Why do you think we've gravitated towards shows like Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and House of Cards, which showcase protagonists who are horrible people?
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"There was an interesting story on NPR awhile back (if I can find it, I'll link it) talking about the narrative shift over the last century or so toward writing more complex "bad guys". For a long time the trend was that we have a virtuous character who may have no idea why or how he has been thrust into a particular situation and the story is focused on his trials and tribulations of virtue. The antagonist in these stories never needed to be examined since they mostly had to serve as a tool to cut the protagonist down in some way. Most of us already know why we are "good", so examining the motivations as to why the antagonist does the things he does becomes much more compelling, so the shift tended toward creating antagonists with very real motivations. Recently that shift has simply evolved into, really, putting the antagonist at the center of the narrative to watch their machinations unfold. "
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I think it is because characters seem the most real. Nobody is all good or all bad, but these shows do an incredible job of letting you understand the motivation of the main characters. You see them doing horrible things, but you understand why they are doing them. These are sometimes horrific acts that the viewer would never consider doing in real life, but they are understandable for the characters.
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Dexter too. Sure he only kills serial killers, but he was still murdering people. And I cheered him on the whole show.
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Because they're genuinely good shows. The antihero is a staple of literature and has been around since Homer (The poet, not the cartoon character). It's popular now because it's the current trend, just like the zombie phase, the vampire phase, the wizard phase, and the mockumentary phase. It'll die down when everyone's tired of it and then resurface again later.
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I'm tired of it. I couldn't make it past a few episodes of House of Cards for this reason.
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"Really, they're just drawn out movies. Movies have featured "bad protagonists" for decades. "
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People are more sophisticated audiences now than in years past. There have always been art forms with evil protagonists, but they're becoming mainstream because people are realizing that pure good or evil is nonexistent and everyone lies on a spectrum, the scale and placement on which is relative to the observer.
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Because that is what the media and the government want you to believe is normal, to create criminality so that they have a reason to introduce martial law and keep all you bad people locked up.
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I think a large part of it is that some people simply find the characters compelling and more three dimensional in those shows. Also, the writing in all of these anti-hero type shows tends to be top-notch for whatever reason.
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Why is Don Draper a horrible person? Besides the fact he cheats on his wife. Only on srason 3 but he seems like a pretty cool guy.
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