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Post by ghostdiva on Oct 1, 2006 21:12:33 GMT -4
Has made it back to the big leagues! He is on Desperate Housewives one of the top rated shows on TV. He is investigating a murder. Way to go Ernie! And may I say he doesn't look a day older than he did in 1989. He's lost weight since he was on TV last.
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Post by EGBFan on Jan 4, 2007 8:17:26 GMT -4
Funny how some actors never seem to age. Anyway, season 3 of Desperate Housewives aired over here last night with a double-bill, so I saw Ernie. Unfortunately he hasn't had anything very interesting to do yet - the writers have been kinder Dougray Scott so far, it seems. But we shall see. Although I enjoyed it, I thought season 1 of this show was much better than season 2. Now, based on these first two episodes, it looks like it may have stepped up again.  |
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Post by Silent Seraphim on Jan 4, 2007 11:02:41 GMT -4
They seem to have a thing for ex-GB actors, because William Atherton (Walter Peck) played Bree's psychiatrist at the end of season 2. I wonder if he's fallen foul of typecasting because yet again he was playing an insufferable pain in the ass. But I do love Desperate Housewives. It's my guilty pleasure. ;D
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Post by Mick Nielson on Jan 4, 2007 12:21:24 GMT -4
Ernie Hudson was also featured recently in that series of short horror movies called horrorfest. He was in it as a retired war veteran living in a rental house with his old war buddies. The owner, who was a rich oil tycoon, passes away and his son, a spoiled brat asshole, inherits the property and starts trying to make life more and more difficult for them so they'll die and he can keep the house. Ernie Hudson was great in it and if they release it on DVD I highly reccommend picking them up!
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Post by Kingpin on Jan 4, 2007 20:04:24 GMT -4
He's definately looking trimmer then his appearance on Without a Trace, but that must've been two years ago now and he was definately looking well back at Collectormania. Being a cop is familiar territory, after his role in The Crow. I look forward to seeing what he can get away with in Desperate Housewives. |
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Post by EGBFan on Jan 25, 2007 8:08:07 GMT -4
Well, after a few episodes off, Ernie was in Desperate Housewives again last night (the weakest episode so far this series, I think, but anyway...) - he had two scenes, and didn't really do anything. At the moment it seems that the writers haven't given him very much to work with.  |
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Post by Kingpin on Feb 1, 2007 10:06:37 GMT -4
Plenty of Ernie screen time in last evening's episode... but not without some stuff that made me think the character a bit of a jerk. I don't like thinking of someone played by Ernie Hudson being a jerk, I don't like not liking him... But, it'd be quite a good break from being typecast, I won't argue that he hasn't played the likeable guy for most of his work. On a separate subject, I sure hope Edie Britt gets what's coming to her... the bitch with a Capital 'C', and go Lynette! She's cooler when she kicks ass, or door... anyway.  |
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Post by EGBFan on Feb 22, 2007 13:51:20 GMT -4
Well, since we're talking about Desperate Housewives in general here... I noticed yet another incorrect Union Flag (Billie Piper in Doctor Who having told me only to call it a Union Jack if it's flown at sea, of course) in last night's episode. It really used to bother that I've never seen a correct one on American television - but now I'm just appalled that I can't even find one on the internet!  Edit: I had a link to a correct Union Flag I whipped up in a crap little drawing programme, but I've realised that's just too officious. I don't mind so much anymore, even though I know for a fact there should be only one white cross, and two red, on the flag. (Without any correct images floating around, it's probably tempting to think I'm wrong. Well, I had to double check with everyone close at hand when I began to doubt myself, but I know I'm right and they all agree.) Anyway. Ernie didn't get very much to do in last night's episode, again. But he got to do something pretty cool at the end, when he popped up out of the blue surprised Mike in the middle of burying his incriminating tool kit (how did he know where he was at that time of night anyway?). I say again: season 3 is a vast improvement on season 2. |
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Post by Kingpin on Feb 23, 2007 10:54:58 GMT -4
(how did he know where he was at that time of night anyway?). I say again: season 3 is a vast improvement on season 2. I present two alternating theories: 1) Artistic licence. 2) He's an awesome cop. Looks like he's going to betting a lot more screen time in next Wednesday's episode with the fallout of the little 'discovery' his character made. I hope I get the chance to meet him again so I can complement him on both his work on D.H. and in The Crow... I brought up his role in The Hand that Rocks the Cradle but in hidsight know I was criminally under educated on his post- Ghostbusters work. |
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Post by EGBFan on May 24, 2007 6:26:22 GMT -4
Well, Ernie got to do practically nothing, and his part is most definitely over now.
Of course I'm happy for Marcia Cross and I wish her well with her baby - but couldn't the writers have coped better with her maternity leave? Bree having to step away for a while meant that they had to wrap up the main storyline quickly, which means that the strongest part of the show is gone just like that.
A while back I described this season as better than season 2. It was - but now it has just gone careering downhill. My hopes lifted a little when the dead body in the freezer came to light... but that was all forgotten in the space of about two weeks. And what have they replaced it with? Carlos and Edie. Tom and Lynnette are having yet more problems (but maybe the cancer storyline will be done well... please?). Gaby's going to marry the mayor. Nuff said. Susan and Mike. Ohmygod that's getting boring. And the worst by miles: a storyline about f-----g wedding flowers!!!
But on the plus side, at least Ian's gone back to his home in London where he's waited upon by a butler and eats cucumber sandwiches, feeling "bloody" relieved that he's still going to inherit his parents' castle instead of his brother Nigel (because of course, we English all have a relative called Nigel).
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