I had seen that in his credits earlier and made a point recently of seeing the first little bit of NN on PBS. It is indeed a shock!
There have been quite a few actors (both genders) that I have seen on Masterpiece (most likely one of the detective shows) who show up in a bigger production later. Gemma Arterton (from a recent James Bond movie) is another such case.
Probably the biggest shock along those lines was how many of the actors on The Wire were British, most surprising to me being Stringer Bell.
Thanks. See Posts #15 and #16 above. I knew he was familiar from earlier episodes, but I just wasn’t able to find his credits in this latest episode. Turns out I was just not as diligent as I needed to have been.
I’m damned curious to know if they shot any scenes in Belfast city centre. During the summer there was one day when a stream of bikes with those very loud farty exhausts came up the street outside the office. Such was the racket that a lot of car alarms went off
Yes, they did, and I think it will eventually “come out,” but the tension between Clay and Jax (and the division within the club) is going to go back-and-forth a bit, I think, before it happens.
Look at S2; Jax and Clay are almost ready to kill one another when Gemma reveals her rape at the hands of the skinheads, and it unifies the club. I’m not saying it buries old beefs/grudges, but they’re all on “the back burner” for the time being.
Sooner or later (if it hasn’t already), it is going to occur to Jax that it’s the old guard’s “business as usual” with gunrunning that got them into this mess.
I haven’t heard a thing really, I’m not sure if I’m just dozing but there a few things like that that have passed me by. There was a troupe of Doctor Who beasties marching around the city centre the other day to promote a new Who show, missed all of that.
Yeah, that sort of petered out didn’t it ? The first season finale in particular was quite clearly heading in the direction of a SAMCRO civil war and then… nuthin’.
Maybe it’ll pick back up when Jax gets his son back and realizes all the shit he’s been complaining about in the last episode is a direct result of SAMCRO being gangsters, I dunno.
I really want to see Clay and Jax throw down at some point, and to get more info and quotes by Jax’s dad as well. Seems like an interesting guy. Crazy Irish nicking a baby for about zero reason ? Not that interesting, IMO.
I also wish they’d put Mitch Pileggi back on the stage at some point. I really got a kick out of seeing Assistant Director Skinner as a racist hick for some reason.
You know it’s possible that Clay killed John but Gemma had no knowledge of this. After the death of John and Gemma’s other son Thomas John “lost his way”. Maybe Gemma started an affair with Clay while John was deeply in grief over the loss of his youngest son. Gemma tried to have sex with Tig when she thought Clay didn’t want her anymore so it’s entirely consistent with her character.
I figure what happened was he suddenly realized what the Sons had become (possibly as a result of his breakdown over Thomas’ death and the soul searching that usually comes hand in hand with that kind of thing, or coming back from that dark place and looking at things with new eyes), antagonized Clay over it and, well, Clay isn’t keen on being antagonized. Or Gemma realized a big dissension within the club would destroy the whole Big Family thing she’s got going, not to mention hurt a lot of people she seems to genuinely care about, and thus seduced Clay to get him to bump John. She is, after all, the mother of all ice cold bitches.
Or was, until the writers got a case of the stupids and made her Christian-by-rape. Don’t get me started on *that *one.
I admit I don’t have much to go on with this, besides a lot of innuendos and meaningful glances between Clay and Gemma, and the whole manuscript burning episode. Old man Piney also seems to still be raw about what happened back then, and while he keeps his mouth shut he’s always sort of egging Jax on to make a move, isn’t he ?
I dunno, really - this is all as much irrational gut feelings as actual cogitations about the show. Evidently the writers keep “the truth” in the dark and leave hints towards multiple versions because they haven’t decided what the truth was yet
Oh, BTW, and completely unrelated but does anyone know what the vertical golden pin is that Clay wears on his leather jacket ? He’s got two of those just above his name. One’s definitely a parachutist’s jump wings, but what’s the other one ?
The first thing i saw him on was the original Queer as Folk, and believe me, the biggest transformation between that character and Jax is not the accent.
Clay clearly ain’t the brains of the outfit. I don’t think he could hide something of that magnitude from Gemma. My take is that the death of John Teller won’t come to a head until later in the series. Once they start down that road, the story is moving toward the end.
This season just isn’t grabbing me yet. Last season, it felt like every episode was a 2-hr action movie crammed into 45 minutes, but so far this season has been moving very slowly and nothing’s coalescing yet.
Was that him? I thought “Hey that guy kinda looks like S. King,” but never bothered to check, because, well, it just never occured to me that it might be S. King.
