Bonus - Lone Star: Pilot (1.1)

Complex, sometimes plain unlikable protagonists have been a mainstay for cable television throughout the last decade or so, but it's still fairly new ground for the big-four networks. And when a network series does have an unlikable protagonist, they're usually of the black-humored, curmudgeonly kind, like the star of the very show that precedes Lone Star every Monday night: House. At the center of Lone Star is a man who we shouldn't really like. He's a con-man, somebody who is simultaneously betraying two women, somebody who has cheated probably hundreds of people out of money, land and power for almost all of his life. It's that complexity that, while hardly likable behavior, should at least create a dynamic protagonist for a new drama series.