User blog comment:Seddieftwyea/Who's a better actress: Miranda or Jennette?/@comment-3201004-20110313174245/@comment-3419321-20110314044522

To be fair, I'm not sure that we've seen enough of Miranda in dramatic roles to know what she can do.

I remember seeing James Van Der Beek guest-starring on the two-part Criminal Minds episode "Revelations" / "The Big Game," and let me tell you ... My mind was blown. I kept wondering, "Who knew that James Van Der Beek could act like that?"

Seriously, that guy's talents were totally wasted on Dawson's Creek. He was amazing at playing a serial killer with multiple-personality disorder.

So, I'd argue that we should wait until we really see Miranda in a dramatic production before we make any judgments about what might be able to pull off.

However, I totally agree that Jennette has more than proven herself in this area.

At the age of 10-12, she had put together quite an impressive list of credits, with guest appearances on CSI : Crime Scene Investigation, Medium, Law & Order : SVU, and a performance that still haunts me to this day, playing a bipolar girl with violent tendencies in Strong Medicine.

You can see for yourself. I don't know if the full episode is available anywhere on the Internet, but if you go onto YouTube and look up the keywords "Jennette McCurdy" and "Strong Medicine," you'll find a 7-minute clip of Jennette's guest appearance on that show.

It's powerful.