Hamish Linklater's Characters Playlists
So, I've been doing a bunch of playlists inspired by Hamish characters, and I wanted to share them, so I'm doing this post with ALL the playlists I've done so far.
I tried to make the playlists based in what I think that character would listen, or based in the vibes that character gave me while watching their respective media.
Most of the songs in each playlist has lyrics that match the character issues or personality, I've made sure of that. Also, every one of those playlists will be/it's been used as my personal playlist for these characters fanfictions.
Oh, and this list will be constantly actualized, since I'm still producing some playlists for some other characters. I'm also accepting songs suggestions for the characters that I haven't finished the playlist yet (they're at the end of the post).
Well, I hope y'all enjoy those playlists, fellows hamishionaries. Let me know what you think, my asks are always open.
Playlist below the cut!!!
Father Paul Hill | Monsignor John Pruitt (Midnight Mass)
That was the first playlist I've ever made (to a character), so I was extremely excited while doing it. I've read every lyric, looked for other playlists of the character and tried to make a uniform vibe, you know what I mean?
Father Paul is one of my all-time favourite character in the history of TV shows. He's marvellously well constructed, his development is… I don't have even words to describe it. Mike Flanagan did a GREAT work writing his lines (The whole show is pure gold.). His homilies are by far the most precious thing to me in the series. The passion in Hamish's acting during those sermons, and the WONDERFUL moments of subtle acting. The discrete looks to Millie, the knowing look to Bev and Riley. A sad disappointment with Riley's moments of affront, the pain that turns into a dark hunger, almost a look of abstinence that turns to fear and then a deep denial. Dude...
*slams a hand angst the table*
THAT'S ART, LADIES, AND GENTLEMAN!
Leaving aside for a moment my unhealthy obsession with Mike Flanagan's badass work on this show. This playlist has a lot of melancholic and reflexive songs that match with Father Paul's internal conflicts and demons. I'm a perfectionist whore :D
I hope you enjoy this selection the same much I did while making it.
John Tyler (Tell Me Your Secrets)
Uhhh time for the Boogeyman that hides in the shadows.
When I first watched TMYS I passed 95% of the time completely confused with what was happening, BUT, when I gave it a second watch EVERYTHING made sense. You see, this show has a lot of cores, a lot of things happen in the endless, filthy spider's web that creator and writer Harriet Warner has made. At first glance, the series can seem confusing and even have a strange pace, but if you give it a second chance, I guarantee you will like it.
The first thing you need to know is that there is no good guy in this story. Everyone is running from the demons in their past, and those demons are catching each one of them by the heels. The character that inspired this playlist is the former sexual predator and stalker John Tyler.
Let me tell you, everyone on this show is amazing, but man, Lily and Hamish are the highlight without a doubt.
The idea of a character that is the embodiment of everything we women fear the most is simply brilliant, especially when placed in the context of TMYS, where two of the protagonists are women. And they both have to deal with this man who represents everything vile to them.
John Tyler is initially introduced as a reformed criminal, someone who is trying to be a good person, to be 'reliable' again. Apparently throughout the first episode we see that he has clearly been trying hard to keep the hungry wolf of his desires inside the cage, but when Mary Barlow appears, the fine bars on the cage instantly begin to loosen.
Do I need to say that Mr. Linklater is doing a fucking great job playing that creepily handsome boogeyman? No, I don't, but I will.
This character has so many layers that it's almost criminal as the script and acting put us inside his head. We never know exactly what he's planning, or what he's going to do next, but boy, can Hamish give us a good idea with just a glance or a subtle shift in expression. And let me say, there's a good LOT of scenes where he's just STARING at something or someone.
That whole scene in the pub with Gayle? And then when she's saying goodbye to him? *chef's kiss* Damn good acting.
The playlist is based on the demons of this character, the metaphors for him (the boogeyman and the wolf), the hunger, the stalking, the creepy stuff and all. Tbh is one of my favourite playlists, full of dark techno and dark wave.
Wish you listener the best shivers lol :D
Matthew Kimble (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
OKAY! The therapist with a serious Oedipal (oedipussy) complex.
I'm not much of the person of the sitcom, but TNAOOC is definitely something. The way the punch lines are so organic is AMAZING. Some situations were so absurd I thought I was seeing an episode of Monty Pyton's Flying Circus (ok I'm exaggerating, but is bc I LOVE Monty Pyton's humour).
The comedic timing of Wanda Sykes, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Clark Gregg and (of course), Hamish Linklater is PERFECT. The acid humour that came with the sarcastic commentaries of the characters is precious, and I got myself laughing my ass off many times.
I had a crisis with every incest joke in that show, and there's a whole LOT.
As a sitcom, the characters' development isn't *that* profound, however, Matthew's development is one of the most notable.
He starts the series as an unemployed brother whose nanny of his nephew, Ritchie. And during the show, he gets to the medicine college and ends up becoming a therapist! And this journey till the fifth season is the funnier. We get to know Matthew's mummy issues and a few curious things about his teenage (like, he used to dress in a cape?!).
The whole playlist is based in what I think Matthew would listen, he's a nerd that play Magic and D&D (I got identified lol), has an oedipal complex and is CUTE AS FUCK. So, there's some Indie, a bit of classic rock and some daddy/mummy issues songs, I couldn't avoid it.
Hope you enjoy the soft boy vibe of the playlist. :D
Andrew Keanelly (The Crazy Ones)
Time for the creative director of an INSANE marketing agency.
I've always been a fan of Robin William's work, as, also, Sarah Michelle Gellar, so it wasn't hard to convince me to watch TCO. Tbh the hardest thing was to find where to watch it, bc in my country… well it sucks to watch literally anything that isn't mainstream. It's hard to find and when we find it's with low quality and with a good spoon of computer virus.
Anyway, once I watched this show, I immediately fell in love with the characters, specially Andrew, Sidney, and Lauren. Sindrew is one of my OTP's, and it's painful to pass through the 22 episodes with this two trying to pretend that they are not in love with each other, when they obviously are.
The comedic timing it's very organic just like in TNAOOC. The punch lines take huge fat laughs off me while I'm watching.
The punch line where we discover that Sidney is germophobic and Andrew has to take her phone in the quarantine area in the episode 'Epidemic'? Pure gold.
But if I had to choose between both series, I would say The Crazy Ones, bc the episode plots are far more simple than the COMPLETE COMEDIC MESS of The New Adventures of Old Christine. Actually, that choice depends on my mood, and today I'm more TCO than TNAOOC.
WELL, I had to do something to my perfect boyfriend, Andrew. So I've search for every unrequited love, oldies and soft boy songs I could find. Some lyrics are very much about Andrew being in love with Sidney, but you can imagine that is actually with you or your OC. There's Queen, Bowie, lots of Beatles and a few 80s songs, but also some modern song like The Weekend and Taylor Swift.
I hope you like my lover boy playlist, bc I really love that one.
Brice Catledge (Magic in the Moonlight)
My rich handsome husband Brice <3
All right, I hate myself in this one for a very specific reason. I watched Magic in the Moonlight twenty times when I was a teenager, bc… *Colin Firth*, and then when I discovered the shit abt Woody Allen and I stopped seeing the film till I fell in love with Hamish in 2017 in the first season of Legion.
After that I decided to separate the author from the work and I saw MitM with new eyes. I love Colin Firth, but Sophie dear, what were you thinking when you dumped Brice like that??
The man is handsome, rich AND wrote you serenades, he sang them to you with a ukulele!! How can you say 'no' to that?! He had even created a fucking FOUNDATION under your name!
*sigh* Please, you're smarter than that, girl.
*breathes deeply* I'm fine now.
But, let's be honest, Brice Catledge is a perfect gentleman, a bit naive? Yes, but if he wasn't, what were the fun?
So, to my naive fancy husband, I've made a playlist with an obscene number of Oldies, there's Dean Martin, Julie London, Nat King Cole, The Ink Spots and Frank Sinatra.
Hope you like fellow <3
Miles (You Can't Say No/Make or Break)
The ultimate soft daddy, my beloved Miles.
I have never known about the EXISTENCE of this film till I opened Hamish's Letterbox page. And to my surprise, the film itself, it's… watchable. Tbh, isn't bad, but the main characters aren't sympathetic, really, especially the husband Hank, I mean if they are the protagonist they should be at least interesting, isn't? The answer this film gives is 'no'.
The funnier scene in this self-titled 'comedy' is the ""threesome scene"" (pay attention to the quotes). It happens when the main couple Hank and Alex decides to have a three-way with Hank's considerate brother, Miles. Honestly, I had a good laugh when Miles say that he would do anything that Alex asks him. And Hank is CLEARLY jealous of him.
To be fair I understand Hank, I mean, I think I already have mentioned a few times how good-looking Hamish is, but FOR FUCK'S SAKE his look in this comedy is beyond my mental ability of processing information. My brain melted, and I wasn't able to describe his beauty in a word. *does horny gremlin noises*
He's so cute, happy, and hospitable, but with the appearance of a god-damn DADDY. The 'smoke on the water' fanfic by @prettyboyhamish confirmed my obscure fantasy. (I highly recommend their fanfics, they're great.)
So, as this character doesn't have a bunch of layers or any development in the film (just some tips' abt problems of abandon and a father figure). I literally made a playlist with the vibes he gives me, that is, The Ultimate Soft Hippie Daddy™️.
A lot of The Neighbourhood, The Weekend, and Lana Del Rey. As it should be.
I wish you the best horny trip, listener!
The film that everyone forgets about. I'm going to tell you, this film made me go FERAL. Bloody unbuttoned shirt.
Groove is a very random film, honestly, I'm very ignorant when the matter is a rave, but this one definitely gave me the vibes. It's not bad, I dare to say that this film is 'ok'. It isn't so bad that everyone remembers, (like in Battleship or The Future (that film makes absolute no sense to me, and I watched it twice.)). Or so good that it is a masterpiece (like The Big Short or Midnight Mass). It gets in the between, is that what sadly makes it forgettable.
However, the directing is THE great stuff in this film. The way Greg Harrison directs the scenes, the lights and all, I really adore it.
And OF COURSE, Hamish and Lola Glaudini are the best acting so far, the other actors are good, but they got all the highlights. Their chemistry is delightful.
As I'm not much of a person of Electronic or dubstep, I put some songs that I presume that David would listen, and according to the character vibes.
Enjoy!
Porter Collins (The Big Short)
The Ultimate Wall Street Daddy.
The Big Short is one of my favourite films, Adam McKay direction and his screenplay with Charles Randolph is amazing. The dialogues are something at the level of Aaron Sorkin in The Newsroom. The dynamic between the characters is so organic and natural that most of them, you can believe they're real people.
My favourite core is the one of Morgan Stanley and Mark Baum. The interactions of his team are the best thing to me. Vinnie, Danny, and Porter lines are the greatest, I always lose my shit over their scenes.
About that, Porter is such a good character, he's angry, disappointed, and overwhelmed with all the economic crisis situation. I laughed so much with his angry answers to Danny.
When he and Danny goes to check on mortgage default and the “I hate Vegas” sequel, it's just *chef's kiss*
That being said, this playlist was made based on some songs that agree with the plot of the film and some that I think that our former rower would listen to. This sexy, overwhelmed man was a piece of work, but I think I got it. Some workout songs, a bit of Rolling Stones and lots of rich-daddy music.
I hope you enjoy! Please, let me know what you think!
Dr. Jim Ellis (The Stand).
Doctor Daddy time!
I read The Stand AGES ago, so I really don't remember shit, that said I thought that even that I didn't recall the character and all, I hope that I would like The Stand (2020), I WAS WRONG.
I mean, the series ins't BAD, it is just… boring? Frustrating? Idk, maybe I got a little affected by what happens to my dear Jim. I've known him for 10 minutes and if something happen to him, I'll kill everyone in thus room and then myself… I- honestly, they just did the pilot classic "Interrogator daddy with sad ending".
However, besides this TRAGEDY, I thought that Dr. Ellis was quite an interesting character and (of course) I fell in love with the man (have you seen the slutty way he crosses those long-ass legs?? how am I supposed to deal with that?). So, OBVIOUSLY, I said to my muse — while The Stranger by Billy Joel played at the ending credits of the first episode.
— Shit, muse, I gotta save him… — we stared at each other for a long minute, and they agreed, SO here are we.
For the good or for the bad, The Stand is a post-apocalyptic story, that said, I saw myself a little influenced by the stress of the quarantine. So I ended up putting a lot of songs about death, the end of the world, hope, love in difficult times and this kind of thing, I particularly love this one bc it has some of my favourite songs.
I really hope you all enjoy this lil guy, it was so fun to make it!
The melancholic postman with the brightest smile!
Ithaca isn't a totally bad film, it's just a very mediocre adaptation of The Human Comedy, a 1942 novel. (I haven't read the book where the film is based on, but I honestly don't think that has enough content for an almost 100 min film).
Maybe, idk, there's just a lot of padding where they could've focused on more interesting things, like I understand that the boy is like "the messenger of death" and all, but... poor thing, he doesn't have the necessary charisma to carry the film on his own.
Everybody in this film seems lost, and no character has the development or depth for us to care about their fates. I think that Tom is the only one who saves himself (partially) from this, but it's just because of the public who really likes the actor. Which is sad, bc they could've made this a short film without that unnecessary amount of atrophied subplots.
Tra la la la, enough of film review.
Now, Tom is an underdeveloped character, but that doesn't stop Haim giving him some layers through his voice control and facial expressions. So I couldn't resist giving him my favourite thing in the world, a personal playlist, lol.
That said, I've made with him the same as I did with Brice, mainly because I started making their playlist at the same time, but I've only being satisfied with Tom's now.
I tried to use more vintage songs, you know more WWII kind of thing, some oldies and all, and really like the final result. Of course there are some contemporary songs, like Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen, but mostly oldies.
Just a small shoutout to the amazing fancam that @i-was-ok-then-i-saw-hamish made mixing Tom and Brice a while ago, I really loved so much <3
Hope y'all enjoy this lil one, my beloveds hamishionaries, you made my days happier <3
Noah Bearinger (Paper Year)
I know this man is a complete dickhead, but listen…
…he's hot.
I know it is no excuse to cheat on someone, but let me tell you something. Remember when he read poetry like that, and then he did THAT thing?
Yeah, I know, I think I've already made my point. Would you have the courage to say 'no' to that? I'm a weak soldier, guys, the poetry, and the forehead touch got me HARD.
I personally consider Noah a smarter and less creepy version of Gary from 'Unicorn Store (2017)'. But the way Haim plays him, ugh, he made me fall in love with the bastard in the first time I watched Paper Year (2018), and kept me falling each time I watched it.
So, here it is!
I know he's a cheat, but, could you just look at him??? And I mean...
We can always fuck fix him.
Honestly hope y'all enjoy this selection, we have Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and a bunch of sexy songs (and maybe some angsty? hmm?) bc this man definitely wants to eat you alive.
Our dirty Republican crush, the himbo dilf we didn't know we needed.
I completely LOVED Gaslit, exactly the kind of humour I like.
As a non-American person, and someone how doesn't really know much out of the basic about America's Political History, it was a show quite fun to watch and that kept me looking forward for more at each episode released. It also made me curious enough to study about the Watergate Scandal.
Still, my favourite moment is when Jeb is watering his flower and drives off a FUCKING BUTTERFLY. I totally lost my shit.
I know our boy Jeb isn't the best of people, but he's just so… I mean, just look at those poor little puppy eyes.
Anyway, I couldn't resist making him a playlist, after all he can be fucked fixed by the right person ;D.
And let's face it, the poor guy is in desperate need of a fuck, imagine how much tension must there be in those handsome shoulders.
Shoutout to Sixty Eight Days to Save a Life by @agirlinherhead, Long Hot Summer by @pegplunkett, and A Summer Endeavour by @girlwiththenegantattoo, their writing inspired me A LOT while making this one, thanks for keeping us well-fed <3
To this one we have an OBSCENE amount of Lana Del Rey, but don't worry my dear listener, it's all been carefully chosen ;)
Enjoy the playlist to this wet paper bag of a man, HamFam!
Jerry Dantana (The Newsroom)
It's time to our nasty journalist!
The truth is, I kinda liked the style of script of The Newsroom, but those characters are sometimes just TOO SASSY, it's just like they're the only ones who know what they're doing, and the rest are just dumbasses. And that's why I what a little happier than I should when Jerry decided to try to fuck with them. (Except for poor Maggie, she deserved better, not cool J.D., not cool).
If there's somebody that is a fan of the series and wants my head in a silver plate, I say, I'M SORRY BUT THAT NASTY BITCH IS HOT AND KINDA RIGHT!
I still think that our nasty journalist could've dealt with the whole 'Genoa' situation with a bit more compassionate journalism instead of a little greed? There's also the fact that he was fooled just like the rest of the team into believing the story and was the only one fired… hum actually, I take off what I said, go ahead Jerry, fuck with those assholes.
To me this playlist in particular has the PERFECT vibe to Dantana, the songs here give the vibes of the character and what he does in the series, and also two or three songs about his relationship with his OFC. (I'm still working on his piece… good Lord so many WIP's I want to finish*laughs a bit desperately*).
Shoutout to this marvellous prompt, Chocolate by @thegardenarcher, it inspired me to make this playlist too.
I hope you enjoy as much as me, fellow thirsty raccoon.
Another day, another cheater, lol. God bless this lumberjack.
I kinda consider this film a waste of good character development, bc it's satisfied with just pretend it is heading somewhere. The screenwriters really wasted a good opportunity of making a huge conflict between the main character Jude and her sister Corinne because, of Corinne's husband Tim, with whom Jude had an affair when they were young. Instead, they just ignore it and decide to focus on a bad developed relationship between Jude and her father Paul. One lives in his successful past, the other tries to head herself to a successful future. A nice plot, but I don't know, it just hasn't worked for me.
They have just thrown this romantic triangle in the film and doesn't develop how it affects an already conflicted family.
ANYWAY.
I got completely OBSESSED with @i-was-ok-then-i-saw-hamish edit of Tim. Now, I just wanted to make clear that their tags are one of the more truthful things I ever saw in this site.
#great movie for hamish content
#he chopped wood and ran on a beach and opened a jar... it's like the script was written by my ovaries
Nothing else I could add. I mean, he's so HOT.
The playlist has been inspired by the edit, the pics posted by @plainlo-inthemorning — a very honourable member of the HamFam pantheon. *whispers* I love u and your content —, and the fan fiction I'm planning to the character.
As some of you might think, A WHOLE LOT of musics about dangerous feelings, cheating and old loves.
I have a special feeling to each playlist I made, with this one wouldn't be different. Hope y'all enjoy!
Lysander (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
John Joseph Jacobs (Pushing Daisies)
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Benjamin Conway (10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up)
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