The week’s most emotionally reacted-to TV personalities and characters
A “Walking Dead” character, a sad “Supernatural”-ist and a rapper-gone-Hollywood had viewers talking passionately on social media over the past week.
The Wrap has partnered with Canvs, a language analytics company that measures emotions around content, for a weekly look at the characters and personalities that have TV viewers the most worked up. The data below covers Oct. 26 through Nov. 1 and is drawn from the most emotionally reacted-to broadcast and cable television shows. For the purposes of this analysis we excluded sports.
Of the 65,746 Emotional Reactions (ERs) surrounding Sunday’s episode of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” 16 percent mentioned the character Carol Peletier (played by Melissa McBride). In the wake of the brutal Season 7 opener, it seems “TWD” fans were ready for a less traumatic, more purely enjoyable storyline, and Carol helped deliver just that.
yay carol
— mac (@pinkiplier) October 31, 2016
Carol has me cracking up laughing right now! The Kingdom is so strange. #WalkingDead
— Armenta Chavis (@ChavezChavis) October 31, 2016
https://twitter.com/jbbroome/status/792943530276638720
Lmao Carol is nuts #TheWalkingDead
— Dr. Chels (@BEautifully_C) October 31, 2016
Of the 19,309 ERs surrounding last Thursday’s episode of The CW’s “Supernatural,” 14 percent mentioned the character Dean Winchester, played by Jensen Ackles. (Jared Padalecki’s character Sam Winchester was right behind him at 8 percent.) What’s remarkable about “Supernatural” is how much fans still care about the characters on a show that’s been around since 2005. A big part of the social media response surrounding this, the third episode of the 12th season, had to do with viewers feeling Dean’s pain.
How come no one told me tonight's #Supernatural was sad. Sam and Dean (expecially Dean) are so heartbroken 💔
— Bianca (@Bianca_Robinson) October 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/hailcasifer/status/791820992016506880
DEAN'S FACE MY HEART HURTS
— Trick Skittles♬ HEARD SPIDEY MEDLEY (@SoulPunkVocals) October 28, 2016
OMFG Dean is DEVASTATED #Supernatural
— 💥🏐👆JayJaay16 👆🏐💥 (@Jay_Jaay16) October 28, 2016
Of the 15,383 ERs surrounding Monday’s episode of the VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,” 42 percent mentioned Soulja Boy. Let’s just say that fans have a lot of strong and varied opinions about Mr. Boy.
https://twitter.com/_KingDuwop/status/793266009419444224
Soulja Boy has a song I like, man it's good to be back in 2007.
— Jake (@JakobCarroll) November 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/JasonMndz/status/793252735491706880
Soulja Boy has no chill
— k. (@karinaabigailll) November 1, 2016
https://twitter.com/jansen_switzer/status/793285340471496704
