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I think I added that, just wasn't too sure. I'll give it a shot while preparing dinner.
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spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Season 4 of The Crown.
Yes, yes, yes I’m sure it is very far from reality in the way it depicts all concerned (though I can see both pro and anti Windsor-types and pro and anti Thatch people thinking the depictions are too kind/unkind)... but it remains rather juicy semi-highbrow soap, with some phenomenal performances.
Gillian Anderson as Thatcher is really quite startlingly good, and the whole cast are both pretty good at matching the voice, posture and mannerisms of their characters, but also emotionally compelling. Olivia Coleman has caught a lot of flack - mostly from those, viewing series 3, who were displeased to have pretty Claire Foy replaced by a dowdier, more matronly Liz - but I think she’s pretty awesome. It’s not a charismatic performance and that’s quite the point.
Yes, yes, yes I’m sure it is very far from reality in the way it depicts all concerned (though I can see both pro and anti Windsor-types and pro and anti Thatch people thinking the depictions are too kind/unkind)... but it remains rather juicy semi-highbrow soap, with some phenomenal performances.
Gillian Anderson as Thatcher is really quite startlingly good, and the whole cast are both pretty good at matching the voice, posture and mannerisms of their characters, but also emotionally compelling. Olivia Coleman has caught a lot of flack - mostly from those, viewing series 3, who were displeased to have pretty Claire Foy replaced by a dowdier, more matronly Liz - but I think she’s pretty awesome. It’s not a charismatic performance and that’s quite the point.
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Plastic Paddy
Blimey! Really? I've been half watching it over the top of a laptop and think most of the acting is laughable, with GA being the worst offender! It's like bad mimickry. Like they're taking the piss, and more suited to Spitting Image than a serious drama.
Reno
The In Kraut
The acting is great.
Finished this morning. Would recommend to fans of When they see us, Making a murderer etc.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
The acting in The Crown looks awful from the trail - real Star Stories/6 full hours in make-up shit
purves grundy
ambient clown remix
Watched Prisoners last night. Blimey 
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Plastic Paddy
I find it cringey. Thatcher just didn't talk like that despite how she's been portrayed by stand-up mimics. GA is copying Janet Brown, not Margaret Thatcher. It's a caricature.
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
She’s pretty good in Bleak House
Reno
The In Kraut
She grew up in London and has spent the majority her life in the UK, so an English accent isn't something she has to try for. Your definition of whispering may be different from mine.
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Did you get to check Overlord at the end, Spymaster ? Even if you think the film is likely to be shit or not your kind of thing, it’s still well worth watching the first ten minutes.
Great opening action scene, and more to their credit much of it done with practical effects and actual props and stuntmen jumping through fire, rather than being a CGI job. Which is the more remarkable considering where the action takes place and what it encompasses.
Great opening action scene, and more to their credit much of it done with practical effects and actual props and stuntmen jumping through fire, rather than being a CGI job. Which is the more remarkable considering where the action takes place and what it encompasses.
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Plastic Paddy
I haven't yet but I definitely will. I'll let you know what I think. Working my way through the new Disney TV series version of The Right Stuff at the moment.
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Nearly finished the second season of Swedish Dicks, and I come here tonight to fully endorse it. Don’t be put off by its silly title, this is a well written, very funny and a ludicrously watchable action comedy series.
It gets better with every episode, the overall story arc is engaging, good character development, and to cap it all Keanu Reeves is brilliant in it. I’m perhaps bigging it up somewhat so don’t expect The Good Place levels of greatness, but it is still a great light entertainment series.
It gets better with every episode, the overall story arc is engaging, good character development, and to cap it all Keanu Reeves is brilliant in it. I’m perhaps bigging it up somewhat so don’t expect The Good Place levels of greatness, but it is still a great light entertainment series.
It is making me angry.
Episode 5 with the 'Palace intruder' was by far the best.
cheers for mentioning that. I was annoyed I'd missed it at the cinema first time round, so glad to finally catch it.
love everything about the world building they did with the visuals. and great soundtrack.
I'm not sure the last third or so of the movie held up though.
everything after the equestisapians were introduced. it just felt like a bit of an odd turn from the story up to that point. I was more interested in the relationship between Cassius & Detroit which got a bit sidelined by the sci-fi craziness. then they just kind of got back together because that's the expected resolution in a movie, rather than naturally progressing there.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
It’s true she’s speaking softly though, it makes her Thatcher seem old and frail. I’m not sure whether it’s intentional or it’s the only way GA can get the accent right.
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Oohh... I was just going to ask you what sorcery is this with your fancy blurry spoilered text, but as I quoted your message I saw the spoiler code you’ve used. Much neater than the traditional one
Have been giving Undercover a go but struggling to suspend disbelief sufficiently to get properly drawn in.For the undercover team if it can go wrong it does go wrong but somehow the villains don't rumble them.One villain to the other "you wouldn't recognise a cop if he was wearing a uniform and smiling at you".And so it proves.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Yeah. This season will get a stack of BAFTA and Emmy nominations. Trust me. It’s good.
Anderson’s voice is the least of it really. There’s a torsion coming from inside her performance that just brings an agonising discomfort to Thatcher’s inherent lack of self-knowledge and drive to be strong at all costs. I mean. Thatch herself might have been more relaxed in herself, but the script here suggests something more twisted up.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
Just watched a bit of s4e1. It's unbearable. Embarrassingly awful parody, but also successfully makes me recoil with Thatcher horror.
Ugh.
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Plastic Paddy
Yes.
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Plastic Paddy
Isn't it? I just don't get what's good about that kind of acting. To me it's completely incongruous to that type of drama.
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
I haven't seen her in The Crown. I tried to watch it but it's utter shite, but I don't think Gillian Anderson has any problem pulling off an English accent.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Diana looks particularly awful, like a pisstake, all simpering panda eyes
souljacker
innit
I tried to watch the Crown s1 the other night but it's fucking awful. It probably doesn't help that I hate these people in real life but I just found it mawkish shite. The only good thing in it was Jared Harris and, well, he dies pretty much straight away. Not for me.
iamwithnail
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Quite enjoying 'To the Lake', russian zombie esque series atm.
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