10 Reasons we still love TV highlights some beloved, great, and surprising characters that add something to a TV show. I've picked out the few characters in shows that I watch regurlary. Here are partial snippets:
Adam Brody
Seth Cohen in Fox's The O.C.
. . .As Seth, Brody has created a hero for high school outcasts everywhere: the doofus who gets the girl and befriends the coolest guy in town. And while going through the season's most entertaining transformation, he also has served as the surrogate voice of the show's incredibly clever young creator, Josh Schwartz.
Without him, The O.C. would be a much poorer place.
Victor Garber
Jack Bristow in ABC's Alias
. . .The sillier the plots become, the more important Garber is as the series' grounding force. His concern for Sydney heightens the drama, and his ability to switch gears to a cold, calculated ruthlessness fuels many of the show's best surprises. He plays Alias' most complex character with deceptive ease.
Amber Tamblyn
Joan Girardi in CBS' Joan of Arcadia
. . . Tamblyn's task is to make you believe God does and would speak to this child, and she succeeds beyond anyone's wildest expectations. Even the way she cries, with her face all scrunched up, represents the application of adult-level acting skills to create a true-to-life teenager. That's talent — and talent at this level is its own little miracle.
******The Village Voice has an section on shows that
Died Tragically Young in the article, "Art of Dying." I've edited to only include info about
Wonderfalls.
A heartbreaking category for the true TV connoisseur: inventive shows cut down in their infancy, loved all the more dearly because they never decay before our eyes. The most recent example is Wonderfalls, a wacky and well-written sitcom pulled just four episodes into its midseason run, despite fervent reviews (including mine). . .Wonderfalls too may have a future: Its producer has said he hopes to release the 13 finished episodes on DVD. Just try to keep a dead show down.
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