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Sept 14, 2018 22:16:03 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 14, 2018 22:16:03 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 16, 2018 12:57:39 GMT
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Sept 17, 2018 15:06:14 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 17, 2018 15:06:14 GMT
Short video review:
It's not complete but still he is raving about BC's performance.
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Sept 21, 2018 18:01:06 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 21, 2018 18:01:06 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Sept 22, 2018 18:02:25 GMT
In the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, they had two writers share their opinions on the Emmys. One of them was that twit that hated Patrick Melrose and only gave it a C+ in her review. Needless to say, Benedict and Patrick Melrose were not mentioned in their article. But she did gush over the Gianni Versace thing, pretty much saying it was the bast thing she’d ever seen in her life, and she was so worried during the Emmys when she saw it losing the first awards it was nominated for. But of course Darren Criss and the show won, so she was thrilled. It was the only thing she was hoping for!
I have to say that it was a really weird and unprofessional thing to read!
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 22, 2018 21:12:54 GMT
Lol. I can’t imagine good old critics wanting affirmation of the their “good taste” by popular awards! But I guess a lot of new reviewers are just award pundits! And EW decided to fire all their good old critics and to hire cheap ones a few years ago so...
I would imagine someone who doesn’t like “big performances” (and by the way if she had watched the rest of the series she would discovered that BC also gave a very subtle one when the style of the episode/film asked for it) wouldn’t be excited for the very good but also “big” acting of Criss. Seriously, it’s surprising! I would think she would hate him and maybe even also Ryan’s baroque style! The difference between PM’s episode one and Versace is that yes, Episode one is big and surrealist but also realistically painful. Murphy is not. Just an enjoyable pulp series about a real life crime. At least her main problem with PM was BC’s age which it’s even worst (and the one criticism really bothers me) because it was based in a lie or at least her ignorance. Old actresses play all the time someone younger than them who will get older during the plot. It’s very common! Example, Jennifer Jason Leigh in.... Patrick Melrose!!! That particular criticism bothers me because she tried to presented it as something “political” in a time in which any “political” comment like that caused hysteria and attacks to productions by the usual suspects! (Although the reaction to a dumb comment by a verified journalist about Bri Larson number of words in Captain Marvel trailer seems to show that there is a backlash) .
Anyway she seemed weird to me since she posted a photo capture of episode one on Twitter taken from, I assume, her screener. This was before the review and I commented it seemed unprofessional to me here but later deleted my post. Maybe it was a little extreme to call her unprofessional for it but it was very weird! I mean you aren’t watching an episode on TV or streaming but a very prívate screener you had access because you are a critic and you take photos and posted them on Twitter just to do a witty comment (I actually don’t remember the comment but it was about Pip Torrents!)
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 24, 2018 15:07:27 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Sept 27, 2018 2:53:45 GMT
www.revistagq.com/noticias/cultura/articulos/patrick-melrose-benedict-cumberbatch-hombres-toxicos-series-tv/30987Interesting interpretation of Patrick Melrose as a character in the frontier between the TV’s Golden Age’s male antihero and the new TV archetype of a rehabilitated good man. Still, I think politically correct journalists seems to ignore that anti-heroes didn’t begin with Tony Soprano and that enjoying them doesn’t mean justifying them. Actually I kind of dread the idea of movies or series with perfectly behaved/politically correct approved characters of any sex! Those characters sound like boring cartoons!
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Sept 27, 2018 16:23:52 GMT
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Post by roverpup on Sept 27, 2018 16:23:52 GMT
Sgev said: "Interesting interpretation of Patrick Melrose as a character in the frontier between the TV’s Golden Age’s male antihero and the new TV archetype of a rehabilitated good man. Still, I think politically correct journalists seems to ignore that anti-heroes didn’t begin with Tony Soprano and that enjoying them doesn’t mean justifying them. Actually I kind of dread the idea of movies or series with perfectly behaved/politically correct approved characters of any sex! Those characters sound like boring cartoons!"
Interesting topic.
I completely agree with you about an abhorrence to squeaky clean characters of any stripe.
Anti-heroes are fascinating studies in the darker side of humanity. And I certainly remember their likes being in television long before Tony S.
When I was young there was a TV show called Dark Shadows which had many plots revolving around a very dark character called Barnaby Collins (he was a vampire). That was in the mid-sixties.
And although it is in a more comedic strain, the characters of Seinfeld are all definitely antiheroes by nature.
I think there is a tendency in audiences too to find reasons to find antiheroes "likeable" and somehow morally justifiable in order to allow themselves to like them.
It's like you aren't supposed to like a mean nasty character, such as BC's creepy character from Atonement or his Richard III. Liking the character isn't justifying/agreeing with his actions.
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Post by sgev1977 on Nov 17, 2018 15:04:52 GMT
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