Get Shorty (TV Series) Grace Under Pressure (2017) User Reviews

Grace Under Pressure

[Prismark10 · 7/10 · 13 December 2020]

This is the most successful episode as things get done because of Mile's guile and cunning. There are also some offbeat character moments giving the episode some humour.

Miles persuades a VP to sign off for the production budget once Miles gets the dirt on him.

Amara sends a goon to make sure a reading room is available. Once the reading gets under way with the director on Zoom from prison. Nathan shows he is a rather handy actor.

The best bit was Rick Moreweather not fathoming just what he has got into in his relationship with Amara. He soon finds out when the cops visit him.

Despite being a cold blooded killer. Louis Darnell is a pretty strict Mormon. He does not drink or engage in premarital sex which he mentions on a first date.

Good as usual for the show, but some dodge British accents

[quicksmartmcoy · 8/10 · 18 September 2017]

The show in general has been fun and compelling, but a couple of the actors playing the parts of Brits were not just not British (if they can act well enough it doesn't matter), they were not passable as British, mainly my problem is American actor, Billy Magnussen, who plays a fool who turns out to be a "great actor" and wows everybody by nailing the part of a colourful British character, now poor impersonations of accent aside, he is a fine actor, not really much more than that, he's no Alec Guinness or Marlon Brando, no Garry Oldman (unless you are talking about his more recent roles), but he's fine, he's certainly not bad, but to get to the point real British people (the kind in the script reading) would not be at least sincerely impressed (unless they were particularly stupid) by a quite frankly inadequate impression of a British accent, to point out the kind of pronunciation mistake Magnussen makes, he pronounces dog as dug, Americans pronounce dog dawg (no offense) a British person who speaks the queens English as the table read character was attempting would pronounce dog, dog, any way other than this nitpick it was a fine episode.

Back with a vengeance...

[Unknownian · 17 September 2017]

This series goes from The Exorcist to Meatballs from week to week, depending on who's directing. This week the show returned to the original former comedy brilliance of the pilot.

This episode was directed by Daniel Attias, and he also directed next week's show, so I'm expecting the same level of the perfect mix of funny and serious, the ingredients of dark comedy.

Nice job this week Daniel, of blending all the elements of a complex story, comedy about a subject not usually associated with it, and not taking itself so serious that it ruins the original theme of being as interesting as it is funny. Keep it up!

Grace Under Pressure

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 19 September 2017]

A so so episode of the show. Some jokes worked, but a lot of these stories feel forced and unnatural. Why would Amara want production to move to Nevada when it seems like she is enjoying her time in LA? And why would Amara ever let Miles out of his arrangement?

This show has done some good things, but for the most part it is not as captivating as you need to be to have a successful pay cable program.