Submitted by NicholasCajun t3_z2cc4h in television
#Welcome to Chippendales
Premise: The limited darkly comedic crime drama series created by Robert Siegel chronicles how Indian immigrant Somen "Steve" Banerjee (Kumail Nanjiani) created The Chippendales and the dangerous actions he took against potential competitors.
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They needed to throw a prosthetic belly on kumail or something. The most swole indian uncle I have ever seen lol. His arms are literally twice as big as every other actor.
He’s covered in these large and Ill fitting suits lol.
That’s how you know his star is big now, got the role and didn’t need to actually gain the weight to look like the real dude lol
You’re not wrong about his arms but he isn’t Indian he’s paki
In the show he plays an Indian, that’s probably what he meant above
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Damn Dan Stevens really was a guest star, I knew his characters general fate but figured he'd be in the show for longer. He definitely crushed it though
I had no idea how dark chippendales origins were
The story is absolutely wild. There's probably some other stuff too crazy to put on a TV show because it would be too "unrealistic" for the general suddenness.
Surprised there’s so little discussion so far, thought it was great so far and no one’s mentioning Murray Bartlett from White Lotus as the choreographer, he’s such a good actor I think he could make conservative people more accepting of gay men he’s juts that good
Oh that's where I've seen him! He looked super familiar and I couldn't place where I'd seen him before. He's brilliant in this role so far.
TBH, I didn't recognize him without the mustache and close cropped haircut!
Yeah to his credit I didn’t even know it was him at first either , and didn’t know Dan Stevens was in it , their American accents made me forget they’re not
It's crazy, but I had no idea it was him either and TWL season 1 wasn't that long ago. He is hot but even more so with the mustache.
Kumail’s acting in this reminded me so much of someone. Finally figured it out: Robin Williams.
I googled to see if anyone else caught this and discovered that Kumail was inspired by Robin Williams’ darker roles.
Anyone else have that oh shit-moment when they first talked about Bogdanovich? I had completely forgotten that was part of this.
I don't really know these people since but I googling Dorothy Stratten I thought Nicola Peltz was perfect. I was very sad the moment I knew she's not going to appear in the next episodes.
Does the dialogue feel off or stiff to anyone else? When the gas station owner at the beginning was talking to him I thought I was watching a bad c-tier show. It got better as it went on but the performances didn't feel natural to me. I still enjoyed the first episode and am going to keep watching and see how the next few feel.
The gas station owner sounded like his lines were dubbed, it was horrendously bad.
Everything since got better imo, the third episode felt like everything was smooth.
I did not get that impression. The performances have been solid so far. Definitely check out episode two, some new characters with great performances.
That ending definitely caught me off guard
Great show! Needs more dicks.
RESCUE RANGERS
🎵CH-CH-CH-CHIP-N-DALE! 🎶
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good shit. solid 5/7 with rice
epic reference you made me narwhal out loud good sir!
Cyclone_1 t1_ixfnwpd wrote
I need Kumail Nanjiani in more of the things. He's so great. Really digging this show so far.