TV Tuesday: Begotten

[yourlibrarian]

Who are the best TV parents and what made them great/memorable? Do they have to be good parents to make interesting characters?

Comments

[rodo]

I like parents that are flawed and fleshed out characters in their own right, and I found Game of Thrones particularly good for this. Ned and Cat are my favorites, because they both do their best for their children but still fail them in some ways because they're not perfect, and they suffer their own biases and have trauma in their pasts that influences them.

[yourlibrarian]

Never saw the show but agree that characters who are not solely parents are the most interesting.

[rodo]

That honestly goes for most characters, to be fair! It's always good to have them exist as something more than in relation to one of the main characters, be that as parents, in laws, villains, children, friends or coworkers.