4YE’s TV Reels Feels For February 25th Through March 3rd

Top Performer:

Clare: So is anyone getting sick of Mr Darren Criss appearing here as my top performer week after week? No I didn’t think so as he rightfully deserves the honour. And if you do, you’ll be pleased to know there are only three episodes of The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story left. “The House by the Lake” was touted as THE big Darren episode and yes he was absolutely brilliant in that, but this week’s ep “Descent” he just blew me away. Here you got to see so many different sides of Andrew Cunanan – the charmer, the manipulator, the one in control, the one who lost control, the manic, the dreamer. This was the episode that you could see two clear paths that Cunanan could have taken to achieve his dreams and basically fucked it all up. Immense kudos to Criss for consistently drawing us into Cunanan’s world in this series. And yes… the opening few minutes of the episode were just beautiful.

Emmy: Darren Criss was my choice for this week as he really outdid himself as Andrew Cunanan on Versace. We got to see every side of Cunanan’s crazy demeanor, and how far he would go to keep up the farce. Criss eats up this role with every episode but this week, we got to see a calmness to his insanity, and Criss’ performance was top-notch. Will also have to agree with Clare; that opening was glorious indeed.

Top Episode:

Clare: This is really tough and I think I need to split it between The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story’s “Descent” and The X-Files’ “Rm9sbG93ZXJz”. All the reasons I chose Darren Criss as the Top Performer are the reasons that “Descent” is listed here. Add in the stellar performances from absolutely everyone in this cast, the tight, interesting writing and the great direction and this is a show that hits it out of the park week after week after week. Seriously, if you haven’t watched an episode of this yet, you need to remedy that ASAP. You don’t want to miss the boat with only a few eps to go. Now The X-Files – what I loved about “Rm9sbG93ZXJz” was the quirkiness of it. They took an aspect of modern life – our reliance on AI – exaggerated all our greatest fears associated with it and added some X-Fileshumour to it. And it was all done with so little dialogue. It was compelling to watch and a lot of fun. The concept was great and I think it really worked well.

Quote of the week:

Clare:

Andrew: “He’s a house. He’s a home. He’s a yard and a family and picking kids up from school. He’s a future and up until now I’ve only dated the past.”
Lizzie: “Who are you trying to be?”
Andrew: “Someone he can love.” (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story).

Emmy:

“I curate his art.” – Andrew Cunanan (The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story)

4YE’s TV Reels Feels For February 25th Through March 3rd