Being The Ricardos

BEING THE RICARDOS

We follow Lucy and Desi for one week during the filming of their show. This week changes the future.

First of all, for the people who criticized the hiring of Nicole Kidman as Lucy...well where are they now??!!

This is a wonderful performance by Nicole Kidman, she has the voice and mannerisms of Lucy down.

While we are on the subject of performances we have fantastic performances from:

J.K. Simmons as William Frawley

Nina Arianda as Vivian Vance

Tony Hale as Jess Oppenheimer

Ali Shawkat as Madelyn Pugh a writer a female writer on the show. She should be thought of at Oscar time. She says so much with a look.

Adam Sorkin directed this and wrote this very interesting story about this one week (Which all did not happen in one week it was just consolidated into one week for storytelling purposes):

We see how Lucy, a female in that time period, is pretty much running the show.

We see how the Networks control the actors.

We see how a story line of pregnancy is forbidden during these times.

We flashback to how Lucy met Desi and how we see now the start of the well known chip in the structure of their relationship.

We see the control Desi has on Lucy, but this week we see Lucy starting to rise in the relationship.

We also see an investigation into Lucy being part of the Communist party.

It is a very interesting look into one week of time and place.

Negatives:

-I think Javier Bardem was miscast as Desi. He just doesn't seem believable, even kind of stiff.

-You may not know what I am talking about here until after you watch it...but..nothing really is accomplished here in the storyline. We have the setup of how this week changes so much but we don't see end results of anything. Which kind of leaves this movie feeling flat at the end. It is still very enjoyable, but we are left hanging having to use the Google Machine.

Still I did not know I would like this little well acted film so much. What fun...4 out of 5 stars for Being The Ricardos

 From the shadows as always thanks for your time.