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Can't take TV shows seriously any more because characters are too good-looking!

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  • #32
    FurQyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭FurQyou


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    On an only tangentially related note, I've always wondered how they cast for obviously unsavoury roles. Do agents ring their clients and say "We have a role for a fatty with a face only a mother could love. I immediately thought of you"? Work is work and all, but that must be awkward.

    Naw they just call Gerard Depardieu.


  • #33
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Don Drapers wife is the main reason I watch Mad Men.

    Total hottie


  • #34
    RainMaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭RainMaker


    I thought Deadwood had a pretty realistic looking bunch of characters, I'd agree with Game of Thrones as well.

    Way too many shows where guys, no matter what the part look like they should be out on a rugby pitch and girls look like they've just missed out on the cover of Vogue or something.

    The film "A Beautiful Mind" was one of the first places I noticed it really - obsessed, schizophrenic maths professor who looked like he spent all his time bench pressing piles of maths books instead of reading them.

    https://capescoaching.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/abm.png


    It just would have seemed more realistic if he was a bit more scrawny - think some of Christian Bale's characters


  • #35
    Eggy Baby!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Eggy Baby!


    A few more offenders:

    The new Dallas tv series is DEFINITELY one. How am I supposed to care for all of these ridiculously good looking rich brats and their bull**** concerns?

    The original Dallas had some fairly good looking people on it, but they weren't all exactly models.

    The Following is another.


  • #36
    riclad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    THATS the difference between us tv and uk, tv,
    on us tv most of the cast has to be good looking ,
    plenty of ordinary, even plain actors on british tv.
    I dont think you are allowed to be a under 30 year old character on an australian soap opera unless you are a handsome, or good looking man or woman.

    I Think its worse now , with all the us channels,competing for ratings .
    in american
    soap opera ,s, crime drama,s its looks as if most people in america are models,
    ugly people on american tv, are usually crinimals, drug addicts etc
    years, ago there was programs like roseanne which had ordinary looking people in the cast.

    YEAH the new dallas is a good example,
    the cast looks like they picked out 10 people who look sexy.
    THE old cast looked like a real american family,
    not all super good looking.
    Comedys are better as they have more character actors who vary on the scale of attractiveness.


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  • #37
    kupus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    Boskowski wrote: »
    I agree. Not watching many of the fringe TV series but every time I zap into something like a hospital or legal or even some crime stuff series they all look perfect.
    I'm looking at a stunner max 25 years of age perfectly groomed and styled and she does this hardnosed court room bataillant putting every one in their place with her great wisdom on how to play all sorts of characters and I'm thinking 'how convincing...'
    Right off I know this is provably a cr@p program and I'm gone.


    Im trying to watch arrow, but the looks of all the actors are really putting it off for me.
    Every one of them looks like kids that have been wrapped up in cotton wool to protect their beautiful features since childbirth.
    Its annoying. As i was really looking forward to that show. But the age of the main actors, their looks, their profiles, everything about that show sucks.

    But then everything that comes out of the WB/CW channels are kids acting as adults and trying to save the day and looking good while doing it.


  • #38
    batistuta9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,707 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Don Drapers wife is the main reason I watch Mad Men.

    Total hottie

    she's the only reason i watched hot tub time machine again :pac:


  • #39
    ardle1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,521 ✭✭✭ardle1


    Ha ha, I have to agree with you, even on the Crime Channel on Sky, they might show this reenactment off some murder or series off murders, all these good-looking victims and criminals.... Am thinking 'awh how could he chop that gorgeous chick up'!:D


  • #40
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    I'm a fan of Vikings but I think they are guilty of this as well, the women look like they have just come out of the beauty salon instead of living in the 10th century.

    Spartacus was the same.


  • #41
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Another thing is the teeth.

    Look at Nidge from Love/Hate. His teeth are perfect. Did you ever see a scummer in a tracksuit with teeth like that?

    I know, poor aul Fran is a different story. :pac:


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  • #42
    Steppenwolfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Steppenwolfe


    Why else would anyone watch drivel like home and away? All those 20 something models dressed up in school uniforms. Just switch the sound off and enjoy. :cool:


  • #43
    Sunglasses Ron
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭Sunglasses Ron


    turnikett1 wrote: »
    I agree. One reason why I loved The Wire so much was because there wasn't any "hot" people in it. Just normal guys and gals. Although Rhonda was pretty hot.

    There weren't even more than three female prominent characters in the show to measure off anyway (I don't think you could count Snoop as a female character for a start :pac: )

    The stripper who ended up shacking up with the old nerdy model building detective* was pretty hot mind.



    *: another reason I have to roll my eyes a bit when people comment on the "realism" of The Wire ;)


  • #44
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Deleted User wrote: »
    oh god home ad away is the biggest offender i don't watch it but my mother does

    everyone on that show from age 17-40 all have six packs & and the women are so skinny always in bikini

    that show doesnt have any black characters or gay people
    orangesoda wrote: »
    It doesn't have any black people but it does have Aboriginals sometimes,

    How many abordigenals do you see modelling?
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    .
    .


  • #45
    calanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭calanus


    In fairness, the historical fiction shows like Spartacus are more comic book in style. Everyone who dies in the show appears to have 20 liters of blood in them at least.


  • #46
    Ann Landers
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    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    On an only tangentially related note, I've always wondered how they cast for obviously unsavoury roles.

    Me too, me too! :D

    "Hey, so we need an actor with a huge nose. It'll be referenced in the show A LOT. Got any suitable people on your books?"


  • #47
    Ann Landers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Ann Landers


    byronbay2 wrote: »
    Check out Charlize Theron in "Monster" - how on earth did they even think to offer her that role!!

    From this:
    https://www.google.ie/search?q=charlize+theron&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Vp5OU-qqHoaS7QbSjIGgDA&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=681

    To this:
    https://www.google.ie/search?biw=1366&bih=681&tbm=isch&q=charlize+theron+monster&revid=2116251663

    Blatant uglifying Oscar bait.


  • #48
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,299 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Steppenwolfe wrote: »
    Why else would anyone watch drivel like home and away? All those 20 something models dressed up in school uniforms. Just switch the sound off and enjoy. :cool:

    Eh, that's watching..... :confused:


  • #49
    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,363 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The acting in Home and Away is the best you will see on any show.


    And their good looking too.


    Jealous. You're all jealous.


  • #50
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I watched a few episodes of this new tweenie thing called 'the 100' last week. It's hysterical. It's about a bunch of hot teenagers returned to an earth filled with radiation. The place is in bits and they're all pouting around looking disco ready. They grew up on gruel in a spaceship and you have never seen a more sun kissed, glossy haired bunch of gym bunnies in your life. Instead of saving humanity they are all flexing their pecs and wearing the faces off each other. There is a girl who lived under the floor for 16 years, she's a favourite. Instead of looking like a feral kid from 'mama' she could be on the cover of Cosmo. It's nearly brilliant it's so ridiculous.


  • #51
    Agent Smith
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,505 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    He was more a neighbours fan. The neighbours being Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland...

    Thats why good neigbours... become best friends....
    *Mean Sax Solo*


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  • #52
    Steppenwolfe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Steppenwolfe


    Zebra3 wrote: »
    Eh, that's watching..... :confused:

    The first two words in my post are the key to your puzzlement.


  • #53
    allibastor
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    if you don't like good looking actors, watch Fair city, or republic of telly.


  • #54
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,288 ✭✭✭✭Eoin


    Ann Landers wrote: »
    Me too, me too! :D

    "Hey, so we need an actor with a huge nose. It'll be referenced in the show A LOT. Got any suitable people on your books?"

    There are agencies specifically for hiring ugly people!


  • #55
    check_six
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    Eoin wrote: »
    There are agencies specifically for hiring ugly people!

    In fact I'd say there is a solid career to be made from taking advantage of an unconventional visage. Check out Michael Berryman, Robert Z'Dar, or Rondo Hatton. All would fall short of a traditional beauty aesthetic, but have appeared in plenty of movies based on their unique look.


  • #56
    saabsaab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,187 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    You are right. Definite trend to glamorize tv in america. Even Ugly Betty - the main lead was anything but - tried to dress her down to fit..:o


  • #57
    razorblunt
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    Coggles wrote: »
    The Vampire Diaries (yes, I know it isn't exactly ground-breaking) is the worst offender for this, definitely. I actually cannot think of one average looking person in the show!

    Anne Paquin would do well to get the score in village disco in fairness.


  • #58
    Eggy Baby!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Eggy Baby!


    check_six wrote: »
    In fact I'd say there is a solid career to be made from taking advantage of an unconventional visage. Check out Michael Berryman, Robert Z'Dar, or Rondo Hatton. All would fall short of a traditional beauty aesthetic, but have appeared in plenty of movies based on their unique look.

    And John Candy was obese and yet people loved him as an actor. I think people who are either overweight or have funny faces just do well in comedies, just look at Adam Sandler or that guy from King of Queens.


  • #59
    mike65
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    And another thing, does every actor in America under the age of about 30 have a high pitch camp squeaky voice? It seems like it at times.


  • #60
    Da Shins Kelly
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    Eggy Baby! wrote: »
    I like Game of Thrones so much because a lot of the actors and actresses genuinely look like people plucked off the street. It allows you to concentrate on the drama rather than thinking "did this person get their job because they were photogenic instead of their acting ability?"

    I dunno, man. A few rough looking people in Game of Thrones, but also some incredibly attractive people too. The dudes that play Jon Snow, Robb Stark, Jamie Lannister and Gendry are all straight up rides. The dragon lady is stunning, as is Cersei.


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  • #61
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Da Shins Kelly wrote: »
    I dunno, man. A few rough looking people in Game of Thrones, but also some incredibly attractive people too. The dudes that play Jon Snow, Robb Stark, Jamie Lannister and Gendry are all straight up rides. The dragon lady is stunning, as is Cersei.

    What. No mention of Tyrion? Heightist!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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