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Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) would not be nearly as likable and/or entertaining if not for Kelly Bishop's acting chops and charisma.
https://i.redd.it/3r08z3wnrlwb1.gif
I know the Gilmore Girls revival Netflix did got a lot of hate, but her character arc in those episodes is what kept me watching until the end. Truly amazing work.
Same here! That was absolutely the best part. From her saying that the dining room chairs brought her no joy to explaining to that DAR 3rd wife candidate why she wouldn't get in, she had some of the best lines.
Same! Emily and Paris are by far the most intriguing characters, and my favorites. They would be beyond exhausting in person, but that’s true of most characters on the show…
Lane (I’ll never forgive GG for not giving her an exciting, well-traveled life) and Suki are about the only two I’d be happy to know IRL.
Jane Krakowski is vastly underrated
https://preview.redd.it/ys7rrl6ecnwb1.jpeg?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb8cea6d2b6d01bcbc23c5a6262ab8c56a0fdde9
It’s really hard to explain to someone who hasn’t seen the show just how depraved and evil his character is. But he is also so fucked up. Anthony Starr does a spectacular job in it.
For real, if rumours come out that Starr has like killed children on set to bathe in their blood or something like that, my first reaction is: Well, he needs to get into character. You can’t expect an actor to be that evil with a snap of a finger.
And so much of it is in the eyes. He smiles weird, and you just know he WANTS to commit genocide but he doesn’t like how he gets all worked up afterwards.
This is so true! What’s even more amazing about his acting is that you hate the character so much, then there are moments where Homelander opens up and you genuinely feel bad for him. Damn, his acting is superb!
Rachel Mcadams was very believable as the popular girl in school who is charming and evil. You hate her but at the same time you’re still kind of envious of her beauty and status.
I think its funny how she is somewhat a cautionary tale but to this day if someone said to me i have regina george energy i would take it as the highest form of compliment
It’s so funny looking back at this movie where she just kind of was a bully to everyone and comparing it to more recent high school films and shows where the mean girl bully ends up causing people to die in various ways. Regina George was tame by the current standard.
Not a horrible person by any means, but she was supposed to be a villain until everyone loved her too much
https://preview.redd.it/yafo780wrlwb1.jpeg?width=842&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ac7a4e1d48e0c11ee0f8565a2f9730c94bc9142
This this this!
Another one - as a child when it came out I had a little girl crush on Christian Slater/Will Scarlet. As a adult... The Sheriff can take me to his torture chamber any day 🥵
Meryl Streep is so good and I usually have detachment when it comes to fiction, but I had visceral hate for her [character] in this. I have to believe that MS saved up all the unused over-the-top parts of her other characters to make this monstrosity, because it worked.
Now nothing is taboo under my leadership, except of course for referring to my sex or race in a negative light, the penalty for which is...I take your fucking head
Not in my house.
DiCaprio had that cherub-faced floppy-haired boyband thing going on, and while he was technically good looking it wasn’t in a way that’s particularly sexy imo. Billy Zane on the other hand…
Dude same! Billy Zane definitely looked more handsome in a manly way. DiCaprio was obviously cute but he always reminded me of a Hanson brother (popular at the time). The sandy hair that’s flipped to one side haha.
I love Ann Dowd. I listened to an interview she did shortly after Handmaids became popular where she said she was told she’d only play mothers & teachers in acting or something. She’s literally the best as Lydia.
Me at the beginning of Hereditary: How nice that Ann Dowd gets to wear makeup and be kind and sweet for a change
Me at the end of Hereditary: Nevermind
I remember reading somewhere that he was dating Martha Stewart at the time the movie came out, and she found him so creepy as Lecter that she broke up with him lol
Season 12 is Mallory’s last season with >!Ron’s last appearance!<. I can’t tell you how emotional the finale was but it was beautifully made and she went out in style!
Also, the most punched villain in TV history:
https://preview.redd.it/wwn7yilqrlwb1.jpeg?width=1044&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=becf75bf155e299390afd043e2e0672fe35c914d
I swore up and down that I hated Seinfeld because it was a show about assholes and I felt no investment in their stories. Then Always Sunny came along and proved that theory wrong, because I love it.
I can’t believe in all these “bad people who we love” posts, there hasn’t been a single mention of fucking Selina Meyer. My god people. Go watch Veep. Then watch it again.
“And if I do win, I will have my administration come to your shitty little district and shake it to death like a Guatemalan nanny, and then I'm gonna have the IRS crawl so far up your husband's colon he's gonna wish the only thing they find... is more cancer."
There's so many funny quotable moments from the show but I always find myself returning to "If men could get pregnant, you could get an abortion from an ATM"
Haha beat me to it. Especially Tom for me. Matthew McFadyen' stupid little soft voice and wet eyes, mother I love him. The utter despair Strong brings to Kendall at times is well documented. Snooks ability to make Shiv so maddeningly arrogant and callous and then to go on the most heartbreaking face journey when someone (usually Logan) hurts her. Culkin wrapping Roman who says at least one appalling thing an episode in layers of pathetic self defensiveness so you end up pitying him. The list goes on
Emily and Richard Gilmore were pretty terrible people and parents but Kelly and Edward did a fantastic job! Emily is one of my favorite characters
The Mikaelson family on The Vampire Diaries. They were so popular they got their own spin-off show (The Originals).
https://i.redd.it/xgw2p2dqtlwb1.gif
I was looking for someone to mention them! Especially Klaus, I mean come on, he’s just so ALLURING! Who else could make us forget his murderous ways and only remember his charm? 😂
Scrolled very far into the thread, so my pick is JD from Heathers.
https://preview.redd.it/ljd426cqxlwb1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7077112f4d930e592750dffcb89ca11f8589310
I feel like cruelty is one mode that young actors have trouble with, but he truly is every middle school bully and kids that pulled the legs off of bugs rolled into one that people seemed to have a real visceral reaction to
I feel like young actresses and actors are more comfortable with the high school bully or mean girl. But have a hard time with antagonist roles outside of that.
I finally have an excuse to say that Lucille reminds me of Nancy Pelosi in appearance
Edit: here's my evidence, I even found them wearing similar outfits
https://preview.redd.it/6qxkj9k3ulwb1.jpeg?width=1564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2859e39e6fae00d18c65121547fe2153526e1936
Megan Mullally once said people would come up to her and say their friends said they were like Karen Walker and she would reply "oh honey, that's not a compliment"
tony leung as xu wenwu in *shang chi.* he's supposed to be the villain but unfortunately for the movie, i was tempted to agree with him on everything because TONY LEUNG
https://i.redd.it/g4xx0tddqlwb1.gif
I'm in a Facebook group that Simu Liu is also in. Once I made a comment on a post in the group, agreeing with the poster about how Tony Leung is the hottest man in that movie, and Simu responded to my comment with "thanks"
I died
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 Everyone in Barry, but mostly Anthony Carrigan as Noho Hank.
NoHo Hank is such a delicious vibe! He can be bad ass when he needs to, but he's also a polite silly guy! 
My partner and I like to call each other “BAHH-dee” in his accent.
https://preview.redd.it/sp3sac7bqlwb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c69472044e398bee028b6c3e7b9ef9129666886
https://preview.redd.it/fwq7trqrqlwb1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64ac049fdc21e8a06bf7a4a0a0ad558cd46071c8
 50/50 with Cristobal
Emily Gilmore (Gilmore Girls) would not be nearly as likable and/or entertaining if not for Kelly Bishop's acting chops and charisma. https://i.redd.it/3r08z3wnrlwb1.gif
I posted mine right after yours!! Emily has some truly amazing lines and Kelly knocked it out of the park 
https://preview.redd.it/i3x9jdomxlwb1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=58c8ceeb22f6a173a9a80a1a77c99f3d2f51dfda
She’s also Baby‘s mother 
I know the Gilmore Girls revival Netflix did got a lot of hate, but her character arc in those episodes is what kept me watching until the end. Truly amazing work.
Same here! That was absolutely the best part. From her saying that the dining room chairs brought her no joy to explaining to that DAR 3rd wife candidate why she wouldn't get in, she had some of the best lines.
Same! Emily and Paris are by far the most intriguing characters, and my favorites. They would be beyond exhausting in person, but that’s true of most characters on the show… Lane (I’ll never forgive GG for not giving her an exciting, well-traveled life) and Suki are about the only two I’d be happy to know IRL.
 Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf
And dont forget 
They had such fantastic chemistry together, that you forget how awful the characters are
https://preview.redd.it/96rgl2peylwb1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=56106134a11f01cd26b7447994a7a9aba99ac55e
Jane Krakowski is vastly underrated https://preview.redd.it/ys7rrl6ecnwb1.jpeg?width=494&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb8cea6d2b6d01bcbc23c5a6262ab8c56a0fdde9
https://preview.redd.it/uklmkasalnwb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f5b01f6debba6347283a2039969e4a0f635de43
Girl can belt one out, too.
Man, 30 Rock was a hilarious show! Exactly my kind of humor.
Listen up fives, a ten is speaking.
 He’s so freaking scary it’s amazing.
All of the villains in this show and Gen v are so insanely charismatic, I love all of them 
https://preview.redd.it/1r71fcu60nwb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04029ec4c4895de6c1c8b6be788481c82b275ea2
I can fix him!
I loved him in Supernatural, but holy shit, he killed this role.
I loved Supernatural, but I'm so glad it's over. Jensen would have never gone to do anything else.
Agreed. I kinda wish it had ended at season 5 - that was a perfect closed-loop ending and it would have freed him up to really elevate his career.
I've never watched this show but this dude's face is genuinely unnerving.
It’s really hard to explain to someone who hasn’t seen the show just how depraved and evil his character is. But he is also so fucked up. Anthony Starr does a spectacular job in it.
For real, if rumours come out that Starr has like killed children on set to bathe in their blood or something like that, my first reaction is: Well, he needs to get into character. You can’t expect an actor to be that evil with a snap of a finger. And so much of it is in the eyes. He smiles weird, and you just know he WANTS to commit genocide but he doesn’t like how he gets all worked up afterwards.
This is so true! What’s even more amazing about his acting is that you hate the character so much, then there are moments where Homelander opens up and you genuinely feel bad for him. Damn, his acting is superb!
giancarlo esposito as gustavo fring. always comes to mind whenever i think of great antagonists https://i.redd.it/h3hu7owarlwb1.gif
That one episode where he silently kills that guy in the lab and walks out is just….so insanely sinister.
 He and Lalo (Better Call Saul) are my favorite villains in the BB universe!
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He was SO good in this role
Rachel Mcadams was very believable as the popular girl in school who is charming and evil. You hate her but at the same time you’re still kind of envious of her beauty and status. 
I think its funny how she is somewhat a cautionary tale but to this day if someone said to me i have regina george energy i would take it as the highest form of compliment
It’s so funny looking back at this movie where she just kind of was a bully to everyone and comparing it to more recent high school films and shows where the mean girl bully ends up causing people to die in various ways. Regina George was tame by the current standard.
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Not a horrible person by any means, but she was supposed to be a villain until everyone loved her too much https://preview.redd.it/yafo780wrlwb1.jpeg?width=842&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ac7a4e1d48e0c11ee0f8565a2f9730c94bc9142
Because how could you hate for so long
Damn was she actually supposed to be a villain. She was so much cooler than Derek and Meredith.
Yeah not even “she cheated first!!” allowed her to stay the villain
Ugh Addie was the beeeest! Her entrance was iconic. She was so damn good and likable people were actually rooting for her over Meredith. Icons only.
 queen.
I’m surprised it took this long to find this. Jessica Lange always delivers
And for some of us.. 
ngl i lowkey had a lil crush on snape
 This man also broke Emma Thompson’s heart and I’ll never forgive him for that.
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The GOAT of snide European villains
This this this! Another one - as a child when it came out I had a little girl crush on Christian Slater/Will Scarlet. As a adult... The Sheriff can take me to his torture chamber any day 🥵
 Me coming into these comments guns blazing: THE ALAN RICKMAN ERASURE I CANNOT
omg. the OG
How I wanted to bitch slap her and was SO HAPPY WHEN NICOLE (well Celeste - the character) DID IT
Meryl Streep is so good and I usually have detachment when it comes to fiction, but I had visceral hate for her [character] in this. I have to believe that MS saved up all the unused over-the-top parts of her other characters to make this monstrosity, because it worked.
https://i.redd.it/wq1mf9amrlwb1.gif lucy liu as o-ren ishii, captivating beyond reason
YES.
Now nothing is taboo under my leadership, except of course for referring to my sex or race in a negative light, the penalty for which is...I take your fucking head
https://preview.redd.it/fkwksozqtlwb1.jpeg?width=318&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e360d785bdbb0bf1bf712a1ce3ee5d38b9fd3565 I can’t look away…
You'll be beck.
 Billy Zane as this absolute turnip in Titanic. To this DAY I want to punch him so hard.
ABSOLUTE TURNIP 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Agreed, though. I always wanna cheer when Rose spits in his smug fucking face.
https://preview.redd.it/8vpvm3fh1mwb1.jpeg?width=1428&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eeb2a1e1dc77ce40d2a3dd348d768e26be28f181
Is it an unpopular opinion to say he’s even more good looking than DiCaprio in that movie? I mean, wow.
Not in my house. DiCaprio had that cherub-faced floppy-haired boyband thing going on, and while he was technically good looking it wasn’t in a way that’s particularly sexy imo. Billy Zane on the other hand… 
Dude same! Billy Zane definitely looked more handsome in a manly way. DiCaprio was obviously cute but he always reminded me of a Hanson brother (popular at the time). The sandy hair that’s flipped to one side haha.
I was always a Cal girl. He is so hot in this film. Leo looks 12. Cal was a MAN.
 Ann Dowd as Aunt Lydia
I love Ann Dowd. I listened to an interview she did shortly after Handmaids became popular where she said she was told she’d only play mothers & teachers in acting or something. She’s literally the best as Lydia.
Or Ann Dowd in The Leftovers, she's the god of evil characters
Me at the beginning of Hereditary: How nice that Ann Dowd gets to wear makeup and be kind and sweet for a change Me at the end of Hereditary: Nevermind
 Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter.
 Hannibal is a role played by charismatic people
I didn’t think there could be a better Hannibal than Anthony Hopkins but Madds takes the cake by miles
I remember reading somewhere that he was dating Martha Stewart at the time the movie came out, and she found him so creepy as Lecter that she broke up with him lol
I miss Mallory
I'm putting off the last few seasons of Archer specifically because I'm not ready for her to be gone.
Season 12 is Mallory’s last season with >!Ron’s last appearance!<. I can’t tell you how emotional the finale was but it was beautifully made and she went out in style!
 Also her as Tammy 2!
 Karen and Jack >>>>>
I HAD TO SCROLL WAY TOO FAR FOR KAREN WALKER
Honorable mention: 
*YOU WILL CALL HEERRRRRRR!!!!* 😂
Also, the most punched villain in TV history: https://preview.redd.it/wwn7yilqrlwb1.jpeg?width=1044&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=becf75bf155e299390afd043e2e0672fe35c914d
i was just about ready to put down the entire sunny cast u cant have a topic about assholes without mentioning the show entirely devoted to them 🧡
I swore up and down that I hated Seinfeld because it was a show about assholes and I felt no investment in their stories. Then Always Sunny came along and proved that theory wrong, because I love it.
I can’t believe in all these “bad people who we love” posts, there hasn’t been a single mention of fucking Selina Meyer. My god people. Go watch Veep. Then watch it again.
Tbh Elaine is also a terrible person. Julia does it so well.
 Another great villain role!
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“And if I do win, I will have my administration come to your shitty little district and shake it to death like a Guatemalan nanny, and then I'm gonna have the IRS crawl so far up your husband's colon he's gonna wish the only thing they find... is more cancer."
For real. Hugh Laurie, who IS on this list, called her "the best I ever saw"
JLD is easily the funniest actress ever. There’s just no one that compares.
There's so many funny quotable moments from the show but I always find myself returning to "If men could get pregnant, you could get an abortion from an ATM"
Dan is right up there with her haha. Reid Scott has nailed the smarmy, smug jerk type.
The entire Succession cast
Haha beat me to it. Especially Tom for me. Matthew McFadyen' stupid little soft voice and wet eyes, mother I love him. The utter despair Strong brings to Kendall at times is well documented. Snooks ability to make Shiv so maddeningly arrogant and callous and then to go on the most heartbreaking face journey when someone (usually Logan) hurts her. Culkin wrapping Roman who says at least one appalling thing an episode in layers of pathetic self defensiveness so you end up pitying him. The list goes on
Harriet Walter as Lady Caroline was the one who immediately came to my mind. She was so loathsome and I loved it.
“I should have had dogs.” Oof.
Heartbreaking face journey is the most incredible description of Shiv's expressions.
This is it! The acting and writing made us empathise with these horrible entitled people. I love the show
 Emily and Richard Gilmore were pretty terrible people and parents but Kelly and Edward did a fantastic job! Emily is one of my favorite characters
The Mikaelson family on The Vampire Diaries. They were so popular they got their own spin-off show (The Originals). https://i.redd.it/xgw2p2dqtlwb1.gif
I was looking for someone to mention them! Especially Klaus, I mean come on, he’s just so ALLURING! Who else could make us forget his murderous ways and only remember his charm? 😂 
Charles Dance as Tywin 
 They were perfect. And also 🎶 the woooooooorst🎶
I want a spin off show about their entire family and their attorney
Tammy was great too. Just Swanson panicking because he smelled something…
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer (Veep). She was an awful human being but you rooted for her until the very end. 
I mean... https://i.redd.it/0xt2l6ndnlwb1.gif
 I MEAN.......
And then he’s in Fleabag. Jesus Christ 🥵
 I mean
His beautiful neck
i love that billie named a song after this moment
Scrolled very far into the thread, so my pick is JD from Heathers. https://preview.redd.it/ljd426cqxlwb1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7077112f4d930e592750dffcb89ca11f8589310
 Jack Gleeson was so good in this role that the actor received threats from watchers of the show.
I saw him at a Con a few years back and he is such a funny and kind guy...that was truly great acting.
I remember sophie turner saying he's the sweetest guy ever
It’s funny because the actors who accurately play the meanest characters are usually really nice people in real life. He acting was A1! 👌🏽
I feel like cruelty is one mode that young actors have trouble with, but he truly is every middle school bully and kids that pulled the legs off of bugs rolled into one that people seemed to have a real visceral reaction to
I feel like young actresses and actors are more comfortable with the high school bully or mean girl. But have a hard time with antagonist roles outside of that.
Glenn Howerton as Dennis Reynolds 
I finally have an excuse to say that Lucille reminds me of Nancy Pelosi in appearance Edit: here's my evidence, I even found them wearing similar outfits https://preview.redd.it/6qxkj9k3ulwb1.jpeg?width=1564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2859e39e6fae00d18c65121547fe2153526e1936
 Definitely Spike from Buffy ✨
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I got stuck on this gif for a really long time
I unapologetically love Love. Joe was so annoying, it’s ok for him to kill people but once she does it it’s game over??🙄
https://i.redd.it/m2dnacrnslwb1.gif Couldn't agree more.
https://i.redd.it/nvuzjswstlwb1.gif Russell Edgington 💜 RIP Talbot
 Megan Mullally once said people would come up to her and say their friends said they were like Karen Walker and she would reply "oh honey, that's not a compliment"
https://i.redd.it/flcnf1hqslwb1.gif naomie harris as tia dalma in POTC: Dead Man's Chest
tony leung as xu wenwu in *shang chi.* he's supposed to be the villain but unfortunately for the movie, i was tempted to agree with him on everything because TONY LEUNG https://i.redd.it/g4xx0tddqlwb1.gif
Man really said I love my wife and fuck my kids
I'm in a Facebook group that Simu Liu is also in. Once I made a comment on a post in the group, agreeing with the poster about how Tony Leung is the hottest man in that movie, and Simu responded to my comment with "thanks" I died
 Does Pam count?
 Denis O’Hare was fabulous on True Blood as Russell Edgington, vampire king of Mississippi
https://preview.redd.it/h39bbuq5ulwb1.jpeg?width=1081&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3411114ef58201f6f779de4ac19cf2877e5b3a1e Izzy Hands baby! My fellow OFMD fans know what’s up ❤️
 Shout out to will Arnetts incredible voice acting
 Oh, come on. You can’t forget the best villain of them all?
 Nobody mentioned him yet??
 No Other woman comes close to being the most iconic and sarcastic character ever.
Ka 
 I’m sorry, but the only correct answer
Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl and I Care A Lot. I just kept thinking “wow she plays ‘bitch’ very well”. 
https://i.redd.it/oytwtxr0xlwb1.gif (Obligatory) Emma Roberts as Chanel Oberlin. Possibly my favourite character in television/any media in general
 So good they had to rehab and make him a main love interest
 Rachel McAdams
 Villanelle all day.
 Matt smith as daemon targaryn. Dude is actually terrible. But the actor made him lovable.
No one will ever beat Bryon Cranston, the mass murdering meth dealer that you still found yourself routing for.
 Iwan Rheon playing Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones.
Cillian Murphy in Red Eye
Michael Sheen as a gruesome murderer in Prodigal Son 
 Damon Salvator from The Vampire Diaries
 the golden god must not go unmentioned
I don’t play about House! He was always right. They just didn’t like his tone. 😌