ConfessFletch is one of few roles Jon Hamm has had since MadMen that fully grasps the layers of his appeal. roxana_hadadi writes
to accept his Lead Actor in a Drama Series Emmy shines here. He pulls exaggerated faces, bounces between giggling and dryly bemused line deliveries, and attempts subterfuge by bopping his way at half-speed through a dancing crowd.and acknowledges his Don Draper persona while pushing against it, too.
Comparatively, Hamm plays Fletch like a fun-house-mirror version of Don: The two are recognizably similar in broad strokes thanks to Fletch’s lusty, fumbling, self-satisfied qualities. But the actor’s willingness to directly send up Draper’s air of dapper authoritativeness makes Fletch goofier and, well,Confess, Fletch
That affords enough screen time for Hamm to swing from comedy to sensuality to drama and back again. When Fletch says, “My Italian is very good,” after he uses the word for. When he interviews a wannabe influencer , he unites a prolonged eye roll and a whole-body chortle. When calling his girlfriend from jail, he slips into an undertone: “Whatyou wearing?” And when Monroe wonders aloud who people hate more, cops or reporters, Hamm sneaks a resentful lilt into Fletch’s answer: “It’s cops.
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