new characters that made a TV show better
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We can diss Scrappy Doo and April Nardini all day - AND WILL - but which new characters do you think made a show better?
I'll start with Tran on New Girl. A minor character, but a major presence. |
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Amanda on Melrose Place
Jimmy Smits on SOA mainly b/c I just love Jim Smits and he is eye candy to me |
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| No one could replace Brenda but I LOVED Valerie on 90210. |
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| Patrick on Schitt's Creek. |
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| Gus Freigh on Breaking Bad. Loved his menancing character. Show wasn't the same when they killed him off. |
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| Tamra Judge (nee Barney) on RHOC. |
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| Addison Montgomery and Arizona on Grey’s Anatomy. |
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| Addison on Grey’s |
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| Not Cousin Oliver on the Brady Bunch |
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Yes!!! I'll contribute "Sean" from The Good Place |
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| Lucy Lui on Ally Mc*Beal |
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Wish she'd come back for good. Love her. |
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Jimmy Smits on "The West Wing." But that show was great at adding characters. Smits as Matt Santos was terrific, complex, ambitious and genuinely idealistic at the same time. |
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Woody Strode, the coroner, on "Psych." The show was and would still have been great without Woody's addition, but he was such a breath of weird fresh air whenever he appeared with his freaky quirks. And "Psych" very wisely did not overuse him; it gave us enough Woody to love him but never let him overstay his welcome. The show was good at that -- using extremely quirky characters just enough to leave us wanting more, but not overdoing them. Hope we'll see Woody again in the fourth Psych movie that's supposed to happen (fingers crossed). He's played by the terrific, prolific character actor Kurt Fuller, whom everyone has seen in something over the years. |
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Totally disagree. She led the descent into unwatchable trashiness. |