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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Speaking of West Wing, Mary Louise Parker was so terrible as the feminist activist.  She was great as the clueless narcissist suburban mom on Weeds but her vacant thing just did not work in the west wing role.  I worked at a feminist organization for years and knew no one like that.  Could have been a great role is it had been played by someone more like Allison Janney that could really bring the sharp strong vibe.   Also I never felt like she had any chemistry with josh but I know that’s hard to cast for.  I don’t know if they originally intended him to end up with his secretary or whether they just had such good chemistry that the writers did that.   [/quote]

Yes, I hated her in that role.  That whiny voice and affect.   [/quote]

Yep, MLP was so irritating in that role. Don’t even get me started on Mandy. Moira Kelly wasn’t great in One Tree Hill, either, and it’s not like her castmates were so hot in comparison. [/quote]

NP and West Wing fan here, and it's a relief to hear someone else say out loud that Mary-Louise Parker was annoying in what should have been a great role. I can take her in it because the role itself does have good lines etc., brings up some good plot points, and acts as a useful foil for the Josh-Donna slow burn, but Parker's affect is so flat. Is she like that in everything?

It's surprising that, with SO many terrific casting choices even for very small roles, West Wing got two key characters so wrong, with both Amy (Parker) and Mandy (Kelly). But the Mandy role itself was terribly conceived and written from the start, whereas Amy Gardner had reason to exist and be in the orbit of the rest of the cast. Mandy as a character, no matter who would have played her, was simply a terrible idea, and never fit with the rest of the characters. She also had NO actual work to do that wouldn't have been done by some far less senior staffer. Not defending Moira Kelly, though; she was pretty awful. But she was also handed a thankless role.

At least both characters were gone fairly quickly and are such small blips in the vast casting for West Wing.[/quote]

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