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A quicker-than-usual email today, more a note really, to spice your Tuesday into action.
We’ve secured invitations for RecDek Members to three entertainment and media investor events, hosted by SAPIENCE COMMUNICATIONS and LIVEOMAN.
You’ll be hosted by London’s finest establishments: Annabel’s, Kensington Roof Gardens and Maison Estelle.
This series of exclusive, bespoke, private gatherings of artists, entrepreneurs, family offices, investors and professional service individuals is hosted in partnership with Oman and a range of private businesses. The gatherings will bring together a select group of investors, entrepreneurs and decision-makers, covering tech, media, film, finance and property.
All costs will be covered and spaces are limited. RecDek Members be given priority, to RSVP and find out more, please head to your Greenroom, within the new RecDek House platform.
Consider your evening officially spiced.
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Being a half-Welshman (half-Englishman) I was delighted that Matthew Rhys walked away with two Emmy’s on Sunday evening. In fact, his show Widow’s Bay, a horror-comedy about a cursed island walked off with fourteen Emmys. Fourteen. That's a new single-season record for a comedy, nudging The Studio off the top of the pile by one. If you'd told us in April that the year's most decorated show would feature a zombie in a hospital gown and a municipal budget meeting, we'd have laughed. And now we’re all running for the rewatch button your smart TV has.
The premise is beautifully stupid but somehow, not. Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys) is the mayor of a scruffy little island off New England with tourism ambitions and a public-relations problem: the local folklore is all cannibals, killer clowns and things that come for you in the fog. Inconvenient. Tom spends ten episodes trying to sell the place as a weekend break while it tries to eat his constituents.
Katie Dippold wrote it. Hiro Murai shot the first five and set the grammar for the whole thing, quite frightening one minute, then a gag about parking permits.
The scares land, but the island is populated by actual people. Stephen Root's grizzled fisherman knows exactly who Tom was as a kid and isn't precious about saying so; their scenes are the best thing in it, and Root's Emmy is the least surprising result of the night. Kate O'Flynn's mayoral assistant is doing something harder, funny, awkward, and carrying twenty years of a town deciding she made something up. She won too. So did Betty Gilpin for her guest turn, plus the cinematographers, the casting team, the production designers, the sound crews and both music departments. Everyone involved understood the same joke.
And as for Rhys. He picked up Lead Actor for this and Lead Actor for The Beast in Me (a previous RecDek rec) the first man to take two lead acting prizes in one ceremony. Watch the show and the double makes sense: he plays panic, grief and light sarcasm inside a single take without ever showing you the joins. Grief's the engine, by the way. Tom's a widower with a son who doesn't much want to talk to him. The monsters are almost a side quest.
Ten episodes. No filler. Start it tonight.
See you soon.
Ed
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