“Secret Service Agent ETHAN BURKE (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon; Crash, City of Ghosts) drives to the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, searching for two missing federal agents. Ethan is the logical choice for the mission. He’s one of the best Secret Service agents in the Seattle office. He’s also the man who knew missing agent KATE HEWSON (Carla Gugino; Watchmen, “Entourage”) better than anyone. They were partners. They were more than that. Their relationship nearly destroyed Ethan’s marriage.
Everything changes when a truck slams into his car and he wakes up in the Wayward Pines Hospital, with the intense and unpredictable NURSE PAM (Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Melissa Leo; The Fighter, “Treme”) at his bedside. It soon appears that Pam may be more interested in harming than healing. She and Ethan grow into deadly rivals, and her role in the town proves much deeper than anyone realizes.
As the mysteries within the town pile up and clash with his own version of recent events, Ethan starts to question his own sanity. He is confronted by the mysterious and charismatic DR. JENKINS (Emmy Award nominee Toby Jones; The Girl, the Harry Potter franchise, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), the psychiatrist who treats him at Wayward Pines Hospital. As he begins to meet some of the local residents, including toymaker HAROLD BALLINGER (Reed Diamond; “24,” Much Ado About Nothing), Ethan forms a bond with BEVERLY (Academy Award and Emmy Award nominee Juliette Lewis; Hysterical Blindness, Cape Fear), a bartender who doesn’t mince words and is as wary of Wayward Pines as he is.
Back home in Seattle, Ethan’s wife, THERESA BURKE (Shannyn Sossamon; 40 Days and 40 Nights, “How to Make It in America”), a former Secret Service Agent trainee, gets a call from Ethan’s boss, ADAM HASSLER (Tim Griffin; “Prime Suspect”). He informs her that early testing shows Ethan was never in the car that was recovered on the side of the road outside of Wayward Pines. They’re still investigating. But this isn’t enough for Theresa. Along with their teenage son, BEN (Charlie Tahan; The Harvest, Charlie St. Cloud), Theresa sets out on her own search for Ethan.
Meanwhile, Ethan is challenged at every turn by the town’s die-hard residents and especially the town’s sheriff, SHERIFF ARNOLD POPE (Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard; Crash, Hustle & Flow), who takes offense at a Secret Service agent showing up on his turf and telling him what to do. Ethan believes Pope is out of his mind and visa versa. Ethan’s continuing investigation only turns up more and more questions, and each one leads him to the most important question of all: What’s wrong with Wayward Pines?”
Looks like Silent Hill meets Twin Peaks. Though M. Night Shyamalan.
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the cast is fine but it looks kinda .. I dunno.. cheap? Well, not cheap.. What I meant by that is it looks the same as if I took my camera right now and started shooting right away without applying any filters and shit. I don't really like when tv shows and films look this way.
I’ve seen the first five episodes of Fox’s 10-episode sci-fi “Wayward Pines” miniseries, based on Blake Crouch’s wildly popular best-selling novels, and I am all in.
Inspired by "Twin Peaks" but really more of a cross between “The Prisoner” and “Lost,” the project stars “Empire’s” Terrence Howard as the titular town’s top lawman, as well as Carla Gugino, Hope Davis, Juliette Lewis, Shannyn Sossamon, Toby Jones, Melissa Leo and Matt Dillon as a U.S. secret service agent hunting for his missing former partner.
The pilot hitting Fox On Demand tonight was directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and it’s the best thing he’s directed in a decade.
You can watch it at midnight (your local time) if you subscribe to AT&T U-verse, Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Charter, Cox, DIRECTV, Mediacom, Suddenlink, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS, XFINITY and other platforms.
If you’re still making do with rabbit ears, Fox will broadcast the pilot to your TV set May 14.
The big Shyamalan-y reveal comes with episode five. Because the series is based on novels, it's easy to discover what that reveal is. But if you mention the reval in talkback, you will be banished.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
Don't mind him. It's just another sigh of obsessive-compulsive disorder
PS Well, the pilot was OK I guess.It certainly left me wondering wtf was going on there It could turn into a really good or a really bad series.. We'll see.
Pretty good pilot. Most definitely interested to see what will happen next although they seem to be going too fast? They established that the town is "evil" already.. Usually these kinds of stories go slower..
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
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It could turn into a really good or a really bad series.. We'll see.
