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# Your Afternoon Man: Joseph Fiennes
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/your-afternoon-man-joseph-fiennes-10-2023/
- Published: 2023-10-23T19:00:48.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-22T22:10:35.000Z
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, Your Afternoon Man, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 08:24

It has been a minute since I've seen Joseph Fiennes, because -- confession, *gulp* \-- I never really watched *The Handmaid's Tale*. I got most of the way through season one and then something shiny caught my eye and then about a hundred other Something Shinys flitted by and lo and behold they're a bajillion seasons deep and I never went back. So really, the last time I meaningfully encountered JoFi was during his one-season mess of a network show, *FlashForward*, which was about people who'd been given a glimpse of their futures. But their nine-months-from-now futures -- their 21 episodes later futures -- and not ten years or anything. It was terrible. Courtney B. Vance got roped into it, too. [AND John Cho, and Gabrielle Union, and Jack Davenport, and Dominic Monaghan](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1441135/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io)... My friend Carrie and I selected as that year's Terrible Thing We'll Watch Only Together. Those usually only last about 4 weeks, but this one went a whole SEASON. (*Manifest* is the one that's backfired on us the hardest. It wouldn't stop, and it became a battle of wills. We still haven't finished. BUT WE SHALL, YOU JERKS.) Anyway, I have a recording on my phone of a scene in which JoFi Stadium was acting drunk, so very badly, and at one point when Liam was about 4, I played it in front of him and he started imitating it and it was perfect?!? So now I have a fondness for this man, all because he once drawled, "Because I was LOOOADED, OKAAAAAAY" in Courtney B. Vance's face.

Joseph is starring in [*Dear England*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear%5FEngland?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), a play about Gareth Southgate coaching the men's national football squad -- he is STILL the manager -- and is based on a letter he wrote to the team fans in 2021, during Covid. He is actually decent casting as Southgate, but as I look at him here, not having seen him in a minute... has he sharpened into a young James Cromwell?!? Does this mean we should petition for a *Succession* prequel? YES IT DOES. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Please go forth and fantasy cast Young Logan Roy.

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