Identifying with TV Characters
Ensemble TV shows work best when there is a character you identify with. Friends did this clinically, it was almost impossible not to identify with one of the characters. Seinfeld did the same, but with far more subtlety, and maybe by accident.
So it is not something special to identify with a character.
Still, two from shows I have watched in bulk in recent months are extra fitting.
Mark Corrigan in Peepshow. Mark is responsible and intelligent but also socially awkward and despondent. He has a love of history, especially ancient history. He pursues a series of other women… wondering whether each could be “the one”
Bertram Gilfoyle in Silicon Valley. He is a self-described LaVeyan Satanist, and bears an upside-down cross tattoo on his right arm. His persona is an apathetic badass programmer that has libertarian tendencies. To say he is odd is an understatement.
Them two, combined. Me. 🙂