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Emmy Awards 2018: A Rant, a Comment and a Gallery

23 domenica Set 2018

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Ok, It took me one week to absorb and accept the fact that BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH DIDN’T WIN THE EMMY AWARDS FOR BEST ACTOR IN A LIMITED SERIES for his monumental, excruciating, emotional, funny, profound, intense, charismatic, unique, passionate, amazing, astounding, heartbreaking, mindblowing, distressing, disturbing performance in PATRICK MELROSE, which by the way DIDN’T WIN ANY EMMY, which is also incredible, but nonetheless….

I mean, C’MOOOOON, have you SEEN IT??? Have you WATCHED IT???

Apart from the Cumberbatch’s ROBBERY, there was a lot to be happy for me in the 70th Emmy Awards. The Marvelous Mrs Maisel’s clean sweep of all comedy awards was expected, and for once I totally agree: I truly enjoyed the writing and the directing of the batshit crazy Amy Sherman-Palladino and I’ve become almost immediately a great fan of both Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein: without Alex’s good job Rachel couldn’t shine so much, and viceversa. And nonetheless I’m a bit sad for the complete miss of the cast of Glow, because both Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin, but also Marc Maron, deserved to be at least all nominated, and not only Betty. Hope sincerely that the next year there will be some acknowledgement for their great job, because the sophomore season was at the same time funny, thought-provoking and really moving.

It was about time that someone recognize the good work of Matthew Rhys in The Americans, and also the good writing of this waaaay underrated spy/family series, and for their final season they finally get some rewards. Too bad for Keri Russell, but she was in a tough competition with some of the best actresses around: Elizabeth Moss, Clailre Foy, Evan Rachel Wood and Sandra Oh were all really good in their roles, but afterr seeing Killing Eve I would have liked that Sandra Oh won, instead of the Queen Claire Foy, again.

As for the GoT awards, I’d say that both the best supporting actor and the best Drama Series were a bit too much. Sorry for the umpteenth wins of Peter Dinklage, but Nikolay Koster-Waldou was better this year for his portrayal of Jaime Lannister, and as for the drama series, both The Handmaid’s Tale and The Crown, or The Americans would have been better choices IMHO.

After the break, a brief gallery from Red Carpet ..

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Goodbye Mrs. Garrett

14 martedì Ago 2018

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The Facts of Life

Another piece of my serial youth  is gone, as actress Charlotte Rae died the 5th of August. She was best known for her role of Mrs. Edna Garrett, a character that started as the housekeeper of the Drummond family in  Diff’rent Strokes and after became the lead actress in The Facts of Life, a spin off series in which Mrs Garrett became the housemother (and after dietitian) of the Eastland School, an all female boarding school on New York.  A tv series obviously inspired to Louise Mary Alcott’s book Little Women, since there was even a young tomboy called Jo… my favourite character, by the way.

Looking back, I can’t help but to notice that here in Italy the two series had two very differente title:  Diff’rent Strokes , whose purpose since from the title was clearly to address racial and class issues in form of a sit-com,  became the lame My Friend Arnold (Il mio amico Arnold),  and The Facts of Life (I fatti della vita),  speaking about sex, virginity, eating disorders and drug use for the first time in a teen TV series,  became The Apple Tree – L’albero delle mele, maybe because it came after the huge box-office success of the french movie La Boum (The Party) which in Italy became The Apple’s Time – Il tempo delle Mele, an expression that since then is used as sinonym of adolescence.

And speaking of The Facts of Life, I absolutely didn’t remember that a twenty-something year old  George Clooney made one of his first tv appearance as handyman  George Burnett in season seven and eight of the series,  maybe because here in Italy we didn’t get to see it….

Anyway, here’s a clip with Charlotte Rae, Clooney and all the girls:

Master of None in Italia

16 martedì Mag 2017

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Aziz Ansari per la seconda stagione della serie Netflix Master Of None ha girato alcuni episodi in Italia e in particolare nella mia bella città. Il primo, e in parte il secondo, offrono cosi’ un sacco di scorci interessanti, peraltro ben noti all’attore americano di origini indiane. Infatti prima di diventare famoso aveva trascorso qui qualche mese per imparare a fare la pasta, proprio come il suo personaggio nel primo episodio della serie, e si era innamorato del posto al punto da decidere di ambientare parte delle riprese della sua serie proprio qua.

A Different Kind of Gods

03 lunedì Apr 2017

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One of the event of the season, American Gods tv series will start on 30th April in USA on Starz Channel. Created by Bryan Fuller and based on the same-name novel of Neil Gaiman, in which  old gods like Odin, now living in the USA as normal citizens, must gather to face the new gods, like Tecnology and Media

It will be available in Italy on Amazon Prime Video from 1st May 2017

Here’s some character poster :

The Handmaid’s Tale – Final Trailer

24 venerdì Mar 2017

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Based on the novel of the same name by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale is now a tv series with Elizabeth Moss as the protagonist Offed, available on streaming platform Hulu from the 26th of April. Like The Man from The High Castle, also Atwood’s novel is a dystopian sci-fi tales,  where in  a religious dictatorship  young girls are forced to enter the Handmaid’s Order, whose only purpose is to serve and procreate for their master’s wives, which are sterile. Elizabeth Moss, well known for her role as Peggy in Mad Men, plays the protagonist Offred, whose master is Fred (OfFred) played by Joseph Fiennies.