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Is it just me, or is Patricia Clarkson ...


... doing a really bad job of acting in this series. I usually have felt that she was at least average, sometimes above average. But in this show she is as flat as a pancake. Every line is excruciatingly monotonal, like she's delivering the lines only because she had to.

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I wasn't impressed with her either. Also, looking very old for her age, I would have thought 60's.

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Really?? I loved her in this season. She plays her character perfectly, quite and unassuming but you know there's a barracuda in there somewhere. She would be a formidable opponent, made even more effective by others underestimating her power based on her understated delivery.

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I also like that she played the character almost like she's constantly hungover...I wondered in a few scenes what her issue was. Is she sick? Is she a drunk? Have the years of grinding duplicity pushed her near the edge?

The subtle, shaky fatigue was a brilliant choice, saying "No One Gets Out of Here Alive."
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She was just wandering in the dark, and we found each other, in the dark...

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