Why So Many TV Bad Guys Come From Long Island |
Why So Many TV Bad Guys Come From Long Island
Ms. Sosenko, the author of the memoir “I’ll Look So Hot in a Coffin,” grew up in Nassau County, Long Island.
I’ve recently been spending time with a trio of seething, striving, sadistic men. Luckily for me, they’re all made up. There’s Nile Jarvis, an antisocial rich kid with daddy issues, and the villain in the Netflix thriller “The Beast in Me”; Andrew Winchester, an antisocial rich kid with mommy issues, in the hit murder mystery “The Housemaid”; and Stephen DeMarco, the complicated, antisocial working-class kid with everybody issues in the Hulu series “Tell Me Lies.”
This trinity of fictional sociopaths are all supposed to be from Nassau County on Long Island, which is where I grew up. This coincidence is likely to have escaped most viewers, but it definitely caught my eye. There is something true to life about it. Nassau County, in my........