At first, it was almost as powerful as Breaking Bad, and only in the second season he realized that he had not planned to go so far, there would be no mountains of corpses or mafia husks, and through the action veil we would be presented with a different view of people on solving family problems, on assessing the advantages and disadvantages of ordinary, domestic people, which is felt more acutely in critical situations, that’s all. And even, say, naked, because in the end, those who fought for honesty and love for the family - only minimally influenced the outcome favorable, because they were afraid even close to reveal their moral flaws, but the central character was openly deviant, but at the same time only his moral guidelines and close, I believe, to the viewer, and maybe only me, but he did everything necessary to save the family, even his own, while everyone else only trembled about selflessness, having a minimum motive to hide their weaknesses, putting them in unpleasant ignorance, and maximum - took care of their health.
I enjoyed the film with a pleasant aftertaste, although the story would have fit into a shorter period, but I do not regret watching it.
He's a buoyant serialist. Action drama from the life of fraudsters.
The main character (Despicable Pete) steamed away from kitschy and in order to escape from detractors, free mows under the identity of a cellmate and tries to bury himself in a small town in the family of this cellmate, whose members think that he is not he, but a cellmate. Quietly does not work, because the family is peppers with skeletons in closets and cockroaches in the heads. And also a bunch of personal problems of Pete himself are drawn, which threaten different troubles of varying severity. But the lavender is spinning and things are messing up. Pete, of course, is trying to handle everything, he generally succeeds, but not always very smoothly and chips are flying quite bloody and carry various secondary characters straight to the other world.
The second season was no worse than the first. Some circumstances have changed, something has become clearer, something has become even more confused, new villains and new iconic characters have appeared. Dynamics and drive remained at the same good level.
Otherwise, the picture is high-quality, the actors are good, the main character played by Giovanni Ribisi looks very great. Everything is in place and as it should be.
So I recommend it. Of course, this is not such a mega-hit as Braiken Bede, but kinzo in this genre is very worthy.
By the way, Brian Cranston is one of the producers of quilt.
An average series balancing at an acceptable level. I watched it after Goliath, and here's how Goliath is a standard Grisham law series, and Pete is a very traditional film about scammers. Again, the main and largely the only decoration is the famous actor – in this case, Cranston. He has a problem with the choice of roles, like Maxim Averin. In the longest "Breaking Bad" Cranston so much, he gave his all and showed all the grimness more than enough, so it is very difficult to find something great for the public. He probably co-produced this series. And the role was prescribed and the monologues gave him, so it turned out well.
The taste and color, but to me personally, the central fraudster and actor Ribisi seemed completely uncharismatic, that in the film it is about the deceiver a grave sin. Otherwise, everything is quite stamped - there is a psychotic villain and gullible simpletons and old experienced masters of deception and double revelations and a naive FBI. The season is over on such a hook that the second is just around the corner. I'm not ready to watch it. The rest of the acting work is not remembered at all.
“Tense, intelligent and with a great cast” is awarded by the so-called critics of this series. General words will also leave the audience on the way out of the halls: “good film”, “I liked” (by the way, they are applicable to this film), I will not bathe in triviality, and turn to the details, a little bit about the two title actors, although their presence on the screen, in time, varies significantly.
Characters Giovanni Ribisi twenty years like me, with "Friends" - it's Frank, a bad and stupid brother, in "Vicious Pete" this image was delegated to Michael Dreyer, Ribisi himself opened anew and appears here already matured and wise, capable of care, but at the same time able to lie to everyone around, without dulling his eyes, his behavior and attitude to others does not repel, since they are all similar to him. It bribes that Pete himself is not mean at all (which is good, since I do not like the outright black woman in dramas, although, for a shake-up, it is sometimes necessary). Pete is not a criminal genius brain, since he often finds himself in critical situations. The role of Ribisi is the main one in his career, forcing a fresh look at his filmography, but not a benefit, because there is one about which below.
“You have the charisma of a wet rag and the appearance of a small bank employee” – a capacious, accessible characteristic given to Herman Van Rompuy, a functionary and even the former head of the European Union, the phrase became winged and flew around the scale. What do I mean? To the fact that Brian Cranston competently uses his appearance of a deflated ball, which is assessed by the acceptance of millions of viewers of his roles, and when he opens his mouth you can only open your own and enjoy a cool acting game; at the same time, not that embarrassing, but strikingly his deliberate “clutter” under the path of Robert De Niro, I am about the participation and promotion of crime films, as well as flirting with controversial hooligan comedies, sometimes with the same authors.
A little lowered the rating for a fairly simple completion, without the kulbits, I would like more sophistication, and it turns out that Pete and his associates are left to the mercy of chance and did not affect the denouement, but this, in my opinion, is done by the creators on purpose, so as not to turn the criminal drama into a circus performance, like “The illusion of deception”.
8 out of 10
January 13, 2017 can be safely called the day of "Disgusting Pete" - and fans of the series (and there are already many of them) celebrate this significant date. On this day on Amason showed all the series in a row. And the viewer was literally amazed. I’m sure everyone wondered: why did CBS abandon the pilot in 2015? David Shore (creator of the famous "House Doctor") completely lost his luck at some point. In 2015, he launched two projects at the same time, Battle Creek (the first season did not survive) and Despicable Pete with Giovanni Ribisi in the title role (the bosses of the CBS studio were not even impressed by the pilot). A great project would have died in the first step, if not for the interest of Amason and Brian Cranston, who became super popular after the success of Breaking Bad. Amason bought the project from CBS, and at the same time put Cranston to produce the project. He also played a major role in the series. So the pilot (also the first series of ten) had to reshoot, adding episodes with Cranston. And then it went on.
Of course, the strange solution is to release the entire series in one day. But the studio didn't fail. The ratings of the show were so high that on January 15, that is, a day after the screening, “Mean Pete” was renewed for a second season. And I'm really glad that happened. Because this is one of the best crime dramas that have appeared recently.
In the center of the plot, a brilliant fraudster who assigns himself the identity of Pete’s cellmate and goes to his family – the real Pete has not seen them for twenty years. At the same time, the fraudster has big problems. A small local boss (former cop) Vince (Brian Cranston) is very offended by “Pete” and believes that he owes him a hundred thousand dollars. The situation is complicated by the fact that he has a brother “Pita” and his partner in fraudulent schemes. Marius Josepovich, as the quirky crook is actually called, gets into a complicated bind. He's going to take money from his cellmate's family to buy out his brother. But he gets into a real mess, where everyone deceives each other - for a good cause and for profit, too. On his trail is a corrupt cop-killer, money now appear in the safe, then disappear, family members now and then begin to suspect that Pete is not clean, and Vince is unpredictable. In general, suspense is pumped by the creators very skillfully. At the same time, the tension increases from series to series. The viewer is waiting for two unexpected denouements at once: one that places all the dots over Yo in the first season, and one with a reserve for the second season. The writers worked hard.
Of course, Brian Cranston is great. I don’t know if he can play well. In the series, he was given space to prove himself. He even has whole monologues that are so made that you watch them without looking away from the screen. Giovanni Ribisi, in my opinion, is an absolutely brilliant actor. Just look at what he did in the rum diaries. Here he deliberately mutes the colors. His main task is to show the “sneaky pit” man undetectable and unremarkable – as a fraudster should be, but at the same time able to heartfeltly lie and make an honest face.
I am very fortunate that such a wonderful project was not buried at the stage of implementation. I look forward to the second season. I put the highest score because crime dramas are my favorite genre. And because it's a great series.
A convict is released. He looks thin and cunning. His name is Pete. And he has a plan.
How Pete went to jail will be revealed later in the series. In addition to him, the action involves a family that is engaged in the business of paying bails and is on the verge of bankruptcy, a corrupt cop, Pete’s brother, a couple of three bouncers and the main villain of the film – criminal authority Vince, whose role was wonderfully played by Brian Cranston.
The series immerses us in the atmosphere of a society in which there was a total crisis of trust. You can't trust anyone here. Everyone is trying to deceive each other, hide something, steal something – as a result, lies grow like a snowball that sooner or later falls on the heads of those who made it. Family ties mean nothing, everyone needs an eye and an eye.
Vince is pretty tough, a cold-blooded pragmatist who is only interested in money and profits. Therefore, he does not shy away from cruelty - he can kill without warning, cut off his finger on his hand. But the series does not focus much on these moments, directors and writers do not savor the blood and suffering of the flesh, the camera does not linger long on the killed or maimed. I'm going to give the show a boost.
It is interesting to follow the development of the plot. So pulls to look at the end of the book, what will happen there.
I’ve watched 4 episodes out of 10 and I’ll give the series an 8.