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Post by MagdaFR on Mar 25, 2024 2:27:33 GMT
So Ripley is in black and white? Or is this only for the ads? It's black and white and according to many people it looks stunning. Netflix didn't produced it, though. They bought it from Showtime.
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Post by queenzod on Mar 25, 2024 3:37:10 GMT
I guess I’m going to have to watch this, aren’t I? I love Andrew Scott but I hate serial killer/sociopath stuff. 😬
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 25, 2024 13:16:18 GMT
Netflix didn’t produce it but probably they were lucky that they “saved” it from Showtime. Sadly, Showtime isn’t what it used to be in the 1990s and they just didn’t promote their stuff like Netflix (when they want it!). See for example, Patrick Melrose! It probably would be more popular if it would had been aired on Netflix or HBO.
By the way, if Netflix decides to promote both Ripley and Eric for Emmys it would be cool to see and Actors n Actors with BC and AS. And not I’m not a Sherlock fan! But they are cool together and clearly respect each other.
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Post by MagdaFR on Mar 26, 2024 22:42:22 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Mar 26, 2024 22:49:50 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 3, 2024 9:46:11 GMT
the review isn't yet on the site. There is an embargo nobody understands why.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 3, 2024 10:43:35 GMT
If it’s not because the quality, especially if it’s “incredible” maybe it’s because some plot twist?
But yeah, Netflix is pretty odd promoting stuff.
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Post by MagdaFR on Apr 3, 2024 12:31:45 GMT
They had uploaded the review and then they took it down. Someone read it and it was very positive as the "incredible" suggested. They're dropping the complete series at the same time on the day of the release (tomorrow) so we may have more spoilers from people who watched it than from reading a review. Netflix must know it's good. AS talks a bit about remakes here.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 3, 2024 12:58:20 GMT
Everything suggests it’s really good but I think it’s a bad strategy by Netflix because in the case of productions like these ones, reviews are important. It’s not like it’s a sci-fi thing like 3 Bodies, which is/was publicized in a massive way!
Streaming is different to traditional series. They are more about doing a quick impression so it’s better to arrive with a lot of hype, especially for serious dramas who are not something that casual viewers instinctively choose.
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Post by sgev1977 on Apr 4, 2024 11:09:58 GMT
Well, it seems some critics think it’s a masterpiece and others that it’s the total opposite. I read Variety and THR ones and one is very positive and the other pretty negative. The weird part of the positive one in THR, is that it seems trying too hard to contests all the apparently easy to predict criticisms (maybe he discussed it with others during the embargo): yes, he is too old for the part but the series is showing that he feels that this is his last chance; yes, they erased all the homoerotism (according to the two reviews, straight very Hollywood actor Damon is more sexually ambiguous as Ripley than gay British actor Scott!) but other characters seems to read him like that; yes, there are a lot of unnecessary pretty images, almost an extra hour of images of bridges, that most people will feel impatient with but not me!, etc. Very odd review!
Variety has a very nasty headline about Scott, calling him “charmless”, but in the review itself, you can see they are talking about the character not the actor. They explicitly said that he is much more charismatic and actually can play homoerotism in other roles but yeah, that in the series there’s nothing of it.
I also saw two summary articles of reviews. They are also divided! One says that critics are calling it “phenomenal” and the other said that they are saying it’s “insipid”! Although TBF if you read the quotes of the negative ones, they are mostly by bitter British outlets! One particular catch my attention because it was by The Telegraph woman who once specifically asked for negative anecdotes by people who had met BC. She was then not happy when she was inundated with positive anecdotes. She was angry at him because he supposedly ignored her in one event and so she was decided to destroy him on Twitter. She was the “gossip columnist” then but apparently she is now a TV critic! She later claimed thing like that BC “harassed” her because she hates him but when she went to events he was also there… as part of the event and another time, she made fun of him because he didn’t sounded as Sherlock/so posh when he was being interviewed so he clearly was faking his real life accent!
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