Series cast summary: | |||
Felicity Huffman | ... | Barb Hanlon / ... 29 episodes, 2015-2017 | |
Regina King | ... | Terri LaCroix / ... 27 episodes, 2015-2017 | |
Timothy Hutton | ... | Russ Skokie / ... 26 episodes, 2015-2017 | |
Richard Cabral | ... | Hector Tonz / ... 21 episodes, 2015-2017 | |
Elvis Nolasco | ... | Carter Nix / ... 21 episodes, 2015-2016 | |
Lili Taylor | ... | Anne Blaine / ... 21 episodes, 2015-2017 | |
Benito Martinez | ... | Alonzo Gutierrez / ... 16 episodes, 2015-2017 | |
Brent Anderson | ... | Curt Tanner / ... 16 episodes, 2015-2016 | |
Connor Jessup | ... | Taylor Blaine / ... 14 episodes, 2016-2017 | |
Shane Jacobsen | ... | Michael O'Brien / ... 12 episodes, 2015-2016 | |
When a young couple -- war veteran Matt and his wife, Gwen Skokie -- are attacked in their Modesto, Calif., home, Matt dies and Gwen is left unconscious, barely clinging to life. As news of the brutal crime makes its way through the media, both sets of parents sit vigil by Gwen's bed, hoping for a miracle to keep her with them. The police investigation begins to close in on four suspects in the case, and shock waves radiate through the community, stirring up tensions along ethnic and racial lines. Written by Jwelch5742
I have watched the entire first season, and about half the secind season. I find the show a slow paced, but often honest protrayal of America today. I can understand how many people may not enjoy this show since in their opinion " it's not entertaining". I highly disagree, but different strokes for ddifferent folks.
There are many people that put down the show, because of an artistic choice by the director, to cast the same actors every season, in different roles. Some, in seeing the same actors seem to think, that the characters changed off screen in between seasons. The Muslim woman, having somehow acquired a Business degree, and dropped her religion to become a high powered executive, was given as one example. The drug addict thief, becoming a high school principal. The fact that they have different names seems to have not been noticed, and somehow this failing of the reviewer is used to Point to a supposed weakness of the show.
They also say they have never seen this before. American Horror Story does the exact thing brilliantly. Repertory Companies also do this on stage, where a company of actors will have several plays under their belt, and one night might put on ONE. and the next a totally different one. It is new on Television, but the practice goes back to the days of Shakespeare, and Marlowe.
This is like watching a production of Comedy of Errors one week, then seeing a production of Hamlet the next, then complaining that the show lacked cohesion, because... the guy that played one set of twins on week one, is now playing some guy named Laertes the next... " where is the cohesion??"
It seems to me that simply paying attention to character names, and plot, would show some people that... it's a different story, with different characters. The fault is in the viewers not understanding what is easy to understand, ..Not the Director's for lacking cohesion.
I guess this is what we get from viewers too used to Hollywood Pablum? When you have viewers so used to having Every Little detail explained to them... they cannot seem to use their minds when a show refuses to connect all the dots.
TL;DR: Superb Show, average network viewer not up to snuff to appreciate it.