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Post by MagdaFR on Dec 6, 2018 15:34:34 GMT
How did Bodyguard end up in the tv series category instead of limited series? It's going to have a second season.
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Post by MagdaFR on Dec 6, 2018 15:44:23 GMT
I should never have read Entertainment Weekly’s article about the nominations. I’m so angry! We’ve seen in the past few weeks that Patrick Melrose made it to just about every list of the year’s Top Ten - except for EW, who gave it an awful review. Now they have the nerve to say that the series had a “lackluster” reaction! How ridiculous! EW should be embarrassed that they snubbed a wonderful series that received praise from everyone else. (I just went back to the article and left a comment. I feel better now!) Wow! That's a huge lie! I have seen comments that he was the stand out but saying it has lackluster reactions is insane! FT said it was one of the best British series ever, a new classic; The Guardian not just acclaimed it on the TV section but posted an article saying it was the most realistic and sincere portrait of an adict on screen written by an ex-adict; James L. Brooks posted that BC's performance was something he hasn't watched before! How are those reactions lackluster? Was it written by the Darren Criss' fangirl they have as critic (she was worried they would give the Emmy to another actor)? I thought she refused to watch the whole series even when everyone was saying to her that it was wonderful and not as bad as she said it was after her two episodes review! That's what she wrote on Twitter! Or probably it's just part of the award campaigns! Fabricating things to make their horse look better and more deserving! Metacritic : Patrick Melrose is 80 Versace 74 RT: Patrick Melrose 89 Versace 88n
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 6, 2018 16:00:40 GMT
Murphy is very succesful and his products are very campy and enjoyable but also dumb and frivolous. I enjoyed American Horror Story a lot but I don't see it like something objectively good. Alfonso Gómez-Rejón is one of his protegées and he use those kind of directors with crazy technical abilities (there's a great shot at the end of Asylum, for example) but at the same time is just a silly story about monsters, blood and sex. There's nothing deep in them and the dialogues and plots are plain ridiculous! The best thing he has done is the OJ Simpson thing and it's much more content as his other things.
I'm also surprised (or maybe not) that he always receives good but not so good reviews for things like The Normal Heart and this Versace thing but at the time of awards and best of the year lists those series are suddenly "the best". As the Deadline guys said he is well conected
Interesting enough, I recently discovered he directed a movie that I think it's one example of what Patrick Melrose could had been in the hands of the wrong director and the wrong scriptwriter, Running with Scissors. It's a movie with big names and a very difficult theme: in this case the homosexual relationship between a 13 years old and a 40 years old. It also includes themes like depression and suicide. And it's a comedy! Everything went wrong with it! There's nothing enjoyable there! And great example of how not to adapt difficult books!
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 6, 2018 16:05:06 GMT
Wow! That's a huge lie! I have seen comments that he was the stand out but saying it has lackluster reactions is insane! FT said it was one of the best British series ever, a new classic; The Guardian not just acclaimed it on the TV section but posted an article saying it was the most realistic and sincere portrait of an adict on screen written by an ex-adict; James L. Brooks posted that BC's performance was something he hasn't watched before! How are those reactions lackluster? Was it written by the Darren Criss' fangirl they have as critic (she was worried they would give the Emmy to another actor)? I thought she refused to watch the whole series even when everyone was saying to her that it was wonderful and not as bad as she said it was after her two episodes review! That's what she wrote on Twitter! Or probably it's just part of the award campaigns! Fabricating things to make their horse look better and more deserving! Metacritic : Patrick Melrose is 80 Versace 74 RT: Patrick Melrose 89 Versace 88n I hate numbers but I guess that means Versace was slightly liked by more people but Patrick Melrose was more loved? I still think you have to read reviews and I remember Versace reviews were more about how it was good but not so good as the OJ Simpson one. Again, Murphy is well conected and loved by award pundits. EDITED: I just read it again! PM actually it's the one with a slightly better RT score so it wins in both sites! And PM was even more difficult stuff. Versace is about a killer but it's a pulp sexy series (as in some ways, it's A Very English Scandal), PM is devastating, complex and difficult.
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Post by MagdaFR on Dec 6, 2018 16:29:09 GMT
Hugh Grant
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Post by sgev1977 on Dec 6, 2018 16:32:42 GMT
I remember his Inside Actor's Studio episode. He was hysterical! It's crazy he had that image of buttoned-up British guy... well, until THAT event!
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Post by mllemass on Dec 6, 2018 17:31:30 GMT
No matter how good anyone says the Versace thing was, I just couldn’t get past the one clip I saw of Versace and his sister arguing in broken English and heavy Italian accents. Never in a million years would that have happened! They obviously wanted to dumb it down for an audience that wouldn’t want to read subtitles. I saw the Green Book last week and I was thrilled to hear the Italians speaking Italian - like they would have done in real life. It’s a little thing, I know, but it made a world of difference to me. And reading subtitles didn’t seem to be a problem for the audience in the theatre.
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Post by roverpup on Dec 6, 2018 17:33:07 GMT
Will Benedict go to the awards? He seems to be showing up to these kinds of events now that he’s also a producer. It’s funny that he acts like awards are nice but they aren’t that important. But in that recent Today Show interview, the interviewer mistakenly said that he was a Golden Globe winner, and Benedict quickly corrected him. He started saying something about the Hollywood Foreign Press, but then he trailed off. He knew exactly what the Golden Globes were, who voted for them, and that he had never won one. If Sophie is about due to deliver their third baby in early January then I would think that he might wish to be with her at that time, rather than attend an awards show. You are correct however, that being a producer would motivate attendance for networking opportunities... but the GG nom isn't for his company - it's a personal acting nom.
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Post by mllemass on Dec 6, 2018 17:41:32 GMT
The tweet from Showtime:
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Post by queenzod on Dec 6, 2018 17:56:48 GMT
I’m thrilled for Ben’s nom but lord I hate award season, and I hate it that I get worked up over the possibility that he might win and then he doesn’t and I’m bummed. I try not to put any weight on it but I can’t help myself. I want him to have all the awards. He’s brilliant, and his performance in PM was simply astonishing. Here we go again...
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