Category Archives: Netflix

Previewing Netflix’s BLOODLINE with Jamie McShane

Friday, March 20, be prepared to binge watch your next new favorite Netflix drama – BLOODLINE. From the creators of DAMAGES (Gleen Kessler, Todd A Kessler, Daniel Zelman), and starring a ton of great, great actors (Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Kyle Chandler, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini, and Jamie McShane), the show follows the story of the Rayburn family of the Florida Keys and what happens to their perfect little world when black sheep Danny return. I spent time talking with Jamie

First Look: Trailer for DEREK, coming to Netflix on Sept. 12

Netflix released the trailer for their latest new series DEREK (which already had a run in the UK and faced some backlash) starring Ricky Gervais (whose brain-child the show is) and everyone’s favorite round headed buffoon, Karl Pilkington!  The trailer gives us a little bit of insight into what we might expect each week – check it out.  Netflix’s official release states: Ricky Gervais creates and stars in Derek, a comedy-drama about a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only

Michael Harney talks ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

We are just past the two week point since Netflix’s incredible look inside a women’s prison, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, was released.  In that 2 week time period, I mainlined all thirteen episodes, back to back, twice, living through the pain, the horror, the humor, and the relationships, to be able to state with 100% confidence that it’s one of the best things I’ve ever seen – the show is truly about Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), who carried drug

First Look: ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK on Netflix

Netflix released the trailer for their next original series, ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by Piper Kerman, and created by Jenji Kohan (creator of WEEDS).  The show, which is being released on July 11 all in one fell swoop, follows Taylor Schilling’s Piper Chapman, whose decade-old relationship with drug-runner Alex (Laura Prepon) results in her arrest and year-long detention in a federal penitentiary. She finds herself in an unfamiliar world with

Laurie Fortier Brings Marie Godfrey to Netflix and HEMLOCK GROVE

Just outside Pittsburgh lies the town of Hemlock Grove – in the fictional world of Netflix, that is. And Laurie Fortier is excited to be a part of that world. A New Opportunity When I recently had the chance to chat with her, Fortier told me, “Being on Netflix gave the producers and writers of Hemlock Grove a freedom that radiated down through them to us, the crew.  Moreover, as an actor, being on Netflix gave me permission to twist

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