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For Sale Mar 30, 2026 at 12:56 PM

After rewatching your favorite shows, which tv characters do you look at differently now?

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Lois from Malcolm in the Middle. I definitely understood her a lot better now and her plight dealing with rambunctious boys
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Pheerandlowthing Mar 30, 2026 +194
McNulty in The Wire. I used to love his maverick attitude and drunken behaviour, now I just think he’s a bit of a prick who uses people and causes emotional mayhem. (Still find him entertaining though).
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TreeRol Mar 30, 2026 +88
You're an a******, McNulty.
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Pugilist12 Mar 30, 2026 +92
…the f*** did I do?
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jcargile242 Mar 30, 2026 +49
Giving a f*** when it wasn’t your turn to give a f***.
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Argentothe1st Mar 30, 2026 +17
Your partner, a bit of an a******
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djtodd242 Mar 30, 2026 +3
You know what the plural of p**** is? Pussae. Jimmy taught me that. Jimmy!
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TheAmorphous Mar 30, 2026 +34
What the f*** did he do??
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unmistakablywhite Mar 30, 2026 +28
I love his realization when talking to Daniel’s in the hospital. About how Barksdale was just a way for him to show how smart he was and how dysfunctional the department is. His maverick attitude was just about himself most of the time. Still natural police tho
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RobotIcHead Mar 30, 2026 +31
First season McNulty it just seemed like he messed up and got used by the judge, but then he got vindictive in season 2. Then it was just a spiral after that, screwed over anyone he reported to. Even those who tried to help him. It was only after he was put in charge of the serial killer investigation in last series, did he actually realise the problems he was creating. Honestly the best punishment would have been giving him a supervisor role. It would have a waste of his skills but it would have given a view of his actions. And he would have hated it. He always needed to prove he was smartest guy. Shame Lester got dragged into it but he had his own problems and was glad Greggs got out in her own. I absolutely loved the series.
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bguzewicz Mar 30, 2026 +13
There’s no way he would have accepted a management position. I think he hated the bosses more than he hated the murdering drug dealers he was chasing
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RobotIcHead Mar 30, 2026 +7
Lead investigator was always what imagined for him, give him some junior officers to train and supervise along with some others. Make him responsible for the budget and actions. He hated it when he did in the serial killer case in season 5, hated giving favours to those who didn’t deserve it. It would have been the most fitting punishment for all the stuff he pulled. Way better than being on the boats. Police work but not. He was honest, an amazing investigator and understood the system, but he was always a problem. I admired him in season 1 as he was willing to do anything to get the case. And in the last season he really try anything to get Stanfield. The end always justifies the means in his mind.
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bguzewicz Mar 30, 2026 +3
Ah yeah, that makes more sense. He’d have hated it, but he could have done some good. Of course by the end of season 5 he’s lucky he didn’t end up behind bars, but yeah…
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Britneyfan123 Mar 30, 2026 +7
Off topic but John c Reilly turned down playing McNulty do you think he could of pulled it off?
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GreninjaStrike Mar 30, 2026 +21
Absolutely not, Dominic West embodied east coast cop with the perfect balance of hedonistic immoral goof and devotee of justice.
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +6
Watching him as a dad hits different. The way he treats his kids is so shit. He puts his own ego ahead of them so much. The way he treats women too. He's an absolute manchild.
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Toby_O_Notoby Mar 31, 2026 +5
Similarly: Stringer Bell. On my first watch, I thought Stringer was the smart one and Barksdale was dumb. Why bother with the drugs and the streets when you can go legit and not worry about the police? Then on rewatch, you realise just how over his head he is playing "all those away games". One of my favourites was when he saw Poot with two phones and dumped all his Motorola and Nokia stock because of "market saturation", arguing that if someone as broke as Poot has two phones, there would be no one else to sell them to. Totally wrong lesson: if someone as broke as Poot not only feels like he needs two phones but also can afford them, that means you're going to be selling a lot more phones, not a lot less.
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RJWolfe Mar 30, 2026 +4
Dozens of rewatches, I've gone all the way around again. I wish I cared about anything the way Jimmy cares about ruining his life by proving he's the biggest d*** around. Yeah, it'd end badly, but man, you'd be so busy blowing smoke up your own ass that you wouldn't even notice you're falling off a cliff.
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WySLatestWit Mar 30, 2026 +548
Walter White. When I go back and watch Breaking Bad now I just have no sympathy for Walt at all almost from the very beginning. When I was younger I went with his logic almost to the end. As an older man now all I see is his selfishness, ego, and pride. He seems to be a terrible person almost immediately. Still love the show, I just don't love Walt.
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TheLateThagSimmons Mar 30, 2026 +111
Knowing that he becomes the ultimate villain, watching it again you notice all the little cracks in his personality. I still see it as an evolution into villainy, but I see it more as inevitable than accidental.
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steeb2er Mar 30, 2026 +257
Agreed, it used to be "watch this normal guy fall into crime" and now it's "watch this shitty, selfish husband become a murderous drug lord." I felt like there was moral ambiguity the first time, now it's just further into the bad.
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vigtel Mar 30, 2026 +59
The break stemmed from the splinter. Bitter for being left behind, having a handicapped son, being given a disease for all his sacrifice. The self pity and hubris is a warning to us all. I feel the show is a tale of how you make the choices you make. It might feel inevitable for Walt, but he made all those choices himself. Even the ones before the show starts.
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nobdy89 Mar 30, 2026 +146
Which is funny considering the weird amound of hate Skylar got back in the day. I always felt like she had a pretty reasonable reaction to your spouse becoming a meth kingpin.
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c-williams88 Mar 30, 2026 +69
As someone who didn’t watch BB until covid, I was constantly amazed that Skylar was reviled the way she apparently was during the airing of the show. Maybe things come across differently when you binge it, but she was a sympathetic character to me basically the entire time. Was she also kinda a shitty partner? Yeah, not gonna defend her entirely, but people compare her being a semi-absentee wife and having an affair (after her husband you know, gets into the drug trade) to Walt being a murderous drug lord and somehow thinking Walt is the better person
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bretshitmanshart Mar 30, 2026 +65
It wasnt even an affair. She served divorce papers and Walt refused to sign them. At that point they aren't in a relationship
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c-williams88 Mar 30, 2026 +11
Oh I didn’t realize the Ted stuff happened after that
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +16
A lot of it just comes down to entertainment. In any show with the crime/family split you're going to have a serious portion of the viewer base who is just there for the violence and crime. So in that respect Skylar commits the ultimate sin for a fictional character: ruining their fun and making the show feel boring. They didn't want to see the consequences of Walt's actions, they wanted to see Walt kicking ass. Combine that with the usual "people miss the point" and "people hate women" and it's a potent cocktail.
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Mammodamn Mar 31, 2026 +8
I know Breaking Bad is on basically everyone's top 10, but I actually think there was a failure of writing, especially where Skyler is concerned. Skyler was sold to Anna Gunn as "Carmela Soprano except she'll be in on it" but Carmela didn't and doesn't get nearly the same degree of vitriol from fans. I'd say the comparison is important considering Carmela is arguably a worse person than Skyler, morally speaking. Central to the problem is that Walt's home life is always tense, but with relatively low stakes. On The Sopranos, Tony's home life frequently had genuinely happy moments. On Breaking Bad, someone is always secretly seething in every scene at home. I honestly can't think of a single home/family scene where all characters were enjoying it. I know, standard screenwriting wisdom is that every scene has to have some conflict, but it also sends a message. If all we ever see at home is bubbling resentment, then maybe they shouldn't be together. This is particularly true when Walt's stated motivation for cooking meth is to help his family. Whether it was never his real motivation or it changed throughout his arc, it's incumbent on the writers to show us there's something there worth risking it all for. The show they wrote had his home life being perpetually not just uncomfortable, but also unimportant compared to the stakes of the meth business. Sopranos fans want to see Tony kicking ass and they're generally positive on Carmela, flawed as she is from the outset. I think that's because Tony does kick ass and has (on balance) a happy home life. We never see Walt with that second part and Skyler cops the blame.
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Stellar_Duck Mar 31, 2026 +6
> On The Sopranos, Tony's home life frequently had genuinely happy moments. Tony is legit a less shitty person than Walter I think.
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bretshitmanshart Mar 30, 2026 +11
People will criticize her for being suspicious before knowing he was selling meth. It's stupid because he was still obviously lying and disappearing for long periods of time. Walt never even tried to cover for himself. Plus he has an excuse. He could say he met up with a former student whose aunt died of cancer and he has been helping Walt work through his issues. However even that is showing too much vulnerability for him
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +50
It's crazy how many people hated Skylar when that show came out. Like her husband was actively destroying their lives from before when the story even started and people got pissed at her for not liking him for it? I always thought the show was a commentary on the dangers of toxic masculinity. Walter felt that he should be respected and powerful as a man, and hated that he wasn't and when faced with his own death he was willing to ruin the lives of people around him just to satisfy his own ego.
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Blooder91 Mar 30, 2026 +16
There is an alarming amount of people who think a protagonist is always the good guy. The show is called "Breaking Bad", Walter is shown making and selling drugs, yet some people think he's the good guy just because he's the main character.
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qtx Mar 30, 2026 +13
On the flip side, there is also nothing wrong with rooting for the bad guy either. If the protagonist is bad and you know they're bad, there is nothing wrong with you rooting for them. IE Tony Soprano.
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Blooder91 Mar 30, 2026 +8
Oh, of course. I rooted for Tony as well. But I didn't think the FBI were the bad guys for opposing him.
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Brogener Mar 30, 2026 +4
The FBI is pretty shitty in that show though. The way they treat Adriana is pretty horrible.
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bretshitmanshart Mar 30, 2026 +7
I forgot how early he gets an out from selling meth that he refuses to take
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WySLatestWit Mar 30, 2026 +10
Correct me if im wrong. Doesn't he get a job offer with excellent insurance in like episode 4?
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +5
Yes. His ex lover/business partner that went on to found a super successful company (source of his bitterness) offers him a job.
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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 30, 2026 +16
I look at Saul Goodman in a similar way when I rewatch BCS, even though there's those who partially blame Chuck for setting him on the path he took.
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WySLatestWit Mar 30, 2026 +49
The difference for me with Jimmy is that i always believe there is a genuinely well meaning core to him as a person. I retain sympathy and empathy for Jimmy in part because Jimmy "redeems himself" by admitting his mistakes and accepting the consequences. Jimmy's ultimate arc allows me to still like him.
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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 30, 2026 +12
I could understand this side as well, where at times he actually does earnestly help regular people as well through his methods, especially before the final fallout between Chuck and him really sent him into a jaded attitude
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WySLatestWit Mar 30, 2026 +19
Jimmy also shows more actual remorse through the series over what he's done than Walt ever does. It makes hin easier to root for.
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +16
Jimmy made the choices to become Saul, but Chuck definitely took away Jimmy's choices over the years. Chuck had the power to stop Jimmy from becoming Saul but he chose not to. In my eyes they are both at fault in a lot of ways. Arguably it made for a more compelling show than Breaking Bad.
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Philo_T_Farnsworth Mar 30, 2026 +8
I felt a lot more sympathy for Howard too. He’s still a d***, but I think he’s basically a good guy.
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ArchDucky Mar 30, 2026 +6
The problem with breaking bad was that the fans rooted for Walt like he was the good guy every year. Vince started most writing sessions for each season after 2 with a meeting about how to turn the audience against Walt. Thats how the Brock thing came to be. Hell I remember during the run up to the end of the show a lot of people on Listnook refused to acknowledge that he was the bad guy and were arguing with people hoping he got killed at the end of the show. This was well after Walt killed Mike which was the turning point for a lot of people, but others just wouldn't stop rooting for the guy.
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ToLiveInIt Mar 30, 2026 +7
It upsets me that Walter got to choose the manner of his death. Got to go out a hero in his own mind. He deserved worse.
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marmosetohmarmoset Mar 30, 2026 +13
I first watched breaking bad shortly after breaking up with my ex boyfriend who turned out to be a pathological liar. So I was very much hate watching Walter since my tolerance for lying men was very low. I decided to re-watch it recently, wondering if my opinion may have softened over time (it’s been 14 years and I’ve very much moved on). NOPE. If anything he’s even worse than I remember. Just a total a****** from episode 1.
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mudokin Mar 30, 2026 +3
That was the great thing about Breaking Bad, seeing the man with broken ego, slowly become more and more of the narcissistic manipulative mastermind villain. This was a real fresh thing with this series.
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Upbeat_Tension_8077 Mar 30, 2026 +90
When I rewatched Succession, it became more apparent of the subtle behaviors and actions Tom had over the seasons that made him suitable as >!the one who would eventually land a CEO role of Waystar Royco compared to the Roy siblings!<
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GaryTheCabalGuy Mar 30, 2026 +54
He was the only one who appeared competent throughout the series, wasn't desperately trying to be the big guy in charge, spent most of his time just making sure he survived, and who cared enough because he didn't have the same massive safety net that the Roy siblings had. In retrospect, it makes perfect sense that it ended up being him.
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toewalldog Mar 30, 2026 +11
Wasn't Tom also the one person in the family who never had a failed business transaction/deal? I could certainly be mistaken but I think he just straight up doesn't miss even if it's always in the background or a throwaway line.
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peanutbuttertuxedo Mar 30, 2026 +15
Tom also could smell the stink coming from the cruise ships and boy did he tap dance his way out of that trouble masterfully
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NATOrocket Mar 30, 2026 +15
I watched the show late and avoided any fandom circles to avoid spoilers. Once I finished the show and joined in, the love for Tom shocked me.
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ConHead_4_Life Mar 30, 2026 +37
He is one of the funniest characters just in his cadence and the ridiculous analogies and metaphors that come out his mouth lol, and his scenes with Shiv especially towards the end are just amazing in the complete opposite way. Tom just has crazy range imo that kind of is a microcosm of what’s so good about succession as a whole
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DrummerGuy06 Mar 30, 2026 +18
None of the characters are good people. They’re all awful in their own ways. Tom was an outsider who wished he was as important and successful as the Roy family was, but was always deemed lesser because of his “meager” upbringing. He was loyal and dependable for both the family and the company. Time and again he proved he was savvy enough to stay in play for a higher role in the company. Eventually, he proved himself to not only the board members but also to Logan, the most important one. Tom was a hanger-on like Greg but way smarter & more successful. He even disliked his own family’s wine after drinking the really expensive stuff for a long time. Anytime someone yelled “jump” he was already in mid-air. He was the ultimate “yes” man who also knew WHEN to shut up, too. He’s still pretty hate-able, but he was probably the least hate-able one.
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Blooder91 Mar 30, 2026 +154
Seinfeld: When I first watched it, I was 20-21 and I thought Kramer was the funniest, because of how zany he is. I rewatched it in my 30s, and George is definitely the funniest due to how he ignores social conventions which later come back to bite him in the ass. Arrested Development: On my first watch, Michael Bluth was this super competent, responsible leader who was held back by his flawed family. On rewatches, you realise he's a self-righteous narcissist, and as flawed as the rest of the Bluths.
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FriendlyFriendster Mar 30, 2026 +54
I loved that in Arrested Development, Michael acts like he's so much better but he's just as bad as the rest of the family. I honestly think when it came to season 4 that was why some folks didn't like it as much, because they weren't as subtle about how terrible Michael was, it was front and center, and for folks who'd never made that connection it felt like a drastic change to his character.
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +24
> I honestly think when it came to season 4 that was why some folks didn't like it as much, because they weren't as subtle about how terrible Michael was, it was front and center, and for folks who'd never made that connection it felt like a drastic change to his character. I do think that's a flaw in Season 4, but not because I didn't realize Michael sucked before that. I just felt that writing him as that straightforwardly shitty and pathetic with no shred of his self-important selflessness was a lot less funny. It was like they didn't have anyone for him to straight man play off of because of the scheduling stuff so they had to change his straight man energy. It was just more pathetic than funny.
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +22
One of the things that ruined NuArrested Development was they went way too obvious with Michael being a bad guy. I think the show worked a lot better with it being subtle. I actually feel like my Seinfeld revelation was liking Elaine way more than I thought. I think she's the best actor in the show by a lot and you can tell at points even if I think they tried to give George funnier material.
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ScyllaOfTheDepths Mar 30, 2026 +12
You can clock it around the Ann/Egg thing. He should be happy his loser son is dating someone that isn't his cousin, but he's very rude and critical of Ann because she's not attractive. She's not even ugly, just not overly attractive. He's exactly as shallow and image obsessed as his family, he's just the least narcissistic narcissist in a family of narcissists.
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MickeySpooney Mar 30, 2026 +148
Mulder in the X-Files. When I was a kid I thought he was the coolest person ever, and I loved him. Rewatching as an adult, I think he's a lil b****, and I love him.
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soupjaw Mar 30, 2026 +63
Yah, rewatching it now and have way more respect for Scully than I did watching as a kid - although, she's probably still a bit too much of a skeptic considering all she's seen
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PhantomJackalope Mar 30, 2026 +29
It’s so funny when they do religious supernatural and Scully goes all-in and Mulder is the skeptic.
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bretshitmanshart Mar 30, 2026 +13
Scully plays the role of the skeptic because Mulder needs someone to challenge him to prove his theories. It's clear she is a believer based on the religion episodes, Fight Club where they decide to switch roles and the episodes without Mulder.
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free_billstickers Mar 30, 2026 +16
Yeah Mulder would be insufferable as a coworker, pretty much that weird conspiracy nut that won't put a sock in it
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exintel Mar 30, 2026 +9
X files is hard to watch in the modern world, where conspiracy nuts have run wild, and other much more mundane and evil conspiracies are out in the open and far from fun to consider. Mulder would be a pretty cringey podcaster or tweeter reposting hoaxes
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OneMoreTimeJack Mar 30, 2026 +69
Keith Mars from Veronica Mars. He should have taken Veronica and moved out of that town.
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doogled3 Mar 30, 2026 +33
Rewatched this recently, and that really stood out to me. He knew his actions would hurt his daughter at a very vulnerable time, and didn’t care. Logan is another character that really stood out to me. Multiple ladies told me about how much they loved him, and he had his excuses in season 1 for his behavior. But when he wasn’t a rage filled person flying off the handle every few minutes, he was doing other shady stuff like passing out date r*** drugs. Great format for a show, but maddening and repetitive characters
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RecallGibberish Mar 30, 2026 +7
Yeah I hated Logan from the first episode and my opinion never wavered an inch until he started to grow up in the movie, where he was just slightly tolerable. TBH I was glad Veronica and Piz broke up just because Piz deserved so much better. In like the last ten minutes of the reboot season I was finally in a place where I thought he was a decent character and was happy for him and Veronica. And literally two minutes later THAT SCENE happened and... welp. Goodbye show, forever.
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PocketD Mar 30, 2026 +6
Like the song says: "Logan's a d***, I'm learning that's hot."
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topangaismyhero Mar 30, 2026 +3
I am a huuuge fan of the show (I have a tattoo!) and I've never thought of it that way, but yeah - he put alot of responsibility and pressure on his teenage daughter by leaving her to fend for herself, solve crimes. Weirdly I found this show in college (when it was still airing) and I identified with the father daughter relationship because my dad was my rock (and also left me alone a lot) and my mom sucked. Working through the trauma of "the hero is the one who stays, the villain is the one who splits" has helped me see that even though he was the best parent I had, it didn't mean he was great.
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starryeyed58 Mar 30, 2026 +191
As a pre-teen I used to think Lois from Malcolm in the Middle was truly the worst. Just re-watched and she is literally right all of the time 😂 and hilarious.
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TallEnoughJones Mar 30, 2026 +93
The best was when she got a ticket. There was video evidence but she still refused to admit she was wrong. And then she wasn't.
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Nugur Mar 30, 2026 +46
I hated that episode. Only becuase they didn’t tell her she was right and left her thinking she was wrong I needed the closure
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cindyana_jones Mar 30, 2026 +3
RIGHT. I think about that episode all the time.
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euchlid Mar 30, 2026 +7
same. we watched it as a family when i was a kid/preteen and i thought lois was unhinged and hal was hilarious.   well... I'm in my 40s now, i have 3 boys and..... i guess I am unhinged. lol. lois is an amazing character and hal loves her so much. his unhinged buffonery is fantastic acting but also maddening. my husband and i watch it and there's a lot of "noooooo, Hal!"
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TheeAmateurArtist Mar 30, 2026 +93
All 4 girls in Charmed. Phoebe was dumb as hell.
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public_ignition Mar 30, 2026 +25
phoebe was literally carrying the show in early seasons though 💀 her character just got butchered after they ran out of ideas piper became way more annoying on rewatch than phoebe ever was imo
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BrickPig Mar 30, 2026 +17
Oh, could not disagree more about Piper. She was my favorite during the initial run, and I loved her even more on rewatch.
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neonkittenshow Mar 30, 2026 +151
Giles was hot
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TheGreatMalagan Mar 30, 2026 +74
I remember Giles looking geriatric to my early teens self. Very surprised on a rewatch to discover he was a hot early 40s man
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istasber Mar 30, 2026 +14
I was like 10-15 years late to buffy, and had already watched the merlin BBC show with a much older looking Anthony head. It was a surprise seeing him look so young and thin when I started watching buffy.
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peon47 Mar 30, 2026 +14
His breakthrough role in the UK was in a series of ads for Nescafe. He was the s*** new neighbour of "main character". The ads ran for years with a will-they-wont-they plotline. Papers would literally run stories when a new one came out.
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Sarabeth61 Mar 30, 2026 +17
Yeah he could get it
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NoobToobinStinkMitt Mar 30, 2026 +31
Cassian Andor. I thought he was the biggest d*** a****** in the movie. But after the show I get why he is how he is and I love him for it.
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exintel Mar 30, 2026 +16
Yeah Andor really went to 10 when they had their new rebel character kill their own informant to avoid leaking the information to the stormtroopers. The audience is supposed to see how that was evil and effective, it introduces the utilitarian theme of what people will do to achieve their ends, to destroy what they hate, even risk becoming it. I was blown away
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The68Guns Mar 30, 2026 +57
Six Feet Under. I'm name the same age as Ruth Fisher and know what meant when she said "Nobody tells you anything. It happens when you get old."
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Neuroccountant Mar 30, 2026 +10
Rewatching Six Feet Under in my late 30s was a completely different experience compared to watching it the first time in my early 20s. Night and f****** day. When I first watched the show I thought it was about the children but now I think the entire show was really about Ruth.
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sleepdeprivedtechie Mar 30, 2026 +10
I loved Nate as a teenager. He bucked authority and didn't let circumstances rule his life... As an adult, he was a lazy sack of shit that made everything harder for everyone. Same with Brenda. She was such a cool, free spirit. Adult me saw her as jealous and manipulative. I really felt bad for Ruth... She wasn't ever the bad guy... Her life was.
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Paronine Mar 31, 2026 +3
Nate was the first character who popped into my head for the prompt. When I watched the show as a teenager, I thought he was just a guy trying to figure out his life while various circumstances got in the way. As an adult, it's clear he was the cause of - or, at the very least, the exacerbator of - those circumstances.
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Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn Mar 30, 2026 +117
Ted Mosby. Dated plenty of great women who treated him well but he held himself to such a high standard to find "Miss Perfect" or to go back to Robin that he treated a bunch of the women like shit in return. Edit: I guess even though he wasn't nearly as bad as Ted...JD in Scrubs treated Elliot like shit *a lot*.
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joelene1892 Mar 30, 2026 +95
“I’m not THE ONE for you? You broke my heart on my birthday, waited THREE YEARS for me to get over you, begged me to go out with you again, only to break up with me because I’m not the one for you, AGAIN ON MY BIRTHDAY?” (Paraphrased)
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +32
That's a quality paraphrase, I read it in her delivery.
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joelene1892 Mar 30, 2026 +6
Ha, I have clearly seen the show too much. Tbh that mini speech is just fantastic though, the actor is so expressive and the look on her face has stuck in my head!
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BrunoMarsGuo Mar 30, 2026 +39
I'm rewatching scrubs and JD suuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Dr. Cox is as great as ever though. The show is also a really interesting time capsule of the turn of the new millennium.
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +22
I honestly love HIMYM for this. Instead of just having Ted mope in his room for 8 seasons they actually had him behaving like a kinda douchey 20 something in New York figuring his shit out.
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MarkMech Mar 30, 2026 +22
I was just watching a clip of Josh Radnor on that Rainn Wilson podcast, and he was talking about how his Dad would complain about what terrible decisions the characters make. And his rebuttal was basically "Yeah, because it's a TV show and conflict is how you make a story interesting. If it was just a whole bunch of people making good decisions, that's a pretty boring show"
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BreweryRabbit Mar 30, 2026 +23
Michael Scott - before I worked in a corporate setting I couldn’t believe someone could be that big of a fool, now that I work in a corporate setting he’s just like 80% of my colleagues.
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HIGHlariousComedy Mar 30, 2026 +21
Dr. House from House. He’s a drug addict, narcissist, emotionally abusive and a bad friend. No amount of genius makes up for his faults.
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Delphidouche Mar 30, 2026 +41
LOST: When watching for the first few times I was not a fan of Eloise Hawking at all. But with subsequent rewatches, she is definitely one of the more tragic characters in the series.
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CrissBliss Mar 30, 2026 +36
For me, it’s Jack. His hero complex made him a pretty insufferable character after a while. And he often made major decisions (outside medicine) without consulting the group, but was almost always championed by Kate regardless.
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GaryTheCabalGuy Mar 30, 2026 +27
Jack had a God complex, which is fitting for his character because he was a surgeon. Just a sign of great character writing.
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Gilles_of_Augustine Mar 30, 2026 +13
>"Don't you realize how important this is? We have to ACT, Sawyer! What are you going to DO about it?!" >"What am I going to do about it, Jack? I'm going to read a book. And I'm going to think. And I'm going to make a decision in the morning." Is a scene that has lived rent-free in my head for years.
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drf_101 Mar 30, 2026 +38
When I watched Sopranos when it was on the first time I was more or less Meadows age (I was in college). Now I’m Tony’s age and I have a kid about to go to college. I watched the show again and it hits different.
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polymorphic_hippo Mar 30, 2026 +32
The Sopranos sub is littered with the corpses of "I used to think AJ was a tedious douchenozzle the first time I watched, but now, X years later, I get him" threads. The closer you are in age to AJ when you first watch, the more you hate him. 
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bguzewicz Mar 30, 2026 +22
Honestly when I watch The Sopranos now I just feel bad for AJ. That kid had no shot at a well adjusted life.
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drf_101 Mar 30, 2026 +10
Yeah. As a 40-something he’s fine, I see what he’s dealing with. As a 19-21 year old I hated him.
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ButtersMojito Mar 30, 2026 +96
Bojack Horseman. I started watching when I was like 15. I rewatched again like months ago and I fully realized what it meant to take a friend out of sobriety and what it meant to have a 50 years old guy taking teenagers to drink, leaving one of them in the hospital and then trying to f*** a teenager. I remember watching it the first time and thinking "Well, this girl should have known her limits"(when he dropped the girl in a coma on the hospital to avoid an scandal) and "It's just sex, it's not like she will be the only man she will ever have sex with"(when he tried to have sex with that teenager who was his friend's daughter). When I got older everything about that was so repulsive, it was insane how much a couple of years change you and help you understand how older people should know better than a teenager.
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swimmin_jeans_ Mar 30, 2026 +76
Bojack is such a good (and weirdly rare) example of the anti-hero genre forcing its repulsive main character to face the consequences of his actions (beyond just killing him off), and actually have a shot at redemption.
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Topikk Mar 30, 2026 +11
Sometimes shit happens, and then you keep living.
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NativeMasshole Mar 30, 2026 +44
Bojack is great at making you sympathize with him despite what a horrific piece of shit he is.
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Isiddiqui Mar 30, 2026 +29
It really shows you how charisma helps hide a whole host of terrible things.
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A911owner Mar 30, 2026 +7
It makes sense that one of the best episodes is titled "Stupid Piece of Shit"
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Topikk Mar 30, 2026 +10
Because he's a complex, realistic character. Is he a good person who often does incredibly shitty things, or is he a bad person who sometimes does good things? Are these labels actually meaningless? How impactful should genuine remorse be when judging the worst actions of others? Quite the character study from a poorly-drawn cartoon about a drunken bipedal horse.
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ButtersMojito Mar 30, 2026 +13
I mean, I knew he was a failed person but that moment when he tries to sleep with the teenager deer was kinda okay with me because she wanted too. I just understood how fucked up it was when I got older.
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Hopeful-Sympathy5761 Mar 30, 2026 +16
Scandal: Olivia Pope When the show first aired and I tuned in, I was mesmerized with her “boss moves” and being the person that everyone needed because she could get the job done. Watching it now, I realized she used people, even people closest to her to get what she wanted. Even when she finally reached that pinnacle, it still wasn’t enough. She was greedy for power and refused to build meaningful relationships. Everything was transactional until it wasn’t.
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Agent-Blasto-007 Mar 30, 2026 +35
The Guilty Remnant from The Leftovers. When I first watched the show, I hated the Guilty Remnant. Which was sort of their point in season 1, to be the villains and make you think about the world these people inhabit. When I rewatched the Leftovers after my father passed away, I realized that I *was* the Guilty Remnant. After he passed, I was *mired* in this nihilistic "what's the f****** point" malaise while my family wanted (and was) moving on, which I found disrespectful.
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Ke11yP Mar 30, 2026 +26
See I went from not understanding them and finding them annoying to understanding them while still finding them annoying. Everyone’s process for grief is different and the guilty remnant was just a constant reminder of that grief and sometimes to deal with it you just need to forget about it for a moment. I get the nihilism, I was annoyed by their methods though.
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Agent-Blasto-007 Mar 30, 2026 +11
>See I went from not understanding them and finding them annoying to understanding them while still finding them annoying Exactly and that's ultimately the point of the show: how do you deal with other people's grief. (While grieving yourself) And that was an unfortunate skill I had to learn myself. As you pointed out, it's *very* personal and rude to try and force *your* way onto someone. Now I see it every time a big disaster happens: people calling out other people for doing it wrong.
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PaulFThumpkins Mar 30, 2026 +9
The Remnant don't suck because they've taken a nihilistic view of things; they suck because they're forcing it on everybody else rather than allowing other people to decide how they feel and move forward. They're basically a cult dedicated to depression with a Westboro Baptist Church way of forcing it on everybody else in the most painful way possible.
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WutWudTimRigginsDo Mar 30, 2026 +35
I recently rewatched Mad Men for the first time since it aired and I view Don Draper in a completely different light now. I was constantly rooting for him before as a hero figure but thought he was such a petty and selfish person the second time around.
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thegracelesswonder Mar 30, 2026 +31
The reveal at the end of episode 1 didn’t do it for ya the first time? Lol I love Don but the show never hides the fact that he’s a piece of shit (with some good qualities sprinkled in).
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WutWudTimRigginsDo Mar 30, 2026 +8
I know I was young and taken with his charm and good looks. It says more about me than it does the character.
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PuzzlePiece90 Mar 30, 2026 +17
I couldn’t believe how completely people were on his side when that fight with Betty aired (right before they divorced). The show was making a point about women being held to a different standard and it was like the public’s reaction was to say “as they should”. 
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the-magnetic-rose Mar 30, 2026 +16
I've been rewatching Scrubs and there's a couple: \- I love JD as a character and I think he's a fantastic doctor, but oh my goooood he's a MENACE to the women he dates. The way he treated Julie was actually painful to watch, and she was SUCH a sweetheart. \- I love Turk and Carla as a couple, and I still think they're great for each other, but I definitely think they lost some of their sauce after they got married. So much of their storyline became about how Carla's a baby-obsessed nagging wife who withholds sex to get what she wants, and I hate that for her. I miss their early-season, pre-marriage dynamic. \- I actually didn't think much of Kelso when I used to watch the show during it's original run, but on a rewatch he's kind of my favorite character. He has a really nice character growth, some of the most genuinely laugh-out-loud funniest lines, and Ken Jenkins brings so much depth to what could have been a one-dimensional character. \- This one might be controversial, but when you're binging the show I do think a lot of Dr Cox's preachy rants get repetitive. It was fine back when I was watching it weekly as a teenager, but on a binge-watch it's like back to back "Dr Cox gets really sassy only to reveal he had a life lesson all along at the emotional end of the episode." Still a fantastic character tho, and the storyline where he loses three patients back to back is one of Scrub's strongest storylines in the entire show's run.
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donuteater111 Mar 30, 2026 +15
Frank Burns from MASH. At one point he became my least favorite character. This was in part because he was replaced by my favorite character Charles, and partly because of displeasure at his Flanderization. I considered him too cartoonish, and the least believable character on the show, especially in his last couple seasons. However, while he may *technically* still be my least favorite main character on the show (since this is my favorite TV ensemble), I've gained a greater appreciation for him once again. I like what he brings as an antagonist, with his extreme views and personality. Larry Linville does a great job with his portrayal, getting the most out of this character without overdoing it IMO. And what's more since I've recently come to realize how sadly realistic such a cartoony, narcissistic buffoon with a fragile ego and sanity actually is given certain \*ahem\* public figures in modern times. Still don't love the direction he went in (especially in season 5), but I do like him a lot more than I used to.
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One_Weird2371 Mar 30, 2026 +7
The show really took off for me when they got rid of Burns, Trapper, and Colonel Blake. 
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3Gilligans Mar 30, 2026 +7
I enjoyed the show much much more when there wasn't so much vitriol between the characters. The real "bad guy" is war itself. Going back to Frank Burns, Linville was right to quit the show. All other characters were evolving and his was just becoming a caricature of itself with no end in sight.
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NATOrocket Mar 30, 2026 +101
Rory Gilmore, the supposed nicest, smartest most perfect kid ever who eats 0 vegetables while maintaining a size 2, set an impossible standard for teenaged girls.
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bishop375 Mar 30, 2026 +49
I like Lorelei less and less the more times I've watched it. Luke still rules, though.
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CrissBliss Mar 30, 2026 +26
I actually like Luke way less on rewatch, and like Lorelai more.
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +31
Same. One of the wildest things I've seen on that show is how people treat Lorelai. She is a million miles from perfect but there are whole episodes where it's just everyone shitting on her from all sides. I know we're in the "Emily Gilmore is a queen" meme era but holy f*** she is horrible to her daughter.
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CrissBliss Mar 30, 2026 +11
Is Emily Gilmore considered a better person by comparison now? Man, Listnook is wild sometimes. Forget the fact that she invited Chris to her vow renewal, and basically told him he needed to get with Lorelai before it’s too late. Despite her daughter already being in a serious relationship. Forget her telling her daughter she threw her life away when she got pregnant… Emily had some good qualities too, but everyone loves crapping on the main characters now simply because they’re the main characters.
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lupatine Mar 30, 2026 +8
Lorelai is very clearly dealing with how she was raised. The whole hyper-independant cheery facade is very clearly an over reaction to her parents control. What ? Emily is horrible to everyone...
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bishop375 Mar 30, 2026 +11
Luke's biggest flaw is his insecurity. And to be with Lorelei would take an enormous amount of it. I think a lot of the problems we see with him is that he can't identify that's what's wrong, and that's what drove his attachment style as their relationship got more and more serious.
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CrissBliss Mar 30, 2026 +8
For me, I’d say he was single for so long, he just didn’t always know how to be in a relationship. His communication skills often shut down while they were in a fight, or he hid stuff altogether- his daughter’s existence for example.
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +6
He's also just temperamental on a scale that is pretty unacceptable for an adult.
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SithPL Mar 30, 2026 +13
My wife watches Gilmore Girls as a comfort show. I absolutely loathe Rory and Lorelei, but Luke was a real one. I remember really hating the writing when it seems like they made him into a villain after he and Lorelei actually started dating.
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lupatine Mar 30, 2026 +3
I like Lorelai, I identify a lot with her. But she has a lot of issues.
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DamienStark Mar 30, 2026 +33
The whole show is an unrealistic fantasy, like most shows. There's nothing inherently wrong with that - why should fantasies about a bold bald captain with a starship fully of holodecks and replicators be allowed, but fantasies about impossibly sharp, witty, and close women running an inn and attending school in a small town be disallowed? But the fact that it *looks* more realistic leads to the "standard" you describe - where some impressionable folks feel bad about their own inability to match the fantasy.
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ashoka_akira Mar 30, 2026 +9
That’s like any show featuring young adults struggling with their social lives but the show completely ignores how they are able to afford a cute apartment to themselves in a busy city, or how they immediately fall into their dream job. Meanwhile, the reality is that unless you come from money, you’re probably stuck with roommates, or still living with family, and juggling several shitty jobs well past your young adulthood.
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bobshallprevail Mar 30, 2026 +8
I don't think the size of her is unrealistic. All through high school I was near anorexic looking but ate what I wanted. I didn't do anything to be skinny, I just was. My mid 20s that changed and I reckon my metabolism slowed down or something cause I gained weight like a normal person. That being said her be a good person thing was fucked when she helped Dean cheat (then again with what's his name in the mini series)
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +69
The Office really hits different after you have had an office job. When I was young I thought Jim would be my best friend in the office. Now I can see how it would be annoying as f*** working with a guy like that who is always pranking people. Not even because I would take that job seriously, but because most of those people want to get in and get out of their job without any unpredictable bullshit. TBF I always thought Michael seemed like a nightmare to work with. It always fell flat when they told him what a great boss he was at the end. The only times he was even successful were when he did the sales job himself; he never really helped any of his workers get better and any small good he did was offset by the wildly inappropriate things he did.
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Ilikepancakes87 Mar 30, 2026 +49
You sound like a real Stanley.
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TheGreatMalagan Mar 30, 2026 +48
As an adult I definitely relate the most to Stanley
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Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn Mar 30, 2026 +27
I often use the phrase "I've been dreaming about retirement since I was 18."
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +18
Stanley is so relatable.
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badboystwo Mar 30, 2026 +7
you got meatballllld!
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +11
> > TBF I always thought Michael seemed like a nightmare to work with. I mean yeah, that is the premise of the show lol
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oneteacherboi Mar 30, 2026 +7
It's the premise of the English Office maybe. The American Office really went out of their way to try and make Michael out to be a good guy at heart. The end of his arc on the show even had people saying he was the best boss they ever had.
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PaulFThumpkins Mar 30, 2026 +9
Jim is a jock bully who somehow, everybody bought as the oppressed everyman. Most of his problems are his own fault.
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Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn Mar 30, 2026 +19
> Now I can see how it would be annoying as f*** working with a guy like that who is always pranking people. I think it's a double-edged sword. Yeah, it'd be annoying. But, he works 2 feet away from someone most people would absolutely hate with utter passion if they had to work with Dwight. So Dwight does deserve a lot of the pranks against him by being a major pain in the ass. His boss isn't really a boss and gives little to no direction. And he stated numerous times how bored he is with his job hence he's dreaming up pranks in between sales.
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exintel Mar 30, 2026 +25
Ross and Rachel never really seemed happy together or good for each other. But the physical comedy in that show holds up
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +21
It really does. When I was younger I always found Ross to be the most boring character and enjoyed Chandler's quippyness. Now on rewatching I have *way* more respect for Schwimmer's consistently top tier physical comedy.
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straddyvarious Mar 31, 2026 +10
I still chuckle a bit imagining him on the floor hiding behind the couch silently mouthing "it's salmon!!!" when the call his shirt pink
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TVCasualtydotorg Mar 31, 2026 +4
Him trying to put his leather trousers back on is a masterpiece in physical comedy.
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tomtomvissers Mar 30, 2026 +12
Mad Men. Pete Campbell's arc hits totally different on a rewatch
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Chataboutgames Mar 30, 2026 +9
He's such an absolute piece of shit while also being the most decent character on the show in a lot of ways.
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lupatine Mar 30, 2026 +3
The fact he is one of the few character i  that show, who has enough self-awerness to change. Personnaly,  I understand more and more Betty choice to not fight her cancer.
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exintel Mar 30, 2026 +9
Rewatching the first episodes of good place to watch ‘Jianyu’ was fun
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apocalypschild Mar 30, 2026 +8
I rewatched House during the pandemic. Hadn’t seen the show since its original run on tv. I used to think House was cool and bad ass for being all contrarian and crass. Older me found him to be a total a****** and I’d punch him in the face too.
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Mysterious_Ant8200 Mar 30, 2026 +46
Skyler from Breaking Bad. First time watching I thought she was just getting in the way, but on a rewatch it’s kind of wild how reasonable she actually is given the situation. Like her entire life is falling apart and she’s reacting to objectively insane behavior from Walter White. Feels like the show frames you to side with him at first, but going back you notice how much she’s just trying to keep things from completely imploding.
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BrickPig Mar 30, 2026 +22
Northern Exposure was very easily one of our favorite shows when it was on the air. Re-watching it a year or so ago, I was struck by how wonderful Ed is. My original opinion of him was kind of neither here nor there, but the second time around he was by far my favorite character. It was also obvious on re-watch that Chris's character was all over the place; he's exactly as smart or as idiotic as the plot calls for him to be in any given episode. And finally, Joel and Maggie are possibly the two most tediously annoying leads I can ever remember in a show. I'm guessing this was somewhat masked by being aired only once a week back in the day, and obviously with breaks between seasons. But on a binge watch they're absolutely insufferable.
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estheredna Mar 30, 2026 +5
I watched this on a plane. It was an episode where Chris gets fired for saying Walt Whiman was gay, and gets his job back by apologizing for saying it. For reasons that are complex and ulimately compassion based but still......... I hadn't seen that show since I was a kid and it made me realize just how freaking long ago 1990 was.
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pinewind108 Mar 30, 2026 +4
100% I had great memories of trying to sneak in episodes of this without my parents knowing, and loving it. But now... I tried to rewatch it, and Joel and Maggie were just too annoying and selfish/immature (?). I couldn't even get through the first season. I'm not sure how this program survived the first time around.
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AtlJayhawk Mar 30, 2026 +13
Dawn from Buffy. The first few watches I found her so annoying. Now when I watch I understand her youth and situation much more. I love Dawn now. Xander from Buffy. I used to love him. But the older I get the more I realize he's so problematic.
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Alexispinpgh Mar 31, 2026 +4
I hated Xander the first time I watched Buffy (in my early 20s). At the time I got so much pushback from my friends who watched it much earlier than me. But as time has gone on and more of them rewatched at an older age, more and more of them have come to me and told me I was right.
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mrskeetskeeter Mar 30, 2026 +23
I tried to rewatch Xena and Hercules a few years ago but they were unwatchable. I was around for the first run, and I loved them, at the time they were among my most favorite shows so when they came to Amazon Prime a few years back, I thought I’d relive the magic. Big mistake, you can never go home again as they say. I got through about 3 episodes each, and had to ditch them. I will continue to remember them fondly in my memories though.
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hypo-osmotic Mar 30, 2026 +16
All disrespect to Kevin Sorbo in every other aspect of his life and career but the man was given some truly terrible material to work with and he and the rest of the cast were still somehow able to give much more serious performances than it probably deserved and I will give him at least that much respect. I love both shows but I love the original series of Star Trek, too; I've got a high tolerance for camp
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Cobra52 Mar 30, 2026 +16
Xena is a classic. Still watchable IMO. Its just extremely campy. 
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thewholebottle Mar 30, 2026 +22
When rewatching Xena, skip the first season except for the pilot and Is There a Doctor in the House. When rewatching Hercules--don't.
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asomek Mar 30, 2026 +13
The right amount of Sorbo is **no** Sorbo.
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cap616 Mar 30, 2026 +3
I skipped season 1 on my re-watch and got hooked again! A few filler episodes but mostly compelling. I think a lot of older shows need a "skip season 1 disclaimer" though
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Winston-Fucking-Wolf Mar 30, 2026 +7
Lucy Lawless as Xena was the first woman/character i remember having a legit crush on (aside from Daphne in Scooby-Doo). Now I'm a grown man and still ridiculously attracted to strong/tough women. Can do without the getup which was just fan service but still - that's my thing. Anyone from Brienne of Tarth to Miranda Priestly from the Devil wears Prada. Mmm.
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MatthewHecht Mar 30, 2026 +18
When I rewatched Sagwa I realized Tai-Tai is actually a good realistic wife. Shr has flaws that create many problems, but in most of the more dramatic episodes she is the most level headed who solves everything.
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ebelnap Mar 30, 2026 +17
A Sagwa mention in 2026?? Elite PBS ball knowledge
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celticeejit Mar 30, 2026 +19
Jim from the Office Complete d***** that destroyed an engagement As is JD from Scrubs that gaslit Elliott for years
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RepresentativeShop11 Mar 30, 2026 +6
Cosmo Kramer had it all figured out.
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Cleonce12 Mar 30, 2026 +4
Now that I rewatch Modern Family. Phil was a great dad but a terrible husband. Cam is lowkey insufferable
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Barnabas2109 Mar 31, 2026 +5
Worf. Excellent officer, exemplary Klingon. Horrible parent. I am aware that it's the way it was written on the 90s however the contrast between Worf's parenting and Sisko's is astounding.
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zowietremendously Mar 30, 2026 +12
Squidward
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StarWolf478 Mar 30, 2026 +10
Rewatching Breaking Bad after seeing Better Call Saul has put Saul Goodman in a whole new light.
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claudioo2 Mar 30, 2026 +12
Californication. I saw it as a teen and it was just Hank f****** 100 woman and being hilarious. You watch it later and realize it's a deeply flawed man trying to repair his relationship with his family.
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3Gilligans Mar 30, 2026 +10
A deeply flawed man that really didn't deserve a second, third and fourth chances. I think the show would have been better if he died at the end being tended to by the ER doc that continually warned him
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claudioo2 Mar 30, 2026 +3
I think an ambiguous ending would have been for the best. Like the end of season 6( or was it 5? I don't remember)
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AndNowAStoryAboutMe Mar 30, 2026 +7
I loved Pam. But then on my 4th or 5th rewatch, the line from Rashida Jones about how "Pam is kind of a b****" sunk in. I could never see her the same. Pam is the villain of The Office and she does it by pretending she's the victim. She has a sweet innocent act that'll covers some seriously cruel and terrible motives. She is not a good person. I found Raj pretty funny until I realized he IS the Indiana Jones in Raiders joke -- the entire show plays out exactly the same with or without him. He's an absolutely useless character. He never grows, he never finds love, and the worst thing he ever did, sleeping with Penny, is eventually revealed to be mostly untrue and Leonard and Penny could really care less. He has a few episodes that focus on him, but they aren't really worth mentioning as they do nothing to move things forward and every but of his character progression is both surface level and just writers getting bored. He only learns to talk to women because they added too many women to the cast and he would've sat around silent for most episodes. He just feels like a token to me now. They wanted to avoid the "too white" drama so they added an Indian to the cast and then did almost nothing with him. I like the actor and he does have funny lines but he's not necessary the way the others are.
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tetten Mar 30, 2026 +3
The sopranos, Tony is a d***
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foytizzle Mar 30, 2026 +3
Hank Hill, I understand him so much more as an adult
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Knight_thrasher Mar 30, 2026 +4
In watching Boy Meets World and Cory is an a******
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bettergetabucket Mar 30, 2026 +3
I always thought Cory was self-centered. I never understood the love for that show.
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Bulky_Razzmatazz_955 Mar 31, 2026 +4
I was always enamored with Topanga (am now a lesbian lol)
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DeliciousSpecific638 Mar 30, 2026 +4
Nancy Botwin from weeds. First time I watched I was young and thought she was a badass. Rewatched when I was older and realized she’s a shitty mom, makes terrible choices, and just is overall not a great person.
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Uvtha- Mar 31, 2026 +4
Having Lorelei Gilmore for mother or daughter... or friend or acquaintance would be an insufferable nightmare.
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thoughtsyrup Mar 30, 2026 +5
If Hal were played by literally anyone else in Malcolm in the Middle I would’ve loathed him. Bryan Cranston’s incredible performance is endearing even though he does some really fucked up shit. Almost every episode he forces Lois to take on the role of the bad guy so he can be a manic pixie. The episode where Lois breaks down because she never gets to be the fun parent is so heartbreaking. Then, there are times when Hal is literally abusive, like when he tampers with Lois’ food because he thinks that she’s more attractive when she’s heavier. I would’ve divorced him after discovering that he didn’t go to work every Friday! Imagine struggling to make ends meet given that they have limited time and money, and then your partner is lying to you, relaxing, and spending money you don’t have.
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RedRangerRedemption Mar 30, 2026 +3
Hawkeye and Trapper in the beginning is MASH were loathsome and today would be unacceptable. Even after Trapper left and BJ showed up Hawkeye corrupted him quickly and got him to revert to his immature self. He constantly bullied people and trampled over frank and later Charles to get what he wants. Frank just wanted order and military discipline in an army base and Hawkeye was a fountain of mischief and mayhem.
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DebraBaetty Mar 30, 2026 +3
Michael Scott. The guy really doesn't know any better and is able to swallow any semblance of pride to right his wrongs. All of his actions are fueled by his desperation to be seen as a good person. When the people he cares about (his employees) confront him with the truth of his shitty behavior in a way he can understand, he corrects. I wish more people in this world could be like Michael Scott.
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Fourberry Mar 30, 2026 +3
I recently rediscovered Eerie, Indiana. I watched it on its first run in 1991, was about the same age as the main character. Watching it again as an adult? Yeah, why were none of those adults the least bit curious about the weirdness? The reboot from 1998 didn't have quite the same magic to it, but was still good. (both free on Tubi right now, by the way)
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Thecameralovesyou Mar 31, 2026 +3
Gilmore girls. When I first watched it as a young 20 something I totally sympathized with Rory at times and saw it as a really back and forth on who was in the wrong in any of her arguments with her mom and they were usually both at fault. Now as a 40 something, I can’t stand Rory and fhink most of the negative situations on that show happen because of her bad choices.
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Kokeshi_Is_Life Mar 31, 2026 +3
Barney Stinson might be the worst aged character of the 2010's How i met your other ending right before Me Too cast a pretty revealing light on the way the real Barney's of the world operate with impunity kind of kills the gag.
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Different_Ear_5380 Mar 31, 2026 +3
Rewatching Sex and the City these decades later was an eye opener. Oh how our culture has grown and changed. The desperation of these women, even Samantha, to have a man at the center of their lives, is truly a reflection of who we were at that point in history. The importance of being skinny, of being fashionable, having things, being seen and partying all night. Maybe those things lost meaning because I got older, but I think they lost meaning for the world as a whole.
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AtheneSchmidt Mar 31, 2026 +3
Chandler just gets funnier upon every rewatch.
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