Blucas was horrible...

Agreed. I liked the character but not the actor, kept thinking that someone else could have played it better. He was quite wooden in Buffy, as well...

As for Sinead Cusack, I have never heard her actual accent. So I didn't notice anything off...

"You will get precisely the news you deserve if you accept mediocrity."
Nick Clooney

I agree he was a bit wooden. I don't think it would have stood out so much except that the rest of the cast is so fantastic that they kind of put him to shame. I don't think his material was so horrid, though.

I don't mind McKidd's American accent. I can occasionally hear his original one coming through, but never enough to be distracting for me.



"And then he started cheating...especially at magnetic travel scrabble."

I don't think Marc Blucas' performance is bad it's just it is way too modern, he doesn't for a moment suggest a man of the 1930's but some latterday hunk in a contemporary romantic comedy rather than a period piece. I also thought Tara Fitzgerald was way too modern (or at least 1960ish hippieish) as a period Bohemian.

On the other hand, Sinead Cusack whoyou disapprove of because of her accent was splendidly in 1930's character, she seemed a perfect example of a drawing room comedy bitchy matron. I didn't have a problem with her accent, given her character was affected it could be said she was playing an American with old world pretentions. I thought Rose Byrne was best of all in capturing the era, in the scenes where she is taken under the Cotton family's wing she was a walking, talking recreation of 1920's John Held Jr art of the shallow young coquette social climber.