Nowadays, season arc dramas show characters change, all the time. The various period porn pieces - Rome, Game of Thrones, etc. - all have characters that evolve over time. So do crime shows like Oz and the Sopranos. The Wire is especially masterful at showing characters evolve over the entire 5-season, 6-year story arc.
Mad Men is somewhat unique in that, despite plots that force characters to do things they normally wouldn't, Don goes back to his old self and Pete becomes more and more of a terrible human being. It's actually saying something there: people don't change. They may try to, but they don't. The problem is that it can say that in maybe half the amount of screen time it's had, so from season 5 onward it's dragged, like a 4-hour LARP where all your plots resolved 2 hours in.
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Date: 2015-04-07 08:27 pm (UTC)Mad Men is somewhat unique in that, despite plots that force characters to do things they normally wouldn't, Don goes back to his old self and Pete becomes more and more of a terrible human being. It's actually saying something there: people don't change. They may try to, but they don't. The problem is that it can say that in maybe half the amount of screen time it's had, so from season 5 onward it's dragged, like a 4-hour LARP where all your plots resolved 2 hours in.