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HBO: Life after Thrones.

Watched the first episode of Barry.

It’s OK so-far. Strong cast, a little sit-comish for me, but I’ll keep watching for sure.

I had just finished Documentary Now! (IFC) which is really great if you like mockumentary, parody, Fred Armissen or Bill Hader IMO.

Definitively, this will NOT set HBO up for ‘life after thrones.’ It’s another decent comedy to go along with their other decent or fantastic comedies (VEEP comes to mind).

Looking forward to watching The Terror.
 
F Murray Abraham is pushing 80 and he's busier than ever. He was hysterical in Isle of Dogs and has appeared in Curb, Inside Amy Schumer and Louie as well as being a central character in Homeland. Now he's added The Good Fight to his catalogue, talent winning over age.

 
I tried watching Ballers, it's currently one of HBO's most watched shows. Apart from The Rock, I couldn't get into it. None of the characters engaged me and there was too much bad acting.

The Rock smells what John Cena is cookin!

 
Insidious Von said:
F Murray Abraham is pushing 80 and he's busier than ever. He was hysterical in Isle of Dogs and has appeared in Curb, Inside Amy Schumer and Louie as well as being a central character in Homeland. Now he's added The Good Fight to his catalogue, talent winning over age.

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F Murray Abraham is amazing.

Homeland is a strong show. Danes as Carrie annoys the hell out of me (so shrill, and her bipolar disorder is becoming a crutch for slow season arks), but the bigger political narratives have gotten better and better over the years. I can’t believe it has stayed as strong as it has after Lewis left. I love the parallels they draw between Keane and Trump, without making me feel like I’m watching a made-for-TV movie on CNN.

Saul is probably my second favourite Mandy Patinkin performance ever...
 
I did not know that F Murray Abraham's character had a recurring role on The Good Wife, Ive never seen that show. Obviously they needed him in The Good Fight to maintain the ratings. Which is why Larry David brought him into Curb as his nemesis.

For a guy who started his career as the grapes in a Fruit of the Loon commercial, he's done very well for himself. It also helps that he and Al Pacino came up as friends. One of his earliest credits is Serpico. There's making a re-make of Scarface -why?

 
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Also in The Terror: Lane Pryce from Mad Men
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Layne Price and Francis Crozier are played by Jared Harris, son of Richard Harris.

The history of badassery: Tony Soprano ---Walter White --- Ray Donovan --- Jared Dunn.

Jared Dunn is a badass, you can get muscle anywhere. He's meek, good natured and ethical when it matters. He also has the brain of a supercomputer but doesn't flaunt it, he's forgotten more about the human condition than most people will ever know and has the strategic know how of a five star general. You wouldn't want to play poker against him much less be his adversary.

...and his prowess with women is through the roof.

 
Barry is developing into a great show, I knew Bill Hader had it in him.

I haven't seen Stranger Things yet but I hear that Ethan Hawke-Uma Thurman's daughter Maya is part of the cast. Does she have talent?

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Celebrity Chef Bobby Flay likes to date starlets. His latest SO is Helene Yorke, she has credits in HBO's High Maintenance, Masters of Sex and The Good Fight. With time she could become more famous than him.

Which begs the question: Does she bring her co-stars home?

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There's a twenty year age gap between Bobby Flay and Helene Yorke. Beat Bobby Flay - no one beats Bobby Flay!

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I watched a couple of episodes of Big Little Lies, it won several Emmy's and I had to find out what all the fuss is about.

It's Married With Children as a black comedy. Black comedy is difficult to pull off, if you strike a nerve your show/movie will bomb. Sheilene Woodley plays a young single mother who may be raising a future Ted Bundy. A poisonous clique circles the wagons around her and the child to settle old scores. Never has Reese Witherspoon played such a revolting character, she makes Tracy Flick look like Julie Andrews. Nicole Kidman has the most difficult role, if I didn't know better, she's reliving her relationship with Tom Cruise.

Black Comedy is difficult and audiences may take exception to it.

 
Back to the OP - Barry is pretty good so-far. I love the entire Chechen vs. Bolivian storyline and everything in the contract killer side of the storyline, but I’m not all that impressed or I’m a little bored with the Henry Winkler / acting school storyline already.

Hader’s great, but I’m wondering if the writers still haven’t figured out how to write for the character. Is he Dexter or Napoleon Dynamite? I think we’re building toward hilarity in the part of Henry Winkler and the whole class, but it’s a bit tame right now.
 
I agree on Henry Winkler, his character has become stagnant.

So far it's Stephen Root as his smooth talking contractor that's become the co-star of the series, if you've seen Justified and Get Out!, that's no surprise. They've added a wildcard with Eric, Barry's Marine brother who wants to live the life of mayhem. Sarah Goldberg has potential, almost Jessie Buckley like, but so far she hasn't had much to do apart from being frustrated.

Barry and Big Little Lies are working on similar themes but Hader isn't taking his show into smashmouth black comedy. The theme of both shows appears to be that the better angles of humanity's nature are the weaker ones. Big Little Lies is set in stone, Barry has options.

 
E6 of Barry got very intense! I was expecting it, the show has been playing too nice so far.

"He's a slippery one. with those fish lips of his" - Corrado "Junior" Soprano.

I was asked when The Golden Age of TV began, my answer is always the same. The first 10 minutes of E11, S1 of The Sopranos. That's when the show went from being just good to going I Claudius mode. Due to YT moral restrictions (lots of titties) it cannot be uploaded. Except for a small part:

 
managee said:
Back to the OP - Barry is pretty good so-far. I love the entire Chechen vs. Bolivian storyline and everything in the contract killer side of the storyline, but I’m not all that impressed or I’m a little bored with the Henry Winkler / acting school storyline already.

Hader’s great, but I’m wondering if the writers still haven’t figured out how to write for the character. Is he Dexter or Napoleon Dynamite? I think we’re building toward hilarity in the part of Henry Winkler and the whole class, but it’s a bit tame right now.
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The big problem with Barry is that the episodes are too short. There's little time to develop a story line. Personally, I think that Billions is the best, these days, the characters metamorphosis is almost Shakespearean.
 
I saw a sneak clip of Tom Hardy's latest project Fonzo. I have mixed feelings about it. He plays Al Capone in the last year of his life. He looks like shit, the ravages of syphilis on full display. Once he wraps he'll be shooting S2 of Taboo.

His Taboo co-actor Stephen Graham played Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire.

 
Very promising new show from Britain got taken up by HBO. It's called C.B Strike.

The show is fronted by Tom Burke and Holiday Grainger. He is a hulking private dick who lost a leg in Iraq as a Royal Military policeman. She is a temp (not for long) who has a sharp eye for detail. HG was brilliant as Lucretia Borgia in Take5's The Borgias. I've never heard of Tom Burke before, he does have the presence of a Gene Hackman. He gets people to talk to him with the application of the velvet glove. It's a thin veneer to the iron fist underneath.

"Mention my late mother again and you'll experience something far worse than chilled Burgundy"....spoken like an English Furio Giunta!

They are investigating the suspicious death of a supermodel that the police have written off as a suicide. Due to her drug and eating disorder. The British are masters of murder mysteries, American shows can't touch them.

 
What's become of Federico Castellucci? I heard he jumped off a skyscraper - the ground didn't stand a chance.

So much for the Burgundy...and the Armagnac! Guardami Frenchie, io sono il ultimo uomo che tu vedere. Look Frenchie, I'm the last man you'll ever see.

 
After watching the second episode. I don't need to curb my enthusiasm for C.B Strike. Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger are excellent together. For her it's refreshing, unlike Bonnie and Clyde, she has great writing on this show.

 
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