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It looks like these foreign born television co-stars who are fairly close to each other on the list have no plans to ever be co-stars in the future despite what fans might want. They can't get along enough to spend five minutes together so there is no way they can do another season of their very hit show despite the short length of seasons for television shows in this country.
Sherlock benedict cumberbatch and martin freeman
ReplyDeleteSomething in the UK I hope it's melted milk man.
ReplyDeleteWhat does Bronfman Rothschild have to do with NXIVM?
The furnishing of the honeypots?
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ReplyDeleteCumberbatch and Freeman? Surely referring to a British tv show, but series in the UK are getting longer in length, # of episodes-wise. Just sayin'.
ReplyDeleteCould this be cillian Murphy and tom hardy? Peaky blinders has very short seasons
ReplyDeleteGood guess on short seasons. Don’t want to spoil the latest season for anyone but it ain’t these two.
Delete@Geeljire Heiress and the cult
ReplyDeletehttps://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/11/bronfman-201011
Handmaids Tale?Joe Fiennes /Yvonne S maybe (or whoever plays his love interest)
ReplyDeleteAnt and Dec
ReplyDeleteIt’s Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Martin was talking poorly about the Sherlock fan base recently and when Benedict was asked about it in an interview he said Martin’s comments were pathetic.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the comments on the interview blind yesterday, I wonder if Martin gets tired of "So are you and Benderdact gonna bang?"
DeleteI never saw him before Fargo season 1 and wow
@Geeljire,
DeleteYour loss, I guess. Freeman has been around quite a while and was definitely the bigger name going into Sherlock. Sherlock put Cumberbatch on the map, but Freeman had a devoted fan base already.
Sherlock is only 3 eps a season, fans love them together but they clearly don't get on, parts of the fan base is INSANE, they have been disagreeing in public recently.
ReplyDeleteCumberbatch and Freeman - http://ew.com/tv/2018/04/22/benedict-cumberbatch-pathetic-sherlock-martin-freeman/
ReplyDelete@Geeljire - can't exactly manipulate markets if you're only blackmailing entertainers, can you?
I'm with Freeman on Sherlock. Fans were way too obsessed with the show and consequently the third season was awful. Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss kept winking at the super fans in every scene and the themes of the show, and the smart writing, fell apart.
ReplyDeleteCumberbatch is being the little bitch in my opinion. He and Freeman obviously are not getting along, haven't for a while. No need for Cum to make that public other than he is a little bitch with a score to settle.
+1
DeleteNo Shit Sherlock :)
ReplyDeleteSherlock has been awful since season three, no one will miss it (except the wierdos that Freeman was talking about)
ReplyDeleteare they attending the avengers premiere tonight ?
ReplyDeleteYeah that season with the sister was totally off the rails.
ReplyDeleteI like both actors, and they're clearly not hurting for work. I will miss all the other actors on my TV screen though. (Graves, Gattis, Scott)
I enjoyed the show, all seasons, but am disappointed in the way the actors are handling it publicly. A lot of shows have crazy hardcore fans (I am not one of them), they oughta be able to take that in stride and keep their opinions out of interviews.
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ReplyDeleteYou ought to see the Sherlock fans, though. They dig up clues in every episode to ascribe personal meaning to it. They make wild connections that the writers seem to celebrate by giving them even more in the 3rd season. I blame the writers who thought that all their fans were like the crazy fans and wrote the third season entirely for them. Freeman is correct.
The third season of "Sherlock" was unwatchable. Like, I couldn't make it to the end of any of them. Far too self-reflexively clever for its own good. And the obsessives about that show are as bad as the worst Trekkies.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Sherlock, I've heard rumors that Freeman & Cumberbatch don't get along for awhile now.
ReplyDeleteAs a casual observer of the Sherlock fandom for years now, I find the ebb and flow of things fascinating. If I were less lazy, I could write a doctoral thesis on it.
ReplyDeleteThe show was great for seasons 1 and 2, mediocre for 3, and totally jumped the shark in 4.
Here's hoping everyone involved moves on to bigger and better things, and this includes the fans.
+1 Booboo, that was my first thought.
ReplyDeleteKilling off Moriarty was a bad call, Andrew Scott was exceptional in that role. If they can work in Sherlock's wackjob sister then they can find a way to bring him back. Heck just give him his own series, I'd watch that over recent Sherlock seasons.
I even forgot about S4 because I couldn't finish a single episode.
ReplyDeleteThe shark jumping moment was Sherlock jumping off that building. It wasn't the episode itself but the way the show kept bringing it up again, playing it again, teasing the Super Fans about it was so off putting.
@Brayson
You are so right about Andrew Scott. They killed him off too early and he might have been the best thing on the show. I'm pretty good with accents but Moriarty's accent, as Scott played him, made my head explode. It was all over the place, yet Scott played it as both an affectation and something natural inside a very dark childhood.
+1 on the building jumping
DeleteAlthough conceivably they could be costars again, but in the MCU.
ReplyDeleteI swear this blind has been written years ago with Cumberbatch and Freeman the top guess/possible answer, pretty sure around the time Martin and Amanda Abbington were still together.
ReplyDeleteMe too.
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ReplyDeleteFreeman's made bitchy comments about Cumberbatch (also Gervais and my guess others publicly) in the past already, which is how the original TIP rumors came about.
I don’t care for some of the Sherlock fans but it still wouldn’t be their fault if the showrunners chose to pander to them over quality—the showrunners are who are in charge. Freeman just comes off like he can’t handle fan criticism, which is something you can mostly avoid. He’s got to searching for himself and his character to see most of it.
That last season was a waste of time
ReplyDeleteThose fucking Brits with their 8 episode 'seasons' really piss me off. And then they take a year off between production (shouts obscenities at sky, shakes clenched fists)
ReplyDeleteI looked through Freeman's comments on Gervais. I didn't see anything bitchy there except for a comment on comedians in general and their need for all the attention in the room. Would Gervais disagree? Freeman seems very proud of The Office (he should be. It's one of the best limited series out there.)
ReplyDeleteIt's refreshing, I feel, to have any actor or director give an honest opinion that they've clearly thought through. Freeman did that. More power to him especially since Sherlock is done now (and Moffat should be kept very far away from any more TV series. He's managed to plow two into the ground now, three if you include Jekyll.)