{"id":10325,"date":"2016-02-09T12:21:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2016-02-09T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:21:15","slug":"the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-30-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/09\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-30-21\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Characters on TV Right Now: 30-21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m continuing my list of the best characters on TV right now and we&#8217;re getting into the elite choices. These characters are entertaining, fascinating and entirely unique. Be sure to check out the previous installments of the list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/08\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-40-31\/\" target=\"_blank\">40-31<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/05\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-50-41\/\" target=\"_blank\">50-41<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/04\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-60-51\/\" target=\"_blank\">60-51<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/03\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-70-61\/\" target=\"_blank\">70-61<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/02\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-80-71\/\" target=\"_blank\">80-71<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/01\/the-100-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-90-81\/\" target=\"_blank\">90-81<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/01\/29\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-100-91\/\" target=\"_blank\">100-91<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>30. Erlich Bachman (<em>Silicon Valley<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The one brazen, confident extrovert on <em>Silicon Valley<\/em> immediately stands out and adds some nice variety to the show&#8217;s rhythm. He&#8217;s also had possibly the best character development on the show. Season 2 saw a newly humbled Erlich, who still maintained the enthusiasm that makes him so lovable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. Mr. Peanutbutter (<em>BoJack Horseman<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Peanutbutter&#8217;s goofy optimism provides a contrast to the more cynical, intellectual BoJack. But, he also continues to surprise in interesting ways. The more the show goes on, the more we see him as more than a foil and romantic competitor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. Dee Reynolds (<em>It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dee-focused episodes like &#8220;The Gang Broke Dee&#8221; and &#8220;The Gang Beats Boggs&#8221; are some of the show&#8217;s best and demonstrate what an incredible comedic driving force Dee is. She&#8217;s a wonderfully odd, occasionally terrifying, occasionally relatable person who is exciting to watch every week because you never know exactly what she&#8217;ll be doing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. Charles Boyle (<em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles&#8217; love and support for everyone else on his team makes him incredibly endearing. He&#8217;s hilariously quirky, while still feeling like a real human being. And his deep, deep almost-to-the-point-of-it-being-weird love of Jake makes him a great best friend character.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. Abbi Abrams (<em>Broad City<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abbi is refreshingly relatbale. Her simple but brilliant delivery of &#8220;not today&#8221; became a bit of an anthem. We just want to see her succeed, yet we can&#8217;t help being hooked by the way the show cuts her down every week. What makes it all worth it is how much she appreciates the little wins in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. Oliver Queen (<em>Arrow<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oliver is so much wonderful stuff. He&#8217;s a lovable, slightly-goofy frat boy type who through a series of events out of his control ended up being a stoic superhero who was also a murderer for a time. The writers&#8217; did an amazing job with his character development and really brought it all together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. Gina Linetti (<em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At first Gina seemed mostly like a vehicle for incredible one-liners, but she&#8217;s become as human and full of depth as the rest of the ensemble, while still delivering on those amazing punchlines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>23. Mac (<em>It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 11 seasons and <em>It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia<\/em> is still pulling back layers of Mac&#8217;s psychology. He is such a weird, repressed, sad, terrifying dude and it&#8217;s absolutely addictive television.<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. Rosa Diaz (<em>Brooklyn Nine-Nine<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rosa is hilarious and Stephanie Beatriz is great at brilliant incorporating physical comedy in with her stoic attitude. Scenes where she&#8217;s forced to be friendly or talk about feelings are always especially brilliant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. Pam Poovey (<em>Archer<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The brilliance of Archer is that while they get a fair amount of comedy out of Pam being gross, she&#8217;s also confident, a great friend (and occasional great lay) to the main character and overall one of the most three-dimensional characters on TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m continuing my list of the best characters on TV right now and we&#8217;re getting into the elite choices. These characters are entertaining, fascinating and entirely unique. Be sure to check out the previous installments of the list: 40-31 50-41 60-51 70-61 80-71 90-81 100-91 30. Erlich Bachman (Silicon Valley) The one brazen, confident extrovert<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2016\/02\/09\/the-best-characters-on-tv-right-now-30-21\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":10326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,2],"tags":[2212,2131,747,1453,2093,879,2092],"class_list":{"0":"post-10325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-best-of","8":"category-television","9":"tag-archer","10":"tag-arrow","11":"tag-bojack-horseman","12":"tag-broad-city","13":"tag-brooklyn-nine-nine","14":"tag-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia","15":"tag-silicon-valley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}