In the sense, that you're not actively thinking about them, but the moment you see them pop up in a production somewhere your revulsion instantly flares up.
Mine are - amongst others - Kumail Nanjiani and Simu Liu.
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Bryan Cranston. I don’t know why everyone glazes this guy like he’s god’s gift to acting. Every line he delivers is so hammy, so overwrought. The guy is a total hack, but somehow, midwits think that lots of grunting and heavy breathing and dramatic pauses = good acting.
He played soy cucks as Tim Whatley on Seinfeld & as Hal in Malcolm in the Middle.
Then Vince Gilligan writes him a live-long-enough-to-become-the-villain arc on Breaking Bad. Suddenly, everyone forgets all the decades prior of being a beta.
Gotta disagree. He was GREAT in Malcolm in the Middle. My take on that show—the family is fucked up, dysfunctional, and struggling. He works a job he hates to support his family, but he always does what’s necessary to take care of the family. He puts family first, over himself, every time. At the end of the day, the family always comes together to support each other (even if dysfunctional for the first 20 minutes of the episode).
It's not Cranston's acting as Hal, Malcolm's dad that was the issue.
It's the fact that his character was written as the bumbling, beta husband, scared-of-his-harpy-wife trope. Like pretty much all sitcom dads and White men in commercials have been portrayed in the goyslop media for the last half century.
See, I see that as kind of the surface level, but Hal and Lois really have a deeply loving relationship. (And while it never goes raunchy, they do make clear that Hal and Lois are intimate VERY frequently.)
I would take Hal over an Al Bundy or Home Simpson or every single other "dumb white male dad" ever. It's an absurdist almost surrealists show, but at the bottom of it is a family that loves each other.