of Cards congressman who climbs to the presidency and tells you how, directly.
11Rust CohleTrue Detective's nihilist detective, chasing a Louisiana case across seventeen years.
12BoJack HorsemanThe washed-up sitcom horse whose self-destruction is played for jokes and then not.
13VillanelleKilling Eve's assassin, dressing beautifully and killing without a flicker of guilt.
14Marty ByrdeThe Ozark accountant laundering cartel money out of a Missouri lake resort.
15Elliot AldersonMr. Robot's hacker, dismantling a global conglomerate from inside his own unreliable head.
16Logan RoySuccession's media patriarch, running a company and four children on the same contempt.
17Nancy BotwinThe suburban widow of Weeds who starts dealing to keep the lifestyle her husband left behind.
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Tony Soprano spends six seasons explaining himself to a woman who never absolves him; Walter White spends 62 episodes leaving a classroom: https://youpick.best/articles/breaking-bad-vs-the-sopranos-ranked
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