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@tekeous @seperis But that's the thing though. He doesn't do it for his family. Skyler is right about that one. He keeps being offered help and turns it down out of pride. There are tons of outs for him that would have been good for everyone but he needed to be the hero of his story. He gets his redemption arc but not before screwing up the lives of everyone he dragged into this. I didn't get this the first time I watched the show when it aired because I was expecting a hero's journey but the festering disease ruining his life isn't his cancer but toxic masculinity. He feels deeply ashamed of his life and desperately wants to be important: at first to his family, then as a crime boss. It stops being about his family the instance he turns down the money.