The Best Siblings From Television Shows Ranked
Best siblings from Television shows ranked
“Over the course of my long life, I have come to believe that we are bound forever to those with whom we share blood.
“And while we may not choose our family, that bond can be our greatest strength or our deepest regret. This unfortunate truth has haunted me for as long as I can recall,”.
I still get chills whenever I log on onto YouTube and rehash my favourite Elijah Mikaelson quotes brought to life by the incomparable Daniel Giles.
No show has brought the ups and downs, merits and demerits of the family unit, as siblings tend to have a unique bond, no matter how different a brother or sister maybe.
Since time immemorial, the family unit has formed the nucleus of entertainment, whether it’s on the big or small screens. That quote inspired the idea to countdown the biggest and best siblings in television history.
Rather than draw it back to the days of Pugsley and Wednesday Addams from ‘The Addams Family’ or Willis and Arnold Jackson from ‘Different Strokes’, I decided to it keep modern.
After all, millennials constitute roughly 70% of today’s readership, and I sincerely doubt if there at least half of them know who Jimmy Workman and Christina Ricci are, or even Todd Bridges and Gary Coleman.
FYI, these are the actors and actresses that brought to life the characters from the aforementioned shows ‘Addams Family’ and ‘Different Strokes’.
So, let’s get into it
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Raymond and Robert Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond)
Starting off our list are two sitcom brothers who owe most of the fame and notoriety to the actors that played them, namely Ray Romano and Brad Garret.
The CBS show ran for nine seasons (1996-2005), and centred on the life of an Italian-American everyman named Raymond Barone, a sportswriter for Newsday living with his family on Long Island.
Beleaguered, diffident, and dryly sarcastic, Raymond never took things seriously, making jokes in nearly every situation, no matter how troubling or serious.
While his chemistry with his on-screen wife Debra (Patricia Heaton) was one of the key reasons behind the show’s success, every time Romano and Garret shared the screen it was comedy gold.
The two brothers were, for lack of a better term, mama’s boys who always vied for their mother’s attention Doris Roberts’s Marie Barone.
The two lived a stone’s throw away from their parent’s house, which they frequented at every given chance.
These two siblings make the list solely based on the talents of the actors that played, both of whom had a delivery none like any other.
- Damon and Stefan Salvatore (The Vampire Diaries)
Try to find better-looking vampire brothers in the history of television than the Salvatore brothers.
These two immortals- Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder)- were polar opposites who started off as rivals, shared the love of the same woman Elena (Nina Dobrev), and managed to have one of the best redemption arcs in the television history.
Stefan was the good, kind, and caring younger brother who ended up sacrificing his own immortal existence so that his older brother to finally find love.
Much like almost every entry on this list, the characters owe a lot to the actors that played them with Somerhalder born to play the role of Damon Salvatore.
He had the looks, delivery and a total grasp of his character, and made Paul Wesley a better actor for it.
Personal opinion!
- Meredith and Lexie Grey (Grey’s Anatomy)
The story of Meredith and Lexie Grey is so cliché that it is actually good.
From the moment we meet Meredith Grey, it doesn’t take long for us to find out that she has a lot of daddy issues.
It is only in season four that the tragic backstory starts unravelling as we learn that she was abandoned by father Thatcher and had to watch her mother, a once-revered doctor, take slowly waste away due to Alzheimer’s.
Things get complicated when she meets her half-sister Lexie, the second born from her father’s second marriage, and instantly rejects her.
To her, Lexie represents all things that she never had, top of which is a relationship with her father.
Unfortunately, the younger sibling, brought to life by Chyler Leigh, is determined to establish a relationship with her older sister.
Leigh is an incredible actress and I firmly believe that her performance as Lexie Grey should have won her at the very least an Emmy.
Watching these two build a relationship from total resentment was Grey’s Anatomy at its best, and Leigh deserves something 90% of the credit.
Her performance and ability to catch the more dramatic beats of the scene is enough to make even a grown man cry.
It is one of the reasons why her death in the eighth season of the show was so gut-wrenching and was one of the early signs of the show’s demise.
- Kara and Alex Danvers (Supergirl)
Yet another Chyler Leigh-driven siblings, but this time in the CW.
Kara Danvers, as many will know, is the cousin of Clark Kent aka Superman.
Also, there is a reason why every attempt to bring her story to the big or screen was a total flop until the arrival of the CW’s Supergirl.
First of all, Mellissa Benoist and Leigh were perfectly cast in their roles as the Danvers sisters Kara and Alex.
When we first meet them, their relationship is already close as Alex, the older of the two is very protective of her younger alien sister.
When her powers become public, we see that dynamic change, or should I say improve, with the end product being that the two view each other as equals.
There are a few episodes in the middle where we get an insight into how these two grew up, as there was a little resentment and jealousy at first.
Once they patch things, these grow up to depend on each other whether it be in their professional, personal lives and everything in-between.
watching the older Danvers struggle to come out to her sister has got to be ne the top five Leigh performances during the show’s seven-season run
- Sam and Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
When angels, demons, and god himself fail to break your bond or kill, then you know you are true brothers.
This is the story of Sam and Dean Winchester, two boys thrust into the supernatural world and fight demons, witches, angels and even go to hell and lose their souls all in the name of brotherly love.
This show has even made icons and best friends out of Jared Padalecki (Sam) and Jensen Ackles (Dean)
- Ross and Monica Geller (Friends)
For a time, these two siblings were reported to be the best brother and sister combo in all of television.
Monica’s obsession with being neat and perfect, and Ross’ nerdiness and social ineptness are why the characters are loved and adored, but it was their similarities that made them such a great combo.
Both are weirdly competitive and one only has to watch them do their dance routine, wrestle, squabble like children or face each other during a friendly game of thanksgiving football to see why they held that number one spot for so many years.
Also, the two embrace each other quirks and seem to have an unbreakable bond during the show’s ten-year run.
- Mikaelson Family (Originals)
“Always and forever”
This is the iconic bond that the Mikaelson children swore to each other as kids, or at least Klaus, Elijah and Rebecca.
As members of the first family of vampires, the Mikaelson children embody everything good and bad about the family unit.
For many years, Freya (Riley Voelkel), the eldest of the sic Mikaelson children, was separated from her family and can’t seem to shake the feeling of being an outsider when she reunites with them.
She is also the wisest and most caring.
Finn (Casper Zafer) hates and resents most of his siblings, and even curses and kills his youngest brother Kol.
Elijah (Gillies), Klaus (Joseph Morgan) and Rebecca (Claire Holt) are the real authors of the curse, and while they may betray, fight and kidnap have a love and bond that evens outlives their immortality.
Kol (Nathan Buzolic), the youngest, is the renegade and wild child.
Nothing says family bond than when your common enemies include your mother and father.
