Scenery-chewing Cranston
Is the over the top acting intentional?
shareyeah it's quite bad. if he's the creator he prob cast himself. bad choice. gonna destroy his legacy from Breaking Bad. haven't seen "why him" but it looked to me like a poor choice. now he's probably made this choice based on his success as Walter White but they're not qute the same character. Walter White was scary in a different way. mostly because he was out of his depth and reacting in desperation. also he was willing to do anything to protect himself. But this is a tough guy role and i didn't buy it. plus this monologue was ridiculous. i was so bored i ddn't even catch it all but i think it revealed he used to be a cop. and maybe it showed how his whole crew listened while he waffled on to prove they feared/repected him. and also it was trying to build the tension for what would happen to Eddie and how Vince was so cold hearted he would tell a story like that but it did nnot achieve its goal. another post on here flagged a similar speech by Mike in BB. prob stole the idea from there but the execution paled in comparison. the pilot hooked me but after that i llost interest. didn't really give a *beep* aboout the con they were running in the end or what happened to any of the characters. except maybe the brother. kinda felt bad for him.
shareDestroy his legacy? That's really a stretch. I don't even think it will slightly mar his 'legacy'.
As for the mention of the 6.5 rating, I'd say that's close to about right. I would have said 7.2, 7.3. Something like that. But if the paint-by-numbers, cookie cutter formula of The Americans can garner rave reviews, it's not so shocking. The IMDB forumgoers are usually a more prickly bunch; harder to please - which SHOULD be the case I think, though nitpicking gets taken overboard. For most it's probably just a diversion. A fun show. And consequently constitutes great, in their eyes. Doubtful that any serious forethought was placed into a good many of the reviews.