Ever rewatched a series and realised you dislike a character?

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Maybe a character you liked originally or were indifferent to? I'm rewatching Dexter and, omfg, Debra is so damn annoying and pathetic, not to mention bad at her job!

Just what I was going to say

Original. I loved her and thought she was warm and motherly when first watched it as a child. But as an adult, I realised she was quite rude to people, and her parenting wasn't great at times.

Gillian in Last Tango in Halifax. She’s annoying as hell.

I'll have to rewatch it. I remember losing all sympathy with him in that scene (trying not to do a spoiler) with Jesse's girlfriend when he is by her bedside. But I'd love to see it again, knowing what happens, to spot how awful he is from the start.

There’s an Instagram account called “Early Years Home and Away” that features a video of Ben Lucini (Julian McMahon’s character and Pippa’s son-in-law). It’s called “Unintentional Villain?” He was portrayed at the time as a bit pig-headed, but basically decent and hardworking. Carly (his wife) was portrayed as a silly young girl who needed to grow up, realise she was married now and listen to the good sense her husband was talking. Yet when you watch the video, he comes across as really controlling and gaslighting; you see Carly trying to explain, but being dismissed.

Have you ever seen Age Before Beauty by the same writer (Debbie Horsfield)? Made about 10 - 15 years later, the plot and setting are incredibly similar - only it’s nowhere near as good. I wonder if I’d find Cutting It had aged poorly if I watched it again.

JD in Scrubs. He is a whiny, ridiculous man child. If I was Dr Cox I would have snapped and strangled him after 8 years of the puppy dog eyes and constant need for validation.

Yes!!! Derek is an arse and Meredith is a self obsessed whinge bag! Alex though is actually (mostly) quite lovely even though he’s portrayed as “evil spawn and we’re all supposed to hate him in the early seasons.

So many characters I love(d) have been mentioned on this thread. I need to make a list of shows not to rewatch! 😂

@BeMintBee I thought we were supposed to think that about Piper. She was kind of there to act as a foil against the other characters, a middle class, white woman who got pretty lightly for her crime compared to others (e.g Poussay )for her crime but still feels she’s the victim of it all. I don’t think I’ll be able to rewatch OINTNB especially the last season heartbreaking.

Derek Shepherd. DM rewatched greys all the time and I have to leave her house as soon as she puts it on, he really really rubs me the wrong way.

Definitely agree with Lorelei (spoilt brat) and Carrie (vacuous).

And Melinda's son in series 5 of Ghost Whisperer. I don't watch series 5 if I ever rewatch it.

Currently rewatching Call the Midwife and don't find any characters too annoying, but something is bugging me: there's a couple of episodes in about series 5 or 6 where there's SO MUCH BLUE!! The walls are blue. Nearly all the women are wearing blue dresses (apart from the midwives, obviously, whose uniforms are always blue). Curtains are blue. Cushions are blue. WHY???

@SpiggingBelgium I've just had a google and it's ringing a bell - there was actually a part I was waiting for in Cutting it that didn't happen, I wonder if it happens in age before beauty and I've misremembered??
Will have to watch!

Rory became gradually obnoxious, I agree, with the peak being that last season they made a couple of years ago 😱 I put it to being raised by her mother, though 😆

@SpiggingBelgium Absolutely. I have noticed so much wrong with 80s/90s Home & Away watching it through the eyes of an adult now in 2024.

The Duckworths in Classic Corrie. Good acting and chemistry but a toxic couple, with Jack having very little respect for his wife. He’s idle, he wastes money, and he has been unfaithful. And he makes unkind public jokes about her appearance and sex appeal despite being an overweight slob in a grubby vest.

That's niche 😀

Agree with Walt from breaking bad. Another one that comes to mind, I’m not sure if anyone here has seen it as I’ve never heard anyone in real life talk about it, but Californication. I watched it for a third time last year and really couldn’t stand Karen. I couldn’t believer that I ever watched it and liked her in the past

Really?? I won't rewatch it, then 🤫

@MonCoeur I agree with you! And he’s awful to Scully at times! Shouting her down or dumping her without a word! Still love him but still! She deserved a medal!

A film rather than a series, but Elsa in Frozen is a complete bitch

I always hated Carrie and Allie McBeal. Awful self-absorbed vacuous characters that made professional women out to be so shallow and vain.

I’m with you on this. I’m totally on Emily‘s side now

Surely the other 2 male characters are worse. Ross is kinda victim like

Im rewatching ghost whisperer, I think I’m on series 2 or 3.

I didn’t notice the first time around but she spends most of it not wearing a bra with her large breasts in very low cut outfits with thin straps, even at events like funerals where it’s noticeable in comparison to every other person who has dressed more conservatively.
I actually like a lot of her characters clothes except that particular element.

I’m not a judgmental person generally and I didn’t notice it the first time around but I spend a big chunk of time watching her thinking put a bra on, that dress/top really would look better if you were more supported or at least put a cardi over that!

I feel bad even thinking it but it really is so noticeable and distracting when everyone else around her are dressed normally.

Another vote for Rory Gilmore! I never did like Lorelei. Derek and Arizona from Greys, but on the flip side I liked April a lot more on the rewatch