Jack Brickman
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He seems like the only one who looks convincing in his part - Everybody else seems so ....underwhelming in their parts (part of the blame has to go to the makers). This show suffers from consistency and a lack of stand out characters and they really need to fire the guy in charge of putting the wigs !!! George costanza had a better toupe in The Beard episode.
I really like the guy who plays Setrakian, at least when they're not butchering his character by having him go crazy and try to run into a room totally packed with vampires. He's perfect for the role...the writing just sucks.
I think the show has fine casting. It's just that everyone does stupid things for dubious reasons and the dialogue can be really bad. They also focus on things, like the stupid kid and the crazy old lady, that literally no one, no one, gives a shit about. Like, can I just sit down in a writing room on a bad show like The Strain or The Walking Dead, put a shock collar on the writers, and then zap the fuck out of them every time they try to write a scene like that? How does that get past the brainstorming session? "You know what this horror show could really use? A scene where an Alzheimer's patient tries to get a little kid to go buy her a pack of smokes and he treats her with nothing but disdain!"
Also, the special effects work on the Master is just godawful. It's so bad and fake-looking that it just takes you out of the show whenever he's on screen.