TV’s Quirkiest Villains

We all look to Disney movies for the villains we love to hate, such as Hades or Scar, and we’ve been blown away by some of TV’s complex antagonists, such as The Handmaid’s Tale’s Serena Joy or half the characters in Game of Thrones. Yet some of the best TV villains are the ones who aren’t particularly tortured or ambiguous, but the ones who are clearly bad news, but adorable anyways.

Warning: This story contains mild spoilers for The Good Place.

Chanel Oberlin, “Scream Queens”

Of all of Ryan Murphy’s villains, from the satirical Sue Sylvester on Glee to the many horrible faces of American Horror Story, one stands out as a true delight to watch: Scream Queens’ narcissistic anti-heroine Chanel Oberlin.

As the usurping President of Kappa House, Chanel (Emma Roberts) is a perfect stereotype of ultra-rich, vapid sorority queen as well as coddled millennial. She also may just be a murderer. Curiously, she also adopts a remarkably morbid aesthetic as freely as she does as her pink fuzzy dresses, and most of her action is motivated by her nearly-sincere fondness for her cheating boyfriend.

But what we love most about Chanel, excellently executed by Emma Roberts, is her perfect one-liners and pure commitment to Chanel’s sheer absurdity. Chanel could easily have been lost among her…