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Yes, I agree, but they do put in a pause at that point and when you hear Knightley's line you consider that he has thought about it and is now trying to make amends.
The chair wasn't recovering in the book; it was recovering on the floor where it belonged.
Knightley must lead a very dull life, but things are never dull when Emma is around. It's similar to Luke and Lorelai.
In most of these shows it took a while for the writers to figure out how to write it.
Things just as strange have happened... what were the chances that the first name of Elian Gonzalez would anagram to Alien, for example?
Yes, we're currently also watching <i>The Hour</i> and enjoying the talented Whishaw in that.
My significant other really liked <i>Jackal</i> too! I avoided it. Don't like hit man-centered vehicles. Don't like the whole anti-hero thing. That's not what we should be glorifying. But that's just me.
<i>Killing Eve</i> seemed too grim so we avoided it, despite absolutely loving Oh.
You raise a good point. People who've never seen the French original may have an entirely different take than we do. It may stand on its own okay if one is unaware of what came before.
That Texas guy was okay, but probably a little too cliche. I know people in the intelligence community. It's generally not like that. A better example would probably be that recent movie retelling the Robert Hansen story.
Yes, the French original really makes you feel you're almost watching real events as they happen. Two of my favorite moments that relate to what you're talking about are (1) when Marie-Jeanne realizes that Marina is being recruited by Mossad and that there's no need to worry about it because Mossad will now start providing everything - what a neat solution(!), and (2) when Mossad finally try to arrest Marina and she reveals who she really is and then they react in a way that is surprising and yet entirely logical. It's a superb moment.
Yes, Oldman is pretty much brilliant in everything.
I wouldn't hope for much from an ending from Rochant. I don't think he likes to do endings. His point of view is that ideally there would never be an ending because in real life there is no ending. It just goes on and on. But in an ending you need to wrap stuff up, make some kind of overall statement and all that artificial stuff. He has no interest in all that because it's false, at least in most cases.
Probably the Keri Russell one. We saw a couple episodes of the Sophie Rundle one and were underwhelmed.
In acting there are always at least three things to consider: the writing, the directing and the actors' choices. I'm not sure they've been given enough to work with here.
So you like <i>Black Doves?</i> I kind of thought that that show was made because of the success of <i>Slow Horses.</i> Take an adjective, add an animal plural and voila! ;) I have trouble imagining Keira Knightley as a spy. It's like Lucy Liu as a martial arts hero. Just doesn't seem plausible. Have to admit it's got a 7.2 rating though...
In the French version there are some higher up guys who serve to check or enable the plans of Henry and Paul, mostly providing background reality. I guess the Gere character would correspond to one of those, but his character is much more in the forefront. Not even sure if we knew the names of those others.
Maybe we'll see CIA v. MI5/MI6?
Here's a shot of the coat she would always wear in the early seasons: https://www.spotern.com/en/wanted/tv/the-bureau/56001/the-red-coat-mary-jane-duthilleul-florence-loiret-caille-in-the-office-of-legends-season-1
Sounds like <i>Fish Tank</i> is something I'd prefer to avoid!
It's confusing that there are two different shows called <i>The Diplomat.</i> Wonder how that happened.
Exactly what I've been thinking is going to happen! The character seems like an unnatural piece stuck on to the main architecture of the show and adds little to it.
By disagreeing that the January 6 demonstrators deserve pardons, he may already have.
And this appears to be the highest-rated Anna Karenina on IMDb, currently at 7.8.
<b>Star Year Rating Male star</b>
Nicola Pagett 1977 7.8 Stuart Wilson
Helen McCrory 2000 7.2 Stephen Dillane
Vittoria Puccini 2013 7.2 Santiago Cabrera
Greta Garbo 1935 7 Frederic March
Tatyana Samoylova 1967 7 Vasiliy Lanovoy
Keira Knightley 2012 6.6 Matthew Macfadyen
Vivien Leigh 1948 6.6 Ralph Richardson
Jacqueline Bisset 1985 6.3 Christopher Reeve
Sophie Marceau 1997 6.3 Sean Bean
Claire Bloom 1961 5.8 Sean Connery
Yeah... I think there may be a solution to the syndication problem. They can bundle <i>YS</i> together with <i>George and Mandy's First Marriage</i> and then it becomes just a temporary blip on the radar.
But it's cool that one can still go back and see those old comments... those ghosts. :)
Ah, appreciate the tip on <i>Engrenages.</i>
One of the things about <i>The Bureau</i> was that it was the French spies v. the CIA. The new show got rid of that, which I consider taking a risk because that was one of the interesting tensions in the show. I think it will mean they'll need to diverge a lot. So at the upper levels there's less of a one-to-one mapping.
The psychiatrist in this one is kind of funny because she's played by the woman who plays Bebe the evil publicist on Frasier, haha! So it's going to take me a while to take her seriously. But again, this character won't be as interesting because the France v. US dimension is missing.
I was kind of hoping they would get the original Mule to play the Mule again, since she usually doesn't talk much anyway, but no such luck. I suppose it's boring to play the same role all over again.
I don't mind the accents too much because I figure they've been in the UK a long time and probably started picking up the accent, as a lot of expat Americans do. I think Richard Gere, who I normally like a lot, so far is a little bit off. Not sure why. Like it's a bit like he's not the lead and he's just doing it for the paycheck. But maybe he's trying to do some kind of withdrawn thing. We'll have to see how it develops.
Tell me, did you ever find it weird that Marie-Jeanne is always wearing a coat for about three seasons, even inside? I was speculating that she was pregnant during those seasons.
In the US and yes, the days when we made good remakes of foreign projects seem to be gone. These days we mostly dumb them down and ruin them.
I found this show because we really enjoyed <i>A French Village.</i> When I find something really good, I take a look at what else these creators have made and saw that <i>The Bureau</i> was the next one so I got it from the library on DVD. I saw the <i>A French Village</i> because it's on a free service we have here: kanopy.com.
Haven't seen <i>Fish Tank,</i> but it has good ratings.
He also seems rather naive about how the world works. I work for a company that has annual training and testing for privacy and security concerns that everyone must go through. It's a big deal. Yet, problems and questions come up all the time, nobody is sure what to do, and the company is losing lawsuits for misuse of customer data (privacy violations) regularly. In all his idealistic complaints, he forgets the flawed nature of humanity.
As kids it came on television from time to time and we used to love it, wished we could see it again. It's often pretty funny actually.
Agree with virtually all this. You know, a funny thing that keeps happening with this show is that I keep asking questions like "Is that the Raymond?", "Is that the Sylvain?", "Is that the Marie-Jeanne?" :)
By the way, how many episodes have you seen so far? We're up to 8.
People reading here might like to know that the same people who created this show also created <i>A French Village,</i> which is a World War II story that overall is probably even superior to <i>The Bureau.</i> But the latter is probably the finest and most realistic spy story made to date.
So far The Bureau is tighter and makes more sense.
Both the guys act well, but I prefer Nadia from the original. I don't see the chemisty with Sami. I also slightly prefer the original Henry with that raincoat and perpetual dour expression.
Robert from Downton certainly seems to be an interesting twist so maybe it will start diverging a lot with his story.
I was surprised that they repeated the story about the boots. Of course new boots feel different than boots you've broken in! How could anyone miss that?
But we'll keep watching and see what they Clooney & co. have come up with.
I thought <i>Are you the one?</i> was a little more interesting than this one.
This one is probably more accurate, but Johnny Tremain seems more entertaining.