I find many of the minor characters in tv dramas fascinating. I think that maybe writers have both permission and purpose in making some of the minor characters quite reliable. They tend to have certain unusual personality traits.
Whenever Dr. Lilith Sternin appears in "Cheers", I perk up. As psychologists sometimes tend to be, she seems especially locked inside herself, full of academic and pseudo-objective terminology and jargon and vigorously defended against stray or impermissible feelings. Lilith and Frazier Crane make a great pair, big on ideas and concepts and low on self-knowledge. The other day, the pregnant Lilith and her husband were taken with the notion of situating their lives off the grid in a back-to-nature setting of pure air and clean living in which they would raise their own food and stay close to the actual physical side of life. Three hours in a cold cabin with no luck using two stones to spark a fire, they both forcefully admitted their desires to go back to their urban and wealthy lives.
What sort of legal staff a real urban hospital has, I don't know, but the one in Scrubs seems to have one resident lawyer. He is perpetually afraid of the chief of staff and is confused and hesitant on every issue. Maybe he would have been happier as an accountant or a solitary sculptor chipping away at marble. The one time he seems happy and secure is in singing in his barbershop quartet. He is reliably frightened all the time, especially on legal questions.Whenever Dr. Lilith Sternin appears in "Cheers", I perk up. As psychologists sometimes tend to be, she seems especially locked inside herself, full of academic and pseudo-objective terminology and jargon and vigorously defended against stray or impermissible feelings. Lilith and Frazier Crane make a great pair, big on ideas and concepts and low on self-knowledge. The other day, the pregnant Lilith and her husband were taken with the notion of situating their lives off the grid in a back-to-nature setting of pure air and clean living in which they would raise their own food and stay close to the actual physical side of life. Three hours in a cold cabin with no luck using two stones to spark a fire, they both forcefully admitted their desires to go back to their urban and wealthy lives.
In Dharma and Greg, the husband's closest male friend is Pete, who is a fellow lawyer in the law office. Pete is steadily piggy. He shows surprising disregard for the feelings of the women he is interested in. He tends to think pick-up lines such as "Does this look infected to you?" are intimate and the fast track to bedding some woman. He seems to be right just often enough to confuse himself and divert himself away from improving his awareness and manners.
It's not nice to laugh at people but these characters warm my heart while giving me a chuckle. Maybe I like them because they are more like me than I realize.
