Rear window heating

Hi, I have a question for those who know the electrics and so on. This morning the 11 was very icy. I turned on the rear window heating and it ran quite well. So after a short time almost everything was defrosted. But in 2 places it looked as if the wires were somehow not heating (there were 2 long strips over). I can also be mistaken from the inside but it looked definitely as if there was still frost in the 2 places and that was the whole thing. Now my question: If the wires are switched “in line” or somehow “parallel”, don’t know how else to put it. So, if a wire is broken or severed, then everyone doesn’t heat any more and it’s a chain reaction or can it be that individual ones can fail, but the rest still works? Thanks for the advice in advance! Have a nice evening still…