Dylan McDermott is the Nicolas Cage of television

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if you are a responsible citizen of the internet then surely you have heard of one Nicholas Cage I said put the bunny back in the Box the actor is one of the best of his generation an Academy Award winner who makes a great film every few years but in between he takes pretty much any gig offered to him and then he commits godamn it which results in this L of be lot of be the television should get its own Nicholas C and in the grand tradition of TV he should sort of feel like a department store knockoff of the [Music] man fortunately we TV fans have just that and we've had him for years now his name Dylan McDermot he might have been Emmy nominated for his work on the practice but his true strength It's Shouting about things I needed you and you got a dog it was me you should have been curing up with that night it's entirely possible McDermot himself didn't know he was TV's Nicholas Cage but as with so many things Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy looked deep into McDermott's soul and saw a raving lunatic just waiting to get out he made McDermot the male lead of the first season of American Horror Story and a legend was boring she's having twins and only one of them is mine the sad fact is is that I'm shooting blanks can ask my ex-wife we dve for 5 years all it takes is one good swimmer throughout That season McDermot gave the pitch of utter defeated ANS to so many terrible lines that it became possible to watch the show entirely to see what he would say next you destroyed everything even better it was never entirely possible to tell if McDermot was in on the joke or not which made his performance seem all the more bizarre he returned for an arc in season 2 in which he played the main character's murderous Offspring sadly it was a bit of a let down this is delicate work he went from horror story to cbs's hostages but he brought with him a strong sense that what TV needed was frowny faces and random words being whispered you're going to kill the president of the United States illen otherwise we will kill your family now he's on cbs's new stalker the show is awful and it tries too hard to make him serious but there are flickers here and [Music] there what New Horizons of insanity will Dylan McDermot open up for us only time will tell why couldn't you put the bunny back in the [Music] box