{"id":8165,"date":"2015-06-16T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mckeestory.com\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2015-06-15T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T14:04:49","slug":"irreversible-change-and-the-principle-of-exhaustion-in-long-form-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/irreversible-change-and-the-principle-of-exhaustion-in-long-form-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Irreversible Change and the Principle of Exhaustion in Long-Form Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wuTxF8eGmbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How does the need to create absolute, irreversible change in the protagonist&#8217;s life work for TV series and serial characters? Robert McKee explains. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Quotes of the Week<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I&#8217;m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; J. Courtney Sullivan<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Mad Men would have been some sort of crisp, soapy version of The West Wing if not for The Sopranos. Peggy would have been a climber. All the things that people thought were going to happen would have happened. Even though the pilot itself has a dark, strange quality, I didn\u2019t know that that was what was good about it. I just wanted an excuse to exorcise my demons, to write a story about somebody who\u2019s thirty-five years old, who has everything, and who is miserable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Matthew Weiner<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does the need to create absolute, irreversible change in the protagonist&#8217;s life work for TV series and serial characters? Robert McKee explains. &nbsp; Quotes of the Week &#8220;Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-lessons","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckeestory.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}