The Path To Zen

Everything You Need About NBC Series LIFE starring Damian Lewis & Sarah Shahi

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PROFESSOR GERALD HATHAWAY
Male, 40’s to early 60’s, Caucasian. A University professor who has created a social experiment where students are randomly assigned to be either prisoners or convicts in a mock prison scenario. Hathaway is incredibly smart and charismatic. He is an academic who plays his cards very close to the vest it’s hard to tell what he’s thinking or just how involved he is in the incidents that took place and whether or not he’s enjoying it all. ALSO PLEASE SUBMIT STAR NAMES. GUEST STAR.

DETECTIVE HENRY VILLALON
male, mid/late 30’s. The first time we see the Detective, he is drunk and crying and is being dragged into the precinct for discharging his weapon without cause. He’s a bit of an emotional sad-sack whose first wife is leaving him and he is totally falling apart at the seams. NICE 1-DAY GUEST STAR.

TATE
male, early 20’s, Caucasian is an articulate, arty, sensitive guy who was a poetry major before the experiment. He wants to be included with the cooler frat guys, but clearly he is not. He takes a more aggressive, smart ass role once the prison experiment begins in order to fit in and likes the attention that it brings. Could be a suspect, though he did seem to like the victim more than the others. sptv050769 GUEST STAR.

WILL
male, early 20’s, sweet faced emo nerd who was a chemistry major before entering the prison experiment. He gets picked on over and over by the guards, but seems to want to get on their bad side. He instigates and even martyrs himself to get punished for things other inmates did to prove a point. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES. GUEST STAR.

MICHELLE
female, early 20’s, a big girl, and a little piercing. She was a lot softer before the experiment started, and the authority position has toughened her. She is sorry things got so terribly out of hand and shows us glimpses of the sweet, shy girl she was before this started. She is clearly a bit unnerved (she’s a smoker) by all that’s happened but also surprised by her new confidence and strength. She could be muscular and fit to overweight and not into fitness. GUEST STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES.

PERRY
male, early 20’s, Caucasian, a grinning skater/art punk who whistles; he thinks the prison experiment is totally cool and is up for seeing some CRAZY as he likes to call it. When things really do get out of hand, he is thrown by it and does not necessarily like how real it has all become. He gives a lot of attitude and likes to be loud, but when it comes down to it, he really is mostly all talk. GUEST STAR.

JANIS
female, early 20’s, cute and pretty, great figure, she’s a college student, into Hello Kitty and Disney, purple, cute girly things. Everything about her is cute. Until she volunteers to be part of the “Prison experiment” and becomes an aggressive, tough, jealous girl who beats up another girl who she thinks is now dating her boyfriend. When we see her violent, more feral side, we establish how she could be a suspect. A NICE CO-STAR. PLEASE SUBMIT ALL ETHNICITIES.

‘DESTRO’ aka RYAN SAGEL
male, early 20’s, Caucasian, typical fraternity guy : big, athletic, likes to party and been known to haze pledges. He is given the role of head Correctional Officer in the prison experiment and takes his role a little too eagerly and aggressively. What happens to him really isn’t such a surprise as the reality of the situation really is similar to an actual prison scenario. A NICE CO-STAR.

EJ
male, early 20’s, Caucasian; he’s pre-law and knows when to stay quiet. He becomes the “prison rat” when he realizes he will get better treatment (i.e. hot cocoa) if he turns on his fellow inmates. NICE CO-STAR.

PRANAV
male, early 20’s, Indian, wiry. By all means not a big guy, in fact, he could use a good meal; but clearly he misses the food from the outside world and not that of the prison experiment he agreed to participate in. He goes around to everyone asking for their food and is always the first in line when anything is given out. Because of this, he seems willing to do anything anyone would ask, so clearly a suspect. CO-STAR.

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Okay, so now I have to say : I don’t really like what I see here. I mean, what the Hell did they do to our Dani !!?? I want to keep my faith in writers, I want to believe this is just for one scene - we’ve already seen Dani let her hair down from time to time - because if this is her new look, then I’m really going to start worrying about the show’s integrity.

Dani was always a strong female character, an she’s a cop, not a model. She always had pants, a shirt buttoned all the way up and her hair up. She never played with tight jeans, tank top or anything like that, and that was great! It’s not that being dressed the way she is here is wrong in itself - I mean she does look amazing!! - it’s just that it’s not Dani, it’s especially not Dani in her professional life, while working as a cop !

I don’t know about you guys, but this tends to worry me a little… I keep repeating myself than I trust the writers (I trust the writers, I trust the writers, I trust the writers…) but this isn’t making things very easy. So I’m going with, she had to go to some interview/meeting/something, and dressed up like that for that one special occasion, whatever that was (after Lt. Davis was being transferred maybe, to testify or something… not sure why she’d think dressing up differently would help, but I can’t really think of anything better so far — can you?)

Your thoughts ?

Anyways, Logue will be playing Captain Brian Tidwell, described to be a “rough-around-the-edges hotie”, who apparently has a thing for sports betting, whiskey and women.

Still about casting, the gorgeous redhead Christina Hendricks, aka Olivia, the future wife of Charlie’s dad, will be coming back. “We love Christina in so many different ways. She’s great in the show. Yes, she’ll absolutely be back. I’m looking at her character’s name on my board right now,” said LIFE god Rand Ravich a while back to E! Online.

Of course, some scheduling arrangements might be in order, given how Hendricks would have to appear on both LIFE and MAD MEN at the same time, but apparently everyone is willing and planning to give it a try.

While the mainstays of LIFE remain in place - cop Charlie Crews will still be Zen, eat lots of fruit and fight to expose the conspiracy that wrongly sent him to prison - changes are in store for the NBC drama. Donal Logue (The Knights of Prosperity) is in as the new police captain, while shady Lieutenant Davis has transferred. Charlie moves past his crush on lawyer Constance and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. But new viewers won’t be confused. “The mandate,” says executive producer Rand Ravich, “is to make the show accessible to those who have never seen it. You can catch up very quickly.“

Now, since I obviously read that I might as well add a few thoughts : I don’t have any feelings regarding Logue joining in, really, I just hope for the best. That said, I’m a bit sad about the departure of Lt. Davis, because she had evolved from the pilot, she wasn’t as anti-Crews as she used to, and she had a connection with Dani and her past (and drug abuse, rehab, …)
And now it looks like she’ll be gone for good, and that sucks. (Side note: I guess she wasn’t in on the conspiracy then, right?)

About what Ravich said, keeping the show accessible to new audience, I think that’s good, because it will help new viewers getting sucked in, it would be bad to have them feel excluded because of all the conspiracy stuff they missed and eventually because of it not watch the show. That said, it will be a difficult task to match everything, cause I sure hope they don’t forget about everything that happened and the loyal fans who’ve been watching from day one, we need to have consistency and follow-ups with everything that happened, or else we’ll have a problem I think. But really, I’m not worried, I have all the faith in the world in Ravich and his team, just look at the first season if you’re in doubt.

About you ?

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