Georgi Boorman recently wrote an article at The Federalist titled, Why Our Obsession With TV Antiheroes Is Destroying Our Souls. What has happened to HEROES in our society? In movies and TV, why is it even the good guys need to be FLAWED and have a dark side? Share your thoughts today on The Larry O’Connor Show.
An excerpt of Boorman’s article is below:
Every year, TV dramas slide deeper into a storytelling rut as deep as it is dark. Just click through the most popular titles on Netflix and the trope is apparent: the antihero. We’ve had “Breaking Bad,” “Mad Men,” “Dexter,” “How to Get Away with Murder,” “House of Cards,” “Game of Thrones,” “Ozark,” and those are just off the top of my head. There are plenty of corrupt cop dramas out there, and more comic book antiheroes are coming down the pike.
TVTropes put it well: “As the struggling, imperfect protagonist begins to gain more respect and sympathy than the impressive-but-impossible-to-relate-to invincible superhero, ‘anti’ heroes have come to be admired as a perfectly valid type of hero in their own right.” [Read More]
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