At Cinema Junkie, Beth Accomando says good-bye to Breaking Bad: “In the end for me what Breaking Bad delivered was a portrait of America and a distinctly American sense of identity. By tapping into the western genre, the show starts with something quintessentially American. That genre is prone to celebrate the individual over the community or the greater good. The western hero is frequently the loner who follows his own path – think of John Wayne at the end of The Searchers, Shane, or Clint Eastwood in some of his spaghetti westerns.”