#larry hall

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16 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝑔𝑜 𝓉𝑜𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒲𝑜𝓌! 𝒲𝑜𝓌! 𝒲𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓏𝓎! 𝓈𝓅𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒶𝓁 𝒲𝓊𝒷𝒷 𝐼𝒹𝑜𝓁 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒾𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝒩𝒾𝒸𝓀𝑒𝓁𝑜𝒹𝑒𝑜𝓃!!

𝐼𝓉 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝐵𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒸é 𝒶𝓈 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒲𝓊𝒷𝒷 𝒢𝒾𝓇𝓁𝓏 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑒!!

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Larry Hall sure is A Mood (TM)

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Black Bird (2022)

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Paul Walter Hauser, Jan. 11 2023 on IG

Taron, I meant what I said last night. I can talk about your talent and beauty and professionalism all day, but what I am most impressed with and grateful for is who you are as a man. Your kindness, humor, accountability and heart really do radiate and it made my Larry Hall experience palatable and possible. I love getting to make you laugh. I loved getting to act with you. And I’m so glad we’re in each other’s lives. Your mother raised an absolute gentlemen. Dennis, you were always one of these writers that I thought “I probably won’t get to do their work because they’re classy and intelligent and brooding and high level”. What a wonderful surprise to get to say your words and see inside your creative mind. I didn’t know I’d get to become a friend of your beautiful family and be invited in, like I have. Thank you for the inspiration, the guidance and your friendship. To tell a story with you and Taron was such a joy and the awards recognition is reflective of our triumvirate and the creative people who surrounded us on the project. I love you guys a lot.

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PAUL WALTER HAUSER as Larry Hall in BLACK BIRD (2022) Episode 2 - We Are Coming, Father Abraham

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It Is Well (With My Soul) by Larry Hall | Runtime: 6mins 20secs

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Black Bird (Apple TV+, 2022) Review

This show was great and all, but the most unrealistic part of it was Taron Egerton’s prison shirt. Usually prison wear is quite baggy, and for other prisoners in this show it is, but Egerton seems to have a clause in his acting contract that states he has to show off his big muscles on full display. Hence why he wears the tightest prison top possible, and I’m sure Egerton fans are nothing but pleased seeing him tense his guns, but I guess that is realism out the window. 

Plot: As Jimmy Keene begins a 10-year prison sentence, he gets an incredible offer: if he can elicit a confession from suspected killer Larry Hall, he will be freed; completing this mission becomes the challenge of a lifetime.

Can’t remember myself getting so riveted by a crime show since....ever. I’m not really one to watch TV crime dramas, however Black Bird is such a well written, superbly acted show that hits themes of deep moral complexity. What really works in this show’s favour is it’s unrelentless well time paced. It doesn’t rush, it is a slow burn after all, however it keeps the central core mystery compelling throughout, as well as having relying upon being a two-hander about two men laying bare their true natures in thorny, anxiety-dripping back and forths. 

Taron Egerton is absolutely sensational in this role, and again, I’m not simply talking about his veins sticking out of his muscles. It’s the emotion he shows whenever he listens to Larry’s ‘lies’ and stories, and the true horror and disgust he feels whilst still trying to hold up the act of being his friend. In the last few episodes especially Egerton lays it all dawn raw and its incredible to watch. Paul Walter Hauser is aptly creepy and unnerving as Larry, and his high pitch voice, though amusing and tad funny at first, amplified the uncomfortable notions every time he appeared on screen. Hauser makes Larry an absolutely vile presence, but also the script does this interesting thing where it allows Larry to have a mind-set of a victim, where whenever he does the horrible things he does, he manages to spin it around to seem like he had no choice. As if he was doing in in self defence. And naturally the knowledge and awareness of how messed up he is as a person and his lack of morality make for one of the most unpleasant criminal psychopaths in crime TV for a good while. This series also sees one of the final roles of recently deceased Ray Liotta, as Jimmy’s hard nosed ex-cop father who suffers from the constant feeling of guilt that he has failed his son. Having suffered a stroke, Liotta hits the stammering tone and frustration that comes along with a debilitating incident in a heart-breaking way. Whilst Hauser’s Larry provides feelings of disgust and spine chilling fear, Liotta is both adorable and sympathetic, and it is so sad that we have now lost this acting legend. Sepideh Moafi and Greg Kinnear round up the cast as the detectives trying to figure out the truth outside of the prison walls, and both do splendidly in their roles. 

The main thing Black Bird suffers from is it is a tad short. Running at a total of six episodes, it wouldn’t have hurt having an extra episode or two to tie up a few loose ends. There is a guard in the prison who always makes things harder for Jimmy, as well as a Mafia boss who ends up feeling betrayed by Jimmy’s actions, and both of these side-plots end up going nowhere, and I feel should have led to more interesting conclusions. Regardless as a whole Black Bird is a fantastic crime drama. The methodical script is absolutely stellar, keeping you on your toes throughout, and always keeping you guessing. It’s an incredible true story and this is crime TV at its finest.

Overall score: 9/10

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Let me tell you man I ain’t ever looking at Stingray the same way ever again after this show