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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 421600" data-attributes="member: 22">I&#039;d sooner watch characters who are compelling than likeable. I mean, every character in Succession is genuinely horrible, but that doesn&#039;t stop it being a brilliantly gripping and hugely entertaining show, and the tiny glimpses you get of people&#039;s humanity are all the more powerful for being so rare.That said, I found Danny Sharpe a surprisingly touching character in Season 9. And I guess Richard moves into a more traditionally sympathetic role after Maggie dies and he loses his kids. And because they&#039;re so three-dimensionally written and acted, it&#039;s not hard to empathise with or feel moved by Michael, Genele, Walker, Sidney and Pilar at different times, even if they&#039;re not conventionally &quot;nice&quot; in a dependable, Maggie Gioberti sort of way.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s great when I find my sympathies continually shifting throughout a drama rather than having everyone clearly labelled either &quot;good&quot; or &quot;bad&quot; from the outset. That&#039;s one of the things I loved about New Dallas: nobody was just one thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 421600, member: 22"] I'd sooner watch characters who are compelling than likeable. I mean, every character in [I]Succession[/I] is genuinely horrible, but that doesn't stop it being a brilliantly gripping and hugely entertaining show, and the tiny glimpses you get of people's humanity are all the more powerful for being so rare. That said, I found Danny Sharpe a surprisingly touching character in Season 9. And I guess Richard moves into a more traditionally sympathetic role after Maggie dies and he loses his kids. And because they're so three-dimensionally written and acted, it's not hard to empathise with or feel moved by Michael, Genele, Walker, Sidney and Pilar at different times, even if they're not conventionally "nice" in a dependable, Maggie Gioberti sort of way. I think it's great when I find my sympathies continually shifting throughout a drama rather than having everyone clearly labelled either "good" or "bad" from the outset. That's one of the things I loved about [I]New Dallas[/I]: nobody was just one thing. [/QUOTE]

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