Chachi in Happy Days. Sure, by the time he got there the whole series had become unstuck in time, but at least Henry Winkler was still wearing a ducktail.
I had to look this show up: Now THAT’S some impressive rooster hair!
As addition to my OP: I generally don’t find hair that is endemic to the era the film/TV was made very distracting, beyond an admiring “wow, Annette Funicello must have used a whole bottle of Aquanet for that beehive!” and “Swayze totally rocks that Bee Gees mullet in Roadhouse!”
I’m just not understanding the thinking behind the Requiem character’s “bangs that were cut by a four-year-old-with-safety-scissors” look. That many respectable reviewers mention/discuss in-depth the hairdo means it’s distracting, and not in a good way (many reviewers have panned the series and find the bangs much more fascinating than the show).
Maybe they were trying to make the 25-30yo professional cellist protagonist seem hip 'n crazy 'n Manic Pixie Dream Girlish with the awful Bettie Page 'do, but overshot the mark. The creators seemed to have thought her a sympathetic character throughout, but as the series wears on she is revealed as selfish, silly, overly dramatic, and destructive – and not in interesting ways. Thusly, the “ain’t I totes adorable” hair seems increasingly stupid.
So many historical movies/shows in the 70s had contemporary hairdos on old west characters, knights, even Romans. They all sported mullets, surfer shags, beehived tresses, teased and blown out hairdos (or “blowcombed” for the really stylin’ dudes). Even as a kid back then the hairstyles really bothered me. Especially when even the mountain men and prospectors had styled, CLEAN hair.
Seven posts and nobody’s mentioned “The Hunger Games” or any John Waters movie, especially the ones starring Divine?
I finally saw “The Christmas Story” a couple years ago. The mom’s hairstyle was from 1983, when the movie was made; the others appeared to be appropriate to the period.
I had the same thought way back when and mentioned it to my Dad who assured me the Mother’s hairstyle was typical of the '40s. I also was stymied that she would marry a man so much older than her and was told that wasn’t uncommon for that time either.
And I know the Ace Ventura movies are comedies, but his hair is atrocious.
Not a show, and I apologize in advance if I offend any of the men here, but watching a World Cup game yesterday and nearly every guy on the team had a man bun. I hate man buns! There, I said it. It didn’t distract me from the game, but it annoyed the hell out of me .
Pete on Warehouse 13 had a terrible haircut in the final season. It looked like an actor desperately trying to look younger than he was. I don’t know what they were thinking.
Probably opening up a can of worms here, but I think both Admiral Holdo and Rose’s hairstyles didn’t fit the characters and contribute at least partially to why the characters were somewhat poorly received in The Last Jedi.
I’m not sure if this counts as a “hairstyle,” but … a couple of years ago, I binged-watched the short-lived Fox series Minority Report. The main thing I remember about that show is the tattooed eyebrows of the lead actress. (In the course of Googling for a photo, I learned that she replaced the tattoos with eyebrow transplants a couple of months ago.)
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