Agam Darshi SUCKS!!!

Oh that felt good.  No holding it back.  No mincing of words.  I think I'll put that on a T-Shirt.  I saw a performance today that would make an 8th grade drama teacher /Facepalm.  I had Sanctuary on the tele.  Wasn't watching it much but I did catch a performance so bad that I had to actually leave the room in disgust.  Agam Darshi played a person who defied a gun toating antagonist with not just the same believeable passion that we've come to expect from actors who have traded on their looks and sex appeal.  She surpassed expectations and gave a performance that would make everyday 3rd graders think they were child prodigies by comparison.  She actually looked...and sounded...like she was reading the lines right off of the antagonist's face; mumbled with the same passion as one would have ordering a pizza.

Back in the day, actors had something called "Charisma".  It is due to the fact that a lot of Production jobs these days are 'Inherited' from relatives.  Giving the jobs to the unworthy is a good way to make a shitty product.  Now "Charisma" was somehow interpreted to meaning: "Good Looking" despite having the personality of wet sandpaper.  Actors would act a part.  Their lines would reflect that part and each would affect progress through a plot.  Now it's like an actor reads one part...and another actor reads another part...and you could have the first actor read ALL parts for the fact that every single one of the characters is almost completely homogenous.  Is this a sign of the times?  Flat characters for a flat audience?   Has our obsession for computers made us all dull as shit... so our TV protagonists must reflect that?

I don't think so.  In other media, heroes are supersized and well defined.  TV has just gotten stale.  Too many hacks from the hand-me-down jobs from the boomers to the boomlets.  Where ever you find the passion, you will find the true artists.  Right now the talent is in the voice actors and game designers...the game artists.  Not all but proportionately...Computer Games are kicking the fuck out of TV right now.  Advertisers are beginning to realize this as well. 

Maybe these lifeless, good looking actors can find other jobs where their lack of emotion would be of benefit..."Human Mannequin"???