The entire list of characters are fun to watch. Each one takes their personalities to the nth degree. If you’re a sad character, then you’re the saddest character in the world. If you’re an uncovential iconoclast, then you’re the most unconventional there could ever be. If you’re staid, your more boring than anyone can image.
Did I mention I hate Lily James’ character? She’s flighty, so she’s the most flighty there could be. She’s constantly chasing the next thing. She blows off her best friend when she wants, but loves her passionately the next. She’s absurd. So I can’t stand the actress or the character. Seems apropos. She reminds me of friends I once had, and I can’t stand her for the same reasons.
Uncle Matthew now, he’s perfect. He can’t stand having “Huns” in his house. He hates strangers. And he’s aghast when he sees a bohemian man “carry a comb!” Could be the best delivery of an absurd line ever.
It’s that absurdity and superlative that makes good writing, great. Look at Seinfeld or Arrested Development (two shows I think mastered their genres). They take their characters to absurd lengths.
I hope one day I can write characters with such extremes. It reminds me of reading Stan Lee’s “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way” a book I cherished as a young child. I’d sit there and read the book and watch the accompanying VCR tape, and hear how villains were fun to draw because the artist could take them to such extremes. Go look at the Marvel villains. Talk about extremes.
Regardless, Pursuit of Love is a wonderful show. Quirky, fun, irreverent, and like great stories, the characters are taken to not just to the edge of extremes, but quite a bit beyond them.
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