I'd count both Patty Hewes on Damages and Jackie Peyton on Nurse Jackie as anti-heroes. And I LOVE both shows. (They are both extremely lady centric too in the supporting characters. The "main" relationship in both shows is between two lades--sometimes partners, sometimes rivals on Damages, and friends on Nurse Jackie). They are undoubtedly not "good" people, but of course it's way more complicated than that. Sometimes they do good things in really awful ways, sometimes they have good motives, sometimes it's hard to tell. They're selfish and destructive, except for when they're not.
They're both married (and both marriages are extremely difficult). I wish I had more brain power and less spoilers with which to dissect each relationship, but both husbands sort of...interefere in the anti-heroism or judge it, and the relationship suffers for it. But their husbands definitely don't get hatred from the fandoms. Um, such as they are--the fandoms for both are pretty much non-existent, and speculating why just makes me sad. The fandoms are actually too tiny to even describe patterns, because if I say, "In the Nurse Jackie fandom, I've actually seen slash shipping involving the husband," that means I've seen two people do it. So yeah, I guess the takeway is, we can't even really compare the reactions to the husbands because 1) there aren't enough shows with female anti-heroes, and 2) there aren't enough people talking about those shows to really observe reactions to the husbands. :(
This has been a depressing comment. The shows are awesome though! :D
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They're both married (and both marriages are extremely difficult). I wish I had more brain power and less spoilers with which to dissect each relationship, but both husbands sort of...interefere in the anti-heroism or judge it, and the relationship suffers for it. But their husbands definitely don't get hatred from the fandoms. Um, such as they are--the fandoms for both are pretty much non-existent, and speculating why just makes me sad. The fandoms are actually too tiny to even describe patterns, because if I say, "In the Nurse Jackie fandom, I've actually seen slash shipping involving the husband," that means I've seen two people do it. So yeah, I guess the takeway is, we can't even really compare the reactions to the husbands because 1) there aren't enough shows with female anti-heroes, and 2) there aren't enough people talking about those shows to really observe reactions to the husbands. :(
This has been a depressing comment. The shows are awesome though! :D