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Great Show but why Ashley Judd?


I just started to watch this show on epix from Amazon, the first season was brilliant; especially the character development. The casting was also great in the first season but the second season I didn't care for casting of "Ashley Judd" ? she just does not seem to fit into this show, her acting is almost the same as she has done in the last twenty years, very robotic and flat. She even looks weird in the face as if she done some plastic surgery or filled it with Botox?. I really got turned off watching this show in the second season due to her acting?

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Never mind. I only committed to season 2 because of Ashley Judd so it evens out.

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Well, I had to endure "Ashley Judd" all because I liked this show and she was the only
cast member that just didn't fit the cast at all. I know being a fan of hers, you don't agree
or see that her acting is like she is on something like a morning Soap opera-like "Days of our lives";
where everyone is just reading their lines from memory and they move like its all mechanical and marked;
its all expressed emotions and over the top. Ashley Judd was known for that in the 80's and 90's, and films like "Double Jeopardy"? And unlike other actors who continue to grow and challenge themselves, Ashely Judd, plays almost the same
character in every film, no matter how much she tries to humble herself or dress down, change the hair, its always
the same person. I liked the film "Eye of the beholder" because it was a short budget and a lot of work went into this little
film, but there was several key essentials scenes that tied into this character she played, a very troubled girl who became a killer, but Judd only took this character to maybe less than 40%; she was not consistent and that type of character,
is not expressed through action, its more internal and projection of pain and misery build into a person that
in some films you know from the first time the actor who plays it is there, but not with Ashley Judd. She got to become
an actress due to her family and sisters and she also managed to get into one film like HEAT that I loved, and she was
ok, because she played the angry unsatisfied selfish self that she has made a career out of.

Her career is in TV and cable now, if she was that great and that amazing you think after 20 years, with all her fame and contacts in Hollywood she would be doing top features today? but that is not ever going to happen with her, because she has not grown and change as an actor, she always played safe and never took on anything that was challenging or opposite of who she is. Her acting in this show confirmed to me she is the same.

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Her career was destroyed by Harvey Weinstein. I didn't mind her in this.

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I like Ashley Judd. What's wrong with Ashley Judd?
I'm not crazy about this show though.
It's just OK.

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