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a day ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
53 Awful TV Protagonists Who Should've Been Written Off
A while back, Reddit user u/Competitive_Owl7085 asked, "Who was the most unlikable main character of a TV show?" and people had a lotttt of thoughts. Here are main characters people wished would just straight-up leave the show — along with some more submissions from the BuzzFeed Community! Emily from Emily in Paris "Emily is probably the most Mary Sue character (i.e., unrealistically perfect) I have ever seen. I hate that trope so much, but the show is so absurd it's my guilty pleasure, and I can't stop watching it. I like her coworkers a lot better than I like her. Especially Luc; he is hilarious."—Naraniel Rick from The Walking Dead Jess from New Girl Ginny from Ginny and Georgia Galadrial from Rings of Power Marissa from The O.C. "I had to stop watching The O.C. because of Marissa. She was so annoying and pathetic."—catieferrarer Frankie from Grace & Frankie "She was just awful and got worse with each passing season. ... I was rolling my eyes whenever she came onscreen."—ej16"I loved earlier Frankie, then something changed and became very annoying, which sucked as Lily Tomlin's awesome. :( "—oliviajay_ Fiona from Shameless Barry from The Flash "He was constantly mucking things up and was self-absorbed."—Lilacfox Temperance Brennan from Bones "She's the most condescending, self-absorbed character amongst gems. I don't know how or why everyone caters to her temperament."—effintigre And Booth from Bones "Booth was the character I couldn't stand. He was judgmental, disrespectful, and sometimes intolerant. He didn't seem to take seriously most people who were younger than him (Sweets), smarter than him (the Jeffersonian team), or who had a different perspective or point of view."—geekybibliophile Olivia Pope from Scandal "I loved her at first and then got soooo tired of the constant bullshit with Fitz."—paperdecker12"When he went to war for her...🙄🙄🙄"—thaliaslaugh"Yeah, I stopped watching because the Olitz stuff was insufferable."—skilletgirl81 Olivia Benson from Law & Order: SVU Frasier from Frasier "It's one of my favorite shows, but he's a narcissistic, gaslighting windbag. It's no wonder he's always alone. Here's the thing: In my opinion, the series is way more about Niles and the other characters' arcs than it is about Frasier, which is fine by me. Frasier is insufferable."—Bella La Ghostly Mike Wheeler from Stranger Things Hughie from The Boys "Hughie in The Boys became a whiny asshole in Season 3, and I can't stand him anymore."—[deleted] Rory from Gilmore Girls... ...And also Lorelai Elizabeth from The Blacklist Elena from The Vampire Diaries Hannah From Girls Rachel from Glee... ...and also Will from Glee Piper from Orange Is the New Black June from The Handmaid's Tale Nancy from Weeds Sabrina from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Carrie from Sex and the City Actually, from SATC. "SATC was projected as female friendship and empowerment, but they are all awful to each other and everyone they date. It's written as if everyone else they date is the problem. He was bi, he had a small penis, she was a lesbian, he used sex talk, my ex married someone else. There were never really any moments of self-awareness."—joehoover3 Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory Raymond from Everybody Loves Raymond Alan from Two and a Half Men House from House M.D. Tori from Victorious Meredith from Grey's Anatomy Jack from Lost Dawson from Dawson's Creek Eric from That '70s Show Amy from Superstore Ross from Friends ...Actually, make that ALL the Friends "Most of the characters in Friends aren't very nice people. If you can't see the flaws in both Ross and Rachel, maybe you will in another 10 years. Then there's Joey with his piggish and sometimes sexist behaviour, and Phoebe with her increasing abrasiveness. Chandler is oddly rude at times, and his lying about smoking is always a bit off-putting, but he and Monica seem the best of the bunch to me."—cakecheese"All the main characters in Friends are absolutely terrible people. I will die on this hill. In It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the gang is meant to be absolutely awful people. The six main characters in Friends are meant to be nice and the kind of people you'd want to hang around with. I wouldn't want to know any of would run out of Central Perk if I saw any of them coming in."—copperghoul948 Shawn from Psych Kevin from Kevin Can Wait J.D. from Scrubs Both Claire and Jamie from Outlander "I hate Claire and Jamie from Outlander. She is hard, smug, and entitled, and he is such a meathead who is inexplicably worshipped by everyone they encounter. Terrible."—lexiv Michael from The Office "Michael Scott is one of the worst characters in television history. Absolutely insufferable, with almost zero redeeming factors."—palimpsest00"Michael Scott does not have one redeeming quality. He is an immature jerk with zero social skills and a totally inappropriate sense of humor."—sidneykaler "Steve Carell has said he wouldn't work today, and he's not wrong. Michael has an immaturity to him, such as turning off the power because he's not the center of attention. When he gets called out for not being safe in the warehouse, he ends up organizing a fake suicide jump so people will pay attention to him. Then there's his bullying of Toby, who is targeted for doing his job. Michael should have been demoted or fired many times over."—jbmasta And also, essentially the lead after Michael left, Jim "Jim is arguably the main character in The suppised to be the romantic and also the normal guy whose above it all, but hes actually just a jerk who thumbs his nose at the weirdos and makes important life decisions that concern his wife without telling her, and them acts all sheepish when she calls him out on it. He's supposed to be the character you root for, but I deliberately root against him."—devilthedankdawg"Besides the fact that he interfered with a coworker's engagement and helped break up the couple, he was a complete dick to Dwight. Every prank and practical joke was uncalled for. He instigated everything, and Dwight never retaliated."—[deleted] Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell Ted from How I Met Your Mother Gilligan from Gilligan's Island Even as a 10 year old kid, I wanted to kick this main character's ass for just constamtly fucking up the chance for sux other castaways to get off an island in some way every week. Some time in the afterlife, we will meet, and I will have my revenge. Mark my Clarke from The 100 Ellie Miller from Broadchurch Skye from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Now, it's your turn — what TV show or movie main characters do you find insufferable? Let us know in the comments!
Cosmopolitan
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
10 Iconic Sex Scenes From ‘Sex and the City'
For a show with 'sex' right there in the title, I think it's fair to say that Sex and the City isn't really all that sexy in the sense of being, like, sexually arousing. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of sex happening—but it often tends to be happening more as a plot point to give the gals something to chat about at brunch in the next scene than to make the viewers reach for our vibrators. And while we do hear about Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and (especially) Samantha having great sex, a lot of the the sex we actually see on screen usually feels more comedic than erotic, like when Samantha blows the guy with the 'funky spunk,' Miranda tries to dodge a man's incredibly unsubtle invitation to eat his ass, or some guy literally falls asleep during sex with Charlotte. Basically, I'd argue that Sex and the City is a show that's less about actually having sex than it is about rehashing the dirty and/or unhinged details with your friends (or in your column). Which is to say that, while SATC boasts a fair amount of nudity (a kind of shocking amount, even, if you, like me, grew up watching the heavily censored reruns on cable and have only recently been exposed to the full-fledged level of tits and ass on display now that the show's in its streaming era), it's no Bridgerton in terms of actual steaminess. In other words, I'm pretty sure no one's watching Sex and the City for the sex scenes themselves. But while most of Sex and the City's sex scenes may not be all that horny, many of them are—like the show itself—iconic. Below, a roundup of some of the most memorable sex scenes to grace the series. (And by the series I mean the original six season run, because I refuse to acknowledge the humiliation ritual that is And Just Like That…, thank you very much). Known, of course, as 'the sex swing episode,' this season 3 gem features Samantha bumping into her male counterpart—a man known throughout the city for his prolific sex life. Back at his place, he asks Samantha if she 'swings,' revealing his very own in-home sex swing. But before they can get to it, he asks Samantha another important pre-sex question: 'When were you last tested?' So for the sake of the swing, Samantha gets her very first STI exam, and the episode ends with a very acrobatic sex sesh in the swing—which looks to me like something that requires more core strength than I'm personally looking to deploy during sex, but they seem to be having a good time! Honestly, shoutout to this episode for raising awareness re: the importance of regular STI screening and having open conversations about it with sexual partners, no matter how casual. And on a completely unrelated note, I also feel compelled to give this episode another shoutout for being the one where Miranda falls in love with a sandwich. A truly unhinged masterpiece. In what I believe is the show's only instance of rim job representation, Miranda hooks up with a hot guy from her run club (SATC, eternally ahead of its time, knew run clubs were the new dating apps before dating apps existed) and is surprised when he licks her asshole during a sweaty post-run sex sesh. Recapping the event over lunch with the crew, Miranda remains confused but curious, Carrie is weirdly scandalized, Samantha is predictably here for it, and we find out Charlotte is secretly a big-time rim job queen—which, love that for her. Aside from Charlotte, however, the consensus seems to be that while it's fine to receive a little rimming, they'd never toss a man's salad in return (one of the show's many paradoxically prudish takes that haven't aged particularly well). The next time Miranda hooks up with her marathon man, she offers him a post-sex massage, which he seems to interpret as an opportunity to get a rim job of his own. In an image that is permanently burned into my brain, he proceeds to not at all subtly raise his butt, wiggling it in Miranda's face until she screams, 'I don't wanna do that!' He replies, 'Well, why didn't you just say you weren't interested?' Which, fair point. But frankly, I think there were some pretty big communication failures involved in this one all around. The lesson is, if you want to lick someone's ass (or want them to lick yours), you should always ask first! Use your words, friends! Charlotte is having tasteful missionary sex with her latest fling when, mid-orgasm, he yells, 'You fucking bitch, you fucking whore,' before collapsing on top of her in a post-coital heap. Naturally, this disturbs Charlotte, who attempts to bring it up delicately on their next date, only to find that her otherwise seemingly perfect gentleman of a lover has no recollection of his outburst. She decides to move past it, but that night during sex, he breaks into the same mid-orgasm refrain. While there's nothing wrong with a little consensual degradation during dirty talk, this is…not that. Carrie is forced to spend time with Aidan, her boyfriend who she obviously doesn't like, at his country cabin upstate, which she likes even less. She makes Samantha go with her to share in her misery, I guess, and for some reason Samantha agrees. Naturally, Sam hates it too, but she finds a perfect way to pass the time: fucking the hot farmer next door. After some suggestive cow-milking foreplay that ends with Samantha getting a milk facial, the two go for a literal roll in the hay, featuring an enthusiastic (and loud) performance by Samantha on top. Threesomes do not fare well in this show, but that doesn't stop these gals from trying! First up, surprisingly enough, is Charlotte. After the man she's dating floats the idea of sex with a third, Charlotte has a steamy sex dream where she joins her man and another woman in bed. Unfortunately, the reality does not live up to her fantasy. At a party, Charlotte and her fling slip away to hook up in an upstairs bedroom, where a woman they'd made eyes at downstairs joins them. Unfortunately, Charlotte is swiftly nudged out of her own threesome and ends up leaving while her date—the one who wanted to have a threesome in the first place!—hooks up with this random woman alone. In the show's next attempt at a threeway, Samantha's gay friends decide they'd like to have a threesome with a woman and think Samantha is the perfect one for the job. She enthusiastically accepts, but shortly after they all climb into bed together and the foreplay commences, her queer almost-lovers decide they just can't go through with it. C'est la vie! The next time Samantha attempts a threesome, it's with her boss turned cheating boyfriend, Richard. For his birthday, he asks for a threesome with the hot, much younger waitress at one of their favorite restaurants, and Samantha agrees for one of the worst possible reasons you can agree to have a threesome: because she's afraid Richard will cheat on her otherwise. Hate this for her! Anyway, Samantha organizes the threesome, which naturally turns into a tense situation where she and the waitress are basically fighting for Richard's attention the entire time. Being a sleazeball, Richard naturally loves the ego boost of two naked women fighting over him in bed, but things take a turn when the guest star calls him 'Daddy,' which he apparently finds so offensive he tells Samantha to, 'get rid of her.' Samantha obliges by literally pushing this woman out of bed and onto the floor, all of which is actually so insane. Obviously, we're meant to be rooting for Samantha in this situation, but she invited this poor woman to have a threesome with her boyfriend and then they both treated her terribly. Not cool! The first night Samantha bones the man she later renames Smith Jerod, she waits out a horde of other horny women at the restaurant where he waits tables for the prize of bringing him home. (I am a little concerned that this man was being sexually pursued so aggressively in his place of work, but I guess he was fine with it?) She wins and they enjoy a marathon sex sesh, featuring sex in multiple positions and on multiple surfaces! Thanks to an infamous no-nudity clause in Sarah Jessica Parker's contract, Carrie's sex scenes tend to be pretty demure. While this one is no exception in terms of actual explicitness, I'd argue it's one of the most emotionally intense sex scenes of the entire series. Carrie gets a room at a nearby hotel to avoid Aidan (her boyfriend who, once again, she obviously doesn't like) and Big, desperate to get back together with her even though he's married, follows her there. She attempts to get rid of him, only for him to follow her into the elevator, push her against the wall and make out with her. After initially protesting, Carrie gives in and whispers, 'fuck me' in his ear. Cut to the two of them upstairs under the sheets, where they share a postcoital cigarette in a seductive manner. Listen, I'm not here to condone cheating or smoking, but I'm afraid this is the hottest sex scene in the show and it's literally my job to call it like I see it. Again, Carrie's sex scenes are pretty tame, but I still have to give a shoutout to this season one encounter that set the tone for the whole series. Carrie decides to 'have sex like a man,' by which she means casually, selfishly, and with no strings. She decides to try it out on an ex-boyfriend she meets up with for a midday hookup. He goes down on her and, rather than reciprocate, she just takes her orgasm and leaves—like a man! While I don't know that being an intentionally selfish lover is the flex the show makes it out to be, this was peak feminism for the time!
Yahoo
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Sarah Jessica Parker Made a Major Change to 'Sex and the City' Because of Husband Matthew Broderick
Fans of Sex and the City know that the show went through some major changes over the years. In season 1, for instance, strangers on the street gave their takes on Carrie's (Sarah Jessica Parker) most burning questions. And, as it turns out, there was another aspect of the show that Parker herself vetoed early on. In a recent episode of Kristin Davis' podcast, Are You a Charlotte?, Davis and one of SATC's former guest actors, John Benjamin Hickey, remembered why Parker fought against breaking the fourth wall. More from SheKnows Michelle Obama's Spain Trip Proves She Has No Time for Divorce Rumors 'Sarah Jessica's very open mission was to get rid of talking to the camera,' Davis remembered, per Entertainment Weekly. 'Because I remember in the pilot her saying, 'You know, do I have to talk to the camera? It's so strange to break the fourth wall. I'm in this scene.'' As Parker debated with creator Darren Star about it, she explained that she was worried about comparisons to the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which her husband, Matthew Broderick, starred in. In the movie, Broderick's character Ferris often pauses to the camera to share his inner thoughts or give the audience, as if they're a friend of his, some advice. As a reminder, Parker and Broderick got married in 1997 while the first season of SATC aired a year later in 1998. '[She was] worried about Ferris Bueller, which I had never thought of,' the And Just Like That star said. 'She thought she was never going to live up to that, which is so adorable.' 'I had never seen an actress be able to speak so clearly about what they wanted to do and what they didn't want to do without being angry or histrionic or whatever,' Davis gushed about her longtime co-star. 'Just very clearly articulating why it was hard for her, why she felt like she wasn't doing it well, how she felt like it was better to stay with us in the scene.' 'And I was like, 'Yes. Yes. I agree with her,'' Davis remembered. 'Then she zinged, 'Not that anyone cares what I think over here!'' As longtime fans of the show know, Parker instead opted to do narrations for the show. In them, she shares her inner thoughts as well as reads lines from her iconic sex and lifestyle column. It's an iconic choice by itself, and it didn't ruffle any feathers at home. A win-win, right?Best of SheKnows 23 Age-Gap Couples Who Met When One of Them Was Still a Child Everything to Know About Leonardo DiCaprio's 27-Year-Old GF Vittoria Ceretti A Look Back at Prince William's Sexiest Photos in Celebration of the Future King
Elle
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Kristin Davis's Dating History Reveals She's Nothing Like Charlotte
Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. As Charlotte York on Sex and the City, Kristin Davis played a very relationship-oriented character. In her real life, the actress is much more focused on living single and raising her two adopted kids, Gemma and Wilson. During a 2023 Best Friend Energy podcast interview, she explained how she thinks about relationships. 'I'm not married. I've never been married. It's not my thing. I was never focused on it. It was never like a goal, let's say,' she shared. 'I do have friends who have stable marriages, and I look at them and admire what they have, but I don't necessarily think I've ever had that kind of relationship. I don't know that I necessarily totally intended to [still be single], though I do remember being young and thinking, 'Why are all these people getting married?' But I'm an actress—I've never exactly been the status quo.' Davis did say she was raised to expect marriage, with a more conservative upbringing in the South, but she moved to New York City to pursue acting. Her 20s were dedicated to her career and she was on SATC in her 30s. She added, 'I felt rebellious about it. When I was young, I thought that marriage seemed like the patriarchy.' In an interview with The Times in 2021, Davis shared, 'I'm not not dating but I'm not actively dating.' She added, 'I'm not interested in the small talk, I find it boring. I just want to cut to the deep stuff, and they don't always want to do that. And then, I'm just terrible at casual sex.' Despite her childhood anti-marriage stance, Davis has had a few public romances over the years. Here's her complete dating history so far. Davis was linked to actor Alec Baldwin in 2001, and they seemingly dated on-and-off for a few years. But she never spoked much about the relationship until a February 2025 interview on the Literally! With Rob Lowe podcast. First, Davis shared a story about an unnamed actor she dated who broke up with her after she loaned him $5,000. Davis denied that it was Baldwin, before reflecting on the former relationship. 'Alec Baldwin was so rich by the time I dated Alec Baldwin,' Davis said. 'One of the best things about Alec Baldwin when I dated him is that he had the most incredible house in Amagansett.' She continued, 'I remember I was at work, and I was like, 'Sarah Jessica [Parker], I just don't know if it's going to work out with Alec and I, but I just really love that house.' Which is literally one of the only times I have felt that way. Where I don't want to break up with this person because I love this house.' She added, 'I would have never needed to lend Alec $5,000. Oh my God.' Davis never named the mooch but said he's doing fine now. 'I think he still is very hot, he's married now,' Davis said. 'I think it's definitely someone now everyone thinks he's hot. The only reason is it's a mistake is you don't really want to do that with someone that you date, because it changes the dynamic, and you can't really ride that ship.' Around 2003, David was also romantically linked to actor Liev Schreiber but has never said much about the relationship. That same year, Davis was reportedly dating Homeland actor Damian Lewis. In 2006, she was linked to basketball star Rick Fox. Davis started dating writer and director Aaron Sorkin in 2012. In May 2012, a source told E! News, 'It's been going on for around six weeks. They are really happy. They have actually known each other a while through mutual friends and would sometimes bump into one another at industry events, but it has only just turned into something more.' Davis was Sorkin's date to the Los Angeles premiere of his show The Newsroom in June 2012, but they split a few weeks later. 'They're very different people,' a source told In Touch in August 2012, via HuffPost. 'She's focused on raising her daughter, Gemma, and he's working on his show.'
Cosmopolitan
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Cosmopolitan
Please, No More Aidan Shaw in 'And Just Like That'
This story was originally published in 2023, during 'And Just Like That...' season 2. We've republished it in honor of season 3, which is airing now on HBO Max. Like most of my fellow Sex and the City fans, when the new series And Just Like That... first aired back in 2021, the anticipation had me shaking in my Manolo Blahniks (JK, I don't own any). But it took me back to the days of SATC gone by, when I couldn't wait to see what epic fashion pieces would pop up in the show and what ludicrous relationship antics the girls would get up to next. I was prepped on the sofa, armed with snacks and ready to dive into the lives of these now more mature characters. Then…just like that…they killed Big. And in season 2, they put Aidan Shaw in his place. And it's really, really not working for me. To be able to talk about Aidan requires me to sort through my feelings about Big, because the men have always been two sides of the Carrie relationship coin. Carrie and Big's relationship had major issues. Big was never exactly Carrie's knight in shining armor, and thinking back, there were many times when his behavior was selfish and narcissistic. Leaving Carrie at the altar and embarrassing her in front of hundreds of guests certainly wasn't his finest hour, and we were all team Charlotte when she fiercely defended her friend in those iconic New York street scenes. Up until the first season of AJLT, the show's writers wanted us to believe in Carrie and Big at all costs. No matter what happened or how bad things got, the storylines would see them reunited. They pushed hard for us to view these two as endgame, so we rode loyally through the battlefield that was their relationship. And in season 2 of And Just Like That... we got the curveball that is Aidan. I have to question the decision to bring Aidan back. Where was the chance to see Carrie have a string of wild and wacky relationships and fall back in love with herself and NYC life after Big's death? I needed more of that and more time with Carrie learning about who she is now. So much of Sex and the City's original charm was its element of fun. With Carrie being single and navigating life again, there was a golden opportunity to bring back the 'boyfriend of the week' vibe but from a fresh and mature perspective. Especially considering that in pop culture, women over 50 very rarely get the chance to date around onscreen. Don't get me wrong—I love John Corbett as much as the next gal, but there seems to have been a harsh line in the sand drawn from the perspective of the show: If we bring Aidan back, we have to shove it down viewers' throats that Big is/was insignificant. In season 2, episode 8 Carrie even muses, 'I've been asking myself, was Big a big mistake?' The audacity! Even Miranda doesn't know how to reply. To ask viewers to spend so much time invested in a fictional relationship to then backtrack completely not only stings but is a bit nonsensical. To be clear, it's not only the retconning of Big in favor of Aidan that infuriates me. But let's not forget that Carrie and Aidan were also never the perfect couple. She didn't even like him enough to wear her engagement ring on her actual finger! She had an affair for a good chunk of the time they were together. And he spent much of this season refusing to come into her apartment. Just because Carrie had two loves doesn't mean we have to swap out one for the other. The answer to Big's death is not automatically Aidan! As season 2's finale aired, things got even weirder as Aidan told Carrie to wait FIVE YEARS for their relationship to resume so he can focus on being a father. That's one hell of a time-out, and with season 3 currently airing, I'm not sure how the writers will play this one. As of now, it looks like we will all have to suffer along with Carrie, but who's to say what the rest of the season will bring! Watching the show still somehow feels like receiving a warm hug from an old friend. It truly has become my favorite comfort watch, even if it does leave me baffled. But what will the rest of season 3 bring to the table? You can bet I'll still be tuning in to find out. Let's just hope that there's a lot less Aidan Shaw, at least for a while.
