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  1. *sigh*
    I get the creative mantra of "Always leave them wanting more", but I'm vexed to learn there won't be another season of Netflix's "The Residence". One of the best shows I've seen in a long time.
    We'll be forever deprived of Uzo Aduba bringing us more of the delightfully deadpan, quietly competent Cordelia Cupp.
    Watching her put all those dudes in their place was hilarious.

    #Netflix #TheResidence #UzoAduba #Television #CozyCrime

  2. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    I don't watch a lot of series - usually I lose interest after a couple of episodes - but #TheResidence. a #whodunnit kept me involved throughout + #UzoAduba is great as the lead detective

    #StreamingOnNetflix

    imdb.com/title/tt8740614/refer

  3. I LOVED Uzo Aduba in OITNB [and all the others, will have to rewatch for the 3rd/4th [?] time, I think] but she, acting as Detective Cordelia Cupp, as well as the story of The Residence and also the directing excel beyond almost everything I've ever seen. <3 LOVE this series, and her, and her role, and all the dialogues. Really, everything of it. [#PaulWilliamDavies is a genius, too.]

    And I'm sure I only got one third of all cultural references in it.

    #UzoAduba #TheResidence #rebcommendations

  4. #Watching #TheResidence (netflix) 8 episodes

    this was soooooo good. 12 out of 10.
    not usually a great fan of whodunnits, and the british drawing room “reveal” genre where the mystery is explained is a bit of a yawn (that’s just a personal thing, not a declaration that it is “wrong” to tell stories this way.)

    any-hoo — The Residence is about the section of the White House where family/ friends/ hangers on of the US president live.
    When somebody dies there, Cordelia Cupp, the world’s best detective, is called in to solve the mystery. it’s a bit of a US version of upstairs downstairs.

    Cordelia is played by #UzoAduba, who has always had an expressive face, and the ability to deliver wordy dialogue with clarity and conviction — and there is a LOT of dialogue. The review in BlackGirlNerd described it as <comedic tennis>, and that’s an apt description. There are some amusing rallies.

    “Back in the day” movies like Adam’s Rib (1949) were very wordy, because a lot of movies were “radio with pictures”. Then came an era of “show don’t tell”. The Residence is very “show AND tell”. Friend watched it with her ears while playing dice and scrabble on her ipad and missed a lot of visual humour.

    It’s a treat to watch, and I must say a lot of care and imagination has gone into bringing this to life. The residence itself is almost a character in the story — we often have a “doll’s house view” so we get a sense of place and location, and sometimes a bird’s eye view (cordelia likes birds). There is even a gingerbread house version that features in the story. The visual humour owes a great deal to some excellent editing, and what must have been extra hours setting up to shoot scenes to show multiple points of view.

    sometimes we get glimpses of a character’s character by looking at them in their own milieu; and there is a truly delightful scene where cordelia is with her young nephew and we get to observe him being a young boy “like nobody’s watching”

    Jane Curtin has fun as the president’s mother in law.

    the president’s brother in law is an annoying anus as a character but the only character that’s annoying to watch, (bit of a stock US character)
    running gags about australia, forgiveable because of the president’s brother in law being such a stereotype of USian, the australian prime minister is played by julian mcmahon, (son of sir william 😉, for old farts like me who remember him), and kylie Minogue is there

    the story is really well constructed. mostly i enjoyed it because it was different.

  5. The Residence S01E01 released in 2025

    Giancarlo Esposito has played so many villains and he starts this show dead. Some might call that karma. :)

    I love everything he does :) It might be time to re-watch Abigail 2024 imdb.com/title/tt27489557

    imdb.com/title/tt8740614

    Very funny so far

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