Definitely Pauly Shore.

I think you're misremembering what happened in that scene, the threat was "I am unequivocally going to kill Hank, if you try to stop me I will have you and the rest of your family killed as well." And Gus absolutely wanted Walter dead (and had since he ran over those dealers with his car), the only reason Walter was…

Yeah my bad, didn't scroll down that far.

Darryl Crowe was at least unique by being a dumb, nakedly self-interested coward rather than the smooth, comparatively well organized schemers in the other seasons.

I think the show just never gave him enough of a chance to play off of the other Scoobies. He was too isolated and all of his scenes revolved around Buffy or the super-soldier nonsense. On the few occasions where he was hanging out with the Scoobies as a whole and they were just shooting the shit and coming up with…

I agree with you up until that last point: Walter absolutely took that threat seriously to the point of warning the cops about a hit on Hank and having a nervous breakdown when his escape money was gone. Keep in mind that the level-headed presence of Mike was out of commission and so Gus was in his "I have beheaded…

You have to admit though, they did rely on the camera glance a little too much in the later seasons.

Nah, Pierce was the best Pierce. For as much behind the scenes drama went on and how much Chevy Chase was phoning it in by the end, Pierce was an essential part of that show's chemistry in the beginning and the much lauded second season would not be nearly as good without him.

I'll agree with you on Leon.

Absolutely. Doggett was awesome.

I don't disagree with you, but I think that was the point of those characters. Not every person in the drug trade is a compelling genius with emotional baggage, sometimes they are just thugs.

HAYAKASAWAKA!

Depending on how far down the bench you were willing to go, I would even add Keamy to the list of characters that gave that show a jolt of life.

Honestly you could say that about most of that show's supporting characters. Justified somehow made it possible to imagine every character, even the fifth-string henchman of that season's big bad, had an inner life. It might not have been a nice one, but they almost all felt like real people.

Having spoiled Buffy for myself before watching it, I expected to feel indifferent at best (annoyed at worst) about Tara, but by the time she died she was genuinely my favorite character. Well-developed, funny, interesting without devolving into angst. It was a pleasant surprise.

Nah, not Gunn. I mean, props to that actor for handling the material they gave him, but he was definitely the worst written "star" in that show.

Desmond is an interesting case. He was always at the center of the best uses of sci-fi on LOST, but he never really developed too much outside of his relationship with Penny. Which was actually kind of funny when they lampshaded how little he cared about the mysteries and how he just wanted to go home and ignore these…

That season finale is still one of the best epics I've seen on television, and I'm a Game of Thrones fan.

Aside from how great the character work was, they even nailed the mythology shit that episode. It was probably the last time the Jacob/Man in Black conflict felt anything other than tedious and undercooked.

How about Ray Winstone's Russian gangster on Dexter? He made a vain but heroic attempt to get that show back to coherence.