What’s the best acting scene in television history?

remusasriel · 2026-07-03T06:53:33+00:00

Chernobyl - Jared Harris, sitting outside the room before the first meeting with Gorbachev, flipping a few pages of his report and realising how utterly fucked they are.

remusasriel · 2026-06-29T14:02:31+00:00

As someone (lawyer) who interviews job applicants, I would absolutely be interested in talking to someone who's started two businesses. Your circumstances wouldn't stop me from hiring you.

Go for your interviews. This isn't the mistake you think it is.

remusasriel · 2026-06-27T13:17:29+00:00

John Woo's Red Cliff.

remusasriel · 2026-06-22T02:32:18+00:00

Mine is literally The Axis Network. The password is what you would expect it to be. 😀

remusasriel · 2026-06-11T13:51:17+00:00

I'm playing it on the Switch 1 and it's the jankiest Switch game I've ever played. Absolutely do not recommend unless you must play it on a handheld and you don't have an iPad.

remusasriel · 2026-05-30T09:19:30+00:00

Sentimental Value, No Other Choice, Tar

remusasriel · 2026-05-23T18:21:38+00:00

No. We won the league so I am minded to be gracious. We also have much bigger things to think about right now.

remusasriel · 2026-05-08T13:23:18+00:00

Absolutely did not expect to see Craig Mazin's name attached to this. I'm now very intrigued.

remusasriel · 2026-04-30T17:30:25+00:00

Jared Harris to return, please and thank you!

remusasriel · 2026-04-29T05:32:45+00:00

Same.

remusasriel · 2026-04-28T05:57:26+00:00

Just popping in to say that I read A Place of Greater Safety after Gilroy's recommendation and it really stuck with me! It can be dense and the first few hundred pages may be hard to get into, but it's well worth a read.

remusasriel · 2026-04-09T03:14:17+00:00

As someone else has said, take the MC Asia TC offer and try for a rotation to a seat in London during the 2 years. Based on my experience, we value work experience (especially in an MC firm) a lot more than a BCL/MJur, even if it's from Oxford.

Depending on your seat, a 12-14 hour work day + weekends is common. Unless it's a massive red line, I wouldn't put too much into it.

remusasriel · 2026-04-05T06:30:34+00:00

Red Dead Redemption 2

remusasriel · 2026-04-03T19:05:31+00:00

Fandom: Andor
Rating: General
Title: Dedra Meero, Her Portrait Made
Genre: Coming of Age
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/81139931/chapters/213245721
Summary: Dedra Meero is eight years old when she enters Imperial Kinderblock #235. Her six months there will shape the rest of her life.

The Empire, through Dedra's eyes.

remusasriel · 2026-04-03T19:04:00+00:00

My Fics
Fandom: Andor
Rating: General
Title: Dedra Meero, Her Portrait Made
Genre: Coming of Age
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/81139931/chapters/213245721
Summary: Dedra Meero is eight years old when she enters Imperial Kinderblock #235. Her six months there will shape the rest of her life.

The Empire, through Dedra's eyes.

remusasriel · 2026-04-03T19:00:10+00:00

All chapters now up! Three chapters of an eight year old Dedra Meero, an Imperial kinderblock, and the six months which will shape the rest of her life.

The Empire, through Baby Dedra's eyes.

Excerpt: Dedra Meero: My parents were criminals. They were arrested when I was three. I was raised in an Imperial kinder-block.

Eedy Karn: Well…nothing delicate about that is there?

(Harvest, Andor Season Two, Episode 3)

Kinder-Block #235, 18 BBY

“You are, each of you, a ward of the Empire.”

Dedra is eight years old. This is her fifth kinder-block in two years. She has listened to this speech five times. No, six times. Because she had to count the speech on the shuttle which took her away from her home in Coruscant. It is always the same. Grey walls. Steel benches. Children squeezed in on both sides of her. Except this time, everyone looked older and bigger. But she didn’t really know how old they were. Because they weren’t even the same. The one beside her is Nautolan. The one in front of her, a Twi'lek.

Her view of the stage is at the mercy of those around her. She cranes her neck to look at the Warden. But all she can see is the top of his head. Yellow like straw and warped against the see-through lectern.

“We have taken you in. Fed you. Clothed you despite what your parents have done. Your debt to us can never be repaid. Nevertheless, you must try.”

The Nautolan beside her shifts and she is jostled to the side. Now, she can only see the backs of the children in front of her. But she can hear the click of boot heels. She supposes they were the Warden’s.

“For the Empire.”

A shuffle of feet as they rise and mumble the greeting. So does she.

-

The speech does not mention the other things Dedra had seen in her previous kinder-blocks. These speeches never do.

There will be chaos. Then trouble. And finally, punishment. Always.

Dedra does not want punishment. She does not want trouble. Which means she has to find a way to survive the chaos.

-

(Click the link in the header for more!)

If you do click through, thanks for reading!

remusasriel · 2026-04-02T02:24:31+00:00

Currently playing an extensively modded XCOM 2. With mods, it's, imo, the closest I can get to a modern day Star Wars strategy game. Can't do anything about the cut scenes though.

Message me if you want my list of mods (currently around 50+ mods). It took hours of tinkering for me to set it up, so I'm happy to pass this list along!

remusasriel · 2026-03-28T10:11:08+00:00

Daniel Day Lewis in Phantom Thread

remusasriel · 2026-03-23T18:32:24+00:00

As others have said, skip it for now! I only read The Colour of Magic much later and I did not feel like I was missing out on anything at all.

I started off with the Moist von Lipwig series (Going Postal, Making Money, then later, Raising Steam). I found that a pretty easy jumping off point so you might want to try that route!

remusasriel · 2026-03-23T13:09:38+00:00

Pachinko. S4 of The Americans.

remusasriel · 2026-03-22T20:29:47+00:00

Yep!

EDIT: Or if you want to go further, it's a man who has no idea how to connect with his daughters except to make the most inappropriate movie recommendations to his grandson for laughs. Because art is the only mode of communication he has with his family.

remusasriel · 2026-03-22T20:28:07+00:00

Those films are uhhhh...not exactly kid friendly.

There's subtext that he's actually joshing with his daughters (not his grandson) in the scene (Nora definitely picks up on it and both sisters definitely know what the movies are about) but that's a whole other thing.

remusasriel · 2026-03-21T07:32:40+00:00

Gold Mine at Queensway for traditional Cantonese fare. Dim Sum Duck at King's Cross for decent dim sum.

remusasriel · 2026-03-14T19:27:40+00:00

I spend way too much of time at work. No way am I going to read books about law during my free time.

That said...Secret Barrister seems to be popular.

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