6/18/2023 0 Comments Rust showtime![]() ![]() ![]() His sister Lee (Julia Mayorga) left Buell for the big city, and marriage to a rich guy, but she returns to the city when Isaac disappears toward the end of episode one.Īll to say that this series is rife with hollow but sorrowful characters, their creation little more than a smudgy panorama of American miserabilism. Isaac has his own vague history, and current angst with his father Henry English ( Bill Camp), and a mother who was found in the nearby lake with rocks in her pockets. Billy embodies a type of fleeting potential for the people of Buell, having lost his shot to possibly become a football star, and Neustaedter’s performance is one of many huffy, sour pieces to the production.īilly has a friendship, depicted as a thick fog, with a peer named Isaac (David Alvarez), who watched Billy got into what became the crime scene. Billy’s mother is Grace (Tierney, not given a great deal in the first three episodes provided to press), who is leading unionizing efforts in the town, and finds her emotional attention pulled between Del and her more openly shithead husband. Del uses his sway as a policeman, as a figure of the community who can sit across from the judge like an old pal, to get the aforementioned Billy a lighter sentence for a brutal assault that nonetheless looks to be in self-defense. The modern mystery of “American Rust” relates to events from six months ago, which are given extensive detail in the first episode. He can be fun to watch, if even for how his approach to calm authority (this side of "The Newsroom") remains unequaled. His tone is all Daniels, unbroken stares and sardonic line deliveries, as if the actor's final form is to going to pseudo-Westerns such as this. Del roams the town as a type of all-knowing father figure, with his own demons and isolation, and is able to handle the barkeeps as much as the gun-toting men who try to intimidate outsiders. He is one piece of the show’s initially interesting idea of drug users, shown crushing and then carefully weighing out his medication in the pilot's opening minutes, rhyming how others use pills and other intoxicants in this community that involves a lot of buildings under conviction. By comparison, another recent Showtime crime series, 2020's "Penny Dreadful: City," had slightly better numbers across the board than "American Rust," but it was still cancelled after just one season (via TV Series Finale).Daniels stars in the series as Del, a police chief in the quiet city of Buell that stands far away from the ritz of Pittsburgh, and whose bars function as the community center. Among the 18-49 demographic, "American Rust" managed a score of just 0.02. It ranked sixth among all current or recent primetime Showtime series in terms of total viewership, and seventh in the 18-49 demographic. On Rotten Tomatoes, "American Rust" stands at just 35% Fresh among critics, although it does have a much better 71% Fresh rating among fans.Īs for ratings, according to TV Series Finale, "American Rust" averaged just 304,000 viewers during its first season. ![]() Showtime's decision might partly depend on the scripts, but critical reception and ratings are also important factors - and unfortunately for "American Rust" fans, neither indicator is very robust. "While Showtime doesn't understandably lay all the money on the table and say, 'We're making this, 100%,' the plan is that hopefully the scripts and story turn out in a way that make all of us happy, Jeff and Maura are happy, and hopefully we get to make a second season," Futterman told the paper. Oh, and Grace might have burned down her own house, too. Finally, Billy, who's still in prison, endures a brutal beatdown that leaves him in a coma. Meanwhile, Del learns that the real killer is Billy's friend Isaac (David Alvarez). Since Isaac killed Novick to protect Billy, Del decides to cover up Isaac's involvement. That leaves his deputy, Steve Park (Rob Yang) suspicious that he might have something to do with it. But in the course of his investigation, Del is forced to kill two drug dealers and their 87-year-old cousin in self-defense, then cover it up to hide his involvement. But even though it covered all the material from the book, the show ended on so many cliffhangers that there's plenty of room for a second season.īriefly, when Season 1 ends, Del finds out that Billy is innocent. Season 1 is an adaptation of Philip Meyers' novel of the same name. Supposedly, the killer is Billy Poe (Alex Neustaedter), who's also the son of the woman Del's in love with, Grace (Maura Tierney). Season 1 deals with Del's investigation of the killing of a police officer-turned-drug dealer Steve Novick. ![]()
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