sgtpotatogodofpop

No offense to Taron Egerton, but Paul Hauser acts circles around him in this thing. It's excellent, and there's no telling how much better it could've been if Hauser had been paired up with a better matched "leading man". To be fair, they're wildly different characters, with Egerton having much less to chew on, but unfortunately that just made it even more evident that Hauser was the real star of the show and the low-key driver of the entire plot, leaving the audience on the edge of their seat playing the guessing game right up to the very end. Honestly, they could've shot this whole thing with Hauser playing opposite a mop in a googly eyed bucket and it'd only lose one star from me.

Paul Walter Hauser unquestionably deserved the Emmy, the Golden Globe, and every other bit of praise and accolades he received for this role. To somehow simultaneously elicit everything from fear to compassion, confusion to loathing, surprise to misery, and optimism to anxiety from an audience throughout a six-hour performance is nothing short of a genuinely exceptional achievement. And what a great shock it was coming from a gentleman who's known to be so naturally funny and a brilliant comedian. Skills. Range. Bravo.