Pamela Character Analysis
What did you like about this script?
The writer offers a unique and quirky, character-driven script, which has the potential to be wildly unpredictable with a mild bit of slapstick humor that I enjoyed. Though Pamela seemed to take the front seat in the narrative, I found that her daughter Syd's character seemed to be the most agreeable.
Her character felt as if she were the physical embodiment of the audience being forced to spend Thanksgiving with their family as all of their foolery behavior is captured on camera. Not quite a fly on the way, but Syd's character did seem to stand apart from her family.
Additionally, the writer does a good job of establishing a specific connection between Syd and Pamela's characters. Pamela reads as …show more content…
TV shows are assembled in a way to make the characters and their stories evolve and expand over a period with larger story arcs and small character arcs.
The vanity of Mark's character and the self-indulgent traits of Pamela's sister, Christina, are easy enough to detect, but the rest of the characters proved to be much more difficult. Pamela shows bits of erratic and unfocused behavior in the script, is this linked to something specifically related to the larger arc of the show? Pamela's boyfriend, Danny, is the owner of the weird items we see in Pamela's bedroom in the first scene. So, how does that tie into the show if it is related at all? What is it that the writer intends to reveal about his character or their lifestyle by showing this to the audience?
Likewise, we know that Pamela is attempting this dinner as a means of pleasing her father, but the emotional connection behind it is not clear. Was there a specific reason for Pamela's desperation to prove she could pull off Thanksgiving dinner? She's an older woman with adult children, could this really be her first time making a holiday
The writer offers a unique and quirky, character-driven script, which has the potential to be wildly unpredictable with a mild bit of slapstick humor that I enjoyed. Though Pamela seemed to take the front seat in the narrative, I found that her daughter Syd's character seemed to be the most agreeable.
Her character felt as if she were the physical embodiment of the audience being forced to spend Thanksgiving with their family as all of their foolery behavior is captured on camera. Not quite a fly on the way, but Syd's character did seem to stand apart from her family.
Additionally, the writer does a good job of establishing a specific connection between Syd and Pamela's characters. Pamela reads as …show more content…
TV shows are assembled in a way to make the characters and their stories evolve and expand over a period with larger story arcs and small character arcs.
The vanity of Mark's character and the self-indulgent traits of Pamela's sister, Christina, are easy enough to detect, but the rest of the characters proved to be much more difficult. Pamela shows bits of erratic and unfocused behavior in the script, is this linked to something specifically related to the larger arc of the show? Pamela's boyfriend, Danny, is the owner of the weird items we see in Pamela's bedroom in the first scene. So, how does that tie into the show if it is related at all? What is it that the writer intends to reveal about his character or their lifestyle by showing this to the audience?
Likewise, we know that Pamela is attempting this dinner as a means of pleasing her father, but the emotional connection behind it is not clear. Was there a specific reason for Pamela's desperation to prove she could pull off Thanksgiving dinner? She's an older woman with adult children, could this really be her first time making a holiday