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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jan 11, 2014 13:04:19 GMT -5
I was just thinking about this. I recently finished the anime Gantz which was really good. and its main character's a colossal jerkass. I also saw a thread about how the OP feels the characters in The Walking Dead aren't likeable. I was just wondering if you guys could name any other shows that actually work in spite of (or perhaps because of) a protagonist the audience hates. it's one thing to have a secondary character the audience hates but its another thing to build the show around a character like that.
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Post by BorneAgain on Jan 11, 2014 13:12:35 GMT -5
I found many members of the strike team on the Shield loathsome, but the show was tremendous and their characters were very interesting.
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Jan 11, 2014 13:16:43 GMT -5
I found many members of the strike team on the Shield loathsome, but the show was tremendous and their characters were very interesting. Mainly Vic & Shane(especially Shane, him & his bitch of a girlfriend were made for each other). Still, great show though, only the 6th season, imo, wasn't that good, but the last season owned.
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Post by Raskovnik on Jan 11, 2014 13:28:40 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 13:31:41 GMT -5
He's not a hero but he is the main character. Malcolm from Malcolm in the Middle. What a douche.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 13:34:39 GMT -5
Yup. It's a hard character to play. You have to balance the fine line of being somewhat likeable but completely loathsome at the same time. Plus lots of the humour was improvised by Cranston which helped keep the edge of things and give him a sense of humanity
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 11, 2014 13:38:22 GMT -5
House. I mean, the show got bad towards teh end, but it pulled it off for a while with a jerk who was bad at his job but great at guessing illnesses.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 11, 2014 13:43:27 GMT -5
Archer does it well.
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Post by Cela on Jan 11, 2014 13:57:22 GMT -5
Most reality TV featuring an English guy that yells or is otherwise a douche.
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Post by hossfan on Jan 11, 2014 14:15:21 GMT -5
Sopranos The various Blackadders Venture Brothers (Rusty is just as much the star of the show as his sons)
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Post by Juice on Jan 11, 2014 14:43:34 GMT -5
Vikings does this well. Shameless as well. Walking reads Shane was the best part of the show. Breaking bad as mentioned.
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Post by fw91 on Jan 11, 2014 14:56:36 GMT -5
House. I mean, the show got bad towards teh end, but it pulled it off for a while with a jerk who was bad at his job but great at guessing illnesses. bad at his job?
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 11, 2014 15:02:09 GMT -5
House. I mean, the show got bad towards teh end, but it pulled it off for a while with a jerk who was bad at his job but great at guessing illnesses. bad at his job? Patient interaction is a huge part of being a doctor, and can have a profound effect on how well a patient responds to treatment. He was terrible at that, not to mention the drug abuse and having his subservient doctors break into patient's homes. Basically, as good a pathologist as he was, he was as bad at the other important parts of being a doctor, actingi unethically and illegally at times. He'd have had his license yanked in the real world. It'd be like a fry cook who never messed up an order, but constantly screamed at the customers and left the restaurant a mess. Granted, I haven't seen every single episode of the show, but he displayed the attitude enough in the ones I have seen to make me say that.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jan 11, 2014 16:47:30 GMT -5
Supernatural has done that quite well,Sam has gotten so unlikeable I actually am happy when he gets his ass kicked
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Post by Juice on Jan 11, 2014 17:03:07 GMT -5
Supernatural has done that quite well,Sam has gotten so unlikeable I actually am happy when he gets his ass kicked They take turns being the dbag each season
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Post by Bo Rida on Jan 11, 2014 18:09:02 GMT -5
Various wrestling companies and most soaps.
Outside of that not really, I can think of plenty of shows where the protagonist is still likeable despite being a dick/evil and other shows where the hero is on the wrong side but none of those characters are really hated by the audience.
I suppose being human (UK) fits as it made one the main trio unlikeable and pathetic by the end but even they still had sympathy as they started as a likeable character, however that's a stretch of the word hero.
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Jan 11, 2014 18:24:01 GMT -5
scrubs, j.d. was very unlikeable for large parts of it.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jan 11, 2014 18:30:12 GMT -5
scrubs, j.d. was very unlikeable for large parts of it. JD was "likeable" in the first three seasons and then season 4 and onward they turned him into a whiny, borderline effeminate man child. I still thought he was kind of funny though.
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Post by Wolf Hurricane on Jan 11, 2014 19:12:55 GMT -5
Patient interaction is a huge part of being a doctor, and can have a profound effect on how well a patient responds to treatment. He was terrible at that, not to mention the drug abuse and having his subservient doctors break into patient's homes. Basically, as good a pathologist as he was, he was as bad at the other important parts of being a doctor, actingi unethically and illegally at times. He'd have had his license yanked in the real world. It'd be like a fry cook who never messed up an order, but constantly screamed at the customers and left the restaurant a mess.Granted, I haven't seen every single episode of the show, but he displayed the attitude enough in the ones I have seen to make me say that. Though not a fry cook (and he never left his restaurants a mess), he fits the "amazing chef with a short fuse" to a tee. Cook or customer, he don't care sometimes...
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 11, 2014 19:21:24 GMT -5
Patient interaction is a huge part of being a doctor, and can have a profound effect on how well a patient responds to treatment. He was terrible at that, not to mention the drug abuse and having his subservient doctors break into patient's homes. Basically, as good a pathologist as he was, he was as bad at the other important parts of being a doctor, actingi unethically and illegally at times. He'd have had his license yanked in the real world. It'd be like a fry cook who never messed up an order, but constantly screamed at the customers and left the restaurant a mess.Granted, I haven't seen every single episode of the show, but he displayed the attitude enough in the ones I have seen to make me say that. Though not a fry cook (and he never left his restaurants a mess), he fits the "amazing chef with a short fuse" to a tee. Cook or customer, he don't care sometimes... He owns the place, and there's no licensure process involved in being a chef, so he can act like that. But I think you also have to take into account that much of what he says or does is just a persona for a show where casting calls go out for patrons. He doesn't act that way on the British shows that he's on, it plays better for the Americas. And even then, he's rarely rude to customers, even on Hell's Kitchen. I can only remember a handful of times he snapped at a customer, usually when they went to the kitchen to complain.
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