Rickster

Watch Seasons 2 & 3 for some answers. (The book series is really worth it. Better than the TV series, IMO)

I don’t remember the movie very well and never read the books. I thought the first episode very slow paced and way too much in love with its admittedly artful black and white photography. It seemed to me the photographic choices were driving the narrative rather than being in service to telling the story.

Watched the first two episodes yesterday. Really enjoying it, but I’m very wary of where this is heading, based on the teasing of a shocking plot twist in all the publicity.

Well, they did unmask one of the final three…

I will confess I haven’t read the book. While I am enjoying the show, dramatically something seems off, with Blackthorne largely being a spectator to all the machinations going on around him. He effectively has close to zero involvement in the plot, especially given that there are only two episodes left. I guess there are intended to be additional seasons in which he is more involved.

Interesting article about the show and the real “John Blackthorne” The English Samurai

Yeah, I thought the amount of smoking on this show kinda weird. Maybe the producers got a subsidy from the tobacco industry. 😉

Given the hype for this series, I thought the first episode sort of dull and disappointing. I’m about halfway through the second and don’t think it improves. Did not see the previews.

Joe Bastianich sang better than Robin, at least for a Billy Joel song. I pretty much knew the back stories of all the chefs plus Tucci, so I knew they were all wrong guesses, since none worked on Wall Street.

I don’t like him either, but I’m torn on whether the fault lies with the actor or the scriptwriters. They seem to have written him as a boorish one-note character.

I made it through 15, mostly because I found Alice totally annoying and I said, “why bother?”

A different article I saw on this mentioned that the production will be coming to Broadway. Didn’t say when, or if Nicole will be part of the cast.

Interesting to see that Ruth will continue to be on the show.

I admit to being cynical, but I always thought that most of the guesses were fed to the panel by the producers anyway. If that’s the case, she should have no problem.

I sort of liked this, but wished that they had dialed it down a little, mainly the character of the eldest son.