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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2021 20:20:35 GMT
Get this woman another Emmy. British period piece Gillian is my favorite Gillian!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 25, 2022 15:04:38 GMT
The Great S2E1 - "Heads It's Me"Already better than any episode in Season 1. Fanning and Hoult back in top form. The setup for where it's going from here is compelling and has me wanting more (esp. after the lackluster S1 finale). Catherine and Peter are as hostile as ever but can never quite pull the trigger. The zingers stick! little kid to Catherine: "Bitch!" Catherine: "That's Empress Bitch"
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jan 27, 2022 14:30:53 GMT
The Great S2E10 "Wedding" (finale) - 8/10Excellent second season, huge step up from season 1. Writing is tighter, jokes are funnier, the characterizations are deeper, Fanning and Hoult are better, supporting cast get more moments to shine (esp. Phoebe Fox as Catherine's bitchy confidant, Douglas Hodge as the endearing and bumbling general, and Belinda Bromilow as Aunt Elizabeth), and there are some really fun guest spots too! (Gillian Anderson totally steals the show as Catherine's mother for two whole episodes and has one of the funniest character exits ever). Finale ratchets up the tension established in the back half of the season but it wasn't my favorite episode, and the ending kind of resets the board while reiterating what we already know about these two mains -- they're sticking around and they can't stop loving/hating each other. Hoult isn't out of a job, Huzzah! this isn't from the finale, this is from Ep. 7 ("Stapler") which introduces guest star Gillian Anderson as Catherine's scheming mother visiting from Germany with big plans for her daughter's reign. She's a riot!
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Sept 1, 2023 18:46:59 GMT
cancelled after three seasons can't say I'm too surprised. It was never that much of an awards player and clearly wasn't getting many views either. Season 3 was a big disappointment after Season 2. A huge step down in the humor and acting with plot threads left dangling and others going on for too long, particularly a noteworthy death which overshadows the entire second half to the point it almost feels like a different show and not in a good way, and with 45-60 min episodes that's a tough ask to expect viewers to take that journey. I loved Hoult's foppish persona in S2 but it felt like he was on autopilot in S3, just going through the motions of shtick without funny writing to back him up (take a shot every time "huzzah" is used as a placeholder in the script that they forgot to edit out). Even worse, after spending two seasons establishing Peter as a impulsive hedonistic sociopath, S3 reinvents the fraught and often-deadly Catherine-Peter relationship as a soppy love story without danger or stakes, and puts itself in a really awkward position of having to spend most of its runtime whitewashing a guy who stabbed a someone to death for calling him a dickhead and threw a dog off a balcony for science. He's a classic TV antagonist with no morals, no impulse control and a wild imagination, and its a wonder Hoult with McNamara's writing was able to make him as hilarious as he did, but in S3 he's neither dangerous nor funny. Just (in the show's words) cuntstruck. highlight of the season was Douglas Hodge as the eternally drunk and disheveled General Velementov. He spends the whole season thinking he's dying while reliving past regrets and trying to bed the deposed Queen Agnes of Sweden. Great character and performance. in 2021 I loved Phoebe Fox in S2 as the acerbic Marial whose former noblewoman demoted to lowly maid was the inverse to Emma Stone in The Favourite. When she reenters society it offers Fox ample opportunities to act on her grudges with blistering bitterness but her former demotion has also given Marial a soft-spot for the downtrodden serfs which came dramatically to a head in one of S2's best and darkest moments involving "a simple jape" and a dead old woman. She's good in S3 but less significant to the main plot and doesn't have any of those earth-shattering moments that made her so memorable in S2.
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