Thursday, March 29, 2018

Good Morning, Gratuitous Douglas Smith

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So what did we think of the first season of The Alienist? I just watched the finale (co-directed by Cary Fukunaga and John Sayles!) last night; I've been running a couple of days behind. Anyway I should start a Tumblr called "Twinks in Tweed" just so I could devote the very first post to The Alienist's Douglas Smith here...

... who always looks super sharp in his period duds. That's where he first caught my eye - I think he's the only one who gets to have sex on the show... well except for all the murderers and boy prostitutes of course. And we do see Luke Evans getting re-dressed in brothels a few times. It's a repressed show. On purpose. As I tweeted...
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That's been the sexiest moment on the show by far. Although... it is a show about murdered boy prostitutes, so maybe "sexy" isn't the agenda. Oh well! We've got Douglas Smith there to boink freely, at least. I never watched Big Love (which he played Bill Paxton's son on, I believe) so I wasn't familiar with Douglas before The Alienist but the thirty-two year-old has been acting for ages - his very first role was in the infamous "Home" episode of The X-Files!

I mean that's really something to be proud of. For real. You can coast on that for a lifetime. But Dougie here ain't coasting - yesterday it was announced that besides The Alienist he's lined up a major gig. Super major. He's joining the cast of Big Little Lies! He's playing a surfer and "aspiring marine biologist" who works with Shaileene Woodley's character. I smell romance! And I'm just guessing here but since Andrea Arnold is directing the whole season I also smell "nudity." Good thing Douglas isn't shy...

Good thing for him, good thing for us, good thing for everybody. It is raining good things. And speaking of, things that are good I mean, you can follow Douglas on Instagram right here, and then another good thing besides that is I gathered up a couple dozen pictures of him, and you can find those good things right here after the jump...


























4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous.

Matt miller said...

I had no idea Cary Fukunaga was going to helm an episode. I stopped in the episode 5 because this show is super dumb to me, it tries too much to be dense but the writing just feels shallow. I'm not sure if I should keep going.

Roark said...

Smith is a solid actor, and very cute. I'm always happy when he pops up in something. He had a bunch of nude scenes on Big Love that were all ACES.

Bill Carter said...

I thought the first episode was a little shaky, but after that I really got into it. (I’m a Daniel Bruhl fan from way back.)

No spoilers, please. I’m in Belgium for a couple of weeks, so I won’t get to see the final episode until I’m back in the States. I’ve been hoping for a surprise ending, where it turns out that the killer is Teddy Roosevelt.