11/15/2009

Gervais Characters

I was reading The Gervais Principle, Part 1, but got confused trying to keep all the characters straight. So I decided to list them:

David Wallace
    Sociopath executive

Jan Levinson-Gould
    Sociopath executive, psychotic descent into madness, Michael's lover,

Michael Scott
    star salesman, clueless manager of Scranton Branch, manager of merged Stamford and Scranton branches, considered for Jan's job

Karen,
    Sociopath, girlfriend of Jim, she and Jim go after Jan's job, gets Utica branch instead, Jim ?

Jim
    Sociopath, boyfriend of Karen, goes back to Scranton, will-he-won’t-he sociopath-in-the-making,


Daryl
    Opportunist loser

Ryan
    Intern, incompetant salesman, born pragmatist-sociopath, also goes after Jan's job and gets it, cooks books, is arrested, starts a college football gambling fund,

Stanley
    Self-aware loser, minimum-effort coaster

Dwight and Andy
    Overperforming losers

Toby
    Intellectually a sociopath, but without the energy or ambition to be an active sociopath
Nov 15, 2009 9:37:02 AM

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