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<blockquote data-quote="Brian Kinney" data-source="post: 246796" data-attributes="member: 3219">I&#039;m also wondering why Perry has a relative stable ensemble over all the years. No important re-castings and actors who were written out long ago off their unsatisfying roles turn up again (Celine), so he must be a fair boss. But yeah, if an actor feels like an artist (think of Shia LaBeouf) they better avoid his offers.I think it&#039;s not just Aaron O&#039;Connell who doesn&#039;t have a real chance to shine, but Tyler Lepley, Brett Davis, Brock Yurich, Nicholas James or&nbsp; Gavin Houston have all a bit more to show thanks to their interactions with more different characters than O&#039;Connell who is either with his parents (where his acting is solid) or bit players who are cops, lawyers, drug dealers and hospital staff (where he tends to overact). This adds badly to the two-dimensionality.And the real sad thing is HAHN has a convincing soap structure: Poor (Young) vs rich (Cryer, Harrington), white (Cryer) vs black (Harrington, Young), young (Candace, Wyatt, Jeffrey) vs old (Hannah, Jim, Veronica), establishment (Cryer, Harrington) vs golddigger (Candace) or mob (Malones). Soap friendly environments:&nbsp; hospital, justice, mansions, hotel (latter is a typical German soap location). Most of the actors are well cast even though it&#039;s often based on looks (a big plus for me because the reality is in my mirror and neighborhood).Tyler Perry has all the ingredients, an independent production facility, the talent and lots of ideas... BUT he is unable to distribute work to others, directors, writers or co-producers. And this is diminishing the result. It starts with the terrible lightning and ends with scenes that needed more editing and much more camera angles. Really sad, we know of the potential the series had, this is why we still watch it but it&#039;s a weird guilty pleasure. One that is so self-shaming that I admit to it only in the anonymity online. I blame OWN for being too friendly and let him produce without any interference. Aaron Spelling didn&#039;t have so much freedom.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brian Kinney, post: 246796, member: 3219"] I'm also wondering why Perry has a relative stable ensemble over all the years. No important re-castings and actors who were written out long ago off their unsatisfying roles turn up again (Celine), so he must be a fair boss. But yeah, if an actor feels like an artist (think of Shia LaBeouf) they better avoid his offers. I think it's not just Aaron O'Connell who doesn't have a real chance to shine, but Tyler Lepley, Brett Davis, Brock Yurich, Nicholas James or Gavin Houston have all a bit more to show thanks to their interactions with more different characters than O'Connell who is either with his parents (where his acting is solid) or bit players who are cops, lawyers, drug dealers and hospital staff (where he tends to overact). This adds badly to the two-dimensionality. And the real sad thing is HAHN has a convincing soap structure: Poor (Young) vs rich (Cryer, Harrington), white (Cryer) vs black (Harrington, Young), young (Candace, Wyatt, Jeffrey) vs old (Hannah, Jim, Veronica), establishment (Cryer, Harrington) vs golddigger (Candace) or mob (Malones). Soap friendly environments: hospital, justice, mansions, hotel (latter is a typical German soap location). Most of the actors are well cast even though it's often based on looks (a big plus for me because the reality is in my mirror and neighborhood). Tyler Perry has all the ingredients, an independent production facility, the talent and lots of ideas... BUT he is unable to distribute work to others, directors, writers or co-producers. And this is diminishing the result. It starts with the terrible lightning and ends with scenes that needed more editing and much more camera angles. Really sad, we know of the potential the series had, this is why we still watch it but it's a weird guilty pleasure. One that is so self-shaming that I admit to it only in the anonymity online. I blame OWN for being too friendly and let him produce without any interference. Aaron Spelling didn't have so much freedom. [/QUOTE]

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