Antiheroes
Every episode covering Antiheroes.
"I really enjoyed tying the, like, just the fact that you’re able to draw these sorts of connections between, you know, like an insurance salesman and a post-war, you know, a GI, like all of those sorts of things are really fascinating. And I think writing characters that are assholes, but are completely relatable"
— Mel Killingsworth | DZ-124: Making the Despicable Compelling
KEY IDEAS
Assholes Who Are Completely Relatable
"I really enjoyed tying the, like, just the fact that you're able to draw these sorts of connections between, you know, like an insurance salesman and a post-war, you know, a GI, like all of those sorts of things are really fascinating. And I think writing characters that are assholes, but are completely relatable"
— Mel Killingsworth (01:04:35) · DZ-124: Making the Despicable Compelling
Audience Sympathy for Antiheros
"What can we learn from noir?. In particular: *How can we make characters doing despicable things... compelling?*"
— Chas Fisher (00:01:01) · DZ-124: Making the Despicable Compelling
Audience Complicity in Moral Compromise
"I want to look at main characters and protagonists doing things - despicable horrific things - and how the audience is carried along with them, compelled by them."
— Chas Fisher (00:03:31) · DZ-123: Flawed Characters in Noir
