
“The setting was really tough, the hours were very tough and some of the egos and insecurities were very tough,” Brolin told THR. In speaking to The Hollywood Reporter after the finale, Josh Brolin did not mention any prospects for season 2 but he did bring up how challenging the shoot was. With that in mind, here is everything we know about the yet-to-be-announced Outer Range season 2. But, even with said ending in place, is there room for Outer Range season 2 on the horizon? We certainly think so and hope so. The first season of Outer Range deftly explored all the questions that arose from this supernatural occurrence and all around out into an enigmatic, yet satisfying ending.
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This eight-episode series starring Josh Brolin adds a dash of neo Western noir to its heady premise as Brolin’s character, the rancher Royal Abbott, discovers a mysterious time-altering Void on his massive Wyoming property. Rarely has a show been more successful in choosing an additional angle to present alongside sci-fi than Prime Video’s Outer Range. Science fiction has become so pervasive that many shows aim to figure out an angle in addition to the already out-there form.
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The little geek genre that could has come to dominate the TV landscape with everything from sci-fi comedies like Netflix’s Russian Doll to sci-fi workplace satires like Apple TV+’s Severance. This article originally appeared in emmy magazine, Issue No.It’s science fiction’s world on television and we’re all just living in it. Occasionally actors have to open that door, and if we’re lucky, we can close it again really quickly.” You go to places that aren’t you, but there’s that dark corner of every one of us that’s lurking inside. “To go from playing to playing the doctor in This Is Us is about as big a jump as you can make,” he continues. One night you’re the king, and the next night you’re carrying a spear. Looking back on those early years, he observes: “I started out in a rep company. McRaney returned the favor, appearing on her series, Designing Women, in ’87 and ’88. Since 1989 that home life has been spent with his wife, actress Delta Burke, who made a guest appearance on Simon & Simon in 1987. A project has got to spark my interest to get me out of the house.” These days, McRaney says, his ambition is “smoldering, not burning. “I needed to figure out who this man was, what he was really all about. “The scene was like two fighters feeling each other out in the first round of a championship bout,” McRaney recalls. Tusk first appears late in season one of the Netflix series, when he is sent by the president to vet Spacey’s character, Congressman Francis Underwood, for the vice-presidency. Performing with Kevin Spacey on House of Cards, he raves, is like “discovering one day you’re playing in the NFL and your quarterback is Peyton Manning.”

In recent years he’s been seen in House of Cards (as billionaire industrialist Raymond Tusk), Longmire (real estate magnate Barlow Connally), Southland (suicidal retired LAPD officer Hicks), Justified (scam artist Josiah Cairn) and Deadwood (mining titan George Hearst). “Especially when you begin to age, if you’re holding out for the lead, you’re probably going to have a shorter career.” Now in demand as a character actor, he plays to his strengths. He attributes his staying power to his love of his craft, proper pacing and good fortune. Even surgery in 2004 to remove the middle lobe of his right lung didn’t sideline him for long. McRaney has worked steadily since then - going on 50 years.

“The main lesson we learned from that,” he says, “was how not to make a movie.” So he moved to Los Angeles, landing a starring role in the 1969 B-movie Night of Bloody Horror. He began building sets in the local drama club, and in his first play the tall young man was cast as a dwarf.Īfter attending Ole Miss, he spent four years in a New Orleans repertory company, which ran out of funds. I was a character actor, then one day the character happened to be one of the leads.”Īs a teen growing up in Collins, Mississippi, McRaney (in conversation, he prefers Mac) injured his knee, which kept him off the football team. “Before I got Simon & Simon, I was the guest villain in damn near everything. Whether he’s playing good guys or bad, McRaney relishes acting. “It’s one of the nicer shows that I’ve done in recent memory.” “I think I lost work because the promotion featured me so much that people thought I was one of the leads,” says McRaney, perhaps best known as the big-brother detective in Simon & Simon (1981–89) and the by-the- book Marine-turned-stepfather in Major Dad (1989-93).

Gerald McRaney features so prominently in the two-and-a-half-minute trailer for NBC’s new drama This Is Us that you might think he’s a series regular.
