You, Me and the Apocalypse is a new NBC and Sky 1 production, featuring an ensemble cast of British, American and Italian actors. It falls into the genre of a comedy drama, with the wittiness of British humour mixed together with intense dramatic scenes. To achieve this, a fantastic, experienced cast and enough money from NBC and Sky 1 to fund the project make You, Me and the Apocalypse to be the best new comedy drama in 2015.
It is said where there is a will there’s a way, well this time that will is a Jamie. The first episode starts off with Jamie a bank manager from Slough being arrested, interrogated, finding out his missing wife is alive, that he’s adopted, that he has a twin brother and he will be dead in 34 days all in one night! With that only being one character out of
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The eclectic mix of wonderful talent have been sourced from the best the Britain, America and Italy have to offer. The ensemble cast including Rob Lowe, Jenna Fischer, Kyle Soller, Mathew Baynton, Joel Fry, Paterson Joseph, Gaia Scodellaro and many more show the calibre of the series. Most of these actors are known for their wide range of skills in both comedy and drama making the ensemble gel perfectly with each other. It’s not just the viewers who have fun with and love the show the cast really believe in it as well. Jenna Fischer has said to Digital Spy "I feel like I'm in a Tom Cruise movie or something,". This just shows just how much confidence both Sky1 and NBC have in the project to put enough money in to make a Hollywood equivalent show. With Sky 1’s comedy experts mixed together with NBC’s expertise in drama productions give You, Me and The Apocalypse the best possible chance of beating out any other for best comedy drama in the upcoming awards season.
You, Me And The Apocalypse airs on Sky 1 HD Wednesday at 9pm with NBC airing the series later in
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Books and movies present stories in different ways because the medias are incredibly different. In the story Heart of Darkness, the author takes the motif of the journey and presents it in the third person in a way that people could understand with the topic of the spread of culture in the “third world.” Apocalypse Now shows the journey in a completely different way. It is made into a first person narrative and is changed from colonization to the modern day equivalent of the Vietnam War. Both ways of showing the story keeps the main idea of the journey both inside and outside, but the way of presenting it is very different.
Lead characters Gweneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes were impeccably fitting for their roles and did a great job. While supporting actor Ben Affleck, has an unforgettable ego and although Afleck too, did a good job, I was a bit disappointed that his accent was so shabby, if you will. Colin Firth played the obnoxious and arrogant suitor, Earl of Wessex and in a very admirable performance Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth. It is my opinion that the cast was fantastically chosen. Miramax and the casting manager, Michelle Guish does an incredible job and hits the nail on the head with the matching actors for the dynamic roles.
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Hello there Mr. President I am Alexus. I’ve heard you’re looking for ideas for a new television series. Well in that case I have a few ideas to elaborate to you. My show is basically a comedy, music, and game show all in one. Exciting right? How amazing does that sound?
The true meaning of varying interpretations comes alive when one compares the two film versions of Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now have the same basic outline and underlying themes, however the plots, characters, settings, time, purposes, and points of view differ enough to create two extremely different effects and two entirely opposite movies. Both movies depict an insanity: of man in Heart of Darkness and of war in Apocalypse Now. It is ironic that Heart of Darkness, the movie replica of the novel, is a boring, slow-paced flop of a production, while Apocalypse Now, a loosely based film, had great success and audience appeal. Heart of Darkness is a 1994 Turner Network Television (TNT) Pictures made for TV movie, directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is based so exactly on the Joseph Conrad novel that the differences between the two are almost indiscernible. As in the novel, the Nellie floats on the Thames River while Marlow, played by Tim Roth, tells of his journey into Africa. He is employed by an English trading company and assigned to sail up the Congo to the inner ivory station. He takes along Mfumu, a black native cannibal, as a companion. They encounter strange situations with company managers, the accountant, natives, cannibals, a sunken ship, and natural disasters. All along the way, Marlow hears of Kurtz, the corrupted chief of the Inner Station, played by John Malkovich, and becomes obsessed with finding him. As he nears the station, natives attack the boat and kill Mfumu. Marlow meets a Harlequin who tells him personal stories about Kurtz and his methods of becoming both admired and feared by the native tribe. Wh...
Where are we going? This is a fundamental question, one of several asked by the founders and thinkers of the world's largest religions. Each of the major religions has its own answer, and the study of these answers is called eschatology. In this essay, I'll take a secular look at the eschatological evolution of the Abrahamic religions, from Judaism to Christianity and finally to Islam. I will discuss the impact of these apocalyptic scenarios on people who do not practice each faith, and show that ultimately, answers to life's questions come from within.
I will be judging my two favorite cast members, Ashley Bryant and Akron Watson. I will start with Mr. Watson. He plays Trevor, a Duran Duran obsessed stage manager. He was out there, and I loved it. His body was loose, and free whilst showing he did not care at all. Until, of course, he had to go onstage himself. His projection was normal, but what I loved most about his performance was his reaction time. It was awful. He’d miss a cue, or not follow the lines. He went on TINDER for crying out loud. But, all in all, he was the best. Of course his
The way that everything flows makes it seem like they aren't really acting. It is almost like watching real people. Adrian Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, shows human difficulties, like OCD, by acting the way a real person would but not overdoing it. Natalie is his assistant and she helps him get through life. I’m really interested in her, if Adrian has a problem in life, work, anything she is right there to help him and make everything better. She is very motherly like. These are just two examples of how real the characters make the show
Have you seen a movie trailer in the past week advertising a new thrilling apocalyptic movie? Of course, you have! In the modern culture, marketers have convinced us that true entertainment is imaging our demise. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Shakespeare uses the storm in the beginning of the play as a set up for the entire show, but why? Cataclysmic episodes are used in shows throughout history to portray how human’s desperations and aspirations don’t change as dramatically as we think when put in a survival setting.
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This also made it the number one cable premiere in 2013. The success of the initial series prompted its producers to give a reworked version a theatrical release in 2014 and a NBC sequel in 2015.
Let us analyze that particular time in which the show premiers, immediately after The Voice. Because we know that The Voice is in the top ten for most watched shows, the timeslot following it can be considered prime real estate for other shows. That is how I and many others began to watch the show, because Carson Daily would close with, “…stay tuned for The Blacklist.” That was a perfect way to establi...
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Cast: Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Ed Harris, Ron Perlman, Gabriel Thomson