Berlin Station+Graves for Second Seasons
http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/berlin-station-graves-renewed-epix-1201920565/
Thoughts?
Am really enjoying it now, so would love to see what a sophomore season brings to the table.
Not sure who will be in it, though. After eppie 6, so many folks have egg on their faces and having messed up SO badly, it's hard to know how they will survive at Berlin station and not be pensioned off if they are old enough! ha
But we will see.
Hector really burned his bridges as a deep cover guy in that fiasco, so it's hard to know what they can do with him now.
But Rhys has been the one actor in this who has been absolutely mesmerizing in every scene.
That face! Those eyes! The tears of emotion and horror. That haggard "seen it all bought the t-shirt and it's a dirty and torn t-shirt too" beaten visage speaks loudly before Rhys utters a line of dialogue. I want to see his lovely striped man-caftan again too! The ward robe dressers really came up with a great lounging robe for Hector there. Oo-lala.
First, it was Spike's underpants, now that bloody caftan! Classic.
A real consummate actor,Rhys. So, hope Hector hasn't been burned so badly with the Germans that he cannot return or stay. And then there are the other matters with Hector anyway.....
Next year, more Hector. Oh please.
In absolute agreement about Rhys--his character is just so fantastic that he has taken the lead away from Armitage. Without him this series would have no sizzle--he's been amazing. He plays Hector DeJean with swagger.
Yea I totally agree he plays Hector DeJean with swagger, How many seasons do you think this will go to -1 more season after season 2 making it 3 seasons?
shareNo reason they couldn't go 3 seasons with a proper story line.
Heck, Olen wrote all that series of novels with the same protagonist in his Yalta Boulevard Series, so he's prolific. He can keep a story alive in different eras and different situations with the same character, as he did with Bruno Sev. And the cold war was the topic of those novels, which were just great.
So he knows that territory the Cold War/Iron Curtain world in and out by now.
And I agree about Rhys stealing the show from the putative lead, Armitage. The Daniel Miller character for me anyway has just been a damp squib.
But am trusting in Olen that he's purposely vague, ghost like, a real cipher of a character because perhaps we simply aren't to know much about him yet in order to make it more of a mystery than: guy arrives undercover to spy on his own people, etc. Daniel is just like a mechanical wind up toy that functions DOING things like one of Le Carre's "janitors." I see not much internal world for him in his eyes or demeanor. But then maybe that's Olen's intent.
But what I fear is that Miller isn't written to be all that interesting, in spite of being the lead character AND/OR Armitage just isn't doing much with what Olen puts on the page. Rhys certainly has much more juicy stuff to chew on with his character.
Just don't know yet if it's the Daniel character or Armitage's interpretation that is a bit wanting. Without Rhys, I'd probably have left it for later for a quick binge--like a snow day when there are 9 feet out there....
Yea I think 3 seasons would be a good amount of time to tell the story, Maybe a 4th at the most!
HAHA that made me laugh when you said his character has been a damp squib
Yea exactly I think we will def get to know about him in the next season, But maybe not all until the third season
HAHA 9 feet of snow would be my idea of hell, But whatever floats your boat
What utter nonsense he was hopeless in Elementary and is as useless in this. This would have been one of the great shows with another actor playing this role, he over acted in Elementary and keeps it up for this show. Episode 10 should be the final one for Thomas Shaw and prove he really is dead with Hector putting a bullet through his own brain!
shareOkay, now that the series has had its finale...(a bit off topic but)...
....did we ever know what the USB drive was (or what was on it) that Daniel was putting into a plastic bag for burial with his other stuff? That was the metal box buried deep in the Panamanian jungle? The lingering close up of him inserting the USB into the plastic bag seemed very purposeful.
Did I miss something? That was the near opening scene of the series and I'm not sure we ever knew why that scene exists--unless it's just to show hey here's a spy-guy with a bug-out box buried in the jungle. haha