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A Spy Among Friends (Damien Lewis, Guy Pearce) MGM+

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Just realized this isn't new.  ITV production, so maybe new here.  Had escaped my notice at any rate.  Well-received on RT and IMDB.

Saw some episodes on a plane a couple of years ago. It was excellent. 

guy pearce should have had an A+ career.  la confidential, memento, then just a bunch of  . . . stuff.  he seems cool so you can imagine him just not caring about having a brad pitt-esque career, but then he appears in a marvel movie so he wants the checks still.

MGM+ subscription through Prime. Watched it about a year ago. Thought it was excellent.

It’s based off of the book written by Ben McIntyre, same guy that wrote Rogue Heroes (also on MGM+)

I quit after 2 episodes when it originally came out.

It's really, really slow, plus the main actress is hideously ugly and gets way too much screen time.

On 1/13/2025 at 9:00 AM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

guy pearce should have had an A+ career.  la confidential, memento, then just a bunch of  . . . stuff.  he seems cool so you can imagine him just not caring about having a brad pitt-esque career, but then he appears in a marvel movie so he wants the checks still.

Heh.  NYT has an article today answering this very thing.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/movies/guy-pearce-the-brutalist.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pU4.Xz2R.uhHsbfHVGTG1&smid=url-share

Australian Actors mostly end up going back to Australia.  Same for a lot of New Zealand actors.  Outside of the odd Mel Gibson, they all go back. Pearce eventually left Melbourne and moved to Amsterdam with his second wife, a model, but 90% of the time when an actor from down under doesn't have the career you thought they were going to have, it's because they hated Hollywood and left. 

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I just finished this series, I watched an episode once a week. It's best consumed slowly. Oddly, I found the show intriguing yet dozed off every time I watched it.

 

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