I wouldn’t go that far, but IMHO the later seasons with Rebecca were a lot better.
Yeah - I’ve just started reading the books - after having binged most of the series. Really interesting to me how they picked and chose from the books. What they kept/what they changed. Including the update from Viet Nam to Iraq/Afgh. Honey/Money was killed by the Dollmaker copycat.
Just finished the first Bosch book - The Black Echo. In it he meets Eleanor Wish - and she gets convicted. Just A LITTLE different than the show! 
I’ve been working through the books as closely to in order as my library allows. Only read 3 so far, and haven’t met Maddie (or a prospective mother). I like the idea that Bosch, The Lincoln Lawyer, and the paper guy cross paths.
In contrast, The Lincoln Lawyer movie tracked the novel nearly perfectly. Saw on-line that they are planning on a series of THOSE books as well.
Upon Googling the actor who played Maddy (Madison Lintz) I’ve learned that she also played Sophia on The Walking Dead. Huh.
(insert joke here about the zombies being more life-like)
mmm
More than the fact J Edgar isn’t Bosch’s partner the whole way, or the reanimated Honey, or Viet Nam (did they even have tunnels in Afghanistan 
), or the fact Maddie doesn’t even get born for several books into the series, Eleanor’s story arc is the largest thing that has to be finessed for the series. “A little different” doesn’t even begin to cover it.
There is something that affects me in an almost visceral way about Kate Mara, who I see occasionally on tv. Just like P.J. Soles way back in the 70’s in Halloween, she has those black eyes. Lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
Yeah, the different portrayals of J. Edgar and Irvin Irving are striking. Just say Mike Connelly make a cameo appearance in the TV show!
The way Amy pestered Sheldon for sex ceased being amusing after the first time it was explained to her that he wasn’t interested in sex. You don’t get to harass anyone, no matter how female, geeky, clueless (esp after you’ve been told outright) you are. Sex is a choice. The BBT failed on that front with pretty much all its characters.
That said, I’d still like fictional Amy over real Mayim. Amy would not be anti-vax. (Sheldon might be).
Star Trek: The Next Generation
I can’t tell if it’s the character or the actor, but Geordi/LeVar Burton leaves me cold every time. He never seems to have any awesome moments and when he’s at his most memorable, it’s for being creepy.
I guess it’s the character, because one part of his being a bit boring is that stupid banana clip of a visor. Poor Burton can’t act with his eyes at all.
Other than being a half-decent tennis backboard for Buddy’s jokes in the Dick Van Dyke Show, I was never the biggest Mel Cooley fan.
Despite being multi-talented (and I spose I rolled with Eunice ok), if I had to pick a weakest link in the Carol Burnett Show line-up it would be Vicki Lawrence. Granted, Mr. Wagonner didn’t venture too far from those million-watt-smile, teflon-y type dude roles.
Corproral (then Sergeant) Maxwell Q. Klinger.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Big Bang’s Kripke yet. Jeez he was a one-trick pony. So he talks like Elmer Fudd. Mildly amusing for 4 seconds, intolerable over the run of the show.
Nicholas Bradford. The other characters on Eight is Enough were all interesting, except for the little mophead.
Old Mr. Grace on Are You Being Served? Young Mr. Grace was a sweet but dirty old man. Old Mr. Grace was just an unfunny guy with a bald wig.
Lana on Three’s Company. Sure, it’s a campy show but she played it over the top.
I love LeVar Burton. But Geordi is an absolute creep. He’s a creep with Christy, and he’s definitely a creep with Dr. Leah Brahms. Creating a simulation of her on the holodeck and getting romanced by her. And then, they apparently get married in one possible future!
I think main problem with the Geordi la Forge character is NOT Levar Burton’s acting; it is that the writers never really gave the character any good story lines to showcase Burton’s acting.
Oh, yeah. Serena on Law and Order. Jesus! Nearly single-handedly ruined that show. Just awful.
Same. I started watched the show from the very first episode, but once her character was introduced, I stopped.
And I’ll add that as a kid, I hated the character Mr. Haney on Green Acres. HIs voice irritated me, and I didn’t like his slippery ethics and general sneakiness. As an adult, none of that bothered me so much, but still not my favorite character.
I liked Cheers, but I wasn’t crazy about the Diane character. However, I disliked Rebecca even more. She was just so whiny. Finding out Kirstie Alley was a Scientologist and that, years later, she supported Trump soured me on her. When I watch reruns, I skip most of her episodes.
Haven: Audrey and Lucas. The shit they put people through all bc they wuv each other. I think Audrey should have went with Eric.
Agree with others up thread Laforge was a creep. On top of being creepy, he was always annoyed or put up on, too quick to anger, and he was always condescending.
And while we’re on the subject of Starr Trek, Worf is the least interesting Klingon in all of Star Trek. Even a grown up Alexander was more interesting than him.
The best explanation I have head about Worf’s somewhat rigid behavior:
The reason - because he wasn’t raised by Klingons! He heard all the stories and legends of Klingons, he learned about what they were supposed to be and tried to live up to it, just as we have romanticized stories of Samurai behavior in modern day times. Actual Klingons are more pragmatic - honor is still a big thing for them but it’s not as important. Worf, a stranger in a strange land, defined himself by the stereotypical Klingon ideal and as such became more Klingon than Klingon in some ways.
Since we’re ragging on ST - Cisco’s son on DS9 was quite the stiff.
No one on Star Trek TNG was more off-putting than Wesley Crusher ::shudder::.
Doctor Pulaski on ST Next Gen. I wanted her to fall down a turbo-lift shaft.
BtVS
Riley. No matter whether you shipped Spuffy or Bangel, you hated Riley so much that you never bothered to invent a contraction for the relationship. It was always just “Buffy and him.”