Someone’s done a list
Here’s the top 10
1 with a bullet imo.
Not clicking through but of the top 10, Jeremy Strong and Rhea Seehorn are worthy inclusions, obviously Omar and Walter White too. And Andre Braugher is so good in Brooklyn 99, without him it would be unwatchable.
Genuinely don’t like Elizabeth Moss in anything.
Hate watched all of Handmaids hoping she’d get offed
Give it a click father
This is Angus Cloud in Euphoria erasure
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Rhea Seehorn would be my number one. One of the best performances of all time IMO.
Pleased to see Himesh Patel for Station Eleven on the list but criminally low, would be in my top-5 and also the joint performances of Mackenzie Davis & Matilda Lawler and Danielle Deadwyler from the same show would all be in my top-10.
Where is Connie Britton for Friday Night Lights as well!?
also Zach Gilford
Great to see this one, she was absolutely incredible
It’s a typically American list that often identifies not even the best performance in a given show, whilst also doing the thing of comparing comedy with drama which is mostly ridiculous. No point criticising it too much, but it feels weird in the century where we collectively realised Europeans can make good TV too that there isn’t any (that I noticed on a quick skim).
I think the one that needs to be in there is Ricky Gervais in The Office. Without this performance you don’t get The Thick of It and then you don’t get Veep and you don’t get all the other inferior Offices and ob-doc style comedies. It was the most influential comedic performance and the most influential comedic show on both sides of the Atlantic. Yes I think he’s an awful quasi-fascist now.
I would also have Matthew Macfayden in Succession and argue a case for Nathan Fielder as ‘himself’ across a number of shows.
Really looking forward to her playing a non downtrodden character in white lotus
Reminds me it’s probably time for a Comeback rewatch
“Well… I got it!”
Congratulations to all the performers on the list
Acab and all but tbf the Captain in Brooklyn 99 was a storming comedy perfomance. Trying to say Peralta like him is a fun activity, hours in it.
sad to think most Americans will never watch Detectorists
Gary Oldman as Jackson lamb in slow horses
Teri in the thick of it
McConaughey in True Detective
She has a Letterboxd account (with her partner Tracy Letts - well I assume it’s actually her anyway!)
Only the US has tele and Toast of London doesn’t exist (only cause Matt Berry is in there)
Also putting The Bear in 100 is blatantly just for clickbait purposes so you read the rest. Not going to rise to it.