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Mason Verger was ATROCIOUS

posted 8 years ago by tuomas_gimli
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Honestly, he was godawful. The character, the actor, the dialogue, everything. Why in the hell did the director go with this godd4mn caricature? When the whole show otherwise exists in an almost hyperreality that doesn't abide by the laws of our logic and characters deliberately act stilted and talk in strange patterns that no human being would, this buffoon acting like some Loony Tunes character written by Clive Barker goes about as much against that as possible. His scenes in season 2 ranged from laughable to insufferably irritating, and he only became less intolerable in season 3 thanks to the prosthetic the actor was wearing, which helped tone down his downright cartoonish expressions and speech. I never felt he was threatening or ominous, and perhaps the only scene I enjoyed him in was towards the end of season 2. Seriously, he was terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, awful.

Was this character like this in the book, or was he invented for the show? I haven't read it.

[–] Flight_of_Fantasy 8 years ago

Eh, different strokes. I loved Michael Pitt's Mason, he's one of my favorite characters in the show. I didn't really care for Joe Anderson's Mason, he just wasn't the same.

Mason was SUPPOSED to be over the top.

Peter, is your social worker in that horse?

[–] jllewell 7 years ago

Haha... you do know that there are people who are really like that, don't you?
The scary part is that it's not too far away from reality. My mother worked in the mental health field, it's not as unusual as you think.

People you know may not behave like the 'sane' people in the show in your cultural corner of the world, but they all seemed perfectly natural to me.

Insane people have a different logic; which of us is truly sane?

Stilted? Strange patterns? I feel like I watched a different show...