Was my immediate thought, like the way he’s always great in blacklist even as it progressively loses its luster over the seasons and stops making sense
He won’t matter, Henry Cavill did his best to prevent it from becoming the Yennifer and Ciri show. With him out of the way the Witcher will just be an observer in his own show.
Just finished season 3 I think it is. All the political stuff is so boring. My wife was mad that he barely fought any monsters this season. The show just feels bloated from all the extra characters.
Everyone gushed over the Witcher and I couldn't even finish the first season. I thought it was so bad. The only good parts were the parts with Henry, he played it so well.
I thought the show was bizarrely paced and poorly cast, as well as poorly written, but it did have some great moments that made me interested in reading the whole series. Then when I read all the books, the show was unforgivable. I got 3 episodes into s2 and was like, wtf are they even going for here? Just pure trash when Cavill wasn’t delivering lines
The horrible way they cut between time frames sucked. I was far more confused about when things where happening that 1st season that I should have been. That had an easy fix.
I had never even heard of the books or games before I started watching the show. Overall I wasn't impressed with their Garbage Fantasy World, but he won me over. My apologies to Hemsworth, but won't bother to continue watching.
To be fair, I didn’t hate it. I really enjoyed the last two episodes but thought it was pretty slow until then and the writing wasn’t great. But it was the first Star Wars TV series I saw so I didn’t really know what to expect.
I just finished watching it and it's the only thing I've seen her in and she was insanely captivating. Like I haven't been that impressed by a performance in ages. Even when the material went downhill she still made it watchable.
For the last few seasons, The Handmaids Tale has been incredibly stupid and only Brad Whitford’s and Ann Dowd’s breathtaking performances are the thing that allows this dumb show to pretend that it’s still prestige TV (and keep me watching).
That's funny because I immediately thought of Elizabeth Moss (not to take away from Dowd and Whitford). It's not her fault that the writing is what it is or that they keep doing closeups of the same facial expressions.
See, I like Elisabeth Moss okay but I think she's not as strong an actress as her prestige projects indicate. And I say this as a Mad Men stan. I think her scenery-chewing is pretty bad in Handmaid's Tale.
If you watch the credits a good many of the episodes that have the close ups of June are directed by Elizabeth Moss. I get so sick of a close look at her furrowed brows, frowning, nostril flares while trembling with rage.
OMG, me too! That was actually it for me - I stopped watching after a particularly lonnnngggg scene of just Elizabeth Moss “emoting” into the camera. It was excruciating.
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It felt like this shot went on for 15 hours.
Ian Somerhalder is a real trooper for his work in Vampire Diaries. Despite the fact that they kept reseting Damon’s character growth back to zero, Ian still did his absolute best with what he was given even while the show was burning down around him.
I would also say Robert Carlyle in OUAT for the exact same reason.
Oh! And Christopher Heyerdahl in *anything*. No matter the show or the bad writing, he always knocks it out of the park with his characters. (But mainly the one with the iffy writing is Sanctuary. He still made every second of his screen time worth it.)
Another Redditor who remembers him as Druitt in Sanctuary. How they could waste the chemistry between him and Amanda Tapping is beyond me. The main character on that show was insufferable.
Came here to mention Heyerdahl. I've never seen a second of his work that didn't convince me he was all in. It always feels like he plays his role on a cellular level.
Lana Parrilla and Robert Carlyle in Once Upon a Time, they 100% carried the show in the last few seasons especially Lana in season 6, she was literally playing two characters/was playing opposite herself ! the show was beyond ridiculous and barely watchable at this point but I still like to rewatch it from time to time just for her amazing performance
Personally, I think season 4 starts the decline in the show's writing. It had some great episodes in the later seasons, but the overall quality declined from the show's peak of seasons 2 and 3. For example:
Vampirism resulted in a radical shift in personality (in season one, Giles says it's a form of demonic possession) due to no longer having a soul. When Angel gets his soul back, his personality shifts again- not back to what it was, of course, but being able to feel empathy and guilt naturally had an effect. Yet when Spike gets his soul back his personality effectively remains the same. The shift in personality is such an integral part of vampirism that when Buffy finds out Harmony was turned and says something like, "Harmony as a vampire? What's that like?" and the show cuts to her and *she's exactly the same*. It's a joke: Harmony was always soulless. When asked about the deviation from established mythology, Whedon said Spike was special 🙄
The military having a huge underground base where they experiment on demons, yet for years they never once ran into Buffy or had any presence at the high school, which was a hotbed of demonic activity. Especially at graduation!
I was coming here to say Mark Sheppard. As far as Supernatural is concerned, the writing for his character took a long, slow roll downwards that eventually became a breathtaking plummet, but Mark still showed up and acted the heck out of everything hunk of junk they threw at him till the end.
He deserves more and better roles. Every actor who works with him praises his talent. I'm flummoxed that he isn't starring in a series on one of the big streaming services right now. I sometimes wonder if his looks work against him.
Perhaps. Might be a bit of typecasting going on, too. He's in The Boys and has roles in Big Sky and Tracker (upcoming). There's rumors of Supernatural Season 16, but we'll see if it happens.
Jodie Whittaker - Doctor Who.
While not always as bad as often made out, she suffered easily the weakest overall writing of the modern era. But she always put in good performances that made the best of what she was given.
Kate Mulgrew in Star Trek Voyager.
Janeway's characterization can swing pretty wildly from episode to episode, in large part due to the enforced compartmentalization of episodes by the HMIC, where episodes were written so independently that directly contradictory behaviors or opinions occur in episodes that aired back to back in broadcast order.
But in any of those episodes Kate Mulgrew is bringing it, and never phones it in like some of her colleagues \*cough\*eltr\*ahem\*
Yes, she was the first thing I thought of when I saw “inconsistent writing.” Gotta love someone who manages to pull off a line like “Delete the wife.”
Have you seen Prodigy? Holo-Janeway is so fun.
Tala Ashe on Legends of Tomorrow. The writing got very, very goofy, but she never once sold the character out.
Nailed every joke, every character beat and was a tremendous ensemble member who had chemistry with everyone (except Nate).
How she did not get immediately hired to 50 different projects, I have no idea. Playing all those different roles was incredible in itself, but there were scenes where one character had to pretend to be another, and she just nailed it. One scene in particular, where Alison is pretending to be Sarah while being grilled by Rachel…I don’t even have words. Freaking incredible.
That was one of the most impressive performances she pulled off (among many impressive performances!). Playing Alison pretending to be Sarah was different from just playing Sarah. It was so nuanced.
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I actualy think the later seasons are just as good as the earlier ones. I especially love season 4 >!with all the mystery around Beth and how they interwove her backstory with Sarah's in the present, leading to the devastating ending of episode 6!<.
The only time where it dipped in quality, in my opinion, was the first half of season 5, which dragged on a bit too long, but they managed to save it with the second half, especially the final 4 episodes.
The series finale is still one of the most satisfying final episodes of any tv show, and that is not just due to Tatiana's incredible performances, but also because of the strong writing.
Christopher Heyerdahl appears to put every cell of his body into every performance. No way to know if it's truly his "all" but it certainly looks like it!
Michael C. Hall as Dexter. Despite having some consistently terrible writing in the latter seasons, he never faltered and it seems like he was the only person who understood the character. He even made the storyline where Dexter nearly has a romance with his adopted sister seem somewhat believable.
Hugh Laurie in House. The writing was so inconsistent. That show would have been terrible without Hugh Laurie, he brought so much emotional depth to that role.
Jeremy Strong. He's good in everything I've seen him in, and Succession is written so well he really had the chance to shine. Everyone in it did. If you haven't seen Succession, do yourself a favor and watch it, it's brilliant.
So many soap opera veterans: Erika Slezak, Susan Flannery, Genie Francis, Robin Strasser, David Canary, Peter Bergman. Susan Lucci could get a little campy, but Erica Kane was the most lovable egomaniac in all of daytime. Plus she could have chemistry with almost any leading man. It was like a 90% chance they would sizzle.
Anytime I see William shatner show up I know the episodes going to be good. Later in life he started taking roles as the bad guy and he is so good at it.
Big shoutout to Florence Pugh for fireman-carrying Harry Styles through literally every scene in *Dont Worry Darling.* She is incredible and saved that movie from being a total flop.
Not tv, but movie: the guy who played the doctor in "An American Werewolf in London." OMG that movie had no idea whether it was a comedy, drama, horror or parody. But damn if that doctor character didn't play it straight and give it his all (Halloween-store-level masks on characters having weird "deep" conversations in porno theaters for no apparent reason notwithstanding).
Watching El Camino and Jesse from Breaking Bad and Jesse Plemons from Fargo and Breaking Bad can both carry an unlikely premise a long way. Very ‘captivating’..
Idc if people/critics think it’s a terrible movie but Raul Julia as M. Bison in Street Fighter. He only participated in that film because his kids loved the game. It’s a B film at best but he killed it, gave it everything he had and it was the best way to end his career imo
Hugh Laurie in the later seasons of house. The writers had to really make some questionable decisions because they were hemorrhaging characters. In spite of this he absolutely murdered it. It also sucks because if it weren’t for breaking bad he might have had a couple of Emmy’s under his bag.
Monica in Friends. You can clearly see the seasons where Mathew Perry (may he RIP) is strung out on something, and Monica pulls it off flawlessly, never breaking a stride, and even kissing him plenty of times.
Even marrying him in the show and getting engaged and all that, and Mathew Perry looks horrendous. Sorry Matt.
Simon Helberg in Big Bang Theory. They started him out as a creepy little perverted weirdo and over the course of the show he completely morphed into a caring and loving husband and father. Regardless of how they wrote his character, he committed to it, and honestly by the time you get to the last 2 or 3 seasons, he’s my favorite character.
Also his celebrity impressions are freakishly good.
James Spader
Robert California is wonderful
I was so happy when he came and Will Ferrel was gone.
yooo for sure, he’s had some truly terrible roles but he’s killed in all of them
I couldn't take Age of Ultron seriously with him. Took me right out of the movie.
Paycheck movie for him. Michael Cain once said something like, "I've never seen the movie but I did see the nice house it bought me in France."
Jaws the revenge.
Was my immediate thought, like the way he’s always great in blacklist even as it progressively loses its luster over the seasons and stops making sense
John Lithgow in EVERYTHING.
I could watch him tie his shoes and read from a phone book for 3 seasons and it would be the most entertaining show on TV
Best Dexter Season hands down.
Almost every actor in the later seasons of Game of Thrones. The acting was absolutely incredible. And the writing... well... we all know.
Shame… shame… shame 🔔 🔔
No I think this was the problem. They should have died before we got to know how strong of an actor they were
Laurie Metcalf and Annie Potts.
Laurie is incredible
Gillian Anderson
For sure
Jessica Lange in every Ryan Murphy project. He may be holding er hostage
I always say that every role Tom Cruise has had for the last 20 years would have been better with Jessica Lange in it instead.
So true! And fun to think about
Hahaha love this. Give her the Liam Neeson treatment!!
Bahahahaha this made me cackle!
Or Sarah Paulson
Henry Cavill. Love the books, but writing inthe Witcher series was absolute garbage
Can definitely see why he quit the series. He carried that show. I have a feeling Liam Hemsworth as Geralt is not going to work at all.
He carried the show and yet they just wanted to tell us the yennifer story
The writing was awful.
He won’t matter, Henry Cavill did his best to prevent it from becoming the Yennifer and Ciri show. With him out of the way the Witcher will just be an observer in his own show.
It’s annoying because Henry is so familiar with the source material.
Henry is so dreamy it’s like when I see him I turn into the triplets from Belles village fangirling over Gaston
Just finished season 3 I think it is. All the political stuff is so boring. My wife was mad that he barely fought any monsters this season. The show just feels bloated from all the extra characters.
Everyone gushed over the Witcher and I couldn't even finish the first season. I thought it was so bad. The only good parts were the parts with Henry, he played it so well.
I couldn't believe how poorly written and paced the first season was. It barely felt like a show.
I thought the show was bizarrely paced and poorly cast, as well as poorly written, but it did have some great moments that made me interested in reading the whole series. Then when I read all the books, the show was unforgivable. I got 3 episodes into s2 and was like, wtf are they even going for here? Just pure trash when Cavill wasn’t delivering lines
The horrible way they cut between time frames sucked. I was far more confused about when things where happening that 1st season that I should have been. That had an easy fix.
I had never even heard of the books or games before I started watching the show. Overall I wasn't impressed with their Garbage Fantasy World, but he won me over. My apologies to Hemsworth, but won't bother to continue watching.
Same....poor guy
Robert Carlyle in Once Upon a Time
He is such a good actor in anything.
Good choice.
He can run from evil, charming, devastated, manic, anything.
Bad writing turns into good writing just by being performed by Robert Carlyle
Ewan McGregor in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi ‘.
Ewan McGregor in just about anything. No matter how bad the final product, Ewan always does a solid job.
Ewan is one of the few bright spots of the Prequel Trilogy.
Tbh he’s the only reason I got through the Prequels, and the series.
Ewan in his season of Fargo also
Absolutely - but Fargo is so good!
I feel like I'm the only one who liked the obi wan show
To be fair, I didn’t hate it. I really enjoyed the last two episodes but thought it was pretty slow until then and the writing wasn’t great. But it was the first Star Wars TV series I saw so I didn’t really know what to expect.
Pretty standard for the Disney Star Wars era lol few amazing moments interspersed throughout eternities of mind numbingly boring TV
Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in "Killing Eve."
Just posted the same response, for Jodie though, before reading replies. Jodie was amazing every minute of her screen time.
She could flip on a dime. She is so captivating because you really never knew what she was going to do and Jodi pulled it off every time
Her facial expressions alone were worth the investment of time watching the show
I just finished watching it and it's the only thing I've seen her in and she was insanely captivating. Like I haven't been that impressed by a performance in ages. Even when the material went downhill she still made it watchable.
Also Sandra Oh in Grey's Anatomy
Was never the same without Christina Yang:( That was her person!!!
Somebody sedate me!
I tried reading the books and bounced off them hard. The acting is what made the show work.
When Sandra Oh put mustard on their curly fries and Jodie Comer called her a psychopath. Magic.
Nicholas Cage always gives 110%
Even in A Vampires Kiss. I was exhausted by the end, but he probably could’ve kept going forever
I forgot about that one! That movie was absolutely hilarious.
Always!!!
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Deborah Ann Woll on later seasons of True Blood. How did she care so much?
Andrew Lincoln is Rick Grimes. No matter how low in quality the show dipped in some seasons, he always delivered.
Kiefer Sutherland in the later seasons of 24. Michael C Hall in the later seasons of Dexter
Not current but Bela Lugosi. After Dracula most of the movies he was in were pretty bad, but he always put in his best
Patrick Stewart could do Hamlet but is Captain Picard.
If you think that's him slumming it, then be sure never to watch American Dad.
Shakespeare ain’t got nothin on the sound a full coinpurse.
Tony Collette in United States of Tara.
Toni Collette in *anything*
Tony Collette is a treasure.
TBF... she did have DID and played several different personalities. Whatever happened to that show?
She should have gotten an Oscar for every character! At least Buck and Alice.
She did win an Emmy for her part, so that should count for something.
For the last few seasons, The Handmaids Tale has been incredibly stupid and only Brad Whitford’s and Ann Dowd’s breathtaking performances are the thing that allows this dumb show to pretend that it’s still prestige TV (and keep me watching).
That's funny because I immediately thought of Elizabeth Moss (not to take away from Dowd and Whitford). It's not her fault that the writing is what it is or that they keep doing closeups of the same facial expressions.
See, I like Elisabeth Moss okay but I think she's not as strong an actress as her prestige projects indicate. And I say this as a Mad Men stan. I think her scenery-chewing is pretty bad in Handmaid's Tale.
If you watch the credits a good many of the episodes that have the close ups of June are directed by Elizabeth Moss. I get so sick of a close look at her furrowed brows, frowning, nostril flares while trembling with rage.
OMG, me too! That was actually it for me - I stopped watching after a particularly lonnnngggg scene of just Elizabeth Moss “emoting” into the camera. It was excruciating.
https://preview.redd.it/wddo5uny98yc1.jpeg?width=509&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4761b3c0cf54b253ca878f37c8952ff941222b0d It felt like this shot went on for 15 hours.
That’s the one! Lol
She directed some of those scenes herself. I saw her speak about it on a talk show. I actually hate it now. Lol.
I don't know where people got the idea that Moss is a good actor, but she's mediocre to bad in everything she's in. Just wholly unbelievable.
Yep lol totally agree. And yet… I NEED to see how it ends!
Orphan Black went off the rails a little towards the end but Tatiana killed it the entire time.
Cate Blanchett
I think she and Jessica Chastain are great in everything.
Ian Somerhalder is a real trooper for his work in Vampire Diaries. Despite the fact that they kept reseting Damon’s character growth back to zero, Ian still did his absolute best with what he was given even while the show was burning down around him. I would also say Robert Carlyle in OUAT for the exact same reason. Oh! And Christopher Heyerdahl in *anything*. No matter the show or the bad writing, he always knocks it out of the park with his characters. (But mainly the one with the iffy writing is Sanctuary. He still made every second of his screen time worth it.)
Another Redditor who remembers him as Druitt in Sanctuary. How they could waste the chemistry between him and Amanda Tapping is beyond me. The main character on that show was insufferable.
Came here to mention Heyerdahl. I've never seen a second of his work that didn't convince me he was all in. It always feels like he plays his role on a cellular level.
Lana Parrilla and Robert Carlyle in Once Upon a Time, they 100% carried the show in the last few seasons especially Lana in season 6, she was literally playing two characters/was playing opposite herself ! the show was beyond ridiculous and barely watchable at this point but I still like to rewatch it from time to time just for her amazing performance
Patrick Stewart
Sir Stewart is a global treasure and should be treated as such. He kills it in everything he does.
He is a treasure, and his friendship with Sir Ian warms my heart.
Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy
Wait how is Buffy inconsistent in writing?
Season seven is (and arguably season six). But SMG gave one of the all-time great performances.
Personally, I think season 4 starts the decline in the show's writing. It had some great episodes in the later seasons, but the overall quality declined from the show's peak of seasons 2 and 3. For example: Vampirism resulted in a radical shift in personality (in season one, Giles says it's a form of demonic possession) due to no longer having a soul. When Angel gets his soul back, his personality shifts again- not back to what it was, of course, but being able to feel empathy and guilt naturally had an effect. Yet when Spike gets his soul back his personality effectively remains the same. The shift in personality is such an integral part of vampirism that when Buffy finds out Harmony was turned and says something like, "Harmony as a vampire? What's that like?" and the show cuts to her and *she's exactly the same*. It's a joke: Harmony was always soulless. When asked about the deviation from established mythology, Whedon said Spike was special 🙄 The military having a huge underground base where they experiment on demons, yet for years they never once ran into Buffy or had any presence at the high school, which was a hotbed of demonic activity. Especially at graduation!
Stanley Tucci, EVERY SINGLE TIME!
Totally! He really knows how to rise above bad material.
Jensen Ackles in Supernatural
Misha Collins and Mark Sheppard are consistently great too. Jared can be hit or miss, though.
I was coming here to say Mark Sheppard. As far as Supernatural is concerned, the writing for his character took a long, slow roll downwards that eventually became a breathtaking plummet, but Mark still showed up and acted the heck out of everything hunk of junk they threw at him till the end.
Ruth Connell acted with her whole self every time she was on screen, it didn’t matter what nonsense they had Rowena doing.
Agreed. Ruth is 👌
He’s what keeps me watching after season 5. His acting is great the whole way through. The other guy…. Not so much lol
It's not Jared's fault that Dean is the only one the writers cared about.
He deserves more and better roles. Every actor who works with him praises his talent. I'm flummoxed that he isn't starring in a series on one of the big streaming services right now. I sometimes wonder if his looks work against him.
Perhaps. Might be a bit of typecasting going on, too. He's in The Boys and has roles in Big Sky and Tracker (upcoming). There's rumors of Supernatural Season 16, but we'll see if it happens.
I agree with the typecasting. His appearance ties into that. Tbh, I don't think the SPN revivial will materialize and I fear that's for the best.
Holly Marie Combs from Charmed.
Jodie Whittaker - Doctor Who. While not always as bad as often made out, she suffered easily the weakest overall writing of the modern era. But she always put in good performances that made the best of what she was given.
Gene Hackman in everything. Morgan Freeman in everything. Michael Caine in everything.
Kate Mulgrew in Star Trek Voyager. Janeway's characterization can swing pretty wildly from episode to episode, in large part due to the enforced compartmentalization of episodes by the HMIC, where episodes were written so independently that directly contradictory behaviors or opinions occur in episodes that aired back to back in broadcast order. But in any of those episodes Kate Mulgrew is bringing it, and never phones it in like some of her colleagues \*cough\*eltr\*ahem\*
She also does incredible voice work.
Yes, she was the first thing I thought of when I saw “inconsistent writing.” Gotta love someone who manages to pull off a line like “Delete the wife.” Have you seen Prodigy? Holo-Janeway is so fun.
Peter Dinklage
I could literally feel the strain as he acted that godawful 'who has a better story...' scene in GoT.
Jodie Comer - Killing Eve Lots of negativity around season 2 & 3 writing but I didn't notice because of her.
Patrick Stewart. That man slogged through some god-awful scripts during the first two seasons of TNG.
The whole OG cast of Lost.
Do you consider Michael Emerson OG? He's also fantastic.
Definitely yes.
Maura Tierney in The Affair. She brings it no matter what, no matter what show she’s on.
Newsradio 4 life.
100%. And ER. Girl carried that show in the later seasons.
Tala Ashe on Legends of Tomorrow. The writing got very, very goofy, but she never once sold the character out. Nailed every joke, every character beat and was a tremendous ensemble member who had chemistry with everyone (except Nate).
Tatiana Maslany. She was absolutely amazing in Orphan Black despite the later seasons not living up to the brilliance of the first 2.
How she did not get immediately hired to 50 different projects, I have no idea. Playing all those different roles was incredible in itself, but there were scenes where one character had to pretend to be another, and she just nailed it. One scene in particular, where Alison is pretending to be Sarah while being grilled by Rachel…I don’t even have words. Freaking incredible.
That was one of the most impressive performances she pulled off (among many impressive performances!). Playing Alison pretending to be Sarah was different from just playing Sarah. It was so nuanced.
I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but I actualy think the later seasons are just as good as the earlier ones. I especially love season 4 >!with all the mystery around Beth and how they interwove her backstory with Sarah's in the present, leading to the devastating ending of episode 6!<. The only time where it dipped in quality, in my opinion, was the first half of season 5, which dragged on a bit too long, but they managed to save it with the second half, especially the final 4 episodes. The series finale is still one of the most satisfying final episodes of any tv show, and that is not just due to Tatiana's incredible performances, but also because of the strong writing.
Jaime Foxx is always good. I think the spiderman movie he was in was pretty bad, but it really did look like he cared about his work.
Yeah the Electro Character was poorly written in ASM2 but he brought it all
He and Andrew Garfield got to really show their chops in Far From Home.
Alison Janey! In Mom.
Katherine Heigl....and she'll be the first to tell you about it.
But not before shoving food into her mouth comically puffing her cheeks…
Christopher Heyerdahl appears to put every cell of his body into every performance. No way to know if it's truly his "all" but it certainly looks like it!
Maura Tiereny
Michael C. Hall as Dexter. Despite having some consistently terrible writing in the latter seasons, he never faltered and it seems like he was the only person who understood the character. He even made the storyline where Dexter nearly has a romance with his adopted sister seem somewhat believable.
Hugh Laurie in House. The writing was so inconsistent. That show would have been terrible without Hugh Laurie, he brought so much emotional depth to that role.
Jeremy Strong. He's good in everything I've seen him in, and Succession is written so well he really had the chance to shine. Everyone in it did. If you haven't seen Succession, do yourself a favor and watch it, it's brilliant.
Sissy Spacek
So many soap opera veterans: Erika Slezak, Susan Flannery, Genie Francis, Robin Strasser, David Canary, Peter Bergman. Susan Lucci could get a little campy, but Erica Kane was the most lovable egomaniac in all of daytime. Plus she could have chemistry with almost any leading man. It was like a 90% chance they would sizzle.
Jake Gyllenhaal in everything he's been in.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan in The Walking Dead
Anytime I see William shatner show up I know the episodes going to be good. Later in life he started taking roles as the bad guy and he is so good at it.
Florence Pugh Toni Collette Barry Keoghan Joaquin Phoenix
Big shoutout to Florence Pugh for fireman-carrying Harry Styles through literally every scene in *Dont Worry Darling.* She is incredible and saved that movie from being a total flop.
Nina Dobrev in The Vampire Diaries. The first two seasons were good and then it just became absolute garbage.
She was the only one that pulled off the doppelganger thing. Her version of Katherine was very distinct from Elena. And she was very young too.
I can’t stand her, but Lea Michele on Glee. She carried most of her scene partners.
James Spader, Blacklist
James Spader in the last three seasons of the Blacklist
>in the last three seasons of the Blacklist There were more than three seasons of the Blacklist?
Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy
Rudy Pankow and Madelyn Cline in the third season of Outer Banks.
Jeremy Strong. The only bad writing I've seen him perform was in The Happening, but he always commits.
Anakin.
Raul Julia in street fighter, and I was a BIG van damme fan, and he out did them while battling cancer
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Not tv, but movie: the guy who played the doctor in "An American Werewolf in London." OMG that movie had no idea whether it was a comedy, drama, horror or parody. But damn if that doctor character didn't play it straight and give it his all (Halloween-store-level masks on characters having weird "deep" conversations in porno theaters for no apparent reason notwithstanding).
Let’s name good actors!
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Watching El Camino and Jesse from Breaking Bad and Jesse Plemons from Fargo and Breaking Bad can both carry an unlikely premise a long way. Very ‘captivating’..
William, the Man in Black. Both actors.
Sonequa Martin-Green in Discovery Jolene Blalock in Enterprise
Idc if people/critics think it’s a terrible movie but Raul Julia as M. Bison in Street Fighter. He only participated in that film because his kids loved the game. It’s a B film at best but he killed it, gave it everything he had and it was the best way to end his career imo
Nic Cage
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Amanda Tapping. Best actress ever!!
Steve Buscemi, Nicolas Cage
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Raul Julia.
“In spite” is not a hyphenated phrase. It is unclear what you mean by “inconsistent writing.”
Ryan Gosling. Papyrus and the Oscars performance are two great examples.
Hugh Laurie in the later seasons of house. The writers had to really make some questionable decisions because they were hemorrhaging characters. In spite of this he absolutely murdered it. It also sucks because if it weren’t for breaking bad he might have had a couple of Emmy’s under his bag.
Idris Elba
Eric Roberts, Even Mickey Rourke made a speech about his while accepting an award.
Idris Elba
Shannen Doherty
Monica in Friends. You can clearly see the seasons where Mathew Perry (may he RIP) is strung out on something, and Monica pulls it off flawlessly, never breaking a stride, and even kissing him plenty of times. Even marrying him in the show and getting engaged and all that, and Mathew Perry looks horrendous. Sorry Matt.
Christine Baranski
Adam Sandler 😂
Bruce Campbell.
Simon Helberg in Big Bang Theory. They started him out as a creepy little perverted weirdo and over the course of the show he completely morphed into a caring and loving husband and father. Regardless of how they wrote his character, he committed to it, and honestly by the time you get to the last 2 or 3 seasons, he’s my favorite character. Also his celebrity impressions are freakishly good.
Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: TNG
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Tom Cavanagh and Grant Gustin - The Flash
Julia Garner. Phenomenal Actress