Let’s be fully sincere right here. Harbour doesn’t play a convincing English superspy, and is just marginally extra plausible when Anderson is revealed to be a KGB agent. However Harbour wears the miscasting nicely, someway nonetheless having enjoyable with the goofy plot, even when a number of the laughs come at his character’s expense.
Elliot Hirsch, The Newsroom (2012-2014)
After The West Wing, the superb present about smug centrist liberals doing crucial job ever, and Studio 60 on the Sundown Strip, a horrible present about smug centrist liberals doing crucial job ever, Aaron Sorkin created The Newsroom, a collection about smug centrist liberals engaged on a nightly community information present, crucial job ever. The place a lot of the present follows principled maverick Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) and his employees, Harbour has a reoccuring visitor position as McAvoy’s former co-anchor Elliott Hirsch.
With McAvoy talking for/on the individuals, Hirsch typically seems like a easy foil, the man who chooses the established order as an alternative of the reality. And the collection does put Hirsch via the wringer, together with a storyline wherein he will get beat up exterior his resort room. However Harbour is aware of the right way to hold the viewers on the aspect of his stuffed shirt of a personality, even when the present needs we weren’t.
Hellboy, Hellboy (2019)
Okay, let’s get this out of the best way up high: the 2019 Hellboy may be very unhealthy. Worse, it casts Harbour within the title position as an alternative of bringing again a pitch-perfect Ron Perlman for a 3rd outing. However right here’s the factor: Harbour’s simply pretty much as good as Hellboy, bringing a unique take to Mike Mignolia’s Proper Hand of the Apocalypse/working stiff.
The place Perlman performed Anung un Rama as perpetually bored with something that wasn’t a cat or a pancake or Liz Sherman, Harbour’s Hellboy has a bit extra youth and spark. That doesn’t imply he’s thrilled to cope with a pig fairy or the Baba Yaga. However he’s faster with a biting comment and extra prepared for motion, permitting Harbour’s model to face alongside the fan favourite portrayed by Perlman, regardless of being in a a lot weaker film.
Santa Claus, Violent Night time (2022)
Like Hellboy, Violent Night time doesn’t work as a film, however will get plenty of assist by casting Harbour within the lead. Right here, Harbour performs Viking warrior Nicomund the Crimson, pressured to atone for his cruelty by spending eternity giving items and spreading pleasure as Santa Claus. Santa does his job nicely, however when a bunch of burglars (lead by John Leguizamo as “Scrooge”) break right into a home and threaten a younger lady named Trudy (Leah Brady), he recovers his brutal tendencies to save lots of the day.
