I don't why but I get the impression this would of worked a bit better in London and it isn't even due to the two English leads. It feels more like a British series than a US series. I can't quite put my finger on why though. Maybe the pacing or the way it is shot. I just feel it would benefit. Not to say I don't like it though. I think it is decent.
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It is a remake of a British show. Mark Strong even played the same character.
It was set in Edinburgh.
Yes, everything about LWS seems to have a slightly different feel to it. The tone...the pacing...like film noir. I think Detroit is a good locale because there is a dark underbelly to Detroit...an "underworld", if you will. It could have worked well in a place like maybe New Orleans as well. But Detroit is almost kind of a metaphor for the characters themselves...haunted....a conflicted dichotomy of good and bad. Tough yet vulnerable, and in need of salvation.
shareThat makes a hell of a lot of sense.
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I was a little put off when I found out that the two leads are British. Got me wondering why they bothered to make an American version of it - are they seriously trying to say there are not two American actors who could have played the roles?
I love Lennie James but the accent he used that was so convincing in The Walking Dead is the same one he's using in LWS. It's not just the sound of the words - it's the pacing of the lines and the intonation. The whole "package" of the character is quite different, though, and James is convincing in his mannerisms and facial expressions. But he sounds exactly the same here as he did as Morgan in TWD.
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And Jericho. He is a good actor though, I agree. As an Englishman I agree with you. Sometimes it works really well (House, TWD) but that doesn't mean you need to keep doing it. I guess it was due to Mark Strong being in the original. Probably made deal.
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When Lennie James was in Human Target, he used a British accent - but I don't know if it was "his" accent. I thought his accent was convincing in TWD but now that I hear it in LWS, it kinda sounds fake now. At least he's not as bad as Andrew Lincoln!
Don't get me wrong - I adore both of them in their respective TWD roles. But there have been times when I wanted to slap Andrew Lincoln's dialect coach for letting him get away with some truly atrocious "Georgian" moments
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