Pop culture AHC: AMC Wife Defendants/Apologists dominant view on the Internet

AMC wives are some of the most controversial and widely derided characters on TV in both the media and internet chat rooms simply because they're "crazy bitches". However, they do have their defendants that claim these characters are misunderstood and that "the main characters are just as bad, if not worse".

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario where defendants, or apologists of AMC wives are the more dominant view on the Internet--It dosen't mean that they agree with what these characters do, but instead have more empathy over derision over these characters. It could be a casting change since some accuse these characters of been poorly acted, or a cultural change in the 20th century that never happened or was poorly handled OTL that may make us more emphatic to these peple with a POD no earlier than the 50s or 60s.

Bonus points if no one ends up hating the main male characters to the same level.

So is this all possible, or ASB?

NOTE: I am well aware that there's a good case made out there that people are supposed to hate these characters. In that case, it can still mean this WI can be in effect as the cultural changes in human psyche could mean excessive Draco in Leather Pants(through this was evident with the protagonists) and acting against the creator's wishes.
 
AMC wives are some of the most controversial and widely derided characters on TV in both the media and internet chat rooms simply because they're "crazy bitches". However, they do have their defendants that claim these characters are misunderstood and that "the main characters are just as bad, if not worse".

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create a scenario where defendants, or apologists of AMC wives are the more dominant view on the Internet--It dosen't mean that they agree with what these characters do, but instead have more empathy over derision over these characters. It could be a casting change since some accuse these characters of been poorly acted, or a cultural change in the 20th century that never happened or was poorly handled OTL that may make us more emphatic to these peple with a POD no earlier than the 50s or 60s.

Bonus points if no one ends up hating the main male characters to the same level.

So is this all possible, or ASB?

NOTE: I am well aware that there's a good case made out there that people are supposed to hate these characters. In that case, it can still mean this WI can be in effect as the cultural changes in human psyche could mean excessive Draco in Leather Pants(through this was evident with the protagonists) and acting against the creator's wishes.

It's usually considered bad for to use an acronym without explaining what it means - in other words, what is an "AMC wife" anyway? The link isn't working (here) which kinda makes it hard to answer...
 
This is too small and too soon to really have an measurable AH impact...

For some perspective, the majority of Enterprise episodes had higher ratings than the most viewed Mad Men episode.
 
Keep Lori's character as she was in the comics? Still pretty useless, but actually sympathetic and likable who didn't immediately jump into bed with Shane but only did so once in a moment of weakness. Might have helped if one of Ricks first lines wasn't about how she was a horrible person either. Oh, and off Shane early on as in the comics, so Rcik and Lori can develop without that absurd love triangle.

For Breaking Bad...make Walt less like likable? Even that probably wouldn't work, you might have to remove Bryan Cranston altogether, he gets you so invested that practically every character who objects to him becomes viewed as an antagonist. Honestly, I bet Hanks going to lose popularity in the last season.

Never seen Mad Men, is it worth watching?
 
Decrease misogyny in American culture.
All I know is Mad Men, but while Betty Draper comes across as a terrible person, the other female characters are three dimensional...or at least as three dimensional and three dimensional characters can be in an era when the White men that run every expect everyone to be two dimensional. So Betty isn't bad in a way where all women in the show are bad. She's bad in an objective way compared to anyone and the women of the show. So I wouldn't call it misogyny as I believe the intent is that she is an emotionally damaged person who is a horrid bitch of a woman, a terrible wife and a terrible mother, and that the reason that is so evident is that she is the exception rather than the rule. Misogyny would be if it were the rule of the characters in the setting, in a manner where women were especially horrid. May I also add the purpose seems to be, to me at least, to show a duality representative of a segment of women and the female experience in American culture in the era, and in relation to advertising: that is to say, the Stepford wife on the outside who looks like all the pretty magazine covers of what the ideal American wife is, who beneath the mask is terrible, and is also terrible by relation to and trying to be that ideal. Betty's mother made her walk home to keep fit and told her she was fat, hence the relation to the ideal American wife, but also the emotional damage and warping of a person that resulted from that. Mad Men on the whole seems to be about the ideal vs the reality (in direct relation to it being about advertisers; the shamans of Capitalism, and we are a Capitalist society so those ads and ideas are the religious dogma and icons of the 20th/21st century), and the problems of not being that ideal and the problems and psychologically terrible and/or complex things that arise from trying to be the ideal. I think Betty Draper's characterization is part of that; the most ideal wife on the outside, and the most terrible person on the inside. It could ramble on about Mad Men, but we'll get off topic.
 
Never seen Mad Men, is it worth watching?
Yeah I think it's pretty spectacular.

Anyways, here's the originally linked article. It seems like changing the underlying issues at stake would probably butterfly away the shows themselves. Changing the genesis for Mad Men slightly, for example, would mean that it wouldn't make to AMC, which would heavily alter their entire strategy as a network.

Minor stuff could get changed though; the "Fat Betty" storyline was because of January Jones' pregnancy, and without that she would've had a better season.
 
All I know is Mad Men, but while Betty Draper comes across as a terrible person, the other female characters are three dimensional...or at least as three dimensional and three dimensional characters can be in an era when the White men that run every expect everyone to be two dimensional. So Betty isn't bad in a way where all women in the show are bad. She's bad in an objective way compared to anyone and the women of the show. So I wouldn't call it misogyny as I believe the intent is that she is an emotionally damaged person who is a horrid bitch of a woman, a terrible wife and a terrible mother, and that the reason that is so evident is that she is the exception rather than the rule. Misogyny would be if it were the rule of the characters in the setting, in a manner where women were especially horrid. May I also add the purpose seems to be, to me at least, to show a duality representative of a segment of women and the female experience in American culture in the era, and in relation to advertising: that is to say, the Stepford wife on the outside who looks like all the pretty magazine covers of what the ideal American wife is, who beneath the mask is terrible, and is also terrible by relation to and trying to be that ideal. Betty's mother made her walk home to keep fit and told her she was fat, hence the relation to the ideal American wife, but also the emotional damage and warping of a person that resulted from that. Mad Men on the whole seems to be about the ideal vs the reality (in direct relation to it being about advertisers; the shamans of Capitalism, and we are a Capitalist society so those ads and ideas are the religious dogma and icons of the 20th/21st century), and the problems of not being that ideal and the problems and psychologically terrible and/or complex things that arise from trying to be the ideal. I think Betty Draper's characterization is part of that; the most ideal wife on the outside, and the most terrible person on the inside. It could ramble on about Mad Men, but we'll get off topic.


For Betty, they do seem to alternate between making her likable and tragic one day, and an abusive Bitch the other day, so you could make a case that they want us to both pity and hate the character. They could pull off an Eva Heinemann-esque change with her if they play their cards right.

From what I gather on the Internet(I have NEVER seen any of these shows due to the fanbases) I think that we might be supposed to hate Lori but Betty and Skylar is in the middle. But I've never seen anything so I can't judge this story.
 
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