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TV Show Reviews
Review of "Ten
Days in the Valley" 10/5/17 by
Suzanne
Airs Sundays, 10/9c on ABC.
This is a very intense show, and hard to like. Kyra
Sedgwick once again plays a hard-working wife who neglects
her family in order to concentrate on work (just as she did
in "The Closer"). This time, though, she's also a mom, and
she's getting divorced. Jane is a TV scriptwriter who
did a documentary about the police that had massive affects
on the police; now she's working on a TV series based on
more police corruption. She and her husband are separated
because he's a former drug user, but then we learn that
she's also taking a lot of pills and alcohol. Her daughter
gets kidnapped while she's working on a script in a shed
near their house. Going forward, the show will be the
mystery about who took the daughter, how do they get her
back, and how will Jane be forced to reveal the truth
without losing custody to her ex-husband. I'm sure there
will be more story, too. This is a very complex drama. I
hope it does well! It's certainly got compelling story.
The only flaw in the show is that Jane is not very
likable. It's hard to find sympathy for a workaholic,
alcholic, drug-abuser who neglects her kid just for a TV
show (even if the TV show exposes police corruption). It's
fine for people to be self-destructive or irresponsible, but
when it affects their kids...I have a hard time finding much
sympathy.
MORE INFORMATION:
“TEN DAYS IN
THE VALLEY” (Sundays from 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET)
“Ten Days in the Valley” stars Kyra
Sedgwick as Jane Sadler, an overworked television
producer and single mother in the middle of a separation
whose life is turned upside down when her young daughter
goes missing in the middle of the night. Just like her
controversial police TV show, everything is a mystery,
everyone has a secret, and no one can be trusted. “Ten
Days in The Valley,” a thrilling mystery, debuts this
fall on The ABC Television Network.
After her
award-winning documentary brings down the San Diego
Police Department, Jane takes her storytelling talents
to the fictional world with a television cop drama. But
the pressures and stress of balancing her career with
being a devoted mom start to take their toll on Jane.
When her daughter, Lake (Abigail Pniowsky), goes
missing, and the Los Angeles Police Department starts to
investigate, Jane’s world only gets more difficult.
Everyone in Jane’s life suddenly becomes suspicious.
Pete (Kick Gurry), Jane’s ex, is the number one suspect
at the start of the case. He is a charismatic,
unpredictable music producer and a recovering heroin
addict seeking joint custody of Lake. Ali (Erika
Christensen), Jane’s younger sister, is a capable and
pragmatic rock of stability and support during Jane’s
ongoing ordeal, who can’t help but question many of
Jane’s choices. Ali and her husband, Tom (Josh Radall),
are trying to conceive their own, but her priorities
take a back seat when Lake goes missing. Tom is a
decisively tough yet warm partner to Ali, an ambitious
journalist who sees it all. On Jane’s television series,
her right-hand man is Matt (Malcolm-Jamal Warner). Matt
is a strong-headed writer and co-executive producer, but
he is desperate to have his own series one day and can
never seem to meet Jane’s expectations.
Outside
of Jane’s family are the police officers from the LAPD.
Detective Bird (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Robbery
Homicide Division, takes on Jane’s case. A strategically
non-judgmental maverick investigator, Bird serves as the
lead detective investigating the disappearance of Jane’s
daughter. Bird answers to Commander Gomez (Felix Solas),
who presides over the important LAPD Detective Bureau
with the decisiveness and confidence of an oligarch.
Gomez’s overall goal is to clean up the image of the
LAPD, and he is struggling to make that happen with all
the cop dramas on TV, including Jane’s. And there is
also the source of Jane’s stories – Gus (Francois
Battiste). Gus is a narcotics detective who serves as
Jane’s confidante and secret source for her show.
The series also features Emily Kinney as Casey,
Jane’s upbeat young assistant who looks up to her boss
as a role model; Currie Graham as Henry Vega, the
charismatic yet demanding director at the helm of Jane’s
new series; Nelson Lee as Sheldon, the laid-back yet
unpredictable drug supplier who launders his drug money
through a popular taco truck; Ali Stroker as Tamara, a
writer and crack researcher in Jane’s internal writers’
room; Ella Thomas as Isobel, the complicated, charming
and fiercely intelligent star of Jane’s show; Beth
Triffon as Mackenzie, script coordinator for Jane’s
series and an earnest aspiring writer herself; and Mark
L. Young as PJ, the friendly and street-smart
neighborhood drug supplier who dreams of becoming a
writer.
“Ten Days in the Valley” is from Skydance
Television. It is created and written by Tassie Cameron.
Executive producers are Tassie Cameron, Kyra Sedgwick,
Jill Littman, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison and Marcy
Ross.
For more information about “Ten Days in
the Valley,” visit
abc.com.
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