Beloved TV characters that are actually really annoying
Since corona, I’ve really become Chef Rewatch, I believe. Because just like everyone else, I’ve been home much more than before, and that meant in my case that I spent a lot of quality time with my TV. At one point, I had finished the new series, so I started rewatching old ones that I already knew. And to be honest: that was with varying success. A series like Friends and Frasier I can really watch countless times, but with other series, I find myself getting a little annoyed with certain characters. How could I tolerate these people before? is a thought that often haunted my mind. Because let’s be honest: the characters below are actually just really annoying?
1. Ted Mosby — How I Met Your Mother
Well, I actually found him a bit annoying the first time I watched this series, but when I rewatched it, that ‘bit‘ quickly became ’intensely bad‘. Ted Mosby is just a jerk. First of all, making your kids listen to a pointless story for so long that boils down to their mother being dead, but you were actually always in love with Aunt Robin (argh, I still haven't fully processed that ending). Besides, he thinks of himself as a hopeless romantic and justifies everything with that, but in the meantime, he’s such an egoist because he dumps a girl on her birthday twice (the same girl too), he never accepts a ’no‘, and cheated on one of his few nice girlfriends (Victoria) after he had convinced her to start a long-distance relationship. Blugh.
2. Piper Chapman — Orange Is The New Black
Pfff, I found her so exhausting in the later seasons. Arrogant, know-it-all, privileged (which she doesn’t realize), and the worst part: the ability to be completely unaware when she’s not doing well. Everything was just justified, and it went in the most bizarre directions. Affairs with Alex were fine, but as soon as her ex ran off with someone else, it was a nightmare. Luckily, the later seasons focused less on her. As far as I’m concerned, she’s the least of all the characters in this entire series.
3. Rory Gilmore — Gilmore Girls
Actress Alexis Bledel herself has also said that she’s a bit disappointed in her character Rory. This was about the reboot, in which Rory tells her mother Lorelai at the end that she’s pregnant. After having an affair with a married man, she expects everything to just come to her in terms of work, but in the end, she doesn’t achieve much. In the series, she was an ambitious student who lost her virginity to a married guy. When things got tough, she decided to steal a yacht with her boyfriend, fled to Europe because of her mother, and oh yes, in that reboot, she also constantly forgot that she herself was in a relationship. Pfff.
4. Ezra Fitz — Pretty Little Liars
Now I find Pretty Little Liars quite problematic anyway, and it went from bad to worse, but if I have to choose someone… then Ezra is the worst. Starting a relationship with a minor student, who later turned out to know that she was his student and that she was underage? Biiiiiig no no.
5. Chuck Bass — Gossip Girl
Well, the writers did try to tone him down a bit because he was so beloved by viewers, and to be honest: I like Chuck Bass too. But he is quite problematic. Pushing himself onto Serena, onto Jenny; it wasn’t the best start for him. Not to mention his relationship with Blair. Funny how many viewers think those two are the ultimate endgame, while they were so mean to each other and absolutely not good for one another.
6. Ross Geller — Friends
I don’t completely agree with this, but the internet is full of articles about why Ross is so toxic. That he says the wrong name at the altar, that he doesn’t seem to care much in the later seasons that he hardly sees his son, all the lame jokes about lesbians… Well, that’s all true of course, but I actually like Ross. Or does that make me problematic too?
