Next time, demand more effort from your actors. If you hire a Mexican to act as a Colombian, at least needs to try to get Colombian accent.
2 Reviews
Not all Latinamerica speaks as Mexicans
kattiapf20 August 2019
Colombia/Columbia?
akicork25 January 2023
This for me is a top of the line episode, bundling tension and family feeling (here, two different kinds - the one that we know, within the Intelligence Group, and a different sort, that between Pulpo, his girlfriend and son), along with just enough comedy and pathos to balance it all out. We have lots of tension, building up the story of Pulpo and bringing it to an effective conclusion. I have to pay tribute to the skill of Arturo del Puerto, that he can portray such a loathsome character while suppressing his other capable faces, including, I suspect, a strong comedic ability. We see a nice broadening of the backstory of Trudy and Antonio, together with an explanation for such a competent officer being desk bound. We also have a bit more insight into the complicated ethics of Hank Voight. So, all in all, a great episode.
I have to agree, though, with the reviewer who is irritated by the use of actors who don't actually portray the accent they are supposedly speaking. I know it's not a simple problem. Is an "Edinburgh" accent Leith, Mayfield, Grange, Morningside or the scores of local accents found in a city area of several hundred thousand inhabitants (let alone millions like London or New York). But to narrow down an accent to the general area of a country should not be too difficult. Here the question is about a Colombian accent. Oh dear! My impression is that most Americans cannot even pronounce the word! Instead of "Colombian" they say "Columbian". The country is Colombia (with an "o" in the second syllable), so do any adjectives or other descriptors deriving from it. "Columbia" is a poetic name for North America (or earlier, all the Americas) and as such has been portrayed in the splash screen of Columbia Pictures over many years. The actress chosen to represent "Columbia" was the, ironically, British actress Ida Lupino.
I have to agree, though, with the reviewer who is irritated by the use of actors who don't actually portray the accent they are supposedly speaking. I know it's not a simple problem. Is an "Edinburgh" accent Leith, Mayfield, Grange, Morningside or the scores of local accents found in a city area of several hundred thousand inhabitants (let alone millions like London or New York). But to narrow down an accent to the general area of a country should not be too difficult. Here the question is about a Colombian accent. Oh dear! My impression is that most Americans cannot even pronounce the word! Instead of "Colombian" they say "Columbian". The country is Colombia (with an "o" in the second syllable), so do any adjectives or other descriptors deriving from it. "Columbia" is a poetic name for North America (or earlier, all the Americas) and as such has been portrayed in the splash screen of Columbia Pictures over many years. The actress chosen to represent "Columbia" was the, ironically, British actress Ida Lupino.
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