TV shows
I really should blog more often. I don't have anyone I can talk to about this stuff and if I leave it circling around in my brain it takes up too much space.
When I look back on my favorite shows, one of the tropes that does it for me is the Bad-guys-turned-good-guys. It started with It Takes a Thief, which was probably a big influence in my future viewing habits. A few years later there was Switch, where Eddie Albert played a former cop and Robert Wagner a former con man/thief. There was a show called Feather and Father with a lawyer and her father the conman/thief. Leverage fits the bill so well it might have been developed just for me. Remington Steel, in which a conman/thief steps into the role of private detective and discovers he likes it, was another show designed for me.
A subset of this is the former-spies-who-did-bad-bad things-for-their-country who find a new life helping people. Person of Interest is only the latest of these; there was one I really liked a few years ago called Forced Vengeance (I think) with Michael Madsen helping folks out of jams with violence, mind games, and a wonderfully warped sense of humor. Human Target fits this, too. Burn Notice as well, although they never made Michael guy who agonized over his former career.
When I look back on my favorite shows, one of the tropes that does it for me is the Bad-guys-turned-good-guys. It started with It Takes a Thief, which was probably a big influence in my future viewing habits. A few years later there was Switch, where Eddie Albert played a former cop and Robert Wagner a former con man/thief. There was a show called Feather and Father with a lawyer and her father the conman/thief. Leverage fits the bill so well it might have been developed just for me. Remington Steel, in which a conman/thief steps into the role of private detective and discovers he likes it, was another show designed for me.
A subset of this is the former-spies-who-did-bad-bad things-for-their-country who find a new life helping people. Person of Interest is only the latest of these; there was one I really liked a few years ago called Forced Vengeance (I think) with Michael Madsen helping folks out of jams with violence, mind games, and a wonderfully warped sense of humor. Human Target fits this, too. Burn Notice as well, although they never made Michael guy who agonized over his former career.