The two great television crime dramas of the last thirty years are The Sopranos and Breaking Bad. Each is spectacular in their own right, with mold-breaking anti-heroes in the characters of Tony Soprano and Walter White.
Having spent an adult lifetime in crime, so to speak, we cannot honestly decide. Some days it's Tony and the gang at the Badda Bing! And other days it's Walter White throwing mercury fulminate and blowing up drug dealer Tuco Salamanca's lair in revenge for him beating Jessie and taking their drugs. (On the evening the Mercury episode aired, Google searches for the substance became number one- telling the producers they had a runaway hit.)
So which is it?
The beauty of this clip is that in this episode Tony takes care of the body of Richie Aprile that his sister killed, solving the immediate problems facing his crew, and the producers picked the perfect song to end the show.
And of course the most famous malevolent chemist scene of all time. All of the sudden Walter White was a playa demanding respect: "Fulminated Mercury...a little tweak of chemistry." What a great line! And of course Tuco telling Walter "Sometimes you gotta rob to keep your riches."