Instead of an edgier cinema in modern times, we have some folk who've managed to squeeze something from the over-determination of long-form television. A series like OZARK, which has managed to integrate its three main characters around credibly "escalatable" (for lack of a better term) arcs perfectly suited to those characters' basic emotional representations, seems to have mastered this process due to a unique ability to collide a series of cultural/sociological stereotypes into indelibly drawn performances (Julia Garner, Laura Linney and Jason Bateman) that animate the action in a way that explodes past our sense of character stereotyping.
But achievements of that type are rare to begin with, and they are that much rarer in these times. And it's possible that the expanded length of such shows is now the only way for actors to successfully convey a "haunted" or "possessed" character without being forced into the shortcuts of caricature.
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