25 Feb SpoilerTV: Performer Of The Month – Readers’ and Staff Choice Most Outstanding Performer of January – Rachel Skarsten
It is a rare occurrence for the Staff and Readers to agree on the same winner for Performer of the Month. When it does happen it usually occurs for a performer who delivered a truly powerful performance. Rachel Skarsten is no exception to this, her performance in An Un-Birthday Present (1×11) helped make the episode one of the best episodes of this first season of CW’s Batwoman. Her performance was powerful, heartbreaking, heartwarming, and heroic. Shows, in general, try to avoid sticking a performer with more than one character to portray, but when it does happen it is a true testament indicating that the creative team felt that performer was capable of taking on the enormous task of giving life to multiple characters. Since the moment the series premiered, Skarsten has essentially been playing a character within a character and she did it flawlessly. Then the writers added in Beth and Skarsten took this immense opportunity and turned in a tour-de-force performance. For all these reasons and all that will be discussed below, Rachel Skarsten is SpoilerTV’s Staff and Readers’ Choice Performer of the Month for January for her dual performances in An Un-Birthday Present as Alice and Beth.
