A cracking way to start a Tuesday morning - thank you. And yes, everyone who possibly can should watch Watchmen. It's truly stunning - never lets you drift into thinking you know what's going to happen next, but keeps you hooked at the same time.
You don't need to have read the comics or seen the Snyder version (I hadn't), or be a fan of Alan Moore (problematic but undeniably influential). Any attempt to describe the plot would spiral horribly and just put people off - alternate history, the Tulsa Massacre (which you've probably never hear of), super beings with whacky powers, squid falling from the skies, etc. Give it time, and it comes together - somehow saying more about America, its relationship with the past, and with power, than any more worthy effort could. And while it's doing that there are delights and gut punches galore, propelled by a superb cast (Regina King, Don Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jeremy Irons the standouts). Cannot recommend it highly enough.
I'm a huge fan of the comics (although I could not care less about anything Snyder does), but totally agree that you don't need to know them to enjoy the series. It's just superb TV on its own terms, and I genuinely think it might be Irons's role of a lifetime.
I too would have told Rufus Sewell what his Middlemarch performance meant to me. There’s a scene where he gets angry/upset that I used to rewind and play back a LOT. (And let’s not dwell on the fact that Dorothea and Ladislaw actually only talk a handful of times.)
THE INTENSITY. My dream project would be a Middlemarch remake with Sewell as Casaubon (when you've seen him as Prince Andrew, you might be more convinced that this would work). He's a few decades older than the character, but if you split the difference between Victorian ageing and LA actor ageing, and throw on a few prosthetics, I think it would be incredible.
My immediate response was “eww. NO,” but the more I think about it… OK, this is starting to grow on me as a concept. (Except, suddenly Casaubon is my new crush and I am deeply confused)
A cracking way to start a Tuesday morning - thank you. And yes, everyone who possibly can should watch Watchmen. It's truly stunning - never lets you drift into thinking you know what's going to happen next, but keeps you hooked at the same time.
You don't need to have read the comics or seen the Snyder version (I hadn't), or be a fan of Alan Moore (problematic but undeniably influential). Any attempt to describe the plot would spiral horribly and just put people off - alternate history, the Tulsa Massacre (which you've probably never hear of), super beings with whacky powers, squid falling from the skies, etc. Give it time, and it comes together - somehow saying more about America, its relationship with the past, and with power, than any more worthy effort could. And while it's doing that there are delights and gut punches galore, propelled by a superb cast (Regina King, Don Johnson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jeremy Irons the standouts). Cannot recommend it highly enough.
I'm a huge fan of the comics (although I could not care less about anything Snyder does), but totally agree that you don't need to know them to enjoy the series. It's just superb TV on its own terms, and I genuinely think it might be Irons's role of a lifetime.
I too would have told Rufus Sewell what his Middlemarch performance meant to me. There’s a scene where he gets angry/upset that I used to rewind and play back a LOT. (And let’s not dwell on the fact that Dorothea and Ladislaw actually only talk a handful of times.)
THE INTENSITY. My dream project would be a Middlemarch remake with Sewell as Casaubon (when you've seen him as Prince Andrew, you might be more convinced that this would work). He's a few decades older than the character, but if you split the difference between Victorian ageing and LA actor ageing, and throw on a few prosthetics, I think it would be incredible.
My immediate response was “eww. NO,” but the more I think about it… OK, this is starting to grow on me as a concept. (Except, suddenly Casaubon is my new crush and I am deeply confused)
“telling him how “formative” his performance in the 1994 Middlemarch had been.”
Oh.
Oh no.
Bruv…
Let it never be said you aren’t brave
Hahahaha! Well, it did break the ice - I strongly suspect I'm not the first middle-aged woman to have said this to him.