Catching up on Season 2 of Peaky Blinders.
I notice Tom Hardy is, once again, almost incomprehensible. Dafuq do people see in this dude?
chk first post. Best actor of his Generation, penchant for silly voices notwithstanding
Ha sorry bear, I missed that. Well, forgot about it at least.
Iām not sold. Unless putting on voices that people canāt understand is indeed the measure of good acting? In that case, yeah heās a genius.
I donāt have trouble understanding him I Donāt Think. I thought his performance in Peaky Blinders was Thrilling.
Iām worried you might have Ears Problem. Been to too many gigs prob.
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Iām worried you might have Ears Problem. Been to too many gigs prob.
Tbf, you arenāt entirely wrong. Pretty much deaf in one ear.
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my abitility to diagnose conditions on the merest information is Legend. I am like Dr. House of Papsweb srs.
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Got any idea what this rash on myā¦
The new season of Silicon Valley is Quite Gd So Far
And you were moaning about Babestation on another thread ?
Make your mind up.
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Penny Dreadful has started again and gets better and better. Dracula and Dr Jekyll have turned up too!
Watched all 10 episodes of Louis CKās fantastic new show, āHorace and Peteā. I watched up until Episode 6 as they came out and then decided to wait and binge the last 4. Amazing show, by one of the best creative minds in entertainment today.
Horace (Louis CK) and Pete (Steve Buscemi) play 2 brothers who own a bar in Brooklyn called Horace and Peteās. Itās been owned and run by generations of brothers by the same names, one of whom (Uncle Pete played by Alan Alda) is still live, kicking and super racist and offensive. Their sister Sylvia (Edie Falco) and Horaceās wantaway daughter Alice (Aidy Bryant) also pop in and out and chide the 3 of them.
Louis has been very clear in interviews that this is a tragedy, not a comedy/drama or whatever. If you donāt mind a few spoilers, listen to him on Marc Maronās recent WTF Podcast, where he explains the show much better than I can on here. Itās in a similar vein to Louie, tragic elements mixed with comedy and drama, but there are fewer situations played for laughs and the characters are all stuck in seemingly perpetual misery without reprieve. There are cameos by Jessica Lange, Colman Domingo, Kurt Metzger, Amy Sedaris, Laurie Metcalf and even Paul Simon (who also wrote and performed the music for the show).
I could probably sit and write an essay about the show, but really you need to watch it for yourself. Donāt go in expecting too many laughs, donāt go in expecting zany characters and wacky situations, and youāll find some of the best written and constructed TV (or web series or whatever) in years.
i am eventually going to check that out. I love Mike Judgeās other stuff. I used to live Office Space, FFS.
Watching The Americans at the moment. It seems as if weāre saying goodbye to one of the recurring characters.
She was well-written. Iāll miss the actorās performance, but her part was at a natural end.
One performance Iām really enjoying is Noah Emmerichās, who I initially dismissed as a Hank clone from Breaking Bad. He still performs that function, has problems at home and doesnāt know that his neighbours are KGB agents. Time has been a great differentiator. While he shares the same narrative purpose, the character is completely different.
That peaky blinders episode just now was fkn beautiful gr8 show
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Couldnāt have put it better! 
Ok, so Iām posting on The Americans twice in the space of an hour, but wow, just wow.
Iāve seen the end of the episode I referred to earlier, and despite Bearās previous objections about Keri Russell not bonking as many people as she did in season one, I was blown away by her performance in tonightās episode. Fierce, vulnerable, questioning, motherly and dangerous. As Soviet agents, they have to slip into disguises to avoid being āseenā, but Russell is most impressive when sheās in full-on KGB mode, which she can slip into at any time. The hubby is something of a reluctant operative, might be going a little bit native, but sheās absolutely fucking resolute.
Accordingly, the drama writes itself, but itād be nothing without the performance.
Huge kudos to Keri Russell, who for 42 minutes, convinced me she was the most dangerous and interesting person on the planet.
Been catching up on Community. I havenāt hit the weird season yet, so itās all good right now. Whatever it decides to do, it tends to end up doing brilliantly. The Dungeons and Dragons episode with Fat Neil is genius in both its cruelty and resolution.
Chevy Chase excels as a bigoted and manipulative mature student. Iāve got a real soft spot for this guy too.
I started watching season 1 of Peaky Blinders the other day. Itās good.
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Last series of Banshee starts on Atlantic this Friday.
So does the new Top Gear belong in this thread?