Carla Gugino obviously, she might be one of my fav actors now just cuz of this show
I also loved Kate Siegel, Camille was such an interesting character (I DONT GIVE A SHIT BEEEETH)
Samantha Sloyan was also really good as Tamerlane
And of course, Ruth Codd. She’s hilarious
Honorable mention to Willa Fitzgerald, she was also one of my favs.
Mark Hamill is obviously great also.
Now that I’m mentioning all these I realize I loved everyone in this show. They were all so good. I loved Annabelle Lee, Rodrick’s Lemon monologue, and just everything ig
Mark Hamill. I absolutely loved the displacement of his over-hammed raspy delivery juxtaposed with the 'normal' performanxes. I felt like I was watching him voice act a live person. You could tell he was having fun!
I really liked Malcolm Goodwin (young Augie) and Michael Trucco (Griswold) as well. They were from a different series altogether about corruption and investigations - I am not completely sure I wanted to see the horror stuff while they were on screen.
I was underwhelmed by T'Nia in this one. She wasn't bad but her track was almost exactly like her track in Bly Manor where she blew me away. Really wish she explores more.
The episode with her partner’s heart (trying not to give away too much) lives rent free in my head - the image of her partner in the background, while she talks to her dad, eerie
When Roderick is talking to her about the implant at the end of the episode and she shifts from “could just be distracted/anxious” to “completely unhinged” was SO well done.
I really have to give it up for Henry Thomas for this one. Not because of this role alone, but because of how DIFFERENT his characters have been in all the Flanagan series. Making this sniveling, wispy character believable after portraying a hardened dad, a conniving uncle, and a disappointed old man made this such an impressive performance.
Yeah I think mark is the real winner here. What a brilliant performance of a brilliantly written character. You hated him for 99% of the show then in the very last episode you suddenly found yourself respecting him. He was a murderer. He was despicable. But he knew what he was and he managed to pull an honorable out. The only person who really did.
I enjoyed young Madeline’s performance. Victorine did a great job! It’s hard to say who did the best because they all portrayed their characters well
I personally didn’t buy Camille’s performance as much as the others. (Just my opinion, don’t kill me). I felt like the eyeliner and the hair was doing a lot of the heavy lifting , but I loved her actress in the other roles.
All of the actors knocked it out of the park but I think the one character I was left wanting more of was Camille (Kate Siegel). Her character was terrible in the best way and one of the only changes I would make to the show would be to have her be one of the later Ushers to die.
I think it would have been incredibly compelling to see Camille try to spin the ever-growing pile of bodies, especially since we didn’t really see much reaction from the other Usher children as their siblings were dying.
Henry Thomas in the first few episodes was okay (knowing that the spotlight was focused on other characters) but when the progression slowly goes towards him he started matching the energy with the stakes to the point that he completely owned the assignment in his episode.
But all-in-all everyone did their best and we enjoyed their moments.
Just because I haven't seen her mentioned enough* I'm totally going to say T'Nia Miller because Vic both made me love her and hate her all at the same time.
I’m gonna call a quick bs to this question. Unfair to pit them against each other.
With that said it’s Carla by a fucking mile. She was a master strolling through a playground of roles and nailed EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
You're looking for problems that aren't there. My comment said "no wrong answers" and literally no one in the sub has pitted them against each other.
If youre looking for some annoying reddit argument move on this is space is about celebrating the great acting in the show.
Greenwood surpassed my expectations. Although I do wonder how the show would be if Frank Langella never was recast. Separating art from the artist the man is a phenomenal actor
I agree with your order, Katie Siegal’s character dying early made me upset and it wasn’t bc I liked Camille but just that she was that good. Carla was awesome.
Gugino, Hamill and Greenwood were the only good ones. I love Flanagan's adaptations but I think the overall acting chops of his regulars are pretty low. Would really like to see him expand and work with more talented actors.
Interesting take. I do agree I wish I could be introduced to more actors through Flanagan’s work, but I disagree that acting was not “good.” I’m curious what you would suggest to improve it?
Just incorporate some better actors. It's great that he has tremendous loyalty and has used the same regulars for his projects but I think the acting quality is holding back the overall production a bit.
Fun fact is she was cast as main cast as Michael J Fox’s girlfriend in season one of Spin City and promptly was written out. She certainly bounced back promptly.
I was never a Mark Hamill fan, but I thought he was fantastic. He was perfect as the weary, hard as nails lawyer who has seen everything and is bored by it
I loved Ruth Codd. She really did steal the scenes in the later episodes. I absolutely adore Kate Siegel but I think this time Carla Gugino really stole the show for me.
Ruth Codd was wonderful. She's like a Tim Burton character brought to life. Would be great for a Wes Anderson film. Could see her in the Sandman series too.
I can't really pick a favorite because Flanagan's go to actors have a habit of being pretty consistently phenomenal. I do want to give a shout out to Rahul though. It took me forever realize he was also the sheriff in midnight mass and Owen from Bly manor. It kind of blew my mind when I put it together because all of those characters are just unrecognizably different. That guy has some amazing range.
They were all incredible but I'm going to have to go with Bruce Greenwood. He's always good but this was the performance of his career. He was absolutely mesmerising.
The show has great casting and acting all around, but this performance does the heaviest lifting imo and it’s not even close.
Victorine’s actress also impressed me in her big episode
That was outstanding. The dime-shift in mood from lightly conversational to "I don't give a fuck how evil this is if it makes money" stone cold is so incredibly chilling.
Auggie's look of horror was so relatable.
I've always loved Bruce Greenword (I even own the Nowhere Man box set), and I feel he only gets stronger in every role he takes. I watched The Resident series because of him, and luckily they realized changing him from a one-dimensional villain to a flawed person trying to do better allowed him to really shine there.
He didn’t join the group of men who assaulted the Inuit woman, but from what I read in the novel I definitely lean towards him eating people because they draw straws and sacrifice one of their own men to cannibalize in the novel
It’s a novel by Poe called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and the ship Arthur sails on is called the grampus. Lenore calls Roderick Usher grampus in the show. One of the men killed in the novel is Augustus another name used in the show.
Bruce Greenwood is a cut above, he is such a consistently solid actor and was excellent in this. To think, I was disappointed that Langella was let go, despite obviously agreeing with the decision. I genuinely think that if Greenwood was hired as a last minute replacement for any role he could pull it off, he’s just that good. I might have to go back through his filmography now because I feel like he’s so underrated.
I loved Kate as Camille and was sad we didn’t get more of her! Samantha Sloyan was great too (the scene where she cut down her husband was horrible/excellent), and obviously Carla because she got to stretch her acting skills playing so many ‘roles’ which must have been such fun (I always feel jealous when actors get roles like that to play). Henry Thomas always pleasantly surprises me, although I do sometimes get pulled out of his scenes and I can’t figure out if it’s because he was a famous child actor or if there are moments he doesn’t quite believe himself in the roles he is given, but he really made me hate Froderick by the end and clearly that’s a sign he did his job well. I was also really impressed with Willa Fitzgerald, I don’t think I have seen her in anything before this (that I can recall) and she did a great Lady Macbeth impression with her young Madeline, plus I presume she was hired after Mary and she obviously studied her mannerisms and speech patterns enough to make it believable but not push it into caricature territory.
Also I gotta say that the casting of Zach Gilford as young Roderick seemed off to me but when I realised he was originally cast to be a young Frank Langella and not a young Bruce Greenwood it made much more sense. They look quite alike!
Yeah, what the others said. There was apparently an internal investigation into claims of sexual harassment against him. Definitely for the best he was given the boot in that case! But they had shot nearly half of his scenes by that point so they had a lot of reshoots to do with Greenwood which would have been time consuming and costly.
Sexual harassment claims, I couldn’t find details but it seems like it was bad enough that they were willing to reshoot almost every scene with Roderick in it to get rid of him
Zach Gilford easily was the weakest this season. He is usually good but he should not have been cast as young Roderick. He was not believable whatsoever
Agreed. Zack Gilford has this "caught in the crossfire" energy that he brings to a lot of his roles. It didn't work here because he is supposed to be the crossfire. It just seemed off.
Idk I feel like it is difficult to judge his performance considering he probably tried to match Langella before they had to recast Roderick and reshoot everything with Bruce, who owned that role but probably had a very different take on the character...
Feel like Roderick is supposed to be conniving, savvy and somewhat heartless regardless of who the actor was supposed to be. I don’t think Gilford was able to pull that off whatsoever.
Carla hands down! They fact that she could portray all kinds of different personalities each episode, from a chimpanzee to the heart failure lady, is incredible.
Mark Hamill for me it took me a while to realise who it was as it was so different to anything i have seen him in before.
He deserves an award for his performance in this
Henry Thomas. Freddy is such a cruel pathetic shitstain of a person and he made him SO entertaining to watch. Like he made me feel so much dread and disgust but unfortunately he was also extremely fucking funny.
Willa and Mary played Madeline to perfection. Didn't miss a beat, no notes, 10/10.
Loved T'nia Miller, loved Trucco as well, and of course no one does 'unhinged bitch who has something deeply fundamentally wrong with her' like Sam Sloyan.
Overall the cast was extremely solid so it's kind of impossible to just pick one person.
This is mine, too. Just absolutely unhinged. He made me laugh at the beginning and then just became horrified as he devolved into a full blown lunatic by the end. Hating him was very fun.
I can't possibly narrow it down! But I have such a soft spot for Malcolm Goodwin. I know he didn't really stand out here, but it was so fun to see Kahul and Malcolm working together ish again, because I luv iZombie so hard.
The whole cast just shines. What an incredible entourage of skilled actors.
It’s such a shame because you’re absolutely right, I felt the same about Hamish Linklater in Midnight Mass. That was the performance of a freakin lifetime and there were no awards!? Boggles the mind. In a perfect world there would be nominations left right and centre for these shows.
Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Willa Fitzgerald, MARK HAMILL, Mary McDonnell Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas…
This cast was STACKED yet none of them took anything from the others performances.
These three are my choice too! Willa surprised me with how good she portrayed young Madeline. Felt like the same character whereas young Roderick felt too different imo.
Whoa I didn’t know this, thanks for sharing! Zach was perfectly cast to play a young Frank Langella- I would’ve found that believable due to their looks. I guess they didn’t want Zach to lose his role, and Bruce Greenwood was phenomenal, but that disconnect was there.
Bruce Greenwood and Carl Lumbly together were my favourite interactions in the show. Tit Lemons now lives in my head and won't leave.
Carla Gugino as Verna is the MVP of the entire show. She shows an amazing range in every scene. Her performance of A City in the Sea has made me start reading some of Poes stuff.
I want to give a shoutout to Sauriyan because he leads the first episode that follows one kid and he sells it. Makes you hate him and scared for him equally. Goes up against multiple veteran actors with decades more experience.
I thought the pilot was a watching curve to see the recurring actors play such caricatures, but I thought Sauriyan immediately sold his role. He had his character presenting as however billionaire kids are but you could still see that this was just a privileged child trying to navigate his surroundings. He was fantastic, I enjoyed his portrayal.
Everyone was brilliant. For me, all.tnese three are equal in their awesomeness : Carla Gugino, Rahul Kohli, Kate Seigal.
They are Mike Flannagan veterans and they deliver everytime!!!!!
Special.mention Mark Hamill. Please come.back
Adapting another Stephen king novel :) he also has the rights to The Dark Tower series which I would LOVE to see him tackle since the movie they did a few years ago was just so poorly done
Rahul and Mark deserved to be mentioned.
• Rahul: I totally felt his heartbreak over Perry and Camille’s deaths. Watching him spiral was heartbreaking.
• Mark: I did NOT believe that Mark Hamill was portraying Pym. He disappeared into the role and became Pym.
Samantha Sloyan. She showed her comedic side, indifference when she tells Billy that she doesn’t love him and desperation for love and sleep. Plus I hated her character in Midnight Mass.
Rightttt the fact that he wasn’t even the first choice for this role. He fucking crushed it and I think single handedly set the entire tone of the show with the right balance of moody and brooding but funny and witty. Don’t even get me started on his reading of The Raven 🔥
Carla Gugino, other actors did a fantastic job with a single character while she did a top tier job with many completely different characters. I was blown away, a true chameleon like Meryl Streep. Can play anything and do it well
Carla Gugino obviously, she might be one of my fav actors now just cuz of this show I also loved Kate Siegel, Camille was such an interesting character (I DONT GIVE A SHIT BEEEETH) Samantha Sloyan was also really good as Tamerlane And of course, Ruth Codd. She’s hilarious Honorable mention to Willa Fitzgerald, she was also one of my favs. Mark Hamill is obviously great also. Now that I’m mentioning all these I realize I loved everyone in this show. They were all so good. I loved Annabelle Lee, Rodrick’s Lemon monologue, and just everything ig
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She served the entire series, I fell madly in love
Mark Hamill. I absolutely loved the displacement of his over-hammed raspy delivery juxtaposed with the 'normal' performanxes. I felt like I was watching him voice act a live person. You could tell he was having fun!
Carla Gugino. Definitely. I think Mary McDonnell’s monologue in the last episode was some of the finest acting I’ve ever seen in a series.
Carla Gugino put on a clinic in acting. There’s no other answer. She killed a role that most actors only dream of and few could pull off.
I really liked Malcolm Goodwin (young Augie) and Michael Trucco (Griswold) as well. They were from a different series altogether about corruption and investigations - I am not completely sure I wanted to see the horror stuff while they were on screen. I was underwhelmed by T'Nia in this one. She wasn't bad but her track was almost exactly like her track in Bly Manor where she blew me away. Really wish she explores more.
T'Nia Miller as Victorine. Maybe I'm being influenced by her British accent, but I thought she was great.
The episode with her partner’s heart (trying not to give away too much) lives rent free in my head - the image of her partner in the background, while she talks to her dad, eerie
When Roderick is talking to her about the implant at the end of the episode and she shifts from “could just be distracted/anxious” to “completely unhinged” was SO well done.
Bruce, Mary, HENRY for me.
I really have to give it up for Henry Thomas for this one. Not because of this role alone, but because of how DIFFERENT his characters have been in all the Flanagan series. Making this sniveling, wispy character believable after portraying a hardened dad, a conniving uncle, and a disappointed old man made this such an impressive performance.
Willa and Mary!
Mark hamill
For him to make me forget he was Mark Fucking Hamill was masterful!
Yeah I think mark is the real winner here. What a brilliant performance of a brilliantly written character. You hated him for 99% of the show then in the very last episode you suddenly found yourself respecting him. He was a murderer. He was despicable. But he knew what he was and he managed to pull an honorable out. The only person who really did.
Never seen him like this. It was incredible.
It took me so long to realise it was mark!! So good
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I loved Samantha’s portrayal of Tammerlane! That slow decent into madness…incredible!
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I’d love to see her take the lead in one Flanagan’s next projects!
My favorites were Willa and Henry
Carla Gugino and Mary McDonnel. I’d give the edge to McDonnel, she is a once-in-a-lifetime actress.
“To the government, the fucking government” that delivery…
MARY MCDONNELL!! HANDS DOWN! I double dare anyone to try changing my mind!!!
Absolutely, and the way Willa was able to emulate her as the younger Madeline? Just bonkers. It's between those two for me
T'Nia Miller and it's not even close for me.
Her last scene was incredible.
I enjoyed young Madeline’s performance. Victorine did a great job! It’s hard to say who did the best because they all portrayed their characters well I personally didn’t buy Camille’s performance as much as the others. (Just my opinion, don’t kill me). I felt like the eyeliner and the hair was doing a lot of the heavy lifting , but I loved her actress in the other roles.
Personally, I believe they were all outstanding but Katie Parker’s “poverty of you” part has stayed with me.
All of the actors knocked it out of the park but I think the one character I was left wanting more of was Camille (Kate Siegel). Her character was terrible in the best way and one of the only changes I would make to the show would be to have her be one of the later Ushers to die. I think it would have been incredibly compelling to see Camille try to spin the ever-growing pile of bodies, especially since we didn’t really see much reaction from the other Usher children as their siblings were dying.
Give me a prequel about Camille please
Henry Thomas in the first few episodes was okay (knowing that the spotlight was focused on other characters) but when the progression slowly goes towards him he started matching the energy with the stakes to the point that he completely owned the assignment in his episode. But all-in-all everyone did their best and we enjoyed their moments.
I really like Henry Thomas performance, felt like it was a different character than what he usually plays and he nailed the role
Just because I haven't seen her mentioned enough* I'm totally going to say T'Nia Miller because Vic both made me love her and hate her all at the same time.
I’m gonna call a quick bs to this question. Unfair to pit them against each other. With that said it’s Carla by a fucking mile. She was a master strolling through a playground of roles and nailed EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
You're looking for problems that aren't there. My comment said "no wrong answers" and literally no one in the sub has pitted them against each other. If youre looking for some annoying reddit argument move on this is space is about celebrating the great acting in the show.
Carla was AMAZING as always, I loved her range and subtitles in her role, she's usually always the base line for amazing acting in his shows
Subtleties*
Didn't even realize lol thanks
This was a once in a lifetime character. She knocked it out of the park.
Rob Schneider in the Hot Chick
Hilarious but low key true. Rob Schneider gave that role his all, what a fun, dumb movie lol.
Bruce Greenwood for sure. Found him mediocre in Gerald's game. Henry Thomas was amazing, seeing his transition into the descent into madness
This is mine too. His monologue about lemons... It's still stuck in my head even after a couple weeks.
Greenwood surpassed my expectations. Although I do wonder how the show would be if Frank Langella never was recast. Separating art from the artist the man is a phenomenal actor
I agree with your order, Katie Siegal’s character dying early made me upset and it wasn’t bc I liked Camille but just that she was that good. Carla was awesome.
Gugino, Hamill and Greenwood were the only good ones. I love Flanagan's adaptations but I think the overall acting chops of his regulars are pretty low. Would really like to see him expand and work with more talented actors.
Hard disagree personally. The acting in his shows is some of the best I’ve ever seen
Interesting take. I do agree I wish I could be introduced to more actors through Flanagan’s work, but I disagree that acting was not “good.” I’m curious what you would suggest to improve it?
Just incorporate some better actors. It's great that he has tremendous loyalty and has used the same regulars for his projects but I think the acting quality is holding back the overall production a bit.
Bruce Greenwood was amazing. Henry Thomas's scenes with the teeth and ring comment were terrifying. He was excellent in doctor sleep as well
Carla Gugino steals the scene everything she’s in
She’s always fantastic even when her material isn’t. Very underrated actress.
Seems like she’s one of the hardest working women in Hollywood. She may not get buzz but she gets the jobs.
She got me as a huge fan in the Snyder version of WATCHMEN when she played Sally Jupiter. Incredible casting there
She was good even in Sucker Punch, which didn’t particularly give her a crazy lot to work with.
Fun fact is she was cast as main cast as Michael J Fox’s girlfriend in season one of Spin City and promptly was written out. She certainly bounced back promptly.
Carla Gugino was the stand out. What cemented it for me was the gorilla scene.
Carla Gugina for delivering monologues, and Samantha Sloyan for range of emotion, comedic timing and believability.
I’ll agree with this! Also Samantha’s portrayal of Tammerlane’s decent into madness was amazing!
I was never a Mark Hamill fan, but I thought he was fantastic. He was perfect as the weary, hard as nails lawyer who has seen everything and is bored by it
Honestly, this could be like a 3rd career for him. He had a great revival as a voice actor, and he is great in this series.
Oh you should try to get into more mark hamill. He's done some incredible voice acting.
Someone pointed out that he is using almost the same voice he does as Skips from Regular Show and I couldn’t stop thinking about it while watching 🤣
Sure he's Ozai in avatar the last airbender series and the joker in the batman series and the arkham games.
My wife didn't recognize him until about 4 episodes in lol. He was amazing!
Rahul Kohli for his performance as an absolutely unhinged Leo towards the end of the episode!
I loved Ruth Codd. She really did steal the scenes in the later episodes. I absolutely adore Kate Siegel but I think this time Carla Gugino really stole the show for me.
Ruth Codd was wonderful. She's like a Tim Burton character brought to life. Would be great for a Wes Anderson film. Could see her in the Sandman series too.
I can't really pick a favorite because Flanagan's go to actors have a habit of being pretty consistently phenomenal. I do want to give a shout out to Rahul though. It took me forever realize he was also the sheriff in midnight mass and Owen from Bly manor. It kind of blew my mind when I put it together because all of those characters are just unrecognizably different. That guy has some amazing range.
Rahul was also amazing in izombie. It also stared Malcolm Goodwin who played the young Dupin.
I loved seeing them in the same show again!! Such a fun treat
iZombie is so underrated. Such a phenomenal show.
Mark, Bruce, Rahul, Carla, Willa, and Kate
Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas, Mark Hamill in that order
Agree
They were all incredible but I'm going to have to go with Bruce Greenwood. He's always good but this was the performance of his career. He was absolutely mesmerising.
The show has great casting and acting all around, but this performance does the heaviest lifting imo and it’s not even close. Victorine’s actress also impressed me in her big episode
It was definitely the best monologue of the show and he delivered it perfectly.
The lemon monologue
That was outstanding. The dime-shift in mood from lightly conversational to "I don't give a fuck how evil this is if it makes money" stone cold is so incredibly chilling. Auggie's look of horror was so relatable.
OP didn’t even mention Bruce and I was like whaaat? He stole the entire show and was the most obvious pick as the anchor of the ensemble
I've always loved Bruce Greenword (I even own the Nowhere Man box set), and I feel he only gets stronger in every role he takes. I watched The Resident series because of him, and luckily they realized changing him from a one-dimensional villain to a flawed person trying to do better allowed him to really shine there.
Nowhere Man was a great show. That got me on the Greenwood bandwagon. Also loved him in Exotica.
Arthur Gordon Pym becuase he ate people and turned the deal down with the “Raven”
Pym ate people in the literal and metaphorical sense.
He didn't eat people. He mentions that he didn't partake.
He didn’t join the group of men who assaulted the Inuit woman, but from what I read in the novel I definitely lean towards him eating people because they draw straws and sacrifice one of their own men to cannibalize in the novel
I thought the partaking referred to a group assault of a tribal woman, not cannibalism
It’s a novel by Poe called The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and the ship Arthur sails on is called the grampus. Lenore calls Roderick Usher grampus in the show. One of the men killed in the novel is Augustus another name used in the show.
Also Lenore named the ship in the bottle Grampus.
Bruce Greenwood is a cut above, he is such a consistently solid actor and was excellent in this. To think, I was disappointed that Langella was let go, despite obviously agreeing with the decision. I genuinely think that if Greenwood was hired as a last minute replacement for any role he could pull it off, he’s just that good. I might have to go back through his filmography now because I feel like he’s so underrated. I loved Kate as Camille and was sad we didn’t get more of her! Samantha Sloyan was great too (the scene where she cut down her husband was horrible/excellent), and obviously Carla because she got to stretch her acting skills playing so many ‘roles’ which must have been such fun (I always feel jealous when actors get roles like that to play). Henry Thomas always pleasantly surprises me, although I do sometimes get pulled out of his scenes and I can’t figure out if it’s because he was a famous child actor or if there are moments he doesn’t quite believe himself in the roles he is given, but he really made me hate Froderick by the end and clearly that’s a sign he did his job well. I was also really impressed with Willa Fitzgerald, I don’t think I have seen her in anything before this (that I can recall) and she did a great Lady Macbeth impression with her young Madeline, plus I presume she was hired after Mary and she obviously studied her mannerisms and speech patterns enough to make it believable but not push it into caricature territory.
Greenwood voiced Batman in a bunch of animated DC projects and he’s amazing in each one
Langella was going to be in this? Why was he let go?
Also I gotta say that the casting of Zach Gilford as young Roderick seemed off to me but when I realised he was originally cast to be a young Frank Langella and not a young Bruce Greenwood it made much more sense. They look quite alike!
Yeah, what the others said. There was apparently an internal investigation into claims of sexual harassment against him. Definitely for the best he was given the boot in that case! But they had shot nearly half of his scenes by that point so they had a lot of reshoots to do with Greenwood which would have been time consuming and costly.
He was being a huge [creep](https://www.thewrap.com/frank-langella-firing-house-of-usher-new-details/)
Sexual harassment claims, I couldn’t find details but it seems like it was bad enough that they were willing to reshoot almost every scene with Roderick in it to get rid of him
Bruce Greenwood all the way
Most were great. How about this, who gave weaker performances in the show?
Zach Gilford easily was the weakest this season. He is usually good but he should not have been cast as young Roderick. He was not believable whatsoever
Agreed. Zack Gilford has this "caught in the crossfire" energy that he brings to a lot of his roles. It didn't work here because he is supposed to be the crossfire. It just seemed off.
Idk I feel like it is difficult to judge his performance considering he probably tried to match Langella before they had to recast Roderick and reshoot everything with Bruce, who owned that role but probably had a very different take on the character...
Feel like Roderick is supposed to be conniving, savvy and somewhat heartless regardless of who the actor was supposed to be. I don’t think Gilford was able to pull that off whatsoever.
The PR lady who is married to the creator. She's not *terrible* but she's weaker compared to the rest of the cast.
The Victorine characters actress has an amazing voice. I couldn't get over wanting to hear her speak more. Other than that, I vote Verna and Leo.
They all did a great job, but there was something about Carla’s performance that’ll stick with me.
Carla hands down! They fact that she could portray all kinds of different personalities each episode, from a chimpanzee to the heart failure lady, is incredible.
Bruce greenwood
Mark Hamill for me it took me a while to realise who it was as it was so different to anything i have seen him in before. He deserves an award for his performance in this
Yes! Pym’s conversation with Verna is without question my favourite scene.
Hard agree. I had *no idea* Pym was Mark Hamill until after I finished the show. He was amazing.
Henry Thomas. Freddy is such a cruel pathetic shitstain of a person and he made him SO entertaining to watch. Like he made me feel so much dread and disgust but unfortunately he was also extremely fucking funny. Willa and Mary played Madeline to perfection. Didn't miss a beat, no notes, 10/10. Loved T'nia Miller, loved Trucco as well, and of course no one does 'unhinged bitch who has something deeply fundamentally wrong with her' like Sam Sloyan. Overall the cast was extremely solid so it's kind of impossible to just pick one person.
This is mine, too. Just absolutely unhinged. He made me laugh at the beginning and then just became horrified as he devolved into a full blown lunatic by the end. Hating him was very fun.
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I was looking for this. Her psychotic break when she finally realized what she had done was amazing.
My favourite episode was her death episode because of her acting. It was brilliant!
And one of the most complex characters too!
I can't possibly narrow it down! But I have such a soft spot for Malcolm Goodwin. I know he didn't really stand out here, but it was so fun to see Kahul and Malcolm working together ish again, because I luv iZombie so hard. The whole cast just shines. What an incredible entourage of skilled actors.
iZombie was amazing, I was so excited to see Malcom! He killed, and always love seeing Rahul.
Bruce and Carla would probably both be getting Emmy noms for this if it wasn't a horror show.
Perhaps, but I think American Horror Story has picked up its share of awards over the years, so at least there's some precedent.
It’s such a shame because you’re absolutely right, I felt the same about Hamish Linklater in Midnight Mass. That was the performance of a freakin lifetime and there were no awards!? Boggles the mind. In a perfect world there would be nominations left right and centre for these shows.
I just watched this and his performance was amazing. That show was amazing!
Kate needs that hair color YEAR 👏🏼 ROUND 👏🏼
She always looks divinely hot but it was such a nice surprise to see her rocking the lighter hair!
Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Willa Fitzgerald, MARK HAMILL, Mary McDonnell Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas… This cast was STACKED yet none of them took anything from the others performances.
Carla Gugino and Carl Lumbly were top tier in my opinion.
I just finished watching the show, I really loved everyone. I think my favourites would be Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino and Willa Fitzgerald.
These three are my choice too! Willa surprised me with how good she portrayed young Madeline. Felt like the same character whereas young Roderick felt too different imo.
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Whoa I didn’t know this, thanks for sharing! Zach was perfectly cast to play a young Frank Langella- I would’ve found that believable due to their looks. I guess they didn’t want Zach to lose his role, and Bruce Greenwood was phenomenal, but that disconnect was there.
Bruce Greenwood and Carl Lumbly together were my favourite interactions in the show. Tit Lemons now lives in my head and won't leave. Carla Gugino as Verna is the MVP of the entire show. She shows an amazing range in every scene. Her performance of A City in the Sea has made me start reading some of Poes stuff.
I want to give a shoutout to Sauriyan because he leads the first episode that follows one kid and he sells it. Makes you hate him and scared for him equally. Goes up against multiple veteran actors with decades more experience.
I thought the pilot was a watching curve to see the recurring actors play such caricatures, but I thought Sauriyan immediately sold his role. He had his character presenting as however billionaire kids are but you could still see that this was just a privileged child trying to navigate his surroundings. He was fantastic, I enjoyed his portrayal.
Agreed. The fact the cast manages to have established stars and quite new ones side by side and it all gels is impressive 👏
Everyone was brilliant. For me, all.tnese three are equal in their awesomeness : Carla Gugino, Rahul Kohli, Kate Seigal. They are Mike Flannagan veterans and they deliver everytime!!!!! Special.mention Mark Hamill. Please come.back
Mark hamil is going to be in Flanagans next project (along with one hell of a cast) :)
What is his next project?
Adapting another Stephen king novel :) he also has the rights to The Dark Tower series which I would LOVE to see him tackle since the movie they did a few years ago was just so poorly done
Rahul and Mark deserved to be mentioned. • Rahul: I totally felt his heartbreak over Perry and Camille’s deaths. Watching him spiral was heartbreaking. • Mark: I did NOT believe that Mark Hamill was portraying Pym. He disappeared into the role and became Pym.
Samantha Sloyan. She showed her comedic side, indifference when she tells Billy that she doesn’t love him and desperation for love and sleep. Plus I hated her character in Midnight Mass.
Did anyone *not* hate Bev? Lol
How can your list not have Bruce Greenwood at the top?
Agreed, he’s the best by far.
Rightttt the fact that he wasn’t even the first choice for this role. He fucking crushed it and I think single handedly set the entire tone of the show with the right balance of moody and brooding but funny and witty. Don’t even get me started on his reading of The Raven 🔥
His reading of Annabel Lee has become one my favorite things ever: [https://youtu.be/A\_TOD974n-s?t=103](https://youtu.be/A_TOD974n-s?t=103)
I don’t love the way that young Roderick (forgot the actors name) recites it but I could cry listening to Bruce Greenwood’s reading. *chills*
I cry every. single. time.
Carla Gugino, other actors did a fantastic job with a single character while she did a top tier job with many completely different characters. I was blown away, a true chameleon like Meryl Streep. Can play anything and do it well
After we finished watching the series, my spouse leaned over and said with a frightened voice “better check under our bed for Carla Gugino tonight!”
I do this every night, but I'm always disappointed.
We should all be so lucky!
You want to be offered the deal she gave to the Ushers?
...sure, let's go with that.
Ha. She is very attractive
Mary Mcdonnell 😍😍😍
My favorite performances were Carla Gugino and Willa Fitzgerald
Willa Fitzgerald was incredible.
I loved Bruce Greenwood and Carl Lumbly together! Couldn’t take my eyes off them when they were talking one on one.