I'm not entirely sure that this is the worst profile in the world. Is Jeremy Strong a "Method" actor - so it seems. But then so are people like Daniel Day Lewis and Al Pacino - both heavily referenced in the piece. If I were an actor, would I find him difficult to work with? Undoubtedly. But, you know, actors...
I suspect that from Strong's perspective, and Aaron Sorkin's, it's really about whether he conveys a "difficult to work with" vibe that prevents him from getting things. I suspect that won't be the case, and he'll be in plenty of projects with awards considerations in the future. As for this season of Succession? I've got to say that I thought it was a triumph. I don't think that there's better writing anywhere in television, and the performances - even the outlandish ones from the likes of Kieren Culkin (Roman) and Nicholas Braun (cousin Greg) - are actually quite nuanced. The family feels very real, with the entitled kids falling over one another to backstab each other at various points. The story is very contemporary, and while there are odd episodes that veer close to farce (the AGM episode or the 40th birthday party), there's a direction that feels right all the way through. The characters are now so well embedded in our minds that we know if they're behaving as we would expect them to: Kendall spiraling out of control through his addictions; Roman's self-destructive elements that appear every time he does something "right"; Connor's utter lack of any kind of self-realisation; Shiv's failure to truly understand her father and her indifference to her unloved husband - that has viciously come back to bite her. These are all truly awful people, yet I love spending time with them. I have to return to the writing again and again - Lady Caroline directly using a line that the entitled former British MP Alan Clarke once introduced us to in his diaries when he spoke of a colleague who had made his money more recently as having had to "buy his own furniture." In other words, he was 'new money,' and 'old money' looks down on 'new money.' It's easily my favourite TV series of 2021. Adam On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 4:13 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Meanwhile, Brian Cox is on the record (well, on Late Night with Seth, H/T > THR - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCuQ5btB8wc), about his concerns > that Strong may suffer for all his method acting. > > David > > > > On Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 07:40:51 AM PST, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Meanwhile, while I am a huge fan of Adam McKay’s semi serious films, I am > not really on board with Succession. The last two episodes of season 3 were > mildly entertaining, but the series overall to me is only slightly above > average. It reads like an SNL “Satire” sketch which simply has an actor in > make up and repeat almost verbatim some of the more absurd things a real > public figure (Chris Cuomo, Brett Kavanaugh, Sean Spicer, etc). It can be > entertaining (I really liked Matt Damon) but it is hardly deep or cutting > satire. > > The people in Succession are so horrible that I find it difficult to care > even a little about what happens to any of them. > > On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 6:45 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > Lots of social snotting over it, leading the "Succession" costar's buds to > defend him. > > > https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/13/on-succession-jeremy-strong-doesnt-get-the-joke > (link) > https://twitter.com/i/events/1470428742698762247 (link) > > > B > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/804649048.1062018.1639498409888%40mail.yahoo.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/804649048.1062018.1639498409888%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGBtvcpYbAvQb6Qpd2hZx6FuGM%3DBDtW_aCmGvUZJfQd11w%40mail.gmail.com.
