JP Mogans office was it real? still preserved in NYC?
It is preserved at the Morgan Library on Madison Avenue. However, the scene was not shot in the office, which looks quite different, though with the same feel.
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I'm not sure that Luke Evens' performance as John has gotten the recognition it should. He's a big tall strong good-looking man (heck, he even killed a dragon once!), and it would have been so easy to make him simply a hero. As it is, he seems to be the one among the principals who is least able to adjust to the changing times of the Gilded Age. Oh, he is changing, but you see the stress it brings to him. He suffered a great indignity, one that he seems to have forgotten (the drugs? the drink?) or, possibly, given what the show is about, repressed. I had feared that the show too had forgotten that rape. This episode hints that it has not. I will be interested in how this plot strand plays out.
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A very fine episode, everyone's acting right on the mark - and Kreizler showing signs of humanity. I still think the actor playing Roosevelt is a riveting presence on screen.
I agree, though, that there needs to be more commentary on what happened to John in the brothel. I can understand why, at this time, no man would want to talk about it openly, but in the context of the drama, it often feels as if it never happened.
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JOHN HAD PASSED OUT AND PERHAPS THE DIRECT ASSAULT WASNT FELT OR REMEBERED. thats what i think or just a red herring.
JP Morgan makes a point of offering lemonade to John, which he politely refuses. But later on we see John at a bare knuckle fight knocking back shots of whiskey. How did he move from the shakes to back to drinking?
For all the time that John Moore spends on the lower east side he has absolutely no street smarts. Chasing the dangerous ex-police captain down a dark alley and then getting knocked down with one punch, shows how much he is out of his league.
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I think he reverts to drinking after Kreizler informed him that Sara will never think of him as anything more than handsome and indolent. It was clearly her critique that got him on the wagon in the first place. That his sobriety means nothing to her is what pushes him in the other direction.
What I don’t get is why Kreizler would push John’s buttons in such a cruel way. The comment was not ignorant callousness but cruelty.
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Love this show.
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Thought this was the best episode yet. Hope it keeps building this way.
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John's storyline seems to prove the old adage that nice guys finish last. I hope, in the end, he doesn't! Just in this episode alone, he's hit with chloroform, abducted, beaten up in a saloon by a crooked ex-cop, and insulted by both a gangster and his so-called "friend" Kreizler. He's just trying to be a good guy and help people! This episode was interesting, but the 21st century-style wokeness seemed anachronistic. Almost historical revisionism. Also, feels like Kreizler is using Mary a little bit.
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The gang rape of John in the boy brothel is repeatedly brought up in the series.
Calling it sexual assault diminishes the severity of the incident.
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Really? I dont recall the assault being revisited at all..Id like to see the teleplays.
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Joanna Crawford says she's employed by the African-American Philadelphia Tribune, not the Inquirer.
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that makes more sense.