Has a characters absence ever left a bigger bleeding flesh wound in the quality of a show as this one?

Has a characters absence ever left a bigger bleeding flesh wound in the quality of a show as this one?

His death pretty much killed the show for me.
Although his whole incest bit could have been left out.

Isn't he an absolute unbearable dick to work with though?

What the fuck was that last season?

Spartacus? Not that the new guy is terrible or anything

I unironically enjoyed his son being the one to do in Thompson. Also young Nucky was absolute kino of the highest order

aunt viv being replaced in fresh prince of bel air.

Jimmy from Shameless. They’ve even begun to retroactively shit on the character for laughs in later seasons.

Mickey and Shiela less so, but still valid

>he's a jimmyfag

how do they shit on him?

...

JImmy's death was, impactful as it should be, but the third season is the best of the whole show and the 5th is also on par with it. 4th season was the worst and it is still spectacular. The season 2 finale is the best pleb filter in history.

Yes. And he continues to this day to fuck up all his opportunities

Yes. He's a dramatic prick.

It's a difficult situation but I still feel like it's a cop out. Killing a main character because the actor is difficult to work with (not incompetent, he's not reducing the shown product) is sacrificing the quality of the story & product due to out of story-concerns.

Sucks for them that he's a great actor.

He leaves in season 3 after they “kill” him off, 4 has a reveal where hes back at the very end, and then he comes back as a creepy rapist plot device that destroys any character development he ever had. Everyone calls him an asshole and a weirdo even tho he was a good man and good to them for 90% of the entire show up to that point and then they send him off saying he lied about loving her. Now in the later seasons we get stuff like

>”Oh the washing machine broke? Didnt that creep give it to you? Hahaha”
>”Jimmy was a psycho!”
>”Remember your douchey car theif boyfriend? What were you thinking?”

3 and 4 are garbage

Garbage by the show standards maybe.

Boardwalk Empire was leagues better than anything else on tv at the time save mad men

YUP! They fired his ass from Hannibal after season 2. It's a damn shame though, he was so fucking good

hear hear!!

it made no sense for me. all the great build up was for nothing. all the work the writers were doing was eliminated. show went from a 9 to a 7.

Lucky Luciano was more interesting than fucking Jimmy McMade-Up-Character

Its more a travesty the show didn't build up to Murder Inc the Commission, and fast tracked it instead. We could have had Bugs Moran dammit.