The series broke new ground in the genre, most obviously in the protagonist Mary's being a single, independent working woman at a time when female characters were defined as the wife, girlfriend, or widow of a male counterpart.
"Film is reductive to a single protagonist, but a series allows you a degree of latitude.
Hard to tell for certain whether the diatribe is self-excoriation or the complaints and criticisms of a rival, but this is a deliberate ambiguity on the author's part — in Joyce's dreamscape of the subconscious mind, all dialogues are potentially internal to a single protagonist.
The trilogy Comedias bárbaras (1907, 1908, 1923), set in an anachronistic, semifeudal Galicia and linked by a single protagonist, is in dialogue form, which gives these novels the feel of impossibly long cinematographic dramas.
The series closest thing we have to a single protagonist is Kendall Roy, the most active of the Roy children at Waystar Royco, who rather forcefully steps in as CEO of the company while his father is indisposed and also puts a plan into motion to take over, setting off a series of escalating conflicts and family feuds.
You had to consider what this did to the idea of character agency and multiple perspectives that could be survived when bad things happened to a single protagonist.
"They'll tell you it has to be two acts, that you can only have a single protagonist, that you need an 11 o'clock number.
Beyond features expensive Hollywood star Ellen Page as Jodie Holmes, a single protagonist essential to the narrative, which consequently must be driven in a largely pre-determined direction.
It features a single protagonist, Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams, whose speaking voice is heard just twice.
Rather than cast a single protagonist, the six singers combine to become a sort of hive mind, all contributing to the thought processes being played out.
