HONORABLE MENTION: Melissa Benoist
On this week’s The Girls on the Bus, Melissa Benoist‘s Sadie was dealt a big blow when her editor Bruce (played by Griffin Dunne) unexpectedly died. But Bruce was more than just Sadie’s boss. He was also a mentor and friend to her, and Benoist conveyed that in the depth of Sadie’s grief. The actress was brimming with anger and shock and sadness over the loss while talking to an imaginary version of journalist Hunter S. Thompson, proclaiming through sobs, “He protected me, looked out for me, unlike you.” When Sadie could no longer contain her tears, she sent “Thompson” away and broke down on a park bench. Through Benoist’s emotional performance, we could feel the magnitude of Sadie’s heartache in that challenging moment. — Vlada Gelman
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