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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ome" data-source="post: 259892" data-attributes="member: 2"><h2>25. Moira Rose (Schitt's Creek)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25548[/ATTACH]Played by Catherine O'HaraMoira Rose, the former soap star forced to relocate to the small town of Schitt's Creek after going broke, has an untraceable transatlantic accent, the gaudiest sense of style, and a deep rotation of absurd wigs. If all of that wasn't reason enough to include her we don't know what you're thinking, bébé. She may have arrived in the run-down town with a superiority complex like she was ripped from reality TV, but under all that wig she worked to become the matriarch she never was, for both her family and community. We love all of the members of the Rose family -- David with his neuroses and sweaters; Alexis with her vocal fry and tales of outlandish escapades -- but Moira is proof of all that a comedic legend like Catherine O'Hara can do when flexing her funny bones. -- SB <h2>24. Nora Durst (The Leftovers)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25549[/ATTACH]Played by Carrie CoonIf there is any one thing that The Leftovers is "about," it's faith -- the concept of faith, the power of faith, and whether or not this whole faith thing is actually worthwhile or just something we make up so we can feel better. Nora Durst is primed from the beginning for an unending conflict with faith: In the "Sudden Departure," every member of her immediate family were among the 2% of the world's population that were inexplicably blinked out of existence. When we meet Nora, she's an agent of a government department that investigates and debunks Departure fraudsters, disproving their claims of an afterlife or reasoning behind the cataclysmic event that took away everything she held dear, but over the course of the series we watch her reluctantly open up to the possibility that there are real, tangible ways to reach her loved ones again. In her final monologue in the series finale, one of the best scenes of the whole show, she tells her former lover Kevin Garvey about the alternate reality she was zapped into, where she did indeed find the other members of her first family living happy and healthy lives. The show offers no proof that what she's telling Kevin is the truth -- what matters is that Nora, at last, believes in what she's telling him. -- ES<h2>23. Malcolm Tucker (The Thick of It)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25550[/ATTACH]Played by Peter CapaldiQuite possibly the most quotable character on this list (though about 99% of those quotes are decidedly not fit to print), Malcolm Tucker is the Prime Minister's chief enforcer overseeing the British government's perpetually warring parties in Armando Iannucci's political satire The Thick of It. To be verbally abused by him has become, amongst the characters of the show, a rite of passage, as he frequently eviscerates anyone who ever makes a mistake, says something stupid, or is generally a nuisance, and his quest to keep the members of Government and Opposition toeing their respective party lines is nothing less than Machiavellian. With zero social life and the constant looming threat of profane outbursts on the horizon, it would be easy for a character like Malcolm to be a villain in a lesser show, but his bouts of obscenities with which he keeps his people in line -- referred to, by him, as "Violent Sexual Imagery" -- are deployed only and always for the common good. His rants and insult monologues are so legendary that they have been compiled into endless video compilations for those times when we ourselves need a bit of an adrenaline rush. -- ES<h2>22. Diane Lockhart (The Good Fight)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25551[/ATTACH]Played by Christine BaranskiIt's not often that a character in a beloved primetime series almost immediately gets their own spinoff when that series ends, but the world just isn't right without Diane Lockhart, previously a secondary character on The Good Wife, utilizing her sharp wit and deep knowledge of the workings of the law to make the world a better place. Initially planning to retire when The Good Fight picks up a year after its parent show, she's forced to keep working as a lawyer -- this time at all-Black firm Reddick, Boseman & Kolstad -- when she loses all her money in a Ponzi scheme. Whereas before she reigned supreme as a long-running name partner of her previous firm, The Good Fight sees Diane start from basically the bottom once again, fighting to prove herself worthy of her new position and champion the women's causes for which she's passionate. This version of her has breakdowns, panic attacks, and frequent bouts of self-doubt, but she's never not the cool, formidable, flinty-eyed Diane we'd hate to stand opposite from in a courtroom. -- ES<h2>21. Tracy Jordan (30 Rock)</h2>[ATTACH=full]25552[/ATTACH]Played by Tracy MorganThere are a couple of characters on this list that are exaggerated versions of the people that play them, but at the top of them sits Tracy Jordan, a work of absurdist genius born from the combination of Tracy Morgan's inexplicably brilliant comedy and Tina Fey's joke writing. Tracy Jordan, the star of 30 Rock's TGS, is like if someone turned up the volume on Tracy Morgan. Tracy Jordan is a proud idiot who loves exotic, aquatic animals and is a diva of the highest order. Liz Lemon could have obviously claimed the 30 Rock spot, and it would have been well deserved. But no one makes us laugh more than Tracy Jordan -- from his conversations with pigeons to his motion capture performance as Garfield. ("The G train, Nermal!") And even as 30 Rock's legacy when it comes to its treatment of race has been worthy of reexamination and criticism, Tracy Jordan always managed to call out Liz's biases and stupidity in his own strange way. -- EZ</blockquote>

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