Chicago PD’s 3 most frustrating characters in season 6
Which Chicago PD characters drove us crazy during the most recent season? Count down Chicago PD season 6’s most frustrating characters.
Now that we’ve ranked the best characters in Chicago PD‘s latest season, it’s time to flip the script and ask: who are the characters who were the most frustrating?
These are not the worst characters, or characters that we don’t like. These are the characters who got a terrible storyline this season, or behaved slightly out of character, or got the short end of the proverbial stick when it came to character development. We wanted better for them, and it didn’t happen.
We’ve narrowed it down to three characters who, with the future of the Intelligence Unit at stake, left us shaking our heads—or just made us want to shake them a time or two.
Click through this slideshow to see our picks for Chicago PD‘s most frustrating characters during season 6, and let us know who would be on your short list in the comments at the end of the article.
3. Kim Burgess
Kim Burgess (Marina Squerciati) is an awesome character. She’s one of the characters who has come the farthest since Chicago PD premiered. Which made it frustrating that in season 6, she felt more like a supporting player in everyone else’s story.
In the first part of the season, most of what was related to Burgess was “Will she find out about Ruzek and Upton’s relationship?” Her one feature episode was “Ride Along” which didn’t make her look good. The episode saw Burgess coerced by Deputy Superintendent Katherine Brennan (Anne Heche) with talk about female empowerment, then surprised when Brennan burned her—and the only reason she got off the hook was a deus ex machina where Trudy Platt (Amy Morton) pulled a string for her.
Burgess is better than that. Then in the second half of the season, she was thrown into a fling with Blair Williams (recurring guest star Charles Michael Davis), just so Chicago PD could kill him off a few episodes later. The writing just never made sense for this—Burgess jumped into bed with him making it look like a fling (and in fact most of their scenes were either in bed or just as someone was getting out of it), yet was then crushed by his death? It was a mixed message and the end result was Burgess ended up with little to show for the entire season.