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You could be happy with this trailer for WAYWARD PINES

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PLOT TWIST! Yes, just when you thought the Razzie winning After Earth was the proverbial final straw for once popular filmmaker M. Night Shaka Khan, the internet’s favourite human scratching post has pulled one of his (in)famous third act reveals, by unveiling Wayward Pines, a star-studded 10-episode event series that will soon be hitting TV screens.

BUT WAIT! Here’s another little twist: If you watch this first trailer for Shyamalan’s new mystery/thriller series, you may just realize that this all looks a tad familiar. A Federal Agent sent to a weird little town, people acting loony, ominous supernatural overtones… This show is one “This is a damn good cup of coffee” away from being Twin Peaks, David Lynch and Mark Frost’s seminal 1980’s series. Shyamalan, who produces and directed the pilot episode, also appears to be pulling from other shows like The Prisoner, among others.

This very derivative feel could just be as a result of the way of the trailer is cut though, which I am actually hoping for, as the show does boast one hell of a cast and I’d like to see it do well. Have a look for yourselves and let me know what you think.

Imagine the perfect American town… beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you’re going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines. 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. One of the best Secret Service agents in the Seattle office, he’s the man who knew missing agent KATE HEWSON (Carla Gugino, “Watchmen,” “Entourage”) better than anyone. They were more than partners; 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 is 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, 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), 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 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, is informed by Ethan’s boss, ADAM HASSLER (Tim Griffin, “Prime Suspect”), that early testing shows Ethan was never in the car which was recovered on the side of the road outside of Wayward Pines. They’re still investigating. But this isn’t enough for Theresa. So she sets out on her own search for her husband, along with their teenage son, BEN (Charlie Tahan, “The Harvest,” “Charlie St. Cloud”).

Meanwhile, Ethan is challenged at every turn by the town’s die-hard residents, especially SHERIFF ARNOLD POPE (Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard, “Crash,” “Hustle & Flow”), who takes offense at a Secret Service agent showing up on his turf. 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?

WAYWARD PINES is a production of FX Productions. The series was developed for television by Chad Hodge (“The Playboy Club,” “Runaway”) and executive-produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Donald De Line (“Green Lantern,” “The Italian Job”), Hodge and Ashwin Rajan (“After Earth,” “Devil”). Hodge wrote and Shyamalan directed the premiere episode.

Wayward Pines will air as a mid-season replacement, some time in the first half of 2015.

Last Updated: May 15, 2014

3 Comments

  1. Holy shit. That is neither a synopsis nor The premise. That is a full on fucking script breakdown.

    “We have a mysterious show for you. Now we’re gonna tell you a lot about it. “

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    • Kervyn Cloete

      May 15, 2014 at 09:04

      Stupid press release is stupid

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  2. Alien Emperor Trevor

    May 15, 2014 at 09:41

    They’re all dead, or it’s a dream.

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