#Icona Pop Voice: I DONT CARE. I LOVE IT.

[im-the-punk-who]

Toby Stephens Thirstography #6 - Vexed (2010-2012)

Toby Stephens Hotness: 20/10. One point for every time DI Jack Armstrong is clueless about being a bottom. One extra point for that time he gets in way over his head with a Dominatrix and another for the time he gets tongue-fucked in a diner.

This is another of those ‘must a show be good’? Is it not enough for Toby Stephens to be frequently naked, or singing, or handling dildos, or being topped or having his hair pet, or just having completely no clue whatsoever about what’s going on? IS THAT NOT ENOUGH. ARE THE ARMS AND THE LAYERS NOT ENOUGH. 

Seriously my favorite thing about this role is that DI Jack Armstrong is just...clueless. Zero brain cells. If it were possible to have negative brain cells, DI Jack Armstrong would possess them. And yes I have to use his full name because I just like the way it sounds. 

He’s so dumb. I love him so much. My tiniest, dumbest child.

Tasty Tidbits below the cut, as always. Plus, Outtakes: Incorrect Sitting Edition!

Plot: 5/10 There...there is no plot.

Toby plays the main police detective in this semi-procedural cop comedy. There’s no real overarching plot, it’s just an episodal show of DI Jack Armstrong being a fucking idiot and the people who are subjected to him along the way. Kate Bishop to receive an actual caring husband for her efforts, Georgina Dixon to be canonized. 

Watchability: 2/7 or 9/10, there is no in between and it really only matters how drunk you are.

Vexed is the sort of show you can only watch with all of your brain cells turned off and a thick piece of blue tape over your critical lens. 

It has sort of a live action family-guy type vibe. I say, having watched very little actual family guy but having been inundated with it through pop culture. (This is a very on brand way to describe Vexed because that’s basically how DI Jack Armstrong rolls through life. Just kind of assuming he’s right and doubling down when he’s called out for it.)

Listen IF you can watch it, this is an incredibly entertaining role for Toby Stephens, and also a great thirst role as he is...constantly in bed with someone. Every time I rewatch it I love it more because it’s just...fucking silly and charming and brain off head empty entertainment. But I’m gonna say it again, don’t go into this thinking you’re watching any sort of high brow shit. You’re gonna be offended, everyone is going to do, or be, absolutely terrible, and you will likely have to leave the room at least once screaming really?!?!? 

That said I first watched this exclusively while drunk at 2am and I was literally laughing so loud I know I woke my neighbors because this show is...it’s terrible. I’m not sure if I want to give the writers credit for knowing how bad what they were writing was, but it’s almost impossible not to. 

Anyway Toby said it best: 

“I loved it! It was almost a vacation, I had so little to do. Jack is so awful at his job that he has no clue what’s going on: my character was even less informed than me.”

No thoughts, head empty, and enjoy, pirates. 

Warnings: 

Warnings for....just about everything imaginable. Seriously, everything. The biggest ones are rampant ableism and sexism - I think the only ones it doesn’t hit are there isn’t any graphic sexual assault, no animals die, and it’s not very heavy on gore, but everything else gets at least one episode to be addressed. If anyone needs specific warnings I’m happy to provide them but there are really too many to list.

Where to Watch:

This is on Netflix in the US, and I believe a few other countries, and also available through Acorn(free trial if you have access to Prime.)

[diemondgrimm]

I don’t really understand how people couldnt like it honestly but, *icona pop voice* I dont care! I love it !

lol i always lose followers when i post that i love suicide squad

for the people in the back

I FUCKING LOVE SUICIDE SQUAD