Unlikeable characters


I'm a big Kristen Bell fan (since Veronica Mars) but her character is so unlikable, the show is hard to watch. And the Tahani character is the most unwatchable. Chidi and Michael are the only halfway decent characters.

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I like that she's unlikable, because it makes the few times when she does the right thing better. Like when she was cleaning up all the garbage because she felt bad about it, or when she told Chidi not to give up on his manuscript.


Also, I think Kristen Bell is really good at playing a terrible person. "You need me to lie to old people and scare them into buying fake medicine, I got it, man. Where's my desk?"

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Her character was indeed terrible there, but I kinda liked the speech she gave her boyfriend in the most recent episode.

I don't care if my favorite pizza place is mob run by racist Nazis--I'm still getting my pie from them.


I may be scarred, but I'm not scared.

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Not even half as unlikable as her character on Heroes was. She has always played unlikable well.

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I haven't seen Heroes, but her character was unlikable in 'Sarah Marshall', but still watchable. I guess it would be ok if here character weren't so one note or was more charismatic.

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It's a good writing/acting challenge to take an unlikable person and then win the audience over to her (or him). Jennifer Lawrence is particularly good at that.

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Jennifer Lawrence is particularly good at that.


Is she ever! Based on the trailers, I didn't really want to watch "Silver Linings Playbook," and her character in particular seemed irritating, but she's so good I watched it anyway and wow, that was a stunning performance, I thought. How she was able to make me sympathetic to that character is beyond me, but that's what really good actors can do. It's like magic to me, since I've no ability in that whatsoever.

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