“That’s the bad guy.” I said 30 seconds after walking in the room where my wife was watching the TV.
I hadn’t seen the show. It was one of several series either me or the wife follows…this one was one of hers.
“How do you know?”
I’d watched it for 30 seconds. I had no idea of this week’s storyline or plot…or even if there WAS one. It’s not really a show I follow so although I can recognize the regular cast, that’s pretty much all I know about it.
There were several “not regular cast” players…why’d I pick him out as the bad guy? How did I even know there WAS a bad guy?
Easy:
1) Not regular cast.
2) Middle aged white guy, more or less clean cut.
3) Not acting like a blithering idiot.
Those 3 = “bad guy”. Pretty much any middle aged white guy that is not the star or regular cast, is either played as a complete idiot, some sort of mentally incapacitated bum, or the bad guy.
Yes Hollywood, you are that predictable.
I wonder which “role” I should strive for?
CUAgain,
Daniel Meyer
