The TV thread

As long as there's soma.

 

He's great. Really liked Broadchurch. Probably my favorite Tennant is his turn as Kilgrave in "Jessica Jones". His line readings were fabulous, and that's such an unhinged great villain.

 

Agreed. He was fantastic as Kilgrave and so far, he is the best part of Broadchurch.

 

OMG, Tricia Helfer. Showed up at the beginning of Season 2. Hotness-plus. I hadn’t heard of her. Quick IMDB said she is on SWAT. Must be Tan’s fiancée.

 

She also played two different characters who inhabited the same body at different times, which kind of fit in with some of her previous acting experience.

Helfer was primarily a model with only a few acting roles before making a name for herself as one of the human-looking Cylons on Battlestar Galactica. For those who don't know the show, there were 12 models and there were countless units for each of the first seven. (There was only one of each of the final five.) That meant Helfer got to play multiple versions of the character, all starting off similar, but changing based on their experience. Each model was referred to as a number. In what must have been SJ.com-related destiny, Helfer's model was No. 6.

 

SIX!

 

Rewatching The Boys on Prime and am viewing it much differently in a BLM/post-George Floyd world. Didn't realize how strong the cast was.

 

To the second power.

That’s a pure smoke show.

 

Don't forget Katee Sackhoff and Grace Park. On a related Syfy front - always liked Salli Richardson Whitfield from Eureka.

 

I finally finished The Americans. What an amazing piece of TV, up there with Breaking Bad, The Wire, Mad Men and The Sopranos.

 

I'm re-watching "Daybreak" today, with all its badass moments and weirdness. The casting of that show was always an amazing mix, and even though I didn't like some of the choices at the end, it was well-written. Park is beautiful, but I also thought she did a good job playing the similarities and differences between Athena and Boomer. There were so many actors I hadn't seen before who were great on that show, like Michael Hogan, James Callis and Jamie Bamber. I had forgotten some of the little things, like President Roslyn nearly bringing Doctor Cottle to tears when she said goobye to him. Edward James Olmos has always been great, but I was struck again by the moments he played Adama as completely broken, only to find his way back again. Dean Stockwell was also a hell of a villain.

There were two casting choices that always struck me as odd. One was bringing in Richard Hatch, who played Apollo on the original series in 1979, as notorious revolutionary. He actually made it work, but seeing him in that role threw me at first. So did Nana Visitor as a dying cancer patient in the final season. I kept wanting her to go full Kira Nerys and shoot a few Cylons.