The most interesting movies of 1962 were not those with such overt psychiatric content but those that used Freudian insights to create multilayered characters.
The supporting cast was a snug family, stock but multilayered characters who spent much time talking: the beer-drinking philosopher, Doc (Milburn Stone); the careworn Long Branch saloonkeeper, Miss Kitty Amanda Blakee), her love unrequited; and the lame sidekick, Chester Goode Dennis Weaverr).
"I wanted him to say something like, 'When I laid eyes on you...,"' she explains, her voice trailing off, sounding like one of her own multilayered characters, about to revise the course of her destiny on a dime, without so much as a goodbye to her former life.
Beyond dense, multilayered characters, serialization featuring multi-season plotlines is one of the most celebrated aspects of the Golden Age of Television, from Mad Men to Game of Thrones.
Odessa, you are incredibly adept at playing these multilayered characters, because while you are fascinating to watch in the first half, we never realize what you are capable of doing in the second half of the film.
Verne Gay of Newsday praised Michalka's performance in the series, while The Hollywood Reporter praised the series itself and said it has "multilayered characters that defy expectations".
