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#eric-porter

Here, a central character hides behind so many layers of deceit, he almost believes his own version of the truth while his wife refuses to believe their son died in the war. The pitfalls of capitalism and the hollowness of the American Dream certainly resonate today as they did after World War II.

He was on the Emmys trail for his role as Cal Jacobs, the tyrannical father of Nate (Jacob Elordi). He wouldn't earn a nomination for the role, but damn if he didn't deserve it: Dane introduces Cal as a raging maniac, only to convincingly unfurl him as an ailing man who struggled with his sexuality his entire life. Cal's searing coming-out scene in season 2, episode 4 of Euphoria is one of the greatest monologues in recent TV memory.

The Creek, as you called it when you explained why you were busy on Wednesday nights, blew up out of the box, helping The WB find its teen serial lane along with shows like Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Felicity, and later Charmed and Smallville. Like the characters on the rest of those shows, the kids on The Creek had superpowers, and theirs was the coolest of all: they talked like wise, insightful grownups who'd read a lot of books.

"I said, 'Well, there's a lot,' Then I was gonna say, because we keep reading everybody thinks that Bradley's had plastic surgery. Everybody keeps saying that. I'm like, 'What people don't know is that he hasn't.' Right?"