It's hard not to be distracted by Michael C. Hall's British accent on Netflix's Safe

The Hollywood Reporter

"At least Hall's distracting turn as (John F.) Kennedy was only a small piece of a single overreaching episode in the otherwise consistent second season of The Crown," says Daniel Fienberg of the Harlan Coben Netflix series. "In Netflix's upcoming thriller Safe, Hall is a primary selling point, and it's impossible to listen to him say 'privacy' or 'uni' in a proper British accent without losing concentration for the next two or three lines of dialogue. Hall's accent, reasonably consistent and yet rarely believable, is one of many things on Safe that are askew and, the more I think about it, the more I can't tell if it's intentional if not particularly satisfying, or merely bad."

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