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...Unlike Roy, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong knows when to call it a day....
...On Sunday night, the series’ finale brought our answer, and it was a surprise: Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), the eel-like interloper in the Roy clan, is the improbable new king....
...She and real-life husband Matthew Broderick play Karen and Sam, a long-married couple trying to pull their raggedy relationship back from the brink, the vehicle being Neil Simon’s 1968 comedy Plaza Suite...
...Members of the local John Birch Society, as Matthew Dallek writes, labelled the Republican Bush a “One-World tool of the Communist-Wall Street internationalist conspiracy”....
...Skilfully orchestrated by director Matthew Xia, it’s a tribute full of care and, ultimately, hope, beautifully performed, with Llewella Gideon’s charismatic Conductress holding it all together....
...The great joy of HBO’s Succession is not in debating whether its creator Jesse Armstrong is the natural heir to Shakespeare (he’s not), nor which cast member should be garlanded with Emmys (Matthew Macfadyen...
...cessation of hostilities, but soon the pitch-black comedy is back, notched up another couple of levels once Michael’s money-grubbing brother Ned (Stephen Wight) and monstrously bossy sister Pam (Sinéad Matthews...
...The Roys’ view of the world is neatly summed up by one of their number, Tom, played by Matthew Macfadyen. “Here’s the thing about being rich,” he says. “It’s fucking great....
...But Mohsen (Anish Roy) is more wary, seeing the way that security guards eye up the pair, and worried about the quiet sacrifices that come with fitting in....
...He has a knack for telegraphing his insecurity through fashion, not unlike his brother-in-law Tom Wambsgans (Matthew Macfadyen), who chronically outs himself as a middle-class interloper in the Roys’ moneyed...
...The finale offered one other treat for devoted fans: a daring play by Tom Wambsgans, who is actor Matthew Macfadyen’s creepy, cuckolded and hilarious gift to the world....
...One could wish for more Matthew Macfadyen as Shiv’s ridiculous husband Tom, but his is only one of many flawless performances....
...Sean James, at Matthew Preece Salon, matthewpreece.com My favourite room in my house is my bedroom....
...“The numbers we see are a stark warning and we must pay attention,” Roy Cooper said, adding that it was “clear that our numbers will keep us from moving ahead into the next phase of easing restrictions”....
...“I don’t think it’s adding up to anything serious in terms of preventing Joe Biden from becoming president,” said Matthew Miller, a former justice department spokesman in the Obama administration....
...It gets less stressful the older you get,” says the New York dealer Matthew Marks, who celebrates his 30th year in business next year....
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...I am reminded of the parable in Matthew where a man’s debt is forgiven, but he then finds the fellow servant who owes him and has him thrown in jail....
...Tom, Shiv’s unctuously empty husband (Matthew MacFadyen), gets his long-awaited release from overseeing the amusement parks part of the portfolio, moving to a new job in TV news....
...With influences as diverse as Derrida and Roy Lichtenstein, new synergies are synthesised from both mundane and transcendant discourse.” Good, eh?...
...It’s a piece full of regret and, for all its gentle humour and slow pace, it packs an incredible punch, as Roy Alexander Weise’s beautifully acted revival reminds us....
...Managing Director, Veka Katie Hale President, Sutton Coldfield Chamber of Commerce Paul Bennett Chair, Shropshire Business Board Nick Brown Chair, Urban Growth Company Ben Henry Partner, Jonas Roy...
...“Hurricane Florence is powerful, slow and relentless,” said Roy Cooper, North Carolina governor. “It is an uninvited brute that doesn’t want to leave.”...
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