Sneaky Pete

Fairview's Sneaky Pete's Returns

... explain which beverages should accompany which food items. General Manager Darrell Knopfel has a genuine passion for providing wonderful products with exceptional service. His recent motto, “Hey Erie, let’s Charcut-Erie,” is part of his new mission to give locals the same kind of refined dining experience found in metropolitan areas. The charcuterie boards served up at Sneaky Pete's offer choice prepared meats and cheeses bursting with flavor. But be sure to save some room for other delectable choices, too, including the crabcake appetizer or the mouthwatering filet medallions with roasted red peppers and Gorgonzola on a buttered croissant. Sneaky Pete’s, formally called the Colonial Inn for many years, is in a house built 100 or so years ago and has been a tavern for most of its life. Pete and Laura Ciacchini ran the place for more than 50 years until they retired a couple of years ago. It sat vacant until new proprietors Chuck and Pam Herron, and their son, Zach, invested in the place, and Knopfel opened it back up in late fall. It couldn’t be in better hands. If you're looking for a truly unique experience, ...

Bryan Cranston's Amazon Drama 'sneaky Pete' A Fun Actors' Showcase

... never overdo anything. The dirty cop could so easily be a caricature, but O’Keefe has a scene where he threatens Carly that’s chilling because of how matter-of-fact and human the guy seems in that moment. And where Justified could at times fall victim to overplotting, Yost, Fred Golan, and others use the abundance of strong actors and characters here to their advantage, taking inherently dramatic or suspenseful scenarios and making them tauter and/or more fun by throwing in just one more person, one more problem, and letting almost everyone be smarter than you expect them to be. Like most serialized shows of this type, the second half of the season is more fun than the expository first, and there are occasional storytelling leaps you just have to go with. One seemingly innocuous character improbably turns out to be a villain in the later episodes, for instance, but they add so much spice to the story at that point that ...

New Amazon Show ‘sneaky Pete’ Is A Fun Ride

... grandparents’ farm in Connecticut, so Marius goes there claiming to be Pete, their estranged grandson. They buy it, it seems, and they take him in and put him to work at their Bridgeport bail bonds company. Watching “Pete” improvise along the way is part of the pleasure of “Sneaky Pete,” as he convinces not only grandparents Audrey and Otto — the perfectly cast Margo Martindale and Peter Gerety — but a few of Pete’s cousins, one of whom is a cop named Taylor (Shane Mc Rae). As a career con artist, Marius adlibs his way into and out of tricky situations just as easily as he picks pockets, but living with a cop does have its stresses — something Cranston’s Walter White on “Breaking Bad” knew something about, since his brother-in-law was a DEA agent. Also problematic: Marius’s own emotional needs, which are stoked as he receives the affection of Pete’s family, not least of all cousin Julia (Marin Ireland), with whom he has instant chemistry. Get The Weekender in your inbox. The Globe's top picks for ...

Sneaky Pete

... and Peter Gerety as the grandparents, Audrey and Otto. Gerety is a crusty and crotchety delight in everything, and Martindale is in a class by herself, as evidenced by her notable roles in Justified and The Americans. In Sneaky Pete, you know immediately that Martindale's Audrey is very dubious about long-lost Pete showing up on her doorstep. The spot-on casting doesn't stop there. Ribisi is a delight — he's put his fingerprints on a number of fine roles in the past, but if Sneaky Pete takes off for Amazon, this one can add some definition. He's funny and likable and, when the stakes get raised and the narrative becomes dramatic, he's the anchor. Cranston, who was only supposed to have a small role as Vince, the dangerous gangster Marius tried and failed to con, has stuck around (it's still a small role, but important, and you can sense he feels there's something special going on). Marin Ireland (Hell or High Water, Girls), who is long overdue for a ...

Amazon’s ‘sneaky Pete,’ With Bryan Cranston And Giovanni Ribisi

... a tail by convincing his accomplice to do “that thing you did in Wichita.” Recognition dawns on her face.”Are you f–king serious?” she yelps — but then the episode smash cuts, with ruthless amusement, to her doing that thing she did in Wichita, which in this case is drawing away the tail’s attention by appearing nude in an upper-story window. (You can see why she was annoyed.). “Sneaky Pete” is both crime and caper, walking a fascinating and ultimately successful line between grit and hijinks. The show’s murderous sense of timing makes it feel like a Rube-Goldberg machine of episodic storytelling, where the audience is constantly imagining the many ways this precarious construction will fall to pieces. It’s a style that befits “Sneaky Pete’s” lead Marius ( Giovanni Ribisi ), a smooth-talking con man who is always extemporizing, adding frills to a con that is always on the verge of coming apart. Marius is serving the last day of his sentence when he learns that because of an outstanding debt to a vicious gangster, he can’t go home to New York City. So he pivots — ...

Young 'victoria,' A 'young Pope' And 'sneaky Pete

... — and who doesn't? — give "Victoria on Masterpiece" (Sunday, 8 p.m., PBS/Ch. 7) a try. This engaging new series centers on 18-year-old Victoria (Jenna Coleman, "Doctor Who"), who becomes queen of England in 1837 — and there's political intrigue, family infighting and romance. The first two hours of this eight-hour series air tonight; hourlong episodes air over the next six Sundays. Also on Sunday, it's the premiere "The Young Pope" (10 and 11 p.m., HBO) — which is pretty much exactly what the title indicates. The narrative on this very dark series centers on a 40 ish pope — Pius XIII, born Lenny Belardo, (Jude Law) — who is an enigma. He's not progressive. He's not liberal. He might not even believe in God. Or is he just kidding. TOP JOBS. I've seen four episodes and, honestly, I still haven't figured this one out. And if you're a subscriber, check out "Sneaky Pete" (streaming beginning Friday, Amazon): If you give it a couple of episodes, you just might get caught up in this tale of a con man (Giovanni Ribisi) who gets in trouble with a gangster (Bryan Cranston). Friday on TV. • Women's college basketball (6 p.m. P 12 N): Stanford at Utah. • "Mac Gyver" ...

Amazon’s Sneaky Pete Is An Addictive Binge-watch

... the only confidence man in his family … or rather, Pete’s family, which is now Marius/Pretend Pete’s family. Just about everyone on this series is either not telling the truth or convinced they’re being lied to, and usually both. Given the caliber of the actors, watching them dance this particular dance becomes increasingly engrossing. If you’ve watched TV during the past decade, you already know how delicious it is to watch Cranston in don’t-mess-with-me mode, or Margo Martindale switching gears from sweet and maternal to “ooh, that lady’s up to something.” But this series once again confirms that. Honestly, if you were building an all-star team of TV actors, you’d probably recruit a lot of the people who pop up in roles, large and small, in this cast: Cranston, Martindale, Gerety, Alison Wright from The Americans, Michael Dreyer (Mr. Robot and Vinyl), Marin Ireland, and several other alums of Justified and/or The Wire, in addition to the ones already noted. Then there’s Ribisi, who is excellent as a man so conditioned to deceive that he can ...

Bryan Cranston Lends Familiar Dark Humor To ‘sneaky Pete

... humor (read: dark) courtesy of Cranston. And with a supporting cast featuring Margo Martindale (“The Americans,” “The Good Wife”) and Peter Gerety (“Mercy Street,” “Public Morals”), “Sneaky Pete” is off to an auspicious start. The games begin when con man Marius Josapovic (Ribisi) — sprung from prison after three years — is warned by his partner-in-crime brother, Eddie (Michael Drayer), that mobster Vince (Cranston) intends to collect the $100,000 from the job that landed Marius in the slammer. That intention comes with a warning: If Marius doesn’t cough up the dough, Vince will chop off Eddie’s fingers … one by one. And he always keeps his word. What’s a con man to do. Margo Martindale is part of the stellar “Sneaky Pete” cast. Amazon Prime Video/Eric Liebowitz. Desperate to score a quick-hit windfall to save his brother (and himself), Marius assumes the identity of ...

Bryan Cranston's Amazon Drama 'sneaky Pete' A Fun Actors' Showcase

... more familiar from the last decade of cable drama. The premise itself is basically a less violent Banshee (or a more violent Impastor), while the narrative operates under Murphy’s Law, where it’s just one damn thing after another from both identities causing difficulties for Marius, his brother Eddie (Michael Drayer), his fake family, and his grifter friends, who are played by, among others, Alison Wright (Poor Martha from The Americans), Ben Vereen, Virginia Kull, C. S. Lee, and Karolina Wydra. That sense of never-ending calamity can be exhausting on many of these shows (see the later seasons of Sons of Anarchy), but Sneaky Pete works because virtually every actor involved is two or three degrees better than required, and every character is written with greater detail and intelligence than the story needs to keep moving forward. Share This. By: Sepinwall ☆. 01.11.2017 @ 4:36 PM. In a review of an unrelated ...

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... The show’s murderous sense of timing makes it feel like a Rube-Goldberg machine of episodic storytelling, where the audience is constantly imagining the many ways this precarious construction will fall to pieces. It’s a style that befits “Sneaky Pete’s” lead Marius (Giovanni Ribisi), a smooth-talking con man who is always extemporizing, adding frills to a con that is always on the verge of coming apart. Much like Marius, “Sneaky Pete” so throws itself into the art of selling the story that it is mostly convinced itself of every emotional beat; it lives in the moment with precise doling out of suspense and monologue, keeping the audience hooked. “Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events,” Netflix, Friday. Neil Patrick Harris stars in Netflix’s latest series, which Variety critic Sonia Soraiya calls a “fantastic adaptation” of the original Lemony Snicket children’s books. In her review, she continues to rave about the “weird, wonderful masterpiece,” though she notes that Harris, who plays the villainous Count Olaf, falls a bit short with the ...