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Question about the world of cinema and tv?

Pros as protagonists (cops, doctors, lawyers, etc) appear both in movies and series. But cons as protagonists (bank robbers, con artists, rapists, killers, etc) appear only in movies. For example, Oceans Eleven works well as a movie , but do you imagine those guys in a series, robbing somebody every night? But people love to see the good guys on a daily basis, nobody gets tired of watching CSI, right? So my theory is : we (the audience) like to go to the dark side for a short time, so we like to see bad people doing bad things for 90 minutes, it's like taking a moral break, but if we watched a series every day, that's a different story. I think it's the same with pirates and vikings. They basically kidnapped people, raped women and children, destroyed cities...but who doesnt enjoy watching Johnny Deep dressed up as drag queen going around playing pirates? Johnny Deep basically does the same stuff that real nowadays pirates do in Somalian waters, but I seriously doubt any Black Somalian pirate will ever feature in a protagonist role in Hollywood. So I guess that's the reason why we see goodies both in movies and series but baddies only in movies. Any thoughts about it?

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1. The writers on the show will just give the audience a reason for this person(s) commiting the crime by injecting some moral reasons every week or establish a reason why. Take Dexter for example. He is commiting the crimes his victims committed, but no one doesn't hate him. Sorry but there are a lot of TV shows that have criminals as the main characters. Sopranos. People live drama.
2. Sorry, but it sounds like you haven't been exposed to much TV, especially on cable. There are several popular TV shows with criminals as protagonists. Dexter features a serial killer as a lead. Heroes also had a serial killer as a lead. The entire cast of Leverage is criminals - a con artist, a criminal mastermind, an assassin, a hacker and a thief. Breaking Bad and Weeds are both shows about drug dealers. Sons of Anarchy is about a motorcycle gang, including drug dealers and murderers. The Shield was about crooked cops who were also cop-killers. The Wire featured killers and drug dealers. The list goes on. Exploring the dark side of the psyche and watching as people get more entangled in their own darkness makes for riveting TV. It can be explored much more thoroughly in that medium than in a two-hour movie.