The pilot has a languid pace but a sleazy pulpy look about it all.
The main standout is Chris Pine. A down on his luck tabloid journalist Jay Singletary reduced to taking shocking kiss and tell photos. He was once an army veteran, a respected journalist. Now a drug addicted sleazeball but something from his past that broke him might redeem him.
The main story is that of Pat (India Eisley.) The episode starts out with an older black lady Jimmy Lee fussing over a younger white girl. It turns out that the white girl is her daughter, living in early 1960s segregated Reno, Nevada. When Pat is walking home with her black boyfriend, he is pulled over by the cops and harassed until Pat discloses her racial identity.
When Pat discovers her true origin. That she is Fauna Hodel and her grandfather is some rich doctor out in Los Angeles. She had been adopted by Jimmy Lee and her then husband.
Director Patty Jenkins won plaudits for the movie version of Wonder Woman. She certainly hints at a darker aspect to this story. Jay is investigating a gruesome murder. Fauna's grandfather is throwing sleazy parties. Somewhere the two worlds are going to collide with Fauna in the middle of it.
If it was not for Pine, the pedestrian pace might had been the pilot's undoing. He even gets a chance to do some morbid humour in the morgue. The pilot serves the characters and sets up the plot.
The main standout is Chris Pine. A down on his luck tabloid journalist Jay Singletary reduced to taking shocking kiss and tell photos. He was once an army veteran, a respected journalist. Now a drug addicted sleazeball but something from his past that broke him might redeem him.
The main story is that of Pat (India Eisley.) The episode starts out with an older black lady Jimmy Lee fussing over a younger white girl. It turns out that the white girl is her daughter, living in early 1960s segregated Reno, Nevada. When Pat is walking home with her black boyfriend, he is pulled over by the cops and harassed until Pat discloses her racial identity.
When Pat discovers her true origin. That she is Fauna Hodel and her grandfather is some rich doctor out in Los Angeles. She had been adopted by Jimmy Lee and her then husband.
Director Patty Jenkins won plaudits for the movie version of Wonder Woman. She certainly hints at a darker aspect to this story. Jay is investigating a gruesome murder. Fauna's grandfather is throwing sleazy parties. Somewhere the two worlds are going to collide with Fauna in the middle of it.
If it was not for Pine, the pedestrian pace might had been the pilot's undoing. He even gets a chance to do some morbid humour in the morgue. The pilot serves the characters and sets up the plot.
