# The only one character you liked / tolerated in a film or TV show

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**Created:** [March 19, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-one-character-you-liked-tolerated-in-a-film-or-tv-show/849809 "2020-03-19T16:01:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-one-character-you-liked-tolerated-in-a-film-or-tv-show/849809/1 "2020-03-19T16:01:37Z")

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(Preferably not the leading actor.)

_70’s Show_ - [Red.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMUeZVJYd3Q)

Star Trek - hot [Orion girl](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2sIF3Iyqk). Because ST was such a ridiculous behemoth of a franchise spanning over five decades in TV and film, Ima gonna cheat on my own OP and add [Mugato](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP1VoH_0l-E). (I mean - come on)

Cloris Leachman as the whimsical, carefree [Nurse Diesel](https://youtu.be/DosXB5TWfHc) in _High Anxiety_.

JT Walsh as the [cheery, wolfish lawyer](https://youtu.be/3gfLRWOO0i0?t=82) in _The Last Seduction_.

Bill Murray as the [bemused, be-wigged assassination target](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSj0NJe9Gs) in Jim Jarmusch’s annoyingly cryptic _Limits of Control_. (liked the veged-out soundtrack)

Mr. Von Sydow as [the evil brewmeister](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDov_a1vZbY) in _Strange Brew_.

Alec [“brass balls”](https://youtu.be/elrnAl6ygeM?t=59) Baldwin in _Glengarry Glenross_.

Laura Harring as the mysterious temptress in _Mulholland Drive_.

Forest Whitaker [as sneaky pool shark](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBvyB2dTnlQ) in _Color of Money_.  
there could be a few more…

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**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-one-character-you-liked-tolerated-in-a-film-or-tv-show/849809/2 "2020-03-19T17:09:11Z")

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Samson (“Carnivale” leader). runners up: Jonesy and Ruthie, carny and snake dancer

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**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-one-character-you-liked-tolerated-in-a-film-or-tv-show/849809/3 "2020-03-19T18:03:56Z")

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[Azhy Robertson’s character Henry](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7653254/characters/nm7309485?ref_=tt_cl_t4) in _Marriage Story_, which was otherwise populated with characteris I could not warm to at all. Even the Alan Alda character wasn’t particularly likeable for once.

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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-only-one-character-you-liked-tolerated-in-a-film-or-tv-show/849809/4 "2020-03-19T20:06:35Z")

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2010’s _**[The Fighter](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1)**_ was full of irredeemably horrible characters - except Amy Adams’s character Charlene. She played the only decent, empathetic human being in the entire film, and I kept wanting her to _run_, not walk, away from that awful family.