Characters We Loved In Film And TV In 2. Your Post Has Been Launched! Fabulous! Don't forget to share with your friends on Twitter and Facebook. Sarah, Beth, Cosima, Katja, Rachel, but mostly Helena and Alison (Tatiana Maslany), Orphan Black. The accents, the totally different ways of holding herself, the facial expressions: It’s like someone challenged Maslany to an extreme acting competition. I loved every clone she played on BBC America’s Orphan Black — and she frequently acted with herself, which is mind- blowing. But the needy, wild- eyed, Medusa- haired, feral Helena and the uptight, ballerina- postured, soccer mom Alison were both my personal favorites and complete opposites of each other. Malkina (Cameron Diaz), The Counselor. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Just a crazy, crazy character in a Ridley Scott movie that I did not love, but did appreciate: The Counselor is ambitious and deeply strange at its core. Both Diaz’s and Javier Bardem’s characters are examples of its weirdness, but Bardem has played weird before. He did it last year in Skyfall, and he won an Oscar for it in No Country for Old Men. Diaz, though, has never made use of her leathery snakiness — until now. What would Kimmy from My Best Friend’s Wedding think of Malkina, the predatory drug lord? I mean, she has sex with a car! The 10 Most Memorable Nude Scenes Of 2013. Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) doesn. Title: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) 7.6 /10. Buy Movie and TV Show DVDs. DPReview Digital Photography. The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. Katniss Everdeen in Catching Fire book, analysis of Katniss Everdeen. Johanna Mason; Beetee; Wiress; The Other Victors: Brutus, Enobaria, Gloss. Katniss Everdeen is the main protagonist and the narrator of the Hunger Games trilogy. She sobs into his shirt. Haymitch’s friend Chaff and Seeder from 11 and contemptuous Johanna Mason. Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies), The Good Wife. CBSThe Good Wife excels in character development, from its leads to its guest stars (it has the best guest stars on television). In thinking of who should be on this list, I combed through the show’s 2. And this current season, its fifth, might be The Good Wife’s best yet. But then I thought, Why is the show so good? It’s because of Alicia Florrick, as created by Robert and Michelle King and Julianna Margulies! It’s through Alicia’s eyes that the show’s riveting drama plays out: in the courtroom, at home, and now, between the show’s two bitterly competing firms. If The Good Wife is about Alicia’s journey from passivity — being, you know, a good wife — then this season has been its most important. Also, I can’t think of a more complicated marriage on television than Alicia and Peter’s. I wish this show were on every single week of the year even, though that would probably kill everyone involved and then I would have no Good Wife at all. Ivy Weston (Julianne Nicholson), August: Osage County. The Weinstein Company. It’s fitting that Julianne Nicholson plays Ivy: Next to all- stars Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep, Nicholson is easily overlooked, just as Ivy, the daughter who stayed behind in Osage County, gets forgotten. But in a movie filled to the brim with incredible performances, Nicholson is still a standout. Ivy is far and beyond the most sympathetic character in the film, which makes the big reveal — I won’t spoil it for you here — all the more heartbreaking. It’s a subtler part and Nicholson is subtler in it, and for that, she’s worthy of acclaim. Cyrus Beene (Jeff Perry), Scandal. ABCIn the past 2. There used to be none; now there are some. Sometimes, I think that the current high- water mark of LGBT inclusion in pop culture is manifested in Cyrus. Of all Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal monsters — in other words, the entire roster of characters — he ranks second to Huck, and Huck enjoys torturing people. Cyrus has ordered murders, stolen elections, pimped out his husband, and god knows what I’m forgetting. He is a lunatic screamer, and Perry does not hold back on the reddened face, bulging eyes, and spitting. He is the gay Dick Cheney of television. And yet, he’s a fully realized, nuanced, sometimes lovable villain. I think we need to salute Cyrus! Peter Pan (Robbie Kay), Once Upon a Time. ABCWhen it comes to adapting classic fairy tale characters, Once Upon a Time is hit- or- miss, sometimes veering too close to the Disney adaptation or straying so far from the source material that the result is unrecognizable. Peter Pan, however, is a perfect adaptation, even imbued with far more darkness than we’re used to. Perhaps that’s because the story was dark to begin with, or because Robbie Kay, despite being 1. Even before Peter Pan’s true origins were revealed, he was a great fit for the show, and one of the most thoroughly bad characters Once Upon a Time has been willing to give us. Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie), Sleepy Hollow. Fox. When I watched the pilot episode of Fox’s Sleepy Hollow over the summer, I found it to be batshit, and almost a disaster. But I’ve been wrong plenty of times about pilots, particularly ones that are striving to do something new that (at least for me) haven’t quite gelled yet. So I figured I would give it a chance, especially since a lot of other journalists I know and respect liked it. So yes: Sleepy Hollow turned out to be my favorite new show of this season. I love so much about it, yet I love Beharie’s Abbie (“Leftenant,” as Ichabod calls her) the most. She’s a loyal, wry, smart, brave person. And Beharie has the skill to transmit those qualities immediately. Sleepy Hollow’s effortless- feeling diversity and smart approach to race is also very cool. Jonah Hill (Jonah Hill), This Is the End. Columbia Pictures. A lot of people don’t like Jonah Hill. It’s not his performances, I don’t think, so much as the fact that he comes across like an entitled dick in interviews. I’m not sure what the real Jonah Hill is like, but I love the characterization of him in This Is the End, which has him playing a fictionalized version of himself alongside similarly exaggerated versions of Jay Baruchel, Seth Rogen, and others. What the movie gets so right is this underlying sense that there is something up with Hill, that no matter how sincere and honest he seems, he’s just not a very nice person. Again, I have no idea if that’s true. But it works so, so well on screen. And ironically, it makes me like Jonah Hill more than I ever did before. Jessica Vanderhoff (Christine Woods), Hello Ladies. HBOOstensibly, Hello Ladies is the story of Stuart Pritchard, a hapless loser played by Stephen Merchant, but I’m way more fascinated by Jessica, Stuart’s roommate. A struggling actress, Jessica is far from perfect — though much less of an asshole than Stuart. She’s pretty, she tries too hard, and she goes after the wrong guys, but she’s also grounded in a way that Stuart isn’t. At the end of the season, Jessica gets some very good news and some very bad news, and her reaction to both showcases Christine Woods’ considerable skill. It’s bittersweet and all too real. Marcel Gerard (Charles Michael Davis), The Originals. The CWThe Originals is one of those shows where you’re not really sure whose side you’re supposed to be on. Klaus is, in many ways, our (anti- )hero, since he’s the one we know from The Vampire Diaries. But Klaus, regardless of what Julie Plec and Co. While Klaus is bound by tradition and honor, Marcel is driven largely by passion. With the almost painfully handsome Charles Michael Davis in the role, he’s simply more fun to watch. Crystal Fairy (Gaby Hoffmann), Crystal Fairy. IFC Films. This year, we learned a lot about former child star Gaby Hoffmann — namely, where she’s been — but we also saw how much she can bring to the table as an adult performer. In Crystal Fairy, she plays a “radical spirit” in a role that seems perfectly suited for her. At times, she’s frustrating (you can’t really blame Michael Cera’s Jamie for getting annoyed), but she also has a trusting heart and an open mind, rare qualities that become more prized as the film progresses. She is honest and unashamed, just like Hoffmann, who spends much of the movie naked and tripping on mescaline. Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga), Bates Motel. A& EFor fans of Psycho, Norman Bates’ mother has always been more of a symbol than a character. Bates Motel, which serves as both a prequel and a reboot, changed all that by giving us a Norma, who is crazy and murderous in her own right. And yet, she isn’t just a villain. Norma is deeply damaged, but that’s part of what makes her great. She’s unwell, if not as unwell as her son, and she makes a series of truly terrible choices. But she’s also a sometimes sympathetic woman whose rage comes from the brutality inflicted on her. Vera Farmiga is fantastic, as always. In fact, Norma Bates may be her best role yet. It looks like you've already used that reaction on this post. You are signed in as . I know, right? Will your friends agree? Share this Link. 34 Characters We Loved In Film And TV In 2. There were plenty of standout characters who elevated the movies and shows they were in this year.. Your link was successfully shared! 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