Of course there are obvious ones like Rupert or Edwin Akufo. But do you have a least favorite character out of all the good ones?
I know this is a very unpopular opinion but sometimes I find myself so annoyed with Keeley. Her character is almost too loveable and her style is just terrible (in my opinion), I am pretty sure I have worn some of her same outfits back in the 90s. Sometimes I just don’t like her.
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I haven’t seen her name yet so: Sassy. I know she’s supposed to be Rebecca’s longtime friend, but I felt like Rebecca and Keeley’s friendship was much better and more intimate. Sassy felt forced.
I guess she was a good plot device to give Ted a rebound and Rebecca a bit of a back story. But she was so obnoxious and seemed very one dimensional.
Mine’s Keeley too. And I still love her but there’s elements where I feel she’s almost supposed to be faultless, especially in why it didn’t work with Roy and it’s just not how I see it, and it makes her bottom of a list where I adore everyone!
Keeley sux!
Jane. Maybe I have a biased perspective but she seemed really unhealthy for Beard and I couldn’t really see what the redeeming side of her was supposed to be
Ngl Rupert is obviously meant to be hated but the way he was played was fantastic, so like he is a favorite of mine not cause I like how he acts and what he does but of how well he was played and his story line like that was a very powerful character
Nate. His redemption arc left me unmoved.
Seconded
I like Keeley but I hate the Jack storyline they meshed with hers. She had enough past relationship material to go forward from those relationships, and have a personal growth storyline, without adding Jack into it. The show was only 3 seasons, she had 2 major relationships with Jamie and Roy, we didn’t need a third love story line with Jack. It feels like they just wanted a token lesbian/bi relationship for flimsy shock value. She could have had tons of personal growth without it.
Ted 😬 I just found him frustrating.
Jane Paine. I didn’t find her funny or endearing and I hated that Beard ended up with her. It became clear later that Beard has an addictive personality and is drawn to toxicity as we learn more about his background (that’s my interpretation anyway). I loved his stand-alone episode but her at the end kind of ruined it for me because we know how she is IRL.
On Brendan Hunt’s AMA here after S3 he clarified that he didn’t think that Jane was abusive.
I think he’s wrong.
Ugh. He’s dead wrong. The lines about her breaking his stuff and stalking Keely and feeling threatened by Ted is her exhibiting abusive behavior. And it’s played for laughs.
I didn’t think she was abusive until the shredding of the passport that’s just insane
I was excited (in a dark way) because I was SURE they were going to address it in S3 and because it would have fit SO WELL into how the show handled men’s mental health – I have a male friend who was in an abusive marriage before I met him and the stories he’s told about people who didn’t believe him are horrifying, particularly the stuff that wasn’t physical abuse. Things like breaking his stuff, insisting on ALWAYS knowing where he was, insane jealousy – if Beard and Jane’s genders had been switched EVERYONE would have known it was an abusive relationship. Not just toxic – abusive. It would have been a great look into why people stay with and continue to love abusers, how abusers keep their victims in the relationship, all of it. Just a big swing and a miss.
Oh he is absolutely wrong. Genuinely a terrible take. Makes me question anything he would say about the show tbh, just because he was a writer on the show doesn’t mean he has good judgment or that they are incapable of making mistakes. A lot of people forget that and put people like him on pedestals
Ugh!! I hated Beard’s standalone episode. Felt like they ran out of material and this was a bad interlude and they were killing time until they could show the next episode.
So, you’re not entirely wrong there. They filmed the entire series of 10 episodes and Apple ordered 2 more. So that ep with the Christmas episode was what’s called a “filler” episode.
Apparently it was an homage to a Scorsese film that I haven’t seen and it was meant to provide some backstory to the mysterious Beard because I feel like he was always a stock character. But it’s definitely a divisive episode.
Good to know I wasn’t too far off base. And yeah, the Scorsese bit was lost on me!
I disliked the episode on my first watch, then liked it on the second. Knowing Beard’s backstory when he forgives Nate in season 3, helped me see Beard’s struggles with addiction and his neurodivergence. Re-watching Beard at Night felt like I got a glimpse of how Beard saw the world. I no longer saw him as the two-dimensional Mr-Know-It-All sidekick for Ted, but as someone who heard his own drum, for good, for bad, and for everything in between.
Unpopular opinion but Dr. Sharon. I’m ready for the downvotes but when we first meet her we’re made aware of her arrogance, when Ted helps her after she falls down we’re made aware of her thanklessness, when it’s her last day and the team has prepared a whole routine for her, we’re made aware of her ego (in the sense that she isn’t comfortable with expressing emotions so she’ll disregard the efforts of the entire team, and won’t make any efforts to change her own personality and outlook towards these things).
I get that she was necessary in Ted overcoming his struggles, and she too grew as a character over the course of 2 seasons, but never really liked her. Poor first impression maybe, but it is what it is.
Michelle, manipulative self centered twat
Yeah, she’s like “how dare you be so happy and optimistic and funny all the time. These are terrible traits in a human. I guess I should start fucking this asshole pos therapist.”
Keeley.
Jack….the fact that they fabricated a lesbian storyline for Keely because they didn’t want it to be a man who had the power to pull the company out from under her was fairly pathetic.
Keeley has always been overtly bisexual though
Sam
Jamie Tart’s dad
I find myself getting annoyed when Keeley gives Roy such a hard time when he’s quietly being cavalier about death then she turns around and makes a huge ruckus at the funeral.