Charlie Turns Criminal

It's weird when I realize I have been crushing on Charlie Hunnam for my entire adult life -- he's definitely my longest-running crush, beating Jake Gyllenhaal by several years thanks to Queer as Folk. (If Jared Leto hadn't turned out to be so awful he'd hold the title thanks to My So-Called Life -- alas for him.) Anyway that's got nothing to do with anything, I just like to personalize your news with my nonsense in case you hadn't noticed that yet! Just think -- one day all of the internet will be written by A.I. and you'll miss my gibberish rambling then! Okay, back to that news -- Charlie has signed on to star in Criminal, a new Prime Video series that's adapting the graphic novels by Ed Brubaker. Anybody read 'em? I have not but they sound just like the roughneck stuff Charlie so loves in his adult career:

"Criminal is an interlocking universe of crime stories based on the multi-Eisner Award-winning graphic novel series created by Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Hunnam stars as the protagonist, Leo, a brilliant master thief who sees all the angles, and specializes in plans with no guns and no violence. Like a chess player, Leo thinks three moves ahead. Other crooks think he’s a coward, especially compared to his father Tommy, who went to jail for murdering the most feared man in the city, Teeg Lawless."

"Teeg Lawless"? Really? Okay. Brubaker himself is writing and producing the series, while Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden are directing the first four episodes. Already an announced part of the cast -- Richard Jenkins, and we love him; I imagine he'll play Charlie's father? Anyway let's hope this series at least has the common sense to get Charlie's prime ass out as much as Sons of Anarchy did, which was good recompense for all the macho posturing. Ahh memories...