What are you binge-watching this (or last) holiday weekend?

originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
He does a good American accent.
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He really does, and "good" sells it short. More like "uncanny."
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Almost 'eerie.'
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I can live with that, too. Most well-trained Brit actors can do the American voice pretty well. People like Laurie and Damian Lewis in Band of Brothers? Kind of just wants you to applaud. I had exactly zero idea Lewis wasn't an American actor.

Brits, who are the Americans who can fool you with your own voice? I can think of Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey, Meryl Streep, maybe, but my ear is the reverse. Forgive us for Dick van Dyke. Zellweger? Let us know.
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Actually, I thought you were messing with me and was just playing around - I can't judge beyond 'good.'

But I like the show; kind of like Bertie Wooster grew up, suffered disillusionment (perhaps Jeeves swindled his fortune!) got an MD, and moved to the states. Along with The Wire, the show I've probably watched the most.
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It was a very good show for a good part of its run. Kinda ran off the rails a bit towards the end, as shows tend to do. The missus watched it religiously, yelling at the screen when the neurologist is sent to perform the MRI and such, but that was all part of the fun.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
You've said this twice now w/r/t Hugh Laurie. Do you have a link to a clip?
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I do not! Maybe Youtube will have some? Not sure how copyright applies.

I do have DVDs, you can certainly borrow those if you like.
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Oh, I'm aware of those resources (though thank ye muchly for the potential loan), but I was curious to see where you thought he'd nailed it, maybe via a YouTube clip you liked. I only watched the very start of "House," and was put off; perhaps he improved? That was my line of thinking.
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I used the Google machine. Here's one!

Here's another: IT'S NEVER LUPUS!

And a third, where he takes on an anti-vaxxer:
 
originally posted by Ian Fitzsimmons:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
On a non-accent topic, the comedy "Master of None" is brilliantly written. Definite binge-watch material.
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Not to shock you, but I'd disagree. Granted, I only watched the first episode, but I couldn't bring myself to invest in another. I wanted to like it, too, having listened to Ansari interviewed a couple of times on NPR - he seems like a nice guy.

Nurse Jackie? 30 Rock?

30 Rock is well-written comedy, imho.
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"The Mindy Project" is really hysterical and well-written. Currently airing - "Black-ish" - very funny and quite sophisticated.
 
The Wire - again, and when I get too much flack from the rest of the household we watched season 4 of Luther. Just can't get enough Idris Elba.

Also Master of None - the modern day Seinfeld.
 
Anybody see "Odd Mom Out" ? There are only a few episodes but it's a shiv between the ribs if you live a hoity-toity life. (I'm still chuckling at the omakase dinner.)
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by Yule Kim:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
British actors are trained to do dialects and accents. Even a journeyman actor can do an acceptable American accent. The reverse just isn't the case. Only Americans with a natural ear for doing accents can do English accents.
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I don't know about that -- David Tennant's American accent in Gracepoint was pretty bad.

Laurie, Lewis, and Fassbender have great ears for accents, but there are not too many other British/Irish actors that can do accents at that level. (And no one is as good as Peter Sellers was)
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It's a matter of empirical fact that British actors get accent training as a matter of course that Americans do not
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I'm sort of curious about this empirical fact, given that I spent a full semester in Voice & Speech class at 9 a.m. parsing out English-speaking dialects from Australian to Welsh and everything in between. I could never get Welsh. Welsh is hard.
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I'm sure there are acting schools in the U.S. that do demand accents, just as I'm sure that some of these schools do teach actors to analyze the lines they are reading with some care. That the training isn't universal here is pretty evident when one sees American actors attempting accents and playing Shakespeare. '

The other side, of course, is that the UK never produced actors like Brando, Pacino and the male method crowd. Watching Olivier do Tennesee Williams, which I once was able to do, was its own kind of pleasure. I'll bet his version of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is on Youtube somewhere.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Anybody see "Odd Mom Out" ? There are only a few episodes but it's a shiv between the ribs if you live a hoity-toity life. (I'm still chuckling at the omakase dinner.)
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i watched it when it was first on. A bit inconcicte t but when on, scathing. Yes the omakase dinner.

If you have 't watched "Episodes" i recommend it very very highly. New season about to start so Showtime is rerunning. You must start at the beginning.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Anybody see "Odd Mom Out" ? There are only a few episodes but it's a shiv between the ribs if you live a hoity-toity life. (I'm still chuckling at the omakase dinner.)
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i watched it when it was first on. A bit inconcicte t but when on, scathing. Yes the omakase dinner.

If you have 't watched "Episodes" i recommend it very very highly. New season about to start so Showtime is rerunning. You must start at the beginning.
 
originally posted by JasonA:
The Wire - again, and when I get too much flack from the rest of the household we watched season 4 of Luther. Just can't get enough Idris Elba.
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SHIT! Missed it. Netflix? If you liked this, check out The Fall. Also, Red Riding Trilogy. Amazing.

Also Master of None - the modern day Seinfeld.
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We like this a lot. Also, You're the Worst and Broad City (but how long will this schtick last?). Bod & David, natch.

Fargo was the big winner. Best show since Breaking Bad, IMO.

Guilty pleasuring Narcos right now. Jessica Jones too.

Waiting to finish off Mad Men when it gets to Netflix. Ditto Justified.

I think I liked Bloodlines more than most. Florida glare.

Americans is on deck.
 
I think I liked Bloodlines more than most. Florida glare.
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There is nothing better than watching the steamy (weather) scenes in the middle of winter. On that note, Black Sails will be back in a couple of weeks.
 
i recommend watching:

jessica jones - marvel with a female protagonist, http://www.netflix.com/title/80002311

rick and morty - cartoon for the science geek, http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/

narcos - pablo escobar, http://www.netflix.com/title/80025172

orphan black - one of the best female performances, ever. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BVYLBP2/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1?ie=UTF8&redirect=true

continuum - time travel fun, http://www.netflix.com/title/70266352

shameless - a really good english-style (everybody is poor and fucked up) soap opera. the original is actually english. http://www.showtimeanytime.com/#/series/408
 
Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie; I believe most if not all the episodes are on YouTube. Good way to pass the time while I'm recovering from some stupid cold/flu that has lingered for nearly a month.
 
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