I've been rewatching "The Wire"

[Fritz]

speaking of Anna Torv .... Secret City an Australian series. 2 6 ep seasons. I don't believe it was picked up for a 3rd.
Very good espionage type thing.

[NewtonMP2100]

Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=kj]
One more thing about the wire: I liked how they covered the same time period from a different perspective. I don't know what it's called, but the way it informed what you had seen in the previous season(s) was way cool. I've not seen that done elsewhere, at least not as effectively.

Rashamon is often the reference point for storytelling of that general type.

”Kurosawa gives us four versions of the same series of events, through the eyes of the woodcutter, the thief, the woman, and the spirit of the husband, each retelling markedly different from the others. Kurosawa’s visionary approach would have enormous cinematic and cultural influence. He bequeathed to world cinema and television a striking narrative device—countless movies and television shows have remade Rashomon by incorporating the contradictory flashbacks of unreliable narrators.”

.....yup......interesting movie......interesting film......make.....

[DeusxMac]

RAMd®d wrote: Damian Lewis (Life, Homeland)

... and Band of Brothers, and Billions

Hugh Laurie in House

Mark Strong and Lennie James in Low Winter Sun (U.S.)

RAMd®d wrote:
Anthony LaPaglia (Without a Trace, Frasier)

Actually, LaPaglia did not "steal the jobs of American actors" in Frasier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur4SReYTnhQ

[RAMd®d]

Actually, LaPaglia did not "steal the jobs of American actors" in Frasier.


Yeah, I know.

Not every show I listed was meant to be an example of stolen jobs, but some were to show the contrast - (Home Before Dark/Hard Sun).

Some shows have had two, three, even four job stealers, far more than have been listed in this thread.

[davester]

RAMd®d wrote:
Some years ago, I was stunned at the number of Brits, Ozzies, and an occasional Kiwi who steal the jobs of American actors.

They are so good at doing a really good American accent.

The jobs are only stolen if there are available american actors who are as skilled at their craft as the non-americans who land the parts, and the accent has nothing to do with it. IMHO many american actors in general way overact their parts in many dramas and don't have the classical acting training and discipline required in a number of other countries.

I also take issue with those claiming that The Wire is the best TV series ever. Perhaps it's the best american series ever, but it has serious competition from a large number of foreign shows.

[RgrF]

Which foreign series would those be?

[davester]

RgrF wrote:
Which foreign series would those be?

Lots of UK and some aussie police procedurals. Line of Duty, Happy Valley, Shetland, Broadchurch, etc. Also, Mare of Eastwick (also with english actors) and Breaking Bad are also in the running for best US series ever.

[RgrF]

I've seen about half the series you mention, several of them are quite good but in my opinion none measure up to Wire or Life. Couldn't watch Shetland without subs, my Scottish ancestors would have been mortified.

[kj]

Yeah, I have really enjoyed a lot of those Uk shows. I liked bordertown (the finnish one), The Method, which was russian, and I can't remember the one with Kenneth Branaugh that was swedish. A couple really good ones from Iceland too. Oh, and Deadwind (Finnish?). Idk, I have a hard time ranking things. They're all great. Breaking Bad was one of the best, I think. The first season of Casa de Papal is fun too (a little soapy).

[RAMd®d]

The jobs are only stolen...


It's a joke, son, a joke.

It's been a long standing joke I started in response to the various outsourcing/buy American posts over the years.



I can't remember the one with Kenneth Branaugh that was swedish.


That was Wallander, and I quite liked it.

Another was Cardinal, a Canadian police procedural with Billy Campbell (this no longer being about stolen US jobs).


There were also multiple versions of The Bridge and The Tunnel that were really good.

I am a big fan of Shetland, though in the season before last I believe, the writers fell into a US trope of having a female cop-protagonist raped, which bothers me on more than one level.

The accent didn't bother me at all, but the recording did.

Play a scene over and over and louder and louder trying to make it intelligible, and when viewing the subtitles, it's 'HTF did they get that out of that!'.

Anyway, my main complaint is that some of these dramas, both foreign and domestic, get really dark, and I need to cleanse my palette with some lighter fare.

But sometimes a series is just too compelling.

Baptiste, with Tchéky Karyo is one of those, a spinoff of the excellent The Missing.