10 Worst TV Performances Of 2016
8. Indira Varma - Ellaria Sand (Game Of Thrones)
The "Sand Snakes" hate might be totally played out and obvious by now, but that doesn't mean it's any less relevant. Granted, Game Of Thrones did a great job of scrubbing the Sand Snakes' story line from memory during season six, but it couldn't drop it entirely, and a few irritating remnants managed to creep through.
It's not that Ellaria Sand - portrayed by Indira Varma - is the worst character in television history or anything. The main issue is that it's impossible not to groan when she appears, purely by association with all the Sand Snakes crap from season five. When Ellaria stabs Doran Martell at the beginning of the season, then, it's not so much shocking as it is annoying.
Varma attempts to play Sand as a powerful, driven character, but her performance is rendered cringe-inducing thanks to the awful place that it's born from.