Okay, I’ve said this in a few different posts, but especially after [this discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/13ReasonsWhy/s/dpIFMnf4eN), I’ve noticed something: we all seem to be in pretty much total agreement that the guy can actually fucking act.

Which is why I genuinely don’t understand how he never got the career he deserved.

I’ve watched quite a few of these YA shows on Prime and Netflix recently, and I’m sorry, but the acting in some of them is rough. Yet the actors from shows like Off Campus, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and all these similar shows get endlessly hyped as the “next big young actors” and “ones to watch.”

Meanwhile, this guy was RIGHT THERE.

He gave a genuinely fantastic, emotionally layered performance in his series, and he has the training to back it up too. He didn’t just randomly get cast and do a decent job — he has an actual acting background and even studied at the fucking Globe in London.

And what does the industry do with him? Apparently nothing.

Now I occasionally check his socials and he’s doing low-budget Off-Broadway productions or showing up in tiny roles here and there. Meanwhile, people with half his range are getting leading roles and magazine profiles because they smoldered at a camera for 8 episodes.

Like... WHAT ARE WE DOING?

He’s talented, he’s got the looks, he clearly has the range for much more complicated roles, and from what I can tell he seems like a genuinely interesting, principled person who’s also involved in activism. He has pretty much everything you’d want in an actor.

So why the hell was he left behind?

Is it because he doesn’t have enough of that stereotypical straight leading man energy? Because he was in a show that got heavily criticized? Did casting directors just collectively decide they were done with him?

I genuinely don’t get it.

It’s especially frustrating when you see mediocre performances being praised to death and their actors being pushed as the next generation of talent, while someone who can actually fucking act is basically being forgotten.

He deserved better. I will die on this hill.

How the hell did the industry fumble Brandon so badly?