People Who Hate Brenda?

She's one of the most interesting and complex characters I've ever seen.

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By the end of season 1, I could not stand her. By the end of the series, I loved her, and hated Nate.

they hate her probably cause she cheats on all her boyfriends

Just started watching this show, and so far, I find Brenda's character very annoying. So far, it seems to me that she is trying to be one of those women who act like men, being careless and free with their sexual escapades and seemingly try to portray the image of playing hard to get, but so far, she comes off very needy and desperate...she's always the one calling Nate and getting upset and hanging up on him, but when she's with him, she tries to make herself seem unattached. Through reading your posts, I'm hoping this isn't the case and she becomes less annoying in this way and maybe it is revealed why she acts this way? Maybe she's insecure that Nate is much better looking than she is? I don't know. I'm not giving up yet and will keep watching to give the show a fair chance, because I like other elements of the show so far.

Only gripe I had was in the first few seasons Nate was the one who always had to make things right and always had to take her *beep* Of course the affair happened and that pissed me off.

Had Nate lived, I think they really would have had a happily ever after. Brenda was one of the few reasons I hated him dying.

I hate her because in compare to other characters' problems, hers' seem so shallow. I'm at the end of season 04 and it's been about a season that whenever Brenda comes to the screen I just fast forward it for how annoying and whiny she is over every little thing that goes wrong in her life like a 13 year-old brat. She is supposed to be intelligent yet she leaves her phobic patient to go with her not-so-official boyfriend to her dead wife's funeral, whom she didn't respect enough to leave her husband alone when they were married, and even though she knows what a disrespect it is to the deceased's family. And what was with the "force him to go to a bridge" thing? Even I ,as a 23 year-old average person, know you're not supposed to treat a phobic like that.
The 8 year-old her is pretty interesting, but that's it. Her adult life is one boring life filled with stupid problems which she blames on other people and the writers trying too much to show that she is way smarter than other people seems forced and annoying.

I think the problem with sfu characters for alot of people are that the characters are not always the most likeable but that people forget is that they play real people, the characters are not perfect and are flawed but then so are normal people.

The problem is that audiences are conditioned to dislike realistic characters as many tv shows like Friends portray mostly likeable albeit unrealistic people.