The original post: /r/television by /u/PetyrDayne on 2024-08-19 21:21:30.
So Giancarlo Esposito has been popping up in a lot of stuff I’ve watched lately, namely “Jett” and “The Gentlemen” and I feel like he’s always playing some variation of Gus Fring and even though he hits it out of the park every time I just hope he doesn’t get typecast.
Someone recommended “Six Feet Under” on here a few weeks back and I did not expect to come across Ben Foster in it but he was phenomenal. Even in projects with weak writers he just brings his A game elevating the whole thing. He’s so underused and underrated it’s shocking. You put Ben Foster in a HBO tv series as a detective with David Simon writing and it’ll do numbers. Even imagine him in one well written episode of a show like The Last of Us, he’d easily get performer of the week.
Last but not least, Summer Bishil. She stole and ate every scene she was in in “The Magicians” especially this one scene. Went to look for more stuff she was in but never found anything good and one comedy show that sounds so good on her IMDb bio but it’s been in post-production for years even though it won best episodic project at the LA film festival two years ago I believe. From “IMDb It follows a group of employees who work at a deli that’s a front for the mafia.” Rizwan Manji is also co-starring and hope it’s not dead and that someone picks it up and Bishil gets more work
These are the only ones off the top of my head but I’m sure y’all can think of many more.