![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shows like SYFY’s Happy!, which makes an honest attempt to do the formula one better by taking it to such an obvious extreme that any sort of hero worship would seem totally out of the question. Though it’s less prevalent and more heavily criticized, TV is still chock full of antiheroes and difficult men. Men who played by their own rules and were ultimately rewarded and adored for their antics - mostly by those watching - regardless of whether or not that’s what the creators of such characters had in mind. From Tony Soprano to Don Draper to Walter White, the Golden Age of television was marked by its surplus of difficult men, men who are great at their jobs but terrible when it came to the management of even the most basic of human relationships. SYFY's adaptation of Grant Morrison's Happy! serves up a demented dark comedy that squeezes the last bit of juice from the tired antihero formula.Ī few years ago, you couldn’t swing a dead cat and not hit a TV show with a brooding, difficult but “totally awesome” man as its lead. ![]()
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