{"id":151355,"date":"2022-12-08T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/best-tv-performances-of-2022-andor-bridgerton-the-bear\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:34:18","slug":"best-tv-performances-of-2022-andor-bridgerton-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/best-tv-performances-of-2022-andor-bridgerton-the-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Best TV Performances of 2022: Andor, Bridgerton, The Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tAs I set about picking the best TV performances of the year, I started to notice a pattern.  Excellent though they all were, all the actors on my list gave great individual performances that only became better as one half of a pair.  Time and time again, I wanted to honor one actor from a show only to realize that they needed to be highlighted alongside another in order to properly honor the work they&#8217;d done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tTake Jonathan Bailey, whose surly \u201cBridgerton\u201d rake slowly shed his defiant exterior while falling for Kate, his headstrong counterpart played with restrained precision by Simone Ashley.  Or how about Amanda Seyfried, whose astonishing turn as Elizabeth Holmes in \u201cThe Dropout\u201d played so perfectly off Naveen Andrews as her calculating partner in crime?  Even the sprawling cast of Amazon&#8217;s \u201cLord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d leaned on an exceptionally charismatic duo in Morfydd Clark and Charlie Vickers, who had the difficult task of playing two of JRR Tolkien&#8217;s most famous characters, period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tAnd so I scrapped the usual list of individual best performances in order to select actors in sets of two, hoping to reflect better the incredible work of collaboration that made so much of this year&#8217;s TV so good.  (Please note that I am but one person who did not see all the television that 2022 had to offer, meaning that I unfortunately couldn&#8217;t speak to the merits of, for instance, \u201cHeartstopper\u201d or \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d \u2014 at at least not beyond the \u201cnegroni, sbagliato, with prosecco in it\u201d TikTok, which probably does belong on this list, now that I&#8217;m thinking of it\u2026)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tWithout further ado, here are 15 of the year&#8217;s best performances on TV: pairs edition (listed alphabetically by series).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I set about picking the best TV performances of the year, I started to notice a pattern. 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Time and time again, I wanted to honor one actor from a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/best-tv-performances-of-2022-andor-bridgerton-the-bear\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Best TV Performances of 2022: Andor, Bridgerton, The Bear<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best TV Performances of 2022: Andor, Bridgerton, The Bear - harchi90<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiRWh0dHBzOi8vdmFyaWV0eS5jb20vbGlzdHMvYmVzdC10di1wZXJmb3JtYW5jZXMtMjAyMi1icmlkZ2VydG9uLWFuZG9yL9IBAA?oc=5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best TV Performances of 2022: Andor, Bridgerton, The Bear - harchi90\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As I set about picking the best TV performances of the year, I started to notice a pattern. 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