In case you haven’t noticed - I tend to be very critical of my favourite actors, too. :D
And I just felt like reblogging that because it’s basically been bothering me ever since episode one. But then again, you need to give the show time to establish itself so I was hoping maybe his acting would change with time, too. It’s not that it’s horribly bad and that he can’t act (cos duh, look at other stuff he’s done!), it’s just that I also can’t watch it and call it ‘great acting’ on his part. Which upsets me, because I think he’s a very talented actor, and I agree with what Courteney said: “(…) that 2012’s Go On— in which he played a character mourning the death of his wife — was her favorite of Perry’s recent work, and the most him. “I loved that Matthew found a way to make his character relatable by showing vulnerability in the personal struggles he was facing,” Cox wrote.”
And while that may be the way Matthew interprets the character, it still bothers me because it’s this CONSTANT yelling of lines, the wide-eyed stare, the monotone voice… I get that it probably works for the character, but does it have to be like that all the time? It just doesn’t seem realistic to me that a real person (as sloppy and grumpy he is) would talk/act that way.
It mainly makes me miss his versatile side; him showing a facette of emotions like he did on Go On.
I will probably also need to add that I haven’t seen the last two episodes yet, so I’m only talking about what I have seen so far. But the comments about this week’s episode seemed particularly awful…
And that stroke thing? LOL. Nope.