Sneaky Pete

The Beginning Of Everything,' 'sneaky Pete' And More Coming To Amazon Prime In January

... sexuality, drugs and paying their rent in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1980 s. Sneaky Pete: Season 1 (Amazon original), Jan. 13: Con man Marius (Giovanni Ribisi) gets out of prison, but is still haunted by the vicious gangster he once robbed. Like any smart con man, he decides to assume the identity of his cellmate, Pete, and reunite with Pete's estranged family. The series was part of Amazon's pilot program last year and also stars Marin Ireland, Margo Martindale, Peter Gerety, Libe Barer, Shane Mc Rae and Michael Drayer with Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) as one of its executive producers. Z: The Beginning of Everything: Season 1 (Amazon original), Jan. 27: The 1920 s socialite Zelda Fitzgerald, played by Christina Ricci, is the subject of Amazon's newest period drama. The show traces her life before and after meeting husband F. Scott Fitzgerald and explores the crazy antics that were used in much of F. Scott's work. Nothing showcases the Jazz Age quite like the turbulent and opulent lives of the decade's most famous couple. And the rest. 13 Hours: Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016). Across the Universe (2007). Are We Done Yet? (2007). Are We ...

Bryan Cranston's Amazon Drama 'sneaky Pete' A Fun Actors' Showcase

... 51. 01.13.2017 @ 1:29 AM. I’d been intrigued by this when I’d catch the commercials, but yeah I’ll have to check this out one way or another now. This series and review, as an aside, all make me think or remember. – Bryan Cranston was on an episode of Airwolf as a villain, but unfortunately didn’t get his own aircraft to fight The Lady, meaning we lost out on a scene of Bryan Cranston losing an air battle to Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine. – Bryan Cranston + Graham Yost makes me sad that we never got Bryan Cranston on Justified, but it sounds like this series is the next best thing. – Alongside “Beloved Character Actress Margo Martindale,” we should probably all just refer to Alison Wright as “Alison Wright, Poor Martha of The Americans.”. 01.13.2017 @ 1:43 AM. Justified team was involved with this? ...

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... show’s murderous sense of timing makes it feel like a Rube-Goldberg machine of episodic storytelling, where the audience is constantly imagining the many ways this precarious construction will fall to pieces. It’s a style that befits “Sneaky Pete’s” lead Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), a smooth-talking con man who is always extemporizing, adding frills to a con that is always on the verge of coming apart. Much like Marius, “Sneaky Pete” so throws itself into the art of selling the story that it is mostly convinced itself of every emotional beat; it lives in the moment with precise doling out of suspense and monologue, keeping the audience hooked. “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Netflix, Friday. Neil Patrick Harris stars in Netflix’s latest series, which Variety critic Sonia Soraiya calls a “fantastic adaptation” of the original Lemony Snicket children’s books. In her review, she continues to rave about the “weird, wonderful masterpiece,” though she notes that Harris, who plays the villainous Count Olaf, falls a bit short with the tricky role. However, with the overall cast, the set pieces and performances, the ...

Amazon’s ‘sneaky Pete,’ With Bryan Cranston And Giovanni Ribisi

... a fascinating and ultimately successful line between grit and hijinks. The show’s murderous sense of timing makes it feel like a Rube-Goldberg machine of episodic storytelling, where the audience is constantly imagining the many ways this precarious construction will fall to pieces. It’s a style that befits “Sneaky Pete’s” lead Marius ( Giovanni Ribisi ), a smooth-talking con man who is always extemporizing, adding frills to a con that is always on the verge of coming apart. Marius is serving the last day of his sentence when he learns that because of an outstanding debt to a vicious gangster, he can’t go home to New York City. So he pivots — and assumes his cellmate’s identity. Pete Murphy (Ethan Embry) has spent the last two years talking endlessly about how idyllic his childhood summers in Connecticut were. Marius uses those details ...

Bryan Cranston's Amazon Drama 'sneaky Pete' A Fun Actors' Showcase

... and others use the abundance of strong actors and characters here to their advantage, taking inherently dramatic or suspenseful scenarios and making them tauter and/or more fun by throwing in just one more person, one more problem, and letting almost everyone be smarter than you expect them to be. Like most serialized shows of this type, the second half of the season is more fun than the expository first, and there are occasional storytelling leaps you just have to go with. One seemingly innocuous character improbably turns out to be a villain in the later episodes, for instance, but they add so much spice to the story at that point that it’s forgivable. Eventually, everyone turns out to have so many secrets and hidden agendas that it might feel too convenient for a veteran con man like Marius to have wound up in the middle of this family. But if you look at Sneaky Pete as an excuse for Cranston, Yost, and company to let a small army of their actor friends come in and play — an actors’ workshop about a more criminal version of the profession — then all is well. It’s not fancy, and it’s not new, but like Cranston whenever he ...

Amazon’s Sneaky Pete Is An Addictive Binge-watch

... ones already noted. Then there’s Ribisi, who is excellent as a man so conditioned to deceive that he can fabricate and remix that fib if necessary, without even blinking. Mad Men popularized the phrase, “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” As “Pete,” Ribisi can change the conversation, then change it again, and pick your pocket before he’s done. There’s also an edginess to Marius/Pete, an awareness that he’s one false sleight of hand away from going back to the slammer or, worse, getting killed, that mirrors the ratcheting tension in the series. There are some brilliantly executed scenes in episode three, for example, that go all the way toward the moment when it would seem that the gig is up, then turn another way and allow the audience to exhale before some other ...

Fairview's Sneaky Pete's Returns

... The charming little nightspot isn't the sort of place to go if you’re in a hurry. The cocktails are prepared in stages, and every item on the menu is made to order from scratch. But it’s well worth the wait. The menu itself is like a bistro bible that's fun to read. Every cocktail, wine, spirit or craft beer has a detailed description that includes a short history. There are also helpful hints that explain which beverages should accompany which food items. General Manager Darrell Knopfel has a genuine passion for providing wonderful products with exceptional service. His recent motto, “Hey Erie, let’s Charcut-Erie,” is part of his new mission to give locals the same kind of refined dining experience found in metropolitan areas. The charcuterie boards served up at Sneaky Pete's offer choice prepared meats and cheeses bursting with flavor. But be sure to save some room for other delectable choices, too, including the crabcake appetizer or the mouthwatering filet medallions with roasted red peppers and Gorgonzola on a buttered croissant. Sneaky Pete’s, formally called the Colonial Inn for ...

Bryan Cranston Lends Familiar Dark Humor To ‘sneaky Pete

... and appears throughout this new Amazon series, in which a con man (Giovanni Ribisi) tries to outwit a New York mobster to whom he’s indebted. The pacing is quick, the plotline interesting and there’s even a touch of Walter White/“Breaking Bad”-type humor (read: dark) courtesy of Cranston. And with a supporting cast featuring Margo Martindale (“The Americans,” “The Good Wife”) and Peter Gerety (“Mercy Street,” “Public Morals”), “Sneaky Pete” is off to an auspicious start. The games begin when con man Marius Josapovic (Ribisi) — sprung from prison after three years — is warned by his partner-in-crime brother, Eddie (Michael Drayer), that mobster Vince (Cranston) intends to collect the $100,000 from the job that landed Marius in the slammer. That intention comes with a warning: If Marius doesn’t cough up the dough, Vince will chop off Eddie’s fingers … one by one. And he always keeps his word. What’s a con man to do. Margo Martindale is part of the stellar “Sneaky Pete” cast. Amazon Prime Video/Eric Liebowitz. Desperate to score a quick-hit windfall to save his brother ...