@beyondthescreencast: The Sopranos was famously the first in a line of shows in the “golden age of television” to focus on the antihero, a lead character who can be seen as heroic from one angle and villainous from another, a model that Mad Men directly follows. Both Tony Soprano and Don Draper are built around contradiction, and it is this ambiguity that makes dream sequences such an effective narrative tool in both series 💭 Each leads a double life, hiding his true identity while carefully maintaining a charismatic and controlled appearance to others. Don lives with the fear that people will discover he stole the identity of a fallen soldier in the Korean War and that he comes from an impoverished background, while Tony worries that his Capos will discover he suffers from panic attacks and is undergoing therapy. These secrets are the psychological pressures that drive both characters and necessitate a form of storytelling that can access what they refuse to articulate explicitly. - via. Greer Riddell @colliderdotcom 🔗 You can read in full on Collider dot com. #TheSopranos #MadMen #TonySoprano #DonDraper @hbomaxuk @hbomax
