There are many reasons that the viewers might hate a character on a television show. Most of the time and if those producing the show are doing their jobs properly its intentional, the product of carefully crafted writing, direction and performance designed to make you actively dislike or even detest a particular character to achieve a specific storytelling end. And then there are those characters that just get away from them the ones that arent supposed to be unsympathetic, let alone despised. Sometimes its the way an actor plays the role, and sometimes its an unfortunate by-product of the writing. Sometimes its actually a complete misreading of the audience, with producers convinced that the viewers will love someone they end up loathing. With season five of The Walking Dead on the way, premiering towards the end of October, its time for another look back at the first four years this time, focusing on the most hated characters in the shows history.
Honourable mention:
The crazy leader of a pack of crazy reavers, audiences could really have gotten to hate Joe, with a vengeance - they just never got the chance. After all, when he took Daryl in there was little hint as to exactly how monstrous the group was, or how far they'd be willing to go... they were just portrayed as a brutal brotherhood of sorts, with Joe the cruel-to-be-kind father figure. At one time, Daryl almost seemed to fit in. It wasn't until it was revealed, only a few short episodes later, that Joe and his bloodthirsty band were on the track of our hero Rick, who'd killed one of their number earlier on, that viewers started to twig that Joe wasn't going to sit and drink coffee around a fire with the crew. But it was in his final scene that they witnessed how depraved the group of killers truly were. Alas, Joe... we barely knew ye... if we had, we'd probably have hated you the most.
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