Primetime Television Character Analysis

Do you know why people root for anti-hero? From shows such as Dexter, The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad have been at the fore-front of primetime television in 21 centuries. For their portrayal of the morally ambiguous characters. A morally ambiguous character is defined as a character that does bad acts for a good person and vis versa. Many scholars have researched the questions about the fan enjoyment of a morally ambiguous characters. (Eden, A., Daalmans, S., & Johnson, Janicke, S. H., & Raney, A. A Krakowiak, K. M., & Oliver, M. B Tsay-Vogel, M. Zimmernen) But few scholars have looked at connection between how fan enjoyment between female and male anti-hero. The objective of my paper is conceptual in is look at primetime television depiction of male crime boss anti-hero and female anti-hero along with race to see how the narrative of stories set-up for enjoyment.
All three shows feature MACs who happen to be crime bosses or on their way to becoming that sort of leader. The difference is that in the show Power the lead Mac protagonist is African American male who happens to be big time drug dealer in New York City. While Queen of the South is about a Latina female on her rise to power to become a Queen pin. In the show Vikings they just center the shows focus character who is characterized as morally ambiguous and while he may be white male he is also disabled I choose these shows when I did most of analyses done was on white male MACs as the test