Spooks 8 Ep 1 (BBC) Lucas Meets Sarah

The gorgeous Lucas North has his first encounter with Sarah Caulfield

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Entertainment

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• spooks. Richard Armitage
• Lucas North

[compnetworks]

weird. i don't see any heat between these two. everytime i look at them I feel awkward.

Daniela, where are you?:(

[Geminileo1]

I absolutely HATE this woman! Just watched series 8 ep 4 and am now a total emotional wreck. Love this man more and more every day..........ooh.

[TonicLuv]

I normally don't bother listening to dialogue when lucas is on screen, staring at him overwhelms my remaining senses... but sarah's botched accent forces my attention as I'm clueless as to what she's trying to imitate.

[Salamentarg]

Being human

[wordcreatement]

I'm not an accent snob, but hers is just ridiculous! It's like this weird mix of a bunch of East Coast accents with some Southern and Midwestern mixed in - it's positively bizarre! It's so distracting - especially next to RA's smooth, GORGEOUS voice. Usually British actors are good at the accent, and even if they aren't, usually you can just hear a bit of British-ness in the way they say certain sounds. But hers just grates on the ear. That, plus her complete lack of chemistry with RA = urgh.

[tinaUNDAcova]

@Kay2be2M Haha I know. Us the viewers, had the joy of listening to that for 8 episodes. 

[Kay2be2M]

@tinaUNDAcova OMG you were right, this really is the worst American accent ever!! I thought it was almost impossible for a Brit to get it that wrong.

[kaprekar30]

Well he is simply sublime.

[tinaUNDAcova]

It's astonishing how her accent manages to shift between Midwestern cowgirl to a south NY/NJ dialect mid sentence. Reminded me of when Ross was trying to "fade out" his English accent on Friends lol.

Lucas was gorgeous as usual.

[nelsonwilby]

there are plenty of American actresses who could have played this character with authentic accents. not quite as bad as Miranda Otto attempting a TX accent in The Way We Live Now, but, still.

[refgeek]

Yes, very strange. Seems like she's aiming at the midwestern, Kansas, sort of standard middle class accent but her U and O vowels are wrong. It's like she has components of a few different US accents patched together.

[KhmerGirl007]

could she be Canadian?