Just finished watching The Studio on Apple TV and it’s a good but not amazing comedy series. Kathryn Hahn is amazing in it, though.
Anyway it’s a sort of slightly knock-off Curb Your Enthusiasm set in a movie studio so there are some good cameos in it. @Your_Dearest_Friend for those alone, if he’s not seen it
Definitely better than fake Russian accents, I guess.
I am, of course, assuming the use of accents is specifically trying to convey a sense of class background etc but there’s probably only so far that can go. But it’s something you definitely can’t do if people are putting on accents.
Anyway the worst is where no one seems to have made a decision and some actors put on an accent and others just play it straight.
Or the actors start doing an accent then give up.
Fucking brilliant show that I love a lot
I only use apple TV when I can get a free month but it’s so annoying . It seems to always sign me out then I have to log in on Android phone then verify identity then eventually get back in
Anyway using apple through prime means you don’t need the apple id
On episode 2 of The Night Manager, where’s Olivia Colman
Also the Columbian government prosecutor was Escobar’s brother in Narcos, I think.
Christ all the Narco actors are in this,
No he wasn’t Escobar’s brother he was one of the Gentlemen of Cali
Watching Waiting for the Out on iplayer. About a philosophy teacher that works in a prison.
Only two eps in but really enjoying it so far. It’s a lot more ambient and slower paced than I’d ever expect for a British drama. Hopefully the rest is as good.
yeah i smashed through this as well, was genuinely shocked when the alien bugs showed up, they did such a good job of building up to it. very much looking forward to season 2!
It’s all based on an Argentinian comic book from the 60s that’s got quite a story behind it that’s worth looking up.
I hope this picks up because while I wouldn’t call it poor there’s definitely a sense of diminishing returns here. Like you absolutely can rehash the plot of the first thing in a sequel but you really need top of the game writing (Eg Godfather Part II’s contemporary plot was written for the film and when you watch them back to back you really see how it’s the same core story as the first film but it’s not a drag at all).
I’m watching Alien: Earth and I’m happy about it.
Just done the flashback episode where you see what went down on the ship. Props to the show for coming up with the scenario of being on an out of control space ship years from Earth with loads of super intelligent alien bugs who are being aided and abetted by the paid agent of sociopathic teenage technofuedal oligarch. Hard to imagine a more nightmarish scenario tbf tbh
And I’m sure this has been covered in the last four decades of nerd discourse but why are face huggers perfectly evolved to attaching themselves to human faces?
That flashback episode is at least the best thing in the Alien universe since Aliens. Incredible stuff.
Sadly brace yourself for s final episode that makes Stranger Things 5 look coherent.