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njsykora posted:I enjoy River being described as “espionage nepo baby”. mystes fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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They said a lot about him being where he was because of his dad in the first season but I don’t think the term “nepo baby” had become popular yet.
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"Espionage nepo baby" is a term used in the article about the season 5 renewal I linked. Apparently, Gary Oldman is up for doing all eight Slow Horses novels if Apple springs for it, according to the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast. (Haven't fully listened to it, but he supposedly says so sometime during it). mcbexx fucked around with this message at 23:05 on Jan 2, 2024 |
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Jan 2, 2024 22:44
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mcbexx posted:I remember reading that Gary Oldman wanted to retire from acting after Slow Horses ended after four seasons, seems they won't let him. Maybe he's having fun
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Stegosnaurlax posted:Maybe he's having fun He just has to sweat, drink and bust rear end on command. What an awesome gig.
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It’s also one period of shooting to get 2 series worth of exposure. Reminds me of when Bruce Forsyth used to say of doing both The Price Is Right and Play Your Cards Right in the UK that he did 2 weeks of work and was on national TV for half the year.
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mcbexx posted:"Espionage nepo baby" is a term used in the article about the season 5 renewal I linked.
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Do you think he stains his own clothes.
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Jan 3, 2024 09:09
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Gorn Myson posted:To briefly summarise, he wanted to do a TV show where he gets to develop a character over a long period of time but also didn't want too much hassle, so he asked his manager "find a show thats well-written, where I use my own accent, there's no prosthetics, minimal costume changes and its sort of spy/espionage themed" and yeah, what a match made in heaven. Goddamn, give his agent a raise! Gravitas Shortfall posted:
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Jerusalem posted:Goddamn, give his agent a raise! Fun fact: Gary Oldman's agent is the guy who played Larry Summers in The Social Network.
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Gorn Myson posted:no prosthetics Huh, I assumed he was wearing something to look like that.
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With the most recent episode of Monarch, I knew there was something familiar about blue underground portals taking modern-day people to a pre-historic type land filled with dangers...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmcx0PWPYj0
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Kloaked00 posted:With the most recent episode of Monarch, I knew there was something familiar about blue underground portals taking modern-day people to a pre-historic type land filled with dangers...... The episode before when May fell down the hole I was briefly ecstatic that they had finally killed off one of these unlikeable fucks until I realized they'd be going to monster land next episode.
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Kloaked00 posted:With the most recent episode of Monarch, I knew there was something familiar about blue underground portals taking modern-day people to a pre-historic type land filled with dangers...... Yeah, La Brea did it recently too.
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Slow Horses season 1 was fun but season 2 is no bueno. its just a regular boring spy show now?
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You should probably watch series 3.
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njsykora posted:You should probably watch series 3. 
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mistermojo posted:Slow Horses season 1 was fun but season 2 is no bueno. its just a regular boring spy show now? I agree. Cold War "those were the days" international intrguige plots just do nothing for me on their own. Season 3 is much better though.
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In season 2 you can kind of forget that the slow horses are a bunch of real fuckups. In season 3 you really really can’t. E: Still crack up thinking about Big Rod’s Party Bus crashing through the porch
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Beefeater1980 posted:E: Still crack up thinking about Big Rod’s Party Bus crashing through the porch "Did I get any?"
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Beefeater1980 posted:In season 2 you can kind of forget that the slow horses are a bunch of real fuckups. Just an amazing moment after all that buildup  Also in season 3, I find myself both appalled and delighted by Webb telling River,"You're special and we both know it" in order to get him to do what he wanted... and it loving worked! His whole plan, and unknown to him also Taverner's larger plot, all hinged on the fact that River hasn't yet figured out he's not the temporarily embarrassed hero of a spy novel 
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I'm just bummed we never saw the fallout for the Home Secretary and just learned that he was shitcanned/replaced. I feel we deserved a front row seat to his downfall, popcorn and all.
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My sister-in-law recommended Bad Sisters to me and it's rip-roaring fun 2 eps in. Also a pretty horrifyingly wide-eyed look at how awful people can be, and the mechanism by which they are awful
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Data Graham posted:My sister-in-law recommended Bad Sisters to me and it's rip-roaring fun 2 eps in. Also a pretty horrifyingly wide-eyed look at how awful people can be, and the mechanism by which they are awful It's a great concept and has a really strong payoff, but by about two thirds in I felt it was becoming very hamstrung by the way it structured the season. It was stuck in second gear pretty much the entire time. Looking forward to what they do in the second season though.
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Congrats to the Monarch writers on finally hitting the point where I am yelling at the screen because of how stupid they had to make one of the characters in order for something stupid to happen. No idea why Lee needed to die/disappear, but they certainly ruined their big monster fight by turning Lee into a giant dipshit where he just stands around instead of getting in the loving capsule. Maybe the monster fight was cool, idk, i was too busy shouting "stop standing there and get in the loving capsule."
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Open Source Idiom posted:
Had to look it up, they are actually doing a second season? I thought the one they did pretty much resolved all the story beats and character arcs quite nicely. Everything is wrapped up with a big bow. I don't immediately see any venue to continue telling the story in a meaningful way that would not feel forced or eye-rollingly construed. Don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed the show and would like to see more of the characters... but... how? Someone with knowledge (who we haven't met) snitches and the police looks into the matter? The insurance brothers have a change of heart and keep pestering? One of the other spouses suddenly turns out to be a huge rear end in a top hat and needs to be disposed of? Claes Bang returns as the even more evil twin brother? I'm sure they'll come up with something better, though.
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In Sharon We Trust.
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Jerusalem posted:Goddamn, give his agent a raise! This reminds me of Patrick Stewart talking about the role of Professor X. His agent put a copy of the comic book in front of him with X on the cover, and Stewart said "Why am I on the comic book?". His agent replied "Exactly".
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Found this SAG-AFTRA interview with Gary Oldman about Slow Horses , he repeats that quote about spy/his own accent/own clothes/no prosthetics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3TH9ZKpQOI Gravitas Shortfall fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Watched the first episode of Criminal Record, a show about a potential wrongful conviction and the possibility that the now DCI who lead the case - Peter Capaldi - and his team may have pushed it through on racial grounds. Cush Jumbo is the other lead, I don't think I've ever seen her in anything before (she was in The Good Wife apparently?) but she's pretty good. I don't know if it's gonna be anything groundbreaking or blowaway, but it's well-made and Capaldi is always a treat.
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Cojawfee posted:Congrats to the Monarch writers on finally hitting the point where I am yelling at the screen because of how stupid they had to make one of the characters in order for something stupid to happen. No idea why Lee needed to die/disappear, but they certainly ruined their big monster fight by turning Lee into a giant dipshit where he just stands around instead of getting in the loving capsule. Maybe the monster fight was cool, idk, i was too busy shouting "stop standing there and get in the loving capsule." I was more annoyed still wondering how Lee made it out last time without his ship
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latinotwink1997 posted:I was more annoyed still wondering how Lee made it out last time without his ship I imagine you’re going to find out exactly how next season considering the ship is no longer there.
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Godzilla just carried him in his mouth
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latinotwink1997 posted:Godzilla just carried him in his mouth Gonna pop out of the rift riding Godzilla like the dude in Dr. Strangelove riding the bomb yeehaw
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latinotwink1997 posted:I was more annoyed still wondering how Lee made it out last time without his ship probably not necessary, just safer and keeps them together. The trip in the finale seemed a lot kinder to them than it didfor Lee's trip home. Dude stumbled ten feet then passed out for a few days. I'm more curious how the grandma got the lure to her campsite if it takes 4 people to carry it.
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The big PR push on Masters of the Air seems like it's about to start https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-...ch-show-of-2024
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quote:and got Cary Joji Fukunaga back where he belongs, which is directing all-timer episodes of TV. He's a killer director but ooft.
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Pablo Bluth posted:The big PR push on Masters of the Air seems like it's about to start I'm excited if only because I've waited 12 years for this show. Nothing can top Band of Brothers though.
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