antihero

David Mamet might know how to make the most of a character like Joan Rivers, an entertainment hero and antihero, whose story was an American one of success at any cost.

They see an antihero who’s sticking it to the smug elites.

There were love triangles, villains, antiheroes, flashbacks, flash-sideways and a trail of clues that fans eagerly pieced together in an attempt to understand the cryptic island at the center of the show.

It opened the door to similar series that might never have been pitched or greenlighted otherwise — “Ozark,” “Animal Kingdom,” “Breaking Bad” — and inspired a rage for antiheroes from which television has not yet recovered.

I am wondering, though, if there are enough voters in this category who assume Gadd will win elsewhere to give this Emmy to Scott for his masterful turn as the antihero in “Ripley.”