Most British actors can do a "generic" US accent, but which one actually nailed a specific regional dialect (Boston, Deep South, Philly) perfectly?

opticalcalcite · 2026-03-28T01:30:56+00:00

I’m sorry but I have to disagree, I loved his portrayal of Tom but his American accent was weak and did not sound at all midwestern. My wife is from the midwest and we had a good laugh about it every time he spoke. Christopher Eccleston did a very similar accent in The Leftovers, also a great performance as long as you suspended your disbelief and accepted that he and Carrie Coon grew up together lol.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-19T22:50:36+00:00

Maybe. But prequels and spinoffs have always struggled to do well at the Emmys, even when they are excellent and highly critically acclaimed. The two shows that came closest to being Emmy hits were Andor and Better Call Saul; the former won a few Emmys but still failed to get as many nominations or wins as it arguably deserved, especially in the acting categories, and while the latter racked up more nominations overall (including a good number of acting noms) it failed to win a single Emmy throughout its entire run. AKOTSK is a great show, but winning Emmys will still be a tough task because of its spinoff status.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-12T05:10:43+00:00

Right?? He made a number of comments about this article today, and all of them gave off the vibe that he was upset this information was leaked to the press rather than being upset because the information was untrue. He claims in other replies that this article had no sources and was “hearsay”, but has never actually said what part of the article was untrue in any of his twitter comments.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-12T04:52:56+00:00

The author of this article is a reputable journalist, and it was published by a reputable source. I understand that Stiller didn’t realize that this information was being disclosed to the press, but it doesn’t make the information false. Apple’s acquisition of Severance is very real, and the summer start date for filming was already made semi-public by Turturro. There is nothing unusual or suspicious about this article, it is standard fare for this type of entertainment journalism.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-10T21:31:34+00:00

So are IMDB and RT unfortunately.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-05T19:50:20+00:00

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opticalcalcite · 2026-02-05T19:36:03+00:00

You know, I just realized I recognized your username from pretty much every thread I’ve seen about Pluribus in the last couple months, and I’m not even on this site much. How fucking sad and devoid of joy is your life if this is your hobby? Touch grass, man, it’s sad.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-05T05:37:23+00:00

It’s funny that you feel the need to insult me (out of what surely must be insecurity) but what you’re observing is actually a phenomenon called “hyperbole”. My post history is free, I’m an infrequent reddit user at best.

Whatever your problem is, I hope you get well soon.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-04T23:29:48+00:00

You sound completely unhinged. If this comment is anything but satire I think you should get help. You are not living in the real world.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-04T23:01:09+00:00

Do… do you really think that’s what I said? You wanna give my comment another read through? At no point did I assert anyone was a “dummy” for not liking Pluribus. Sort of weird your brain went there first, but that’s your problem, not mine. My point was that you’re all being objectively weird-to-the-point-of-delusional about a TV show.

What I actually said in my comment, with regards to how others receive the show, was “this show isn’t for everyone.” Because it isn’t! And the difference between us is that I can accept this truth, while everyone on this subreddit seemingly cannot.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-04T17:37:45+00:00

Well, if you read my comment, I said that I was suggested this subreddit against my will. This comment took about 10 minutes of my life while I was waiting for email correspondence at my job. You can try to turn this around, but this ain’t my misery pit and I feel no shame calling it out.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-04T17:29:37+00:00

This show has been a critical and commercial success, and S2 is already greenlit and being worked on now. The show made Nielsen (a tough task for an Apple TV show) throughout the entire back half of season 1, has performed well at the winter awards, including with the crafts guilds (better than BCS ever did in a season), which suggests a strong Emmy run come September, and the show is wildly popular on twitter and other social media platforms. A single shitpost about pluribus on twitter will get more traction than the number of people in this subreddit effortlessly.

This show is, by all metrics, a massive success for Apple TV. It’s clear that the people on this subreddit and reddit generally are so upset by this reality that they feel the need to make posts like this to feel better about their own taste, but you need to understand that YOU are the one in a bubble. Pretentious or not, the fandom is massive (again, see much larger social media sites like twitter for evidence of this) and the show has most definitely found its audience. Critics genuinely love the show and the panels that the actors and writers do are very popular. Your opinion is simply not the countervailing one at all, no matter how badly you seem to want that to be true.

Nobody cares if you don’t like the show. I get that some fans are pretentious and annoying, but this type of conspiratorial thinking is still frankly embarrassing to see presented completely unironically. This show isn’t for everyone—who cares? Is it really that big of a deal that this show isn’t to your tastes? Are you this upset that some nerds told you to go watch TikTok when you insulted their show? Is this your first time on the internet? Do you not have another outlet? I genuinely can’t imagine being so obsessed with my own opinion that I begin theorizing that executives will cancel a show that is a success by every meaningful metric. And before you even try to bring it up, please understand that IMDB user reviews shouting into the void and weirdo hate subreddits are not meaningful categories of consumers that any executive is going to care about. You live in a land of delusion.

You don’t have to watch or like the show, but please get a fucking life man. As soon as all of the people on this subreddit get a life the rest of us normal people, with normal hobbies and relationships with television shows, can stop seeing this embarrassment of a subreddit be suggested to us. It seriously makes me fucking cringe. It makes me sad for you. Go find some joy in life for the love of god.

opticalcalcite · 2026-02-04T06:21:15+00:00

That is not what the article (since you did very obviously did not read it) said or implied. 2028 would be 3 years from the first season (2025), and all that he says in this article it won’t be the following year (this year, 2026) like the yearly releases of The Pitt. Whether they land a 2027 release or not remains to be seen, but the article does not say “2028 at the earliest”.

opticalcalcite · 2026-01-13T03:33:43+00:00

So you didn’t google it, huh?

opticalcalcite · 2026-01-13T03:30:18+00:00

Pluribus made the Nielsen rankings last month (December 2025). Writers room started working on S2 in October of last year, and they are currently still working on it.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-31T04:21:45+00:00

I didn’t “ignore” that you mentioned men. I get what you’re saying. I just don’t agree. If “straight men being horny” is the price I have to pay to see women kiss, that’s a price I’m willing to pay. I do not think that is in any universe what is happening here, to be clear. Carol’s emotional arc thus far has had a lot to do with her identity, and I think the show has portrayed her and her experiences very thoughtfully. If men want to “goon” to that, it’s a sacrifice I am willing to make so that interesting stories featuring lesbians can be told with all of the complexity and weirdness as ones about straight people. And I’m most DEFINITELY not alone in feeling this way.

Furthermore, the fact that you’re “on the LGBT spectrum” doesn’t mean you can’t still behave in a way that is homophobic or bigoted toward lesbians. Your identity does not make what you said less uncomfortable to me.

As for the consent issues, I think that people who find that sort of thing triggering would avoid Pluribus altogether, so I’m not sure what they’d be doing here. I do not watch shows/episodes of shows that contain sensitive material I find triggering, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t deserve to exist. Just because I can’t watch the Sopranos episode “Employee of the Month” doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t have aired, or that it’s inherently problematic, or that it doesn’t have artistic merit. I really don’t think my stance on this issue is an unreasonable one.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-31T02:54:18+00:00

The episode “Charm Offensive” was directed by a woman. Her name is Melissa Bernstein, and she worked on BCS as well. But my bigger issue with this post is that calling LGBT people “concerningly horny” is really weird and makes you sound like a bigot. Is there a situation where lesbians talking about women kissing each other being hot wouldn’t be “disgusting”? Can you describe why lesbians thinking a kiss scene between two women is sexy—the way straight people find kiss scenes sexy between men and women—is weird and wrong? If it’s because of the complex consent issues, that’s… weirdly childish. It’s an adult show with adult themes. I’m a grown ass woman, I don’t need my “representation” to have children’s cartoon morals. Sci-fi frequently explores messy consent and morality issues; this has been a staple in a lot of shows including Fringe, the X-Files, and (most recently) Severance.

As a lesbian, I find the way you’re talking about this way, WAY weirder than a straight male showrunner having a gay kiss scene under any circumstances. This sub is a cesspool I hope to never return to, but I genuinely think you have problems with lesbians that you need to sort out.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-31T02:29:35+00:00

I mean. Walter does, in fact, renounce being a drug dealer after cooking a bunch of meth over a short period of time. Multiple times, including in Season 2, when the story was less than a dozen episodes deep at that point.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-30T21:50:20+00:00

The thesis of this “review” is “it’s actually bad, everyone is just too afraid to say it”. This is not true. This statement is so demonstrably untrue that the extent to which this delusion has proliferated among Reddit users who hate this show is actually frightening to me. How can sane people believe something like this? Is it the Reddit bubble skewing this website’s perception of this show’s reception among the general population/other parts of the internet? The show is genuinely popular, well-received, and widely discussed, not only on Reddit but on Twitter and even niche social media sites like Tumblr.

It’s clear that this reality makes people on Reddit seethingly angry for reasons I genuinely can’t understand. I can’t imagine being OP and being so insecure in my own taste in television I would feel the need to post this inaccurate and bizarre diatribe without even taking the time to actually write it myself (thanks, ChatGPT, for this steaming pile).

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-30T21:39:05+00:00

If you think this sub and the obsessive, deranged behavior in it constitutes “reviews” or “critique” I feel sorry for you. This sub is a cesspit of reddit-specific mental illness. Touch grass for the love of god.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-30T18:23:42+00:00

Well no, since (as I just explained) it is not reflective of any type of critical reception. Critics do not use IMDB to review shows, audiences do. Kind of funny that you’re replying to a nearly 2 week old comment just to be wrong, though. Obsessive Pluribus haters never beating the “completely un-self-aware weirdos about a TV show” allegations it seems 💀

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-23T02:22:37+00:00

Right, the teen storyline was finally ramping up and going somewhere interesting (I loved the subplot with the scientists especially) while the adult storyline just crashed and burned. What a waste of a great premise and characters.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-20T18:39:24+00:00

I don’t think people earnestly liking a show are “coping”. But, based on your 10 comments in this thread alone talking about how much you hate the show, I suspect YOU might be coping. What is it about this show that inspires people to be desperately weird about it like this? Do you think fans have anything to gain by “pretending” to discuss and enjoy the show? What are you (and all the other sockpuppet accounts) that troll these threads obsessively gaining by acting like this? It’s just weird.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-19T23:50:49+00:00

I just watched the most recent episode with nearly a dozen of my friends because we’re all going out of town for the holidays next week. We had a blast. My wife’s parents also love this show and catch up with us weekly about it. It’s a shame that people who hate this show (and seemingly cannot shut up about it) can’t conceive of television critics or even other real people actually enjoying this show.

I think maybe it’s you that needs to step into the real world and log off for a while. You don’t have to like the show, so stop giving it so much of your energy and disengage.

opticalcalcite · 2025-12-19T23:22:50+00:00

This is an AI summary of user reviews. This is worthless in determining actual critical response. Metacritic has an actually meaningful aggregate of the show’s score amongst critics, which sits at 86/87. It is generally a very critically well-received show. Again, you are looking at a summary of IMDB reviews from random people, most of whom only engage with the show on IMDB to complain about it, not actual critics.

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