#call my agent!

[mywingsareonwheels]

Another difference between Douglas Richardson and Mathias Barneville (because there have to be some ;-) )

Roger Allam I get the feeling is, or at least can be, a bit like Douglas. He’s just kinder[1], more secure, happier, gentler. But the deadpan snark and the smooth charm and the flashy brilliance seem to be there (along with the love of cooking and singing and things!) and I get the feeling that if he ever wanted to run A Scheme he’d be brilliant at it. As long as Shaun Evans didn’t make him get the giggles at the wrong moment at least. ;-)

Thibault de Montalembert on the other hand (who is of course playing the less sympathetic, more imposing, more ruthless of the two characters), despite his truly ridiculously posh upbringing, appears to just be An Absolutely Massive Dork. :-D

Both actors do appear to be deeply lovely. This pleases me. :D

(NB: this is all based on interviews and accounts by others and my knowledge of Thibault is limited by my limited French! So, you know, do take all this with a billion pinches of salt. ;-) )

(Still want them to work together. Still feel very strongly that far more Cabin Pressure fans need to get into Dix Pour Cent!)

[1] Not that Douglas can’t be kind! He really can. But he can also be harsh and petty and very selfish and I don’t get the feeling Roger is any of those things. :-)

#cabin pressure #dix pour cent #call my agent! #douglas richardson #mathias barneville #roger allam #thibault de montalembert

[cain-black]

Camille Cottin❤️

#camille cottin #killing eve #helene #call my agent! #andrea martel #french actress

[gabesloves93]

#phillipine leroy-beaulieu #emily in paris #so hot 🔥🔥🔥 #middle aged actresses #call my agent! #french

[k-star-holic]

Lee Seo-jin, Young Tak, Jung Hye-young and Joo Hyun-young

#Call My Agent! #Jung Hye-young #Joo Hyun-young #Lee Seo-jin #Father

[fujikoi]

the Italian version of Dix pour cent should acknowledge the original version

I want to see any of them in Rome,

I want to see what Monica Bellucci is up to.

#they could be in milan idk where it will be filmed #dix pour cent #call my agent! #some rivalry is nice #nothing too antagonistic tho

[filmhoundsmag]

Why ‘Ten Percent’ Isn’t The Streamable Successor Of ‘W1A’

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#BBC #Call My Agent! #Jack Davenport #Lydia Leonard #Prime Video #Ten Percent #W1A

[coldrubies]

2023 in television

Last year, I spent a third of the year sick, a third of it overextending myself, and a third of it put upon by a swarm of little indignities that would have been nothing on their own but, all together, oooh boy. Throughout it all, I watched a lot of television.

These are the three TV-viewing experiences that defined the year for me:

Call My Agent!

I've watched the first season of Call My Agent! many times, but the occasion of having covid, food poisoning, and strep back-to-back in the spring presented me with the opportunity to take in the whole series. It took me away! I loved every minute of it, even the ones that baffled me (it is the sort of show I wish terribly had no stakes, but it does have stakes, and luckily I was maximally aware of my powerlessness while they happened to me, so I did not get as upset as I might have if I watched it in fighting shape and gotten FURIOUS about Gabriel and Sofia!!!). I hope I can watch it again someday but I need to put some distance between myself and everything that I associate with that time because it was BRUTAL.

American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

Something true about me: I loved The People vs. OJ Simpson and I rewatch Impeachment on a regular basis. I was saving The Assassination of Gianni Versace, and since there was no point throughout the year when I did not need a little treat, I finally watched this. It was not what I was expecting! And for that, I respect it in a way that I do not necessarily respect every property associated with the creator of this series. I think the critique of American-society-as-hostile-to-queer-lives, which enabled most of the victims to be shunted into the killer's path, was lost—I'd say substantially lost—but it is a gnarly, feel-bad masterpiece and feels almost void of the pandering that comprises a lot of other TV in its entirety.

Fellow Travelers

Finishing Fellow Travelers was a pyrrhic victory. I maintain that the sex scenes are a work of art, and it comes close to being worth watching on their strength alone, which is of real significance. But it is mostly horrifying to watch fine actors caught in the bear trap of a miserable script. Every line is agony (I haven't read the source material yet but I have a feeling that the agony is not wholly the result of adaptational accommodations). It is a bummer but no surprise at all that there is no parsing for contemporary audiences what the red scare was really about (although airing headcannon about McCarthy—a choice so wild, I might respect it). Between this and Maestro, I am going to need someone to do right by Matt Bomer.

(For the record, the second season of Yellowjackets was my favorite television event of 2023, but it was one of pure pleasure and, thus, not characteristic of 2023, hence its exclusion here.)

#fellow travelers #call my agent! #american crime story #the assassination of gianni versace #yellowjackets

[sqlatoon]

happy 4/3!!! (pre-octo expansion)

#splatoon #agent 12 #agent 3 #agent 4 #captain 3 #3 does have a phone its just really shitty and cracked and u can only use it for calls #so they borrow 4s phone all the time to do stupid shit #my art

[cemeterything]

idc about "toxic traits" or "red flags" whats your fatal flaw

#🐉 #in the interest of sharing mine is that i cant stand to not be who i say i am #which means that i refuse to expect anyone to do anything im not willing to do myself #and if anyone tries to call my bluff ill do anything to prove them wrong #'haha you wont do it' is like a sleeper agent activation phrase for me #you dont have to share your fatal flaws in the tags though this is first and foremost a sillypost

[bigskycastle]

some of the splatoon stuff i did for lock-on 5 c:

#harmony #iso padre #agent 3 #agent 8 #splatoon 3 #it still feels weird calling her harmony instead of paruko #convenient..i can tag 2 different characters as agent 3 now #my art

[cuosiscrazy]

I did this after side order but I was inactive so… here ya go now 💥

#PLEASE GOD DONT MAKE IT WEIRD I JUST LOVE MAKING FOUR SUFFER THROUGH THE SILLY #Cuos draws #splatoon #splatoon 3 #splatoon fanart #splat3 #agent 4 #side order #splatoon 3 side order #Splatoon 3 side order spoilers #?? #maybe idk #parallel canon #agent 4 splatoon #agent 4 splatoon fanart #Splatoon art #spoon #spoon 3 #That’s what we called it… ahem… back in my day<> #LMAO I HATE EVERYTHING #coming back 2 my account in a burst of insanity lmao #I AM FUCKING CRAZY. I AM A DANGER TO MYSELF AND OTHERS. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. #why am I so hi energy #High? #uhm. Yeah. IM DONE TAGGING.

[mywingsareonwheels]

I’m on series 3 of Dix Pour Cent and omg I know that the Catherine/Mathias/Noémie love triangle won’t be resolved by the polyamoury but I so so wish it would. Catherine and Noémie would make amazing metamours (or indeed partners in their own right!), and Mathias really needs to lovingly outmaneuvered for his own good which they’d do brilliantly. ;-) I bet Camille and Hippolyte would help. :D

More seriously: I’m so delighted that in all of Mathias’s messy love-life there’s no attempt in the show to portray any of the three women concerned as bad or horrible or otherwise fulfilling any of the misogynist stereotypes I wearily expect at times like this. I mean:

Catherine might encourage Matthias overly-ambitious side professionally at times in a way that tends to go badly wrong, but she is warm, kind, intellectual, emotionally wise, brilliant at pep talks which she gives very freely. She’s one of the most compassionate character in the show, and absolutely lovely to Camille, recognising her accurately and immediately as innocent in the entire mess, and encouraging Mathias to be a better father towards her.

Annick may have a slightly crab-buckety attitude at times but she is such a caring and protective mother to Camille, she’s astute and fierce and clearly enjoys her life (including her professional life) in a way that far too few of the other characters manage.

And Noémie, oh bless her. She’s a mess, but so loving and loyal and generous-spirited and ferociously good at her job (honestly, I am always going to have a soft spot for a neurodivergent-coded, extremely anxious spreadsheet-obsessive ;-) ).

And all three are stunningly beautiful and outright recognised as such. And with two of the relevant actors (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Isabelle Candelier) in their late 50s at the time of filming and the other (Laure Calamy) in her mid-40s, *damn* but that’s far too rare, at least in the UK and US. (The show also accurately recognises that Liliane Rovère is extremely gorgeous, and she was in her late 80s at the time of filming. :) )

As for Mathias... oh, I am so fond of him, and so frustrated. Not a hate-crush any more, but an exasperated crush definitely. ;-) He’s in dire need of a wake-up call, because he clearly genuinely cares a lot about everyone around him and yet is so terrible at behaving like it. His frustrated faces when the consequences of his own actions rebound on him yet again are absolute gold, and every time I’m like... yeah, good. This is salutary. And deserved. And hilarious, let’s be honest. ;-)

#dix pour cent #call my agent! #dix pour cent spoilers #call my agent! spoilers #catherine barneville #noémie leclerc #annick valentini #camille valentini #mathias barneville

[theabigailthorn]

spent ages preparing to audition for a role I really really wanted and it's looking like (still unconfirmed) they might not even be holding auditions at all but have just given it to someone directly

which, meh, that sucks but that's the industry!

I'm just like now what? I spent a lot of my free time the last few months prepping and I genuinely don't know what to do with myself now!

#guess I'll... have a bath? #call my mum? #keep prepping anyway on the off chance the rumours are false? #I already asked my agent to investigate but she can't find out either! #that's hollywood baybeeee #sorry mario your blorbo is in another show #I should get myself a treat as a reward for all my hard work even though it didn't work out #I have 3 criteria for this sort of thing and if I tick them all off I can walk away happy #Did I approach it from curiosity not ambition? #Did I make it known in the industry that I wanted the role? #Did I prepare for the role? #I did all three of those things so audition or no audition I can hold my head up high #might get myself one of those nice cookie dough brownies from the coffee stand this week as a consolation prize

[sincerely-nines]

team rancher /r. if you even cared

well done tango, you've secured yourself two weeks without kisses from your boyfriend (jimmy forgets within a day dw)

#scraps #solidaritek #trafficshipping #:3c #it's like i got a wake up call #i was like a sleeper agent and then someone said golf alpha yankee and i blacked out and when i wake up this was on my screen #oh well #it has been a while since ive posted any solidaritek content saur

[k-star-holic]

Lee Seo-jin Extramarital Person Joo Hyun-young,

#Call My Agent! #Claudia Kim #Joo Hyun-young #Lee Seo-jin #Father #Action

[fujikoi]

I hope I´m wrong but it would be a shame if Call my agent italia turned out to be a copy and paste version of the original one like Benvenuti al Sud (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) and all the various remake of french productions.

#i watched the trailers #and the actors look similar to what i believe are their counterparts #which i believe would also make a very awkward meet up if they make a crossover #also french bienvenue > italian one #i rewatched the french one a couples of times #why should i re-watch the italian if it´s a shoddy copy #i guess it depends on what you watch first #call my agent! #ten percent