TV Writers Are Masochists

How television confused relentless suffering with character development and forgot the value of an ordinary day.

Television writers must be masochists. There is no other reasonable explanation for what they keep doing to their characters. Every season begins with a fresh emotional wound, advances through betrayal, abduction, grief, torture, or apocalypse, and ends just in time to introduce the next villain with an even more elaborate plan for ruining everyone’s life….