TV Villains We just had to watch

[Feelslikefar]

Unlike Movie Villains, the ones on TV are with us every episode.
They make the main character react in a way that isn't always pure.
Without these 'bad-guys', the 'good-guy' would be pretty boring.
(I think that it is sometimes harder to play a Villian and protray Evil.)

Some I can think of that pulled it off:

Ian McShane as 'Al Swearengen' ( Deadwood )
J.K. Simmons as 'Vern Schillinger' ( Oz )
Walton Goggins as 'Boyd Crowder' ( Justified )

 

[Judycat]

Ben Barnes as 'Jigsaw' (The Punisher)
In that show, it was hard to determine who was more messed up.

 

[hearlady]

Walter White (Heisenburg) in 'Breaking Bad'

 

[moviequeen1]

Larry Hagman as 'JR Ewing' in CBS drama'Dallas'

 

[IKE]

Boris and Natasha from the Bullwinkle tv show.

 

[Victor]

Lee Van Cleef! Beady eyes stare. Mostly westerns

 

[MarkinPhx]

Michael Chiklis as "Vic Mackey" (The Shield)
James Gandolfini as "Tony Soprano" (The Sopranos)- My favorite TV character of all time
Maxis Mikkelsen as "Hannibal Lecter" (Hannibal)
Michael Kenneth Williams as "Omar Little" (The Wire)

 

[dilettante]

You haven't seen The Penguin or The Riddler and more until you see them develop over the course of the origin story Gotham. It's a good series and it doesn't get too comic-like until the last season. Most of it is more James Gordon's evolution than Bruce Wayne's. And it has another really decent Alfred the butler as well. Even Catwoman has a reasonable back story here as young Bruce's first love interest.

I watched it free with ads on Tubi.

 

[JBR]

Didn't it all start with that sly, sleazy Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond)?

 

[Born_To_Lose]

Didn't it all start with that sly, sleazy Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond)?

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In normal life, Ken was a great guy.