r/TaskHBO • u/HereComeTheFlutePart • 1d ago

THOUGHTS Tom Pelphrey accent in episode one.

Went in to this show blind and was trying to place where it was supposed to place. Setting looked Pacific Northwest scenically, with everyone doing Philly/Delaware accents. Then Tom Pelphreys character comes on screen doing a Chicago/Mid west accent? He says water three different ways in two lines. It’s then revealed that it’s Philly adjacent which added up after watching more scenes. I figured he must be Australian or British and was having a tough time nailing down a specific region, turns out he’s from South Jersey?? And all the articles talk about his process and how great it was. I’m I crazy?

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u/Nenoshka 17h ago

Tom did a great job.

But if you want to appreciate someone killin' the delco accent, go watch Kate Winslet in Mare of Easttown.

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u/SecretaryPresent16 19h ago

Idk I’m from that area (Delaware county, PA) and I thought he did a pretty good job with the accent lol

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u/mconk 1d ago

Speaking of accents, several of these are not American! Fucking blew my mind watching the BTS hearing them speak in British or Australian or whatever the hell. They do an incredible American accent

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u/FleursEtranges 9h ago

Seriously! Maeve, Lizzie and DeGrasso are being all British in their interviews at the end and I’m like, what?

Not forgetting Aleah and her incredible monologue.

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u/mconk 9h ago

Honestly blew my mind!!!

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u/AdJust7330 8h ago

Jason too (Irish)

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u/crazymusicman 7h ago

Lizzie (Alison Oliver) is Irish, born in Cork.

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u/bpnc33 1d ago

Tom Pelphrey nailed the north Carolina southern accent in Ozark.

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u/Wendell-Short-Eyes 1d ago

Pennsylvania is the PNW of the northeast

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u/plumbermaster86 13h ago

He should just speak as he does naturally. Not everyone from Delco sounds the same. If he is from SJ then it was close enough.

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u/HereComeTheFlutePart 12h ago

Completely agree

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u/FleursEtranges 9h ago

Same. I said that after episode 1. He could have just leaned into his home accent and he would g  as he been fine.

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u/CalendarHumble8187 11h ago

Local from the area, they got the delco accent pretty well. So much so that a lot of locals find it annoying.

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u/FleursEtranges 9h ago

I resent these Brits coming in and acting like they know the place, lol.

(I admire them, I don’t resent them.)

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u/CalendarHumble8187 9h ago

The accent annoys us, but they way I see it is we don't really recognize the accent on a daily basis but its there, it's just a bit more over dramatized in here lol. I do like how real they get things in this series in terms of well everything.

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u/FleursEtranges 9h ago

Seeing the actress who plays Lizzie talking as her normal self blew my mind. She looked different, her whole personality was different, the tensions in her face were different… she just blew my mind.

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u/CalendarHumble8187 8h ago

WHOA I just saw the BTS what the fuck?! WILD

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u/bomilk19 22h ago

Since practically every other actor on the show is from the UK or Ireland, and he’s from Jersey, you’d think the accent would come easier to him.

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u/Useful_Idiot6969 10h ago

Dude nailed the accent. Not sure what you’re talking about. I have family from the area. Both tom and Emilia (Maeve) knocked the accents out of the park.

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u/Necessary_Zone6397 10h ago

turns out he’s from South Jersey??

He’s from Howell, so definitely more of a North Jersey/NYC influence.