Which tv characters were so bad they ruined shows for you.

[EachandEveryone]

Inspired by the article in today’s Guardian the comments are quite good as there’s so
many.

mine would be the Moon family but not Daphne.

i can’t even speak about Che

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/04/from-emily-in-friends-to-che-diaz-the-tv-characters-so-bad-that-they-ruined-shows

My DD has recently discovered the Big Bang Theory on Disney Plus and has been binging it. The Sheldon character is so annoying, self centred and condescending.

I hated Skyler in Breaking Bad

Mrs Brown, well everyone in Mrs Brown's Boys.

Daphne’s brother Simon was the worst. He won an award for that role!!

Definitely Beth in Yellowstone!!!!! She is literally the worst TV character of all time for me! Made it completely unwatchable, especially as everyone seemed to pander to her (except poor Jamie)

Scrappy Doo

If AJLT hadn't been so dire with every single character, then the abominable Che.
What were they thinking? (the producers, not Che)

I loved Beth, she had some great lines. The worst character in Yellowstone was Taylor Sheridan's character in season 5. Awful.

Che was so, so bad.

In fact the new Miranda was awful as well.

Denny Crane in Boston Legal, only discovered the series recently and I know he’s meant to be awful, but he ruins it for me. Alan Shore runs him a close second. Shame, because normally I’d watch James Spader in anything.

Scrappy Doo. Annoying little shit

She's very annoying, thinking she's sexy and hot, but she just looks like riff-raff from shameless!

The woman with loose curls in person of interest. Amy hacker. Thinks she is so great and the way she talks makes my skin crawl.

EachandEveryone Mind would be the Moon Family but Daphne.

I would agree re: The Moons but Daphne after she got with Niles was awful. Obviously Daphne was going to be the character that was going to evolve more but she was awful after she and Niles got together and the writers didn’t know what to do with her.

The entire cast of Friends.

Nooo

The series definitely didn't age well, but I loved those characters (except Monica!)

I could have coped with him if he had had a northern accent. All of her brothers had different accents from one another.

The character Thandie Newton played in ER. Not only ruined the programme for me but I’ve never been able to watch her in anything since.

Agree Beth on Yellowstone! She was ridiculous. No one acts like that in real life. I don't understand how Rip put up with her.

I mean, the entirety of Yellowstone was ridiculous, tbf

I can’t remember scrappy doo!! Maybe I had grown out of it by then? What year are we talking?

Oh YES! She was absolutely insufferable. I too can’t stand her in anything else, even though I can see she isn’t awful in other things. I am rewatching ER and dreading her popping up.

Frank Spencer and all other characters in TV shows where male weaponised incompetence is supposed to be hilarious. Just gives me the absolute rage.
Ross from Friends.
Carrie from SATC (OMG so bloody wet with getting hung up on that bloody twat for ever)

Aiden Gillen in everything he's in. Game of Thrones and I can't remember the other one (not Skins, didn't watch that)

Long time ago but Declan (I think) in 2.4 Children. I loved the show and loved that the children were old enough to be left alone/doing other stuff so the parents could have their own stories. However, after Jenny went to uni it was probably time to end it, instead of introducing a child that was younger than the original children when it first started.