Film and Television Blog

Ever since watching Breaking Bad I have noticed a shift in much television storytelling, A character who is a protagonist becoming an antagonist through a 5 season television show is a breakthrough. I am starting with this story analysis particularly because traditional storytelling has a protagonist and antagonist who typically not the same character throughout. Not only do we see the story through the eyes of Walter White but we also see it through Jesse Pinkman and other characters such as Hank Schrader. In a television show there is the opportunity to observe different character backgrounds, how the character has developed and connection to other characters from different angles. Through these different methods of conveying story it brings us the audience context and a connection from a character we as the audience individually or as a group relate to. In multi plot stories like Lost we see this clearly and what makes it addictive is seeing a main story developing these charact...