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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9844233" data-attributes="member: 18">He's an actor I've really turned around on. My initial reaction was "Ugh I hate this guy", because he played a series of intensely annoying twats and made sure to make them REALLY annoying and frustrating.But it was as an intensely annoying twat role he turned me around, which was The Punisher. I mean, I hate The Punisher, he's not a superhero in most older incarnations, he's just a weird Boomer revenge-fantasy (and the comics were frequently borderline or even outright racist and misogynist), so when I saw reviews saying "Omg he gives The Punisher emotional depth and makes him seem like a real person", I was like "Yeah, right, whatever". But then I watched it. And he did. And I admit I was impressed, because wasn't just a jerk, or a kind of hollow shell like the Person of Interest guy increasingly became as the series went on (talking of Boomer revenge-fantasies - the emotional weight of that show was carried entirely by the supporting cast, particularly after S1), there was something there.Since then I've seen him in more roles and liked him. Honestly he needs to do a good rom-com, I think he'd be great. He can definitely do comedy.Re: what am I watching? Mostly a lot of Drag Race, catching seasons my wife and I hadn't seen. I'm currently failing to watch a lot of good shows I need to catch up on like Slow Horses.I mean, it is different to Taggart but there's something about it that did bring Taggart to mind for me - maybe just the grit? That said I haven't watched Taggart in well over 20 years so YMMV. The closest show is probably Line of Duty, especially as it also has a bit of flair for the melodramatic and really loves some jargon and procedure, though it doesn't reach the true heights of ludicrous melodrama and dead cops everywhere that Line of Duty does (I say that with complete love for LoD, but stuff like the hand thing in S4 is so er... heavy-handed... and implausible it becomes kind of funny - I will never not live for stuff like "Urgent exit required." or that Jimmy Saville jumpscare though). Luther isn't so much gritty as a form of modern-day grimdark, it's just excessive and silly (but that is not entirely unintentional - I mean that was a show about a metaphorical "cop on the edge" which opened with him literally standing on the edge of a building, but honestly Garth Marenghi only gets more right as time goes on).I recently watched all of S1 of Blue Lights, which was straight-up great, nearly finished S2 started off a bit weaker and I think got a little too copaganda/excuses excuses at times, which is kind of antithetical to the gritty vibe, but in the last couple of episodes it's started to pull itself back together (one to go). Will definitely get to S3 eventually.</blockquote>

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