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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Series/BreakingBad'' is one for many StepfordSuburbia dramas about patriarchs trying to honor UsefulNotes/TheAmericanDream but suffering a mid-life crisis on account of his failure. Predecessors include Creator/ArthurMiller's ''Theatre/DeathOfASalesman'', Sam Mendes' ''Film/AmericanBeauty'' and Creator/NicholasRay's ''Film/BiggerThanLife''.
** It's also a spiritual successor to the Spaghetti Western ''Faccia a Faccia'', about an asthmatic professor, played by Gian Maria Volonte, who bonds with an outlaw and becomes one himself, while the outlaw (played by Tomas Milian) finds some redemption.
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*{{Thanatos Gambit}}: [[spoiler: Hector]] pulls one in Season 4, and [[spoiler:Walt himself]] in the finale.

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* TheLawOfConservationOfDetail: Every detail seem important in the plot.


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* SkewedPriorities: In "Fly," Walt tellingly adds the birth of his daughter as an after-thought, seeming to place more importance on the first million he made as a reason to have not dropped dead.
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