Jane Seymour and Alan Arkin in ‘The Kominsky Method’ season 2 (Photo by Michael Yarish/Netflix)
Netflix’s critically acclaimed comedy, The Kominsky Method, has announced three new additions to the season two cast. Jane Seymour, Jacqueline Bisset, and Paul Reiser are joining the series in season two as recurring guest stars.
Netflix released the following descriptions of Seymour’s, Bisset’s, and Reiser’s characters:
Jane Seymour plays Madelyn, a seventy-something, well-to-do woman who Norman (Alan Arkin) had a mad love affair with in the Sixties before he met his wife. Fifty years later, they meet and start again.
Jacqueline Bisset is Gabrielle, Mindy’s (Sarah Baker) mom and Sandy’s (Michael Douglas) French ex-wife who delights in still being able to push the buttons of her ex-husband.
Paul Reiser plays Martin, a sixty-something high school teacher who gets romantically involved with Sandy’s (Douglas) daughter, Mindy (Baker).
The half-hour single-camera comedy was created by Emmy Award nominee Chuck Lorre. Lorre’s other creations include The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Mike and Molly, Two and a Half Men, Dharma & Greg, and Grace Under Fire. Lorre serves as an executive producer on The Kominsky Method along with Al Higgins and Michael Douglas. The comedy’s produced by Chuck Lorre Productions, Inc. and Warner Bros. Television.
The first season was released on Friday, November 16, 2019 and won two Golden Globe Awards (Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy for Michael Douglas). It was also nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Critics’ Choice Awards. Other honors include a spot on the AFI Awards 2018’s AFI TV Programs of the Year list.
The Kominsky Method Plot:
The sun isn’t setting yet on the once famous Sandy Kominsky and his longtime agent Norman Newlander. Academy Award winners Michael Douglas (Kominsky) and Alan Arkin (Newlander) continue their journey as two friends tackling life’s inevitable curveballs as they navigate their later years in Los Angeles, a city that values youth and beauty.
The official trailer for Paramount Pictures’ Pet Sematary reveals big changes from book to screen. Stephen King’s bestselling novel was made into a feature film in 1989, and that film stuck close to King’s book. The 2019 adaptation will apparently switch up the family dynamics quite a bit, including changing the child brought back from the dead from the toddler son to young daughter.
The ’89 horror film starred Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, and Fred Gwynne. The 2019 version features Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Louis Creed, Amy Seimetz (Stranger Things) as Rachel Creed, and two-time Oscar nominee John Lithgow (The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment) as Jud Crandall. The cast also includes Hugo and Lucas Lavoie as Gage Creed, Jete Laurence (Friends from College) as Ellie Creed, and Obssa Ahmed (The Expanse) as Victor Pascow.
Scream: The TV Series‘ Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer directed the horror film from a script by Jeff Buhler (Nightflyers). Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Steven Schneider, and Mark Vahradian produced, with Mark Moran executive producing. The behind the scenes team includes director of photography Laurie Rose, production designer Todd Cherniawsky, and editor Sarah Broshar.
The horror film will close out the 2019 South by Southwest (SXSW) which takes place March 8-17, 2019 in Austin, Texas. Paramount Pictures is set to release Pet Sematary in theaters on April 5, 2019.
The Plot:
Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Clarke), who, after relocating with his wife Rachel (Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family’s new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
Ginnifer Goodwin joins ‘The Twilight Zone’ (Photo Credit: CBS All Access)
CBS All Access’ season one cast of The Twilight Zone just expanded by one. Once Upon a Time star Ginnifer Goodwin has signed on to the reboot of the iconic sci-fi series, joining James Frain and Zabryna Guevara in an episode titled “Point of Origin.”
The rebirth of the series will also feature Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story anthology series), Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul), Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), and Ike Barinholtz (The Oath). John Cho (Searching), Allison Tolman (Good Girls), Jacob Tremblay (The Book of Henry), Greg Kinnear (House of Cards), Sanaa Lathan (The Affair), Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), Adam Scott (Parks and Recreation), Jessica Williams (Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald), DeWanda Wise (She’s Gotta Have It), and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) also star in season one episodes.
Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Get Out) is serving as narrator and host. Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films produced the series with CBS Television. Peele, Kinberg, Win Rosenfeld, Audrey Chon, Glen Morgan, Carol Serling, Rick Berg, and Greg Yaitanes are the season one executive producers.
Ginnifer Goodwin’s credits include Big Love, Zootopia, Walk the Line, He’s Just Not That Into You, and A Single Man. Goodwin recently completed work on I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story with Angela Fairley and Kim Hawthorne.
The Twilight Zone is set to premiere on Monday, April 1, 2019.
More on The Twilight Zone, Courtesy of CBS All Access:
“The original The Twilight Zone premiered on Oct. 2, 1959 on CBS. The series took viewers to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. “The Twilight Zone” became a worldwide phenomenon as it used socially conscious storytelling to explore the human condition and culture of the times. It was a journey into a wondrous land of imagination for five years on CBS, from 1959 to 1964. The godfather of sci-fi series, the show explored humanity’s hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional dramas could not. Every episode of the original series is available to stream now on CBS All Access.”
Lifetime’s new series American Princess will join the network’s primetime lineup on Sunday, June 2, 2019 at 9pm ET/PT. The series is described as a dramedy and comes from writer and executive producer Jamie Denbo. American Princess is executive produced by the Orange is the New Black and GLOW team of Jenji Kohan, Tara Herrmann, and Mark A. Burley.
Season one consists of 10 one-hour episodes starring Australian actress Georgia Flood as a runaway bride who discovers there’s a lot more to life than she imagined. The cast of season one also includes Lucas Neff (Raising Hope, Downward Dog), Seana Kofoed (Men in Trees, Flaked), Mary Hollis Inboden (The Real O’Neals, Here And Now), and Rory O’Malley (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Hamilton).
Jamie Denbo, Lesley Ann Warren, Matt Peters, Lucas Hazlett, Sophie Von Haselberg, Matt Ehrich, Natasha Leggero, and Steve Agee guest star in the show’s first season. Tommy Dorfman, Fortune Feimster, and John Ross Bowie also have guest starring roles in the upcoming season.
The Plot:
When Amanda (Flood), an Upper East Side socialite, runs away from her own dream wedding, she realizes that the life she thought she wanted wasn’t actually right after all. After impulsively joining a Renaissance Faire, Amanda experiences an unexpected awakening that leads her to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about the pursuit of happiness. She quickly develops new friendships, rivalries and romances that, much to the confusion of her family, opens her eyes to new beginnings.
Neff stars as David, Amanda’s love interest and Ren Faire actor who goes by the name “Pizzle Humpsalot,” performing Shakespearean parodies in the mud. Kofoed plays Maggie, the venerable Queen Elizabeth at the Faire. Inboden is Delilah, a free-spirited washer wench who becomes Amanda’s new best friend. And O’Malley plays Brian, Maggie’s confidant and the Faire’s beloved Shakespeare.
Fox Entertainment brought the entire cast of The Gifted to their evening party for the Television Critics Association. The X-Men series is in its second season, with the Strucker family on the run from the Inner Circle.
We caught Stephen Moyer and his TV daughter Natalie Alyn Lind hustling some hors d’oeuvres (networks always forget to feed their talent). So with a prime spot for the wait staff and a glass of wine in his hand, Moyer and Lind spoke with Showbiz Junkies about the rest of the season. The Gifted airs Tuesdays at 9pm ET/PT on Fox.
So what’s coming up for the Strucker family?
Stephen Moyer: “Well, lots of drama.”
Natalie Alyn Lind: “Lots of unexpected twists.”
Stephen Moyer: “Lots of crescendo to the season. Everything, if you’ve been following, is kind of building in one direction. The Inner Circle are trying to take over the world. They’re doing bad stuff, we’re trying to stop them.”
Is there still room for those family moments when the world is at stake?
Natalie Alyn Lind: “I think our show will always find a moment for family moments.”
Stephen Moyer: “We get a couple of really nice scenes actually, don’t we? One in 15, one in 16. It’s really nice for us to have some. In fact, has our episode played yet where I come and follow you?”
Natalie Alyn Lind: “Yes.”
Stephen Moyer: “Oh yeah, that was great.”
Could you have imagined when you started The Gifted where you’d be halfway through season two?
Stephen Moyer: “We do cover a lot of ground. I don’t know, really. I wasn’t sure that I would get powers. I got powers right at the end of season one, coming into season two. I wouldn’t have thought that that would’ve happened yet.”
Did they tell you it was a long term plan?
Stephen Moyer: “I had a feeling that that would maybe be in there at some point, but I think the studio really liked the idea of it so they pushed Matt [Nix] to create that.”
Do Reed and Kate still have time to parent? Do they still have the authority to parent while they’re all on the run?
Natalie Alyn Lind: “Well, obviously just me.”
Stephen Moyer: “To be fair to the program makers, it’s hard. With all the story that’s going on, to give us those moments that we all kind of crave, which are those character beats is very difficult. And we’re always trying to push for those beats to be with our kids and have moments of learning and doing all of that stuff. So, we do have a couple.
There’s lots of stories to finish, lots of things that have been set up and teed up that need to be finished. In so doing, there are moments where we will get to close portals, close doors and finish stuff. We always want more. I think every actor is always going, ‘Oh, I want to do this. I want to do that.'”
I’m just thinking with teenagers, yes, it’s life and death but you still don’t want teenagers to run rampant.
Stephen Moyer: “Especially not these two. They’re very rampant together, my twins.”
Natalie Alyn Lind: “My twins?”
Stephen Moyer: “Not that they’re twins, but…”
How does this season finale compare to last year’s, where they brought down a plane?
Stephen Moyer: “And they [Lind and Percy Hynes White] brought down a building. Emma [Dumont] brought down a plane.”
Natalie Alyn Lind: “I think it’s even crazier than the last one and something big happens which kind of puts the show into a new perspective.”
Stephen Moyer: “I think there’s a leaping off point into the future kind of idea.”
Being in a season and a half of The Gifted with all these super powers, is it more similar or different to True Blood at this point?
Stephen Moyer: “I think that if you remember season two of True Blood, we had the crazy eyes and the maenads and the crazy sex orgies all the way through that season. [Joking] So it’s pretty much just like that but ours is off stage.”
Warner Bros Pictures and MGM just released a full trailer for the romantic drama, The Sun is Also a Star, along with a new poster. The romance stars Riverdale‘s Charles Melton and Grown-ish‘s Yara Shahidi. John Wick: Chapter 2‘s John Leguizamo also stars in the adaptation of Nicola Yoon’s novel.
Before I Fall‘s Ry Russo-Young directed from a screenplay by Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip). Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton produced, and Pamela Hirsch served as an executive producer.
Russo-Young’s behind the scenes team includes photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Teen Spirit), production designer Wynn Thomas (Hidden Figures), editor Joe Landauer (Before I Fall), and costume designer Deirdra Elizabeth Govan (Sorry to Bother You), with Herdís Stefánsdóttir (The Hate U Give) handling the film’s music.
The Sun is Also a Star is set to open in theaters on May 17, 2019. The MPAA has given the film a PG-13 rating for some suggestive content and language.
The Plot: “What if I told you I could get you to fall in love with me…?”
College-bound romantic Daniel Bae (Melton) and Jamaica-born pragmatist Natasha Kingsley (Shahidi) meet—and fall for each other—over one magical day amidst the fervor and flurry of New York City. Sparks immediately fly between these two strangers, who might never have met had fate not given them a little push. But will fate be enough to take these teens from star-crossed to lucky in love? With just hours left on the clock in what looks to be her last day in the U.S., Natasha is fighting against her family’s deportation as fiercely as she’s fighting her budding feelings for Daniel, who is working just as hard to convince her they are destined to be together.
A modern-day story about finding love against all odds, The Sun Is Also a Star explores whether our lives are determined by fate or the random events of the universe.
Fox has confirmed The Simpsons will return for seasons 31 and 32. The history-making animated series is still going strong, with the current season averaging 4.8 million viewers. The half-hour comedy is the longest-running primetime scripted show in history and ranks in the top five comedies among all adults ages 18 to 49.
“Woo hoo! 32 Seasons! Watch your back Meet the Press,” said Homer Simpson.
The critically acclaimed series has a reputation for predicting the future, including presidential elections (Trump), tragedies (9/11), and major sporting events including multiple Super Bowls. In a recent interview with the New York Times, writer/showrunner Al Jean explained his take on why the series gets so many key events right so far in advance. “When that many smart people produce a television show, it’s bound to make some startling ‘predictions,’” said Jean.
Al Jean also serves as an executive producer along with James L. Brooks and Matt Groening. The series is a Gracie Films Production.
Upcoming guest voices on season 30 include Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, Awkwafina, Judy Blume, Ken Burns, Nicole Byer, Guillermo del Toro, Will Forte, Ken Jeong, John Lithgow, Dave Matthews and J.K. Simmons.
Key The Simpsons Highlights, Courtesy of Fox:
“The longest-running primetime scripted show in television history, The Simpsons exploded into a cultural phenomenon in 1990 and has remained one of the most groundbreaking and innovative entertainment franchises, recognizable throughout the world. Currently airing its historic 30th season, The Simpsons has won 33 Emmy Awards, 34 Annie Awards, a 2016 People’s Choice Award and a 2016 Environmental Media Award.
It was the first animated series to win a Peabody Award and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2012 for the theatrical short ‘The Longest Daycare.’ The Simpsons Movie was a hit feature film, the mega-attraction ‘The Simpsons Ride’ at Universal Studios has received historic expansion updates with the addition of ‘Springfield’ and the show was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2000. It has been named the ‘Best Show of the 20th Century’ by Time magazine and called the ‘Best TV Show Ever’ by Vulture in 2016.”
“Smile boys, tonight you’re working for Goldface,” says Goldface (Damion Poitier), an elusive arms dealer who’s just hired Ralph (Hartley Sawyer) and Barry (Grant Gustin). He believes the pair are criminals and snags them to help with a heist in season five episode 13 of The CW’s The Flash.
As the episode titled “Goldfaced” begins, Sherloque (Tom Cavanagh) is still investigating Nora and trying to figure out who her accomplice is. What Sherloque doesn’t know is that Nora (Jessica Parker Kennedy) knows that Sherloque is on to her.
Nora visits the future and asks Eobard Thawne (also Cavanagh), who’s still in a cell, what to do. Eobard reveals he knows after becoming a Wells what will distract this Wells…love. He offers suggestions on how to get him to fall for a specific woman. With his mind preoccupied, he’ll be too distracted to keep investigating her.
Barry tries to help Iris set up her new office, but she’s focused on her work and upset her blog and new online paper isn’t getting much response or traction. Iris (Candice Patton) tells Barry she thinks if she does investigative articles on Cicada it will hit a nerve with the public. Barry gives her the go-ahead, taking off to S.T.A.R. Labs. (Finally, Iris is getting back to being what she is supposed to be – an investigative reporter!)
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) informs Ralph and Barry that she and Cisco have come up with a metahuman cure. The cure, once injected into a meta human, will take about a minute to shut down the part of the brain that gives metahumans their powers.
Team Flash needs to find a way to immobilize Cicada long enough for the cure to work. Caitlin also has an idea of how they can do that. (Seriously, Team Flash would be completely lost without Caitlin and would never defeat any villains.) She tells Ralph and Barry a company created an anti-riot device called a field generator that should freeze any living thing within a confined radius. The devices, however, were stolen and Caitlin doesn’t know where to look for them.
Ralph says he has a few contacts and should be able to find out.
Ralph talks to his contact who confirms the arms dealer Goldface has the device. When Ralph tells Barry the speedster is not comfortable with buying a weapon from an arms dealer. Ralph reminds him the ends justify the means and that he was the one who said to think outside the box.
Nora takes Sherloque to Jitters and sets it up so that Sherloque will bump into the Earth-1 version of Renee Adler (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), the woman he has married several different times on multiple Earths. Sherloque is immediately smitten with her but when he shows off his detective skills to try and impress her, she gets freaked out thinking he’s a stalker.
Ralph and Barry search for the black market and end up falling into the highly secretive illegal marketplace. One of Goldface’s goons quickly puts power-reducing cuffs on them and Ralph does some convincing talking about looking for a serious weapon. Ralph instructs Barry to just stay put and wait for him because he doesn’t know how to act like a villain.
While Barry’s just standing there he’s approached by a guy who offers him a super cop-killing assault rifle. Barry tries it out and realizes it’ll blow through the armored vests police use. Not wanting the weapons on the street, Barry offers to buy all of them.
The seller, sensing something’s off about Barry, signals Goldface’s goons. Ralph comes back and pulls Barry aside, reminding him not to blow their cover.
Ralph and Barry meet Goldface who assesses their criminality, sensing Ralph is scum but not Barry. One of Goldface’s goons points a pistol at the back of Barry’s head and Goldface asks Barry who he is. Barry takes a few seconds and then replies, “I’m nobody. No arrests, no convictions. Not for the Star City museum heist where atomized lorazepam knocked the guards out or the acid bomb that blew open the federal reserve vault last month.”
“That was you?” asks Goldface. “Not according to police reports because the only evidence I leave behind are red herrings for idiot cops to chase down. You want to know who I am? You can call me The Chemist,” answers Barry impressing Goldface, his thugs, and even Ralph.
Goldface motions for his gunman to relax and tells Ralph and Barry he has s a job for them, explaining he needs someone like The Chemist along to cover their tracks. Goldface and his crew are going to steal a 3D printer that prints organs from the lab before it reaches the hospital.
Meanwhile, Iris meets a man who knew Orlin Dwyer and she gets a lead on where he lives. Iris tracks down the house and sneaks in to look for information. She hears the door and hides as Dwyer (a.k.a. Cicada) enters.
Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Nora tells Sherloque she has contacted some of his ex-wives to help. Sherloque’s not happy because his ex-wives didn’t know where to find him and he owes them money. In a very cute twist, multiple versions of Renee Adler appear as holograms to not help Sherloque but berate and chastise him. They end the conversation by telling him if he doesn’t pay them the alimony he owes with interest, they’ll send the Breacher after him. Before disappearing, one of his ex’s explains to Sherloque that he’s just not meant for relationships. Hurt and depressed, Sherloque walks off and Nora feels terrible.
Ralph and Barry prepare for the heist and Ralph can tell Barry doesn’t want to go through with it. Ralph starts to try to talk to him about it, but Barry says he blew it. They could have just done a deal, but he had to overplay his hand and prove to be a villain. Barry believes Ralph is right and that he needs to be ready to get his hands dirty.
Goldface’s thugs pull up in a van to the lab building. Ralph and Barry are the last two to get out, and Ralph asks Barry to go back and grab his phone. Ralph takes Barry’s rifle, ostensibly to hold it while Barry gets the phone. However, when Barry looks inside the van, Ralph locks him in from the outside. A surprised Barry asks him what’s going on, and Ralph replies, “The Flash doesn’t have to get his hands dirty, but I can. I can do this.”
Ralph puts Barry’s rifle in the dumpster and heads into the building while Barry yells to let him out. Inside the van, Barry starts looking around for something to use to break out of the van.
Iris tries to slip out but is seen by Cicada just as she’s about to leave through the front door. She acts as though she’s coming in and lies to Dwyer, saying the door was open. Iris explains she’s a reporter doing a story on lead in the water in some of the houses in the neighborhood and wants to interview him. A suspicious Dwyer (for some unknown reason) agrees.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Nora apologizes to Sherloque. She believes he’s a romantic and that he can’t deduce love but needs to live in the moment of it.
Ralph finds the 3D printer of organs in the lab but when he sees that it’s children who’ll be receiving the organs, he can’t go through with the heist. He knocks out one thug but a few more catch him and two take him down to the van to kill him.
As they exit the building into the garage, Barry, who’s freed himself from the van, knocks out both the goons. Barry’s happy Ralph couldn’t go through with it either and together they grab their assault weapons, set them on stun, and get ready to take out Goldface’s thugs.
In an exciting but bit overly long shoot out, Barry and Ralph prove to be expert shots against the thugs. They knock every single one of them out while never getting so much as even grazed by a bullet.
Goldface shows up and orders them down to the van by activating their power cuffs to explode mode. Barry and Ralph face off with Goldface and he decides he’s going to kill them. Ralph and Barry fight Goldface and at first he’s getting the better of them. However, Barry uses Goldface’s gold whip against him and lures him into hitting an electrical box which electrocutes the criminal. Barry checks to see if he’s alive and, to even Barry’s surprise, Goldface has a weak pulse.
Iris wraps up the false interview with Dwyer and thanks him for his time. As she’s leaving, she picks up her bag. Dwyer immediately says, “You didn’t have that when you came in here.” Iris makes a run for it but Dwyer is too fast. He slams and locks the door. Iris, who shouldn’t be standing after an encounter with Cicada, throws furniture in the apartment at him. Dwyer pins her to the wall and pulls out his dagger. Iris is able to stab him with a pen in his wound. (It seems the pen is mightier than the dagger…ugh.) As Dwyer writhes in pain on the floor, Iris stands over him and taunts, “We’re going to beat you.”
Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin checks over Barry and Ralph and deems both okay. Ralph’s upset they lost the chance to get the tech to stop Dwyer, but Barry reminds him that today was a win because they stopped a dangerous arms dealer and they did it without their powers. They need to remember that even when Cicada dampens their powers they have other ways to fight.
Barry’s pep talk is interrupted by a call from Iris.
The next scene shows The Flash speeding around Dwyer’s apartment and Elongated Man and Killer Frost breaching in. “Dwyer’s gone,” says Barry. Killer Frost and Elongated Man check all over but don’t find any evidence or clues indicating where Dwyer went. Iris asks if they got the device and Barry shakes his head no. Iris reveals they may not need it and tells the gang she knows how to give the cure to Cicada.
Meanwhile over at Jitters, Sherloque explains to Renee Adler that he’s a master detective and just deduced what he got right about her. She demands he prove it by deducing a customer. Fortunately, Sherloque does so successfully. Smiling, Renee says he can call her sometime.
Sherloque returns to S.T.A.R. Labs, closes the Nora file and opens up Cicada’s file. Nora, spying on Sherloque, smiles in relief.
In the last scene of season five episode 13, we see a flashback of Eobard Thawne telling Nora that if her mission was successful, her secret is safe and they are free to continue what they started.
The Flash Season 5 Episode 13 Review:
Action-packed and suspenseful, episode 13 titled “Goldenfaced” gets the show back on track. And, better still, finally puts Iris back in the role she should be…helping by being an investigative reporter.
The stand-out performances must go to Grant Gustin and Hartley Sawyer as Barry and Ralph trying to pose as criminals to get the tech Team Flash needs to stop Cicada. It’s the fantastic chemistry these two have that makes every scene with them sizzle with energy. The scene in which8 Barry comes up with his alter-ego character The Chemist is truly edgy and intense. Grant again shows just how versatile he is as an actor. Perhaps one of the best and most moving scenes is when Ralph locks Barry in the van. Ralph won’t let Barry cross that line of morals and ethics, and instead goes to cross it himself while Barry bangs on the door and shouts that he wants to have Ralph’s back. Each one is more concerned for the other than themselves.
With Iris discovering Cicada’s weakness, it should be interesting and exciting to see Team Flash go up against Cicada. Let’s just hope their plan doesn’t backfire.
Alyssa Diaz and Titus Makin in ‘The Rookie’ season 1 episode 13 (ABC/Scott Everett White)
ABC’s popular cop drama The Rookie is set to air season one episode 13 on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT. The episode titled “Heartbreak” was directed by Carol Banker from a script by Vincent Angell.
Episode 13 guest stars include Mircea Monroe as Isabel Bradford, Currie Graham as Ben McRee, Sara Rue as Nell Forester, Shawn Ashmore as Wesley Evers, and Cameron J. Armstrong as Gino.
The season one cast is led by Nathan Fillion as John Nolan and includes Alyssa Diaz as Angela Lopez, and Richard T. Jones as Sergeant Wade Grey. Titus Makin plays Jackson West, Mercedes Mason is Captain Zoe Andersen, Melissa O’Neil is Lucy Chen, Afton Williamson plays Talia Bishop, and Eric Winter is Tim Bradford.
Series star Nathan Fillion executive produces along with Mark Gordon, Michelle Chapman, and Jon Steinberg.
The “Heartbreak” Plot – The most dangerous day of the year – Valentine’s Day – has the team on high alert, and Officer Nolan invites everyone over for a party now that he is single.
The Season One Plot:
Starting over isn’t easy, especially for small-town guy John Nolan (Fillion) who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of being a Los Angeles police officer. As the force’s oldest rookie, he’s met with skepticism from some higher-ups who see him as just a walking midlife crisis. If he can’t keep up with the young cops and the criminals, he’ll be risking lives including his own. But if he can use his life experience, determination and sense of humor to give him an edge, he may just become a success in this new chapter of his life.
Cameron Armstrong and John Billingsley in season 1 episode 13 (ABC/Scott Everett White)Titus Makin, Cameron Armstrong, Alyssa Diaz and John Billingsley in episode 13 (ABC/Scott Everett White)Titus Makin in episode 13 (ABC/Scott Everett White)Titus Makin, Alyssa Diaz, and Cameron Armstrong in season 1 episode 13 (ABC/Scott Everett White)
Fox’s medical drama The Resident continues season two with an episode titled “Stupid Things in the Name of Sex.” Season two episode 14 is set to air on Monday, February 11, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT.
The season two cast includes Matt Czuchry as Conrad Hawkins, Bruce Greenwood as Dr. Randolph Bell, Emily VanCamp as Nicolette, and Manish Dayal as Devon Pravesh. Shaunette Renée Wilson is Mina Okafor, Malcolm-Jamal Warner is Dr. AJ Austin, Jane Leeves is Dr. Kit Voss, and Glenn Morshower plays Marshall Winthrop.
The “Stupid Things in the Name of Sex” Plot: When Conrad’s attempt to surprise Nic with a lavish Valentine’s Day dinner is foiled, he gives the reservation away to someone who could really use it. Mina and Devon distract themselves from all Valentine’s celebrations by trying to figure out how their seemingly healthy neighbor has suddenly passed away. Meanwhile, Kit gives dating advice to a sex-injured patient, Irving hits a crossroads in his not-so-secret relationship with Nurse Jessica, and Bell decides to celebrate the day in the OR.
The Season 2 Plot:
Season two finds star resident Dr. Conrad Hawkins continuing to make difficult calls in the best interests of his patients. But, having rekindled a romantic relationship with nurse Nicolette “Nic” Nevins, the two now must face unresolved issues from their past. Conrad’s father, Marshall Winthrop, has taken over as head of Chastain, and comes into direct conflict with the hospital’s newly minted CEO, Dr. Randolph Bell.
Meanwhile, Dr. Mina Okafor continues to work with her larger-than-life mentor, Dr. AJ Austin. However, the skills of new ortho surgeon Dr. Kitt Voss could lead Mina on a different path. First-year resident Dr. Devon Pravesh becomes intrigued by new medical device rep Julian Booth, whose presence at the hospital will upend business as usual for everyone there.
