i liked Devs enough to watch it all the way through, but i think the main failing that took me out of the show was their mike ermentraut character just wasn’t believable as a badass to me. like it was cool when breaking bad had a frumpy old man as the hardass enforcer, but i didn’t buy it from this actor in devs.
Lastly, I know that a lot of people have gone back for a Mad Men rewatch during quarantine. And as these casts get together to do their Zoom-unions, is that anything the Mad Men cast has discussed?
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe we have! [ Laughs ] I don’t know. Maybe we have had some discussions about this. I don’t think I am in a position to officially share anything. But, yes, we are aware that people are doing reunions and we’ve never done one, which is so crazy. We really all haven’t been together in five years. So I’ll just leave you with that.
Interesting that it’s supposed to center on Dickie Moltisanto, Tony will be a minor character according to what I’ve read.
Also kinda irritating that he had two more years’ worth of stories in him per that article. Then why didn’t we get two more seasons?? That show was on top when it ended.
Certainly compared to his most recent specials, where he has toyed with disappointing anti-trans rhetoric and refused to seriously contend with the ways in which he has downplayed Black women’s claims of sexual assault, 8:46 is a relief and a return to form. It is a heartening reminder of what Dave Chappelle does best: tell a great story. This story is one of unfathomable cruelty and injustice, but also resilience.
He continues, noting that the cops in the video of George Floyd’s death have their hands in their pockets. “Who. Are. You. Talking to?” he asks of them, pausing deliberately between each word, dripping with utter malice. “What are you signifying, that you kneel on a man’s neck?” — here he drops to one knee — “for EIGHT MINUTES AND FORTY-SIX SECONDS, and feel like you wouldn’t get the wrath of God?”
Mfkers no one told me y’all were watching right now. I am loving the hell out of the Netflix series Another Life s1 but will switch over to Chapelle now.
I’ll give Dave’s performance a B+. It’s not really a stand up set, just him talking in his backyard to a small audience while he chain smokes. Overall biggest impression is that he was really really high AF.