The Beast In Me

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Anonymous wrote:I'd give it a B, but only because of some good performances. Especially Matthew Rhys and the FBI agent.

I would not put those two in the same category. MR is world class. The guy who played the FBI agent is dumb as a box of rocks and it showed in his performance. Bad casting.

It was the writing not the performance imo.

An excellent performer rises above bad writing - aka Matthew Rhys, while a poor actor cannot.

NP. I disagree. And I thought the FBI agent was the most human, appealing character in the show. I was saddest when he died.

You can disagree all you like. Clearly you have zero inside knowledge in the film / theatre and television industry.

DP. Pretentious, much? I agree with the PP.

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Anonymous wrote:The interiors of the houses were gorgeous, and that was distracting, which meant the dialogue and narrative line was really not that compelling.

It was not distracting to me, not one bit.

Maybe figure out why you care about room interiors, when people are being murdered right and left. 🤔

Could you possibly take yourself (or this show) more seriously? 😂
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Anonymous wrote:I absolutely love CD and MR- and he scared the living daylights out of me. He looked SO much hotter in the Americans, tho. He aged a LOT. Kudos to CD for not getting a lot of work done. Loved Brittany Snow. Who is the actress who played Maddie? She was great!!! So beautiful and so believable.

Maddie was played by Leila George who interestingly, is the daughter of Vincent D’Onofrio and Greta Scacchi. She also played the younger Cate Blanchett in Disclaimer.

I would love to see Brittany Snow do something funny. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her genuinely laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:I watched it and, while I liked the performances, I thought it was a pretty mediocre series overall. Just grim and gross, with too many innocents harmed. Ooh many may have the "beast within," so insightful and edgy. /s

Yeah, that was a strained conceptual artifice to support the plot. The tie up at the end--Aggie coming to terms with her own demanding behavior when her son was killed--is good though and seems to be the entire point--set her off against someone who is truly malevolent but also crushed when he kills his own wife. Nina's strategy in responding to his confession lovingly was brilliant, but does make it clear she understood who he was (so what about the story she told herself about Maddie and Niles? Seems there's a moral question there that went unanswered, maybe required a longer series).

I wouldn't have killed off Nile in prison. I would have left him there with his pathological analysis of human motivations and the occasional visit from Aggie.

There were some bits that seemed like bad writing to me. Nina is so nice, so her outburst that Maddie was the one talking to the FBI made zero sense. If she knew bad stuff was going on, her character wouldn't have stayed. If the idea that this was her beast I'm not having it.

Cell phone data would have captured Maddie and Nile being at the gallery before she disappeared, and investigation would have connected what Nina said to Nile with the result.

Maddie's brother would have sent the torn page in the birding log and known it was the source of the suicide.

I didn't like putting Jonathon Banks in the role of Martin.

Claire Danes reminds me of Frances McDormand in that she does not feel the need to make herself conventionally beautiful--and she clearly doesn't care about wrinkles from using her face as expressively as she does.