...a chance of matching the material her fellow actresses enjoy on cable. Just as either anti-hero roles or adult themes enhance many of the actors on cable, many of the women are allowed to be equally flawed or unlikable. Parker is a pot-selling mom on "Weeds" and Hunter's character on "Saving Grace" has had her share of booze and sex. In roles like Falco's in "Nurse Jackie" or Close's in "Damages...

The Day After: Tony Nom Aftershock Post #2

..., who is the kind of the guy you don't want to get near, I'm always trying to take myself to those places, I'm putting that energy into him - keeping him very real, very, in many ways, very unlikable. But that is what is needed, for the story, to propel these women, the actions of the story. So I am very pleased that the nominators were willing to accept him and give a nod of "good job." But I am ...

The Heathcliff-House Theory on the Appeal of Unlikable Characters

... his wife and tells her so. It made me think about unlikable main characters, and what draws us to them.  Something has kept... So here's my Heathcliff-House Theory on the Appeal of Unlikable Characters: 1. Vulnerability helps.  Heathcliff suffers for his infatuation.  There ... people thought. It's a sizable task to make an unlikable character appealing.  The obvious risk is that the reader won't ...

KDD on Five Easy Pieces and Bob Rafelson

...In fact, the movie uses music as a class marker – Chopin as the culturally privileged class (Robert) versus Tammy Wynette as the working class (Rayette). Someone said to me that Robert isn’t an altogether unlikable character, that he is sympathetic. I said, “He may be likable but I’ve spent enough time with people like him not to like him.” Hah. Speaking of Rayette, there is no shortage of female...

...but the question remains: Who's paying for all this treatment? Do all these people really have the insurance to cover these procedures?" Not often does someone become a star by playing an unlikable curmudgeon week after miserable week. But that's what happened to Hugh Laurie with House, the phenomenally popular medical drama on which he has turned the limping, pill-popping misanthrope Dr. Gregory...

So, we digress?

... fail, each and everyday! I hate people. But most of all, I just hate, me. I know, I know.. "Don't be so negative." It's not like I try to hate myself. I'm just an over-all unlikable kind of person. :) Smileys help. People to like me, I mean. Peoeple like talking to people who like smileys. :D See, didn't that just bighten up your day? ..No? Oh, well then.. What kind of human being are ...

FanFic: Firsts - Prologue

...). We were twelve. He grabbed my hand and dragged me towards a secluded hallway during lunch on a fucking Tuesday afternoon. I had no idea what the fuck he was doing.   I still thought boys were ugly and unlikable, but I was past the mindset that they all had “cooties.” I just didn’t find any boys attractive in a romantic way at all. I had gum in my mouth and he knocked his teeth with mine when ...

(small) daily dose of bsg

"It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. 'Shall not be mourned.' That's exactly what it says. Very formal. Very official." - GLaDOS, Portal Happy fraking New Years Eve, Mother Frakers. :D~

MSN produces surpringly somewhat accurate list on the year 2008

... Carell ), with her performance as a down-and-dirty drug addict in Jonathan Demme's "Rachel Getting Married." In Demme's critically praised domestic portrait, she allows herself to be the most unlikable character in the movie. And that has garnered her Oscar buzz. On the other end of the spectrum, Anna Faris, though no serious Oscar contender (Oscars are indifferent to comediennes) managed to make...

Long John Silver. because a schoolbuddy told me I should draw him when I get to read the book but I would've drawn him anyways :D