Season 2 of Tehran feat. Glenn

She's looking like Better Midler these days. Poor thing.

This is what a real actor has to do, nowadays. Hillbilly Elegy and now, this thing.

Glenn Close lite.

Sounds like desperation to me...

Glenn, at this point you should probably just try to slap Chris Rock at the Oscars.

I watched S1. Tehran is a pretty great show.

I loved season 1, but am finding season 2 kind of dull so far. Also, Glenn’s performance has been very mannered and actor-y.

The first two episodes of S2 (the only ones I've seen so far) were pretty good.

But I would be more concerned about her British accent though, yes, when compared to mine in The Iron Lady which deservedly nabbed me my third Oscar.

How did this confluence of Glenn and Israeli TV even happen?

I'll check it out. She was excellent in Damages and The Shield.

Ala, la la.

S2 doesn't disappoint (so far.)

S2 has been hugely disappointing in my opinion. The stakes feel lower, the action is less exciting, and the main character seems to have lost about 100 IQ points between seasons. Glenn's weird lady of the manor voice also isn't helping matters.

I thought S2 was humming along alright until last week's episode. The inadvertent poisoning and the eleventh-hour antidote were a stretch, and the gross guys Tamar has to court as part of her mission are not interesting. Milad is also supremely annoying.

Omg Milad is SO annoying. I don't understand why he wasn't killed off in episode 2!

She just looks younger ever day! I can't wait to see her Norma Desmond! Definitely HD close up ready!

I've never heard of it.

I'm very conflicted about the state of television today.

I can't help resenting that there are so many different streaming platforms that all require separate subscriptions and so many obscure TV series that aren't promoted anywhere--many (Netflix) seemingly written by 14 year-old misfit girls who want to declare how to reform American social norms and unwatchable, and some brilliant.

On the other hand, TV series are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than almost any movies made in the past five (10?) years, and from The OA to Archive 81 to The White Lotus to Foundation, the good ones a brilliant and never would have been made by traditional TV networks or movie studios.

Is Tehran worth watching? I loved most of the run of Homeland and I loved The Honourable Woman. How does this show compare?

If you like Homeland I think you'll like Tehran--at least season 1.

She looks fine - dressing age-appropriate and that blue is wonderful on her.

Tay don’t never run y’all!

I LOVE her.

I've always liked her acting. I didn't like her face when I was young and wondered how she ever got any role on camera. Then I realized what a good actor she is. Then I grew to actually like her face a lot. She's unusual looking, and I'm tired of Hollywood standard-issue pretty people who don't have any character.

Then I saw her on Finding Your Roots on PBS and...WOW. What a life this woman has had.

She was raised in a hardcore cult, similar to the one Rose McGowan was raised in. And look how differently they turned out.

Glenn was forced to tour in a teen band that was sent out into the world to recruit people into the cult, and she escaped by herself and started her whole life over with no family and no friends--and look where she got herself. And she seems so intelligent and so sane. She keeps getting snubbed on major acting awards that she really does deserve, and she has good humor about it. I've never heard anyone say anything rotten about her.

Well, it's never too late to start learning, I suppose.

"Tehran" (both seasons), in my opinion, is probably better than post-S1 "Homeland". It rings more realistic and, like "Fauda", it tends to be nuanced. Yes, the story is told from the perspective of and makes you sympathize with Mossad agents, but it also shows a certain level of empathy for the other side and, particularly, for ordinary Iranian citizens.

R22 The first season of Homeland had me an absolute nervous wreck. I was really disappointed in the second. But it found a really interesting groove and stayed high quality throughout its run, IMO. I skipped the season that focused on her friend being destroyed by sarin gas because I just couldn't watch it, but it got really interesting again when Carrie went to Germany.

Homeland and The Americans both had excellent runs for me. Both were sort of plodding and didn't always have heavy momentum but I was always engaged when I watched them.

The Julia Roberts show on Amazon, I thought, was hard to watch because it was so slow moving and overly subtle.