re: Unpopular Opinion: Vincent Chase was a terrible actor.

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Show alluded to him just being a pretty boy who who couldn't act & made bad decisions.

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Sort of. In the early seasons they treated his talent as an actor as pretty unimpeachable. Vince was a highly talented, but empty-headed beautiful person who life was destined to always work out for and that was that. The later seasons (post Medellin failure) made it much more ambiguous as to how talented of an actor he actually was (with Ari himself even telling Vince he didn't represent him because he thought he was a great actor, he signed him because he thought he could be a great movie star. Big difference).

I understand why they made the switch. The show had gotten really stale after those first few seasons so making Vince a more flawed character with dubious talent opened up way more story line ideas. The problem was the writing and the acting on the show was never anywhere close to strong enough to pull what they were going for and the final seasons suffered for it. Ultimately the show at its best was cotton candy. You eat it and enjoy it for its sugary sweetness, but you know there's no real nutritional value there and if you eat too much of it at once you'll get sick of it fast.