The grizzled ex-cop Mike, with his dry wisecracks and his Realpolitik masculinity, fulfills our antihero needs.
Visually, the show frames Bernstein as a weighty cable antihero: the Tony, the Walter, the Don.
The show has shed its original skin, that of the antihero drama, in which we root for a bad boy in spite of ourselves.
The young antihero is arrested, and the Home Office or Ministry of the Interior introduces a form of aversion therapy guaranteed to eliminate criminal propensities forever.
And because, like Ian Fleming's antihero, James Bond (the mean-spirited book version, not the amusing movie one), Gillette engages us with his enviable panache and awesome courage.
The screenwriter, Michael Tolkin, who adapted his own dark 1988 novel, puts a morally tainted and psychologically vulnerable antihero in the middle of Hollywood, and it works.
In Thief, our antihero, Garrett, will have to use his wits to navigate the City, a dark steampunk world (what, you thought Dishonored was unique?) with a dash of medieval Europe.
Davis is 77 years old now, and he has spent more than half his life--43 years--running the Raiders, building the team into one of the richest franchises in football and creating one of the first antihero, unabashedly outlaw brands.
It keeps rolling as the antihero, studio production chief Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), murders a screenwriter he thinks is threatening him, endures a police investigation, defends his corporate turf, and takes us through the process that can transform even a tough-minded flop into a potential smash hit.
In a reversal of the usual trajectory, he looked noticeably slimmer than he had at the end of his playing days, when his head and torso had appeared vaguely salt-swollen, but he retained that particular combination of detached cool and deep-seated insecurity which had made him a compelling antihero on the diamond for much of the past two decades.
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