Wilfred

Wilfred is an American sitcom television series which debuted on June 23, 2011, and is based on the Australian SBS One series of the same name. The series was adapted for the American television channel FX by the veteran David Zuckerman.

Adaptation of the original Australian 2007, brings Elijah Wood in the role of Ryan, a depressed man who decides to commit suicide, but changed plans after meeting Wilfred, his neighbor's dog, that is seen by Ryan as if he were a man wearing a dog costume (Jason Gann). So he talks to the animal, making the relationship between the two totally bizarre.

Wilfred is a comedy about Ryan, a young man who struggles without success to find his way into the world until he creates a friendship with Wilfred, the neighbor's dog.

Everyone sees Wilfred just as a dog, but Ryan sees him as a fellow Australian crude and somewhat coarse, but irrepressibly brave and honest man wearing a cheap dog outfit. Following a series of existing and hilarious adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan, how to overcome her fears and accept the unpredictability and insanity of the world around them.

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Bones

Bones is an American crime comedy-drama television series that premiered on the Fox network in the United States on September 13, 2005. Created by Hart Hanson, the series is very loosely based on the life and writings of novelist and forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs, who also produces the show.

Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is a famous anthropologist and writer until she is called to partner up with FBI Special Agent, Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) to investigate mysterious murders with the help of the group from Jeffersonian, Angela - her best friend, Hodgins - the king of the lab and Cam - the boss (from Season 2), where Bones works as the most famous forensic anthropologist. At first the two do not get along very well and Booth calls her Bones (because she is in love with bones and also work with them). Sweets, FBI psychologist (from Season 3) also helps.

Booth is a former sniper who does not believe much in science and scientists, squints as he calls them, which carefully examine the physical evidence of a crime. But he can not deny that the combination of intelligence and shrewdness of his staff.

Aside from Booth, Brennan is most comfortable among his equally brilliant friends who work in the forensic laboratory of the Jeffersonian.
Angela Montenegro, an artist who specializes in facial reconstructions and crime scenes, is simply the best friend of Brennan, the Bug Guy, conspiracy theorist Dr. Jack Hodgins, is an expert on insects, spores and minerals, and Dr. . Camille "Cam" Saroyan, a coroner who came from the streets, and that should control all the geniuses in the lab. Lending his professional expertise to Brennan and Booth is Dr. Lance Sweets, a brilliant young FBI psychologist who is equally adept at making profiles of murderers and providing "couples therapy" to Booth and Brennan.

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White Collar

White Collar is a USA Network television series created by Jeff Eastin, starring Matt Bomer as con-man Neal Caffrey and Tim DeKay as Special Agent Peter Burke. It premiered on October 23, 2009. In December 2009, White Collar was renewed for a second season that began on July 13, 2010. On September 27, 2010, the USA Network renewed White Collar for a third season with 16 new episodes, which premiered on June 7, 2011. The series was renewed for a fourth season on August 25, 2011; the season began on July 10, 2012.

Neal Caffrey is a criminal who was captured after a three-year game of cat and mouse. Weeks before the expiration of his sentence, a little more than four years, he escapes from a maximum security federal prison in order to find his girlfriend because he believes that she is in danger.

Peter Burke, the FBI agent who captured him in the first time, manages to catch him again.This time, Caffrey gives Burke information about evidence in another case; however, this information comes with a price, Burke must have a meeting with Caffrey. At this meeting, Caffrey proposes a deal, he will provide his expertise to help the feds to catch other notorious and elusive criminals in exchange for his freedom. Then, Caffrey, on probation, is seeking to discover what threatens his girlfriend, but what he does not know is that this threat comes from someone close to him.

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Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The series is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and is a production of Sony Pictures Television. It premiered on January 20, 2008, and has completed its fourth season. On August 14, 2011, AMC announced that Breaking Bad had been renewed for a fifth and final season consisting of 16 episodes. The fifth season will be split into two parts, each consisting of 8 episodes, which premiered on July 15, 2012.

The new drama "Breaking Bad" tells the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a humble chemistry teacher who sees his life turned upside down when he finds that he has terminal cancer. With a brilliant past as a researcher, Walter now lives a terrible financial situation, working as a teacher in high school. With his modest salary, he supports his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn) and his son Walter Jr. (RJ Mitte), who suffers from cerebral paralysis. Walter become desperate to realize that his family will need to pass difficulties after his death and decides that he will do anything so they do not suffer from the lack of money.

Driven by fear and desire to provide dignity to Skyler Jr., he begins to use his skills in chemistry for the crime, setting up a drug lab to finance their aspirations. And all this misery is set in Albuquerque, Texas, not New York or another city classic television series.

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American Horror Story

American Horror Story is a horror-drama television series created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.The series is broadcast on the cable television channel FX in the United States. It premiered on October 5, 2011, and has completed its first season. In late-October 2011, FX announced that the series had been renewed for a second season consisting of 13 episodes that may be extended.

The series tells the story of Ben Harmon, a therapist, played by Dylan McDermott (The Practice), and his wife Vivien, the role lived by Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights), which after undergoing an abortion and a betrayal, they decide to give a second chance to their marriage. Trying to abandon the past for good, the couple left Boston with her daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga), and moved to Los Angeles. But what they find has nothing to do with the expected Hollywood glamor. Instead, the family is obliged to live with strange neighbors. On top of that, bizarre events that will reveal the dark past of their new home.

Soon as they move immediately engage with strange characters that are part of the place. Among them, Moira O'Hara, the housekeeper, who is seen by each as two different people. It also has Constance, a nosy neighbor, and the weird Larry. To the despair of his father, Violet becomes involved with Tate, one of his patients, that he believes he has homicidal tendencies.

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Suits

Suits is a USA Network television drama series starring Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams. The 12-episode first season debuted on June 23, 2011.

The series is about Mike Ross, a brilliant young man and a college dropout that has a photographic memory. Even without having completed law school, during an escape after a failed drug dealing, Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), ends up in a job interview with one of the most competent lawyers of New York City, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht). Tired of the inexperience of the newly formed Harvey gives a shot in the dark and hires Mike after realizing his innate talent and his photographic memory. The company, however, only accepts students from Harvard, so in addition to the difficulties that any lawyer in his early career has, Mike still needs to keep his cover and make everyone believe that he actually attended that university.
As an unbeatable team, Mike and Harvey must hide their secret from everyone, including the partner of Harvey, Jessica (Gina Torres), and the arch-enemy of the lawyer, Louis (Rick Hoffman), who seems to want to make life difficult for Mike to the maximum.

It is due to the personality of the union of these two characters so distinct that Suits remove all its strength, making what could have been a dull episode in a story that is really worth monitoring. The other allies of Mike in the office include legal assistant Rachel (Meghan Markle) and assistant Harvey, Donna (Sarah Rafferty).

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Chuck

Chuck is an American action-comedy/spy-drama television series created by Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak. Produced by College Hill Pictures, Fake Empire, Wonderland Sound and Vision and Warner Bros. Television, the series premiered on September 24, 2007, on NBC, airing on Monday nights at 8/7c.

Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) is a young and lonely nerd, computer specialist. And he is the supervisor of the "Nerd Herd", a service desk within a store "Buy More" which serves to draw customers' questions or fix any problems in electronics. He does not know if you have what it takes to be the assistant manager of Buy More or how to deal with office politics, even with his best friend Morgan (Joshua Gomez) always trying to help you. Besides not having a social life too, which leaves very concerned sister Ellie (Sarah Lancaster). On his birthday, he receives an email from one of his former college roommates, Bryce Larkin, and somehow, all files are captured by his brain and he becomes the computer itself. But Chuck can only access the information through some stimulus.

The security agencies of the government sent two agents, the beautiful Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) and John Casey (Adam Baldwin) tough to try to recover the material, but they discover that there is no copy on your computer, leaving only Chuck's brain. Now he has to hide from everyone his double life and help staff members with the knowledge that you have to complete important tasks.

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The O.C.

The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox television network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 21, 2007, running a total of four seasons. The series, created by Josh Schwartz, portrays the fictional lives of a group of teenagers and their families residing in the affluent seaside community of Newport Beach, in Orange County, California.

The city of Orange County, California, is an ideal paradise: a wealthy community where everything seems perfect. But underneath it is a world of change of loyalties and identities, adolescents living secret lives hidden from their parents, and parents living secret lives hidden from their children. It all begins when Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) moves to OC because Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher), an idealistic defense attorney, prevented him from going to jail, and due to his own identification with Ryan , invites him to spend some time at home. Initially, his arrival was not well accepted by Kirsten, who at first did not understand why her husband brought a minor "offenders" to the family home. Despite her fear, her main concern was with her only son Seth, who could end up being influenced by Ryan. After his arrival, the city of Newport Beach was never the same, much confusion, drama, highs and lows governing the entire series during its four years of display.

To make the situation a little more interesting, there is Marissa Cooper (Mischa Barton), the beautiful girl who lives next door, which apparently can cope well with life's difficulties. But that changes when her millionaire father, Jimmy (Tate Donovan) threaten to crush her world. "THE O.C." is a story about fathers and sons, husbands and wives, and the arrival of three teenagers for adulthood. Ryan's arrival is the catalyst for new alliances to be formed, old novels that return to the surface, and the emergence of unexpected friendships.

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Hawaii Five-0

Hawaii Five-0 is an American police procedural drama television series and a re-imagining of the original 1968–80 television series. The series is produced by K/O Paper Products and 101st Street Television in association with CBS Productions. Hawaii Five-0 debuted on CBS, the same network that aired the original version. Like the original version, it follows an elite state police unit/task force set up to fight crime in the state of Hawaii. It premiered on Monday, September 20, 2010, and the title of the new show uses a zero in place of the letter "O" in the original title.

In the new version, Steve McGarret is a naval officer who works with a special team to combat terrorists. After capturing one suspected in South Korea, Steve is preparing to take him back to America. On the way, discovers that his father was kidnapped and murdered by the brother of his prisoner. Moving away from military service, McGarret arrives in Hawaii for the funeral of his father and to find clues that lead to the killer. His return puts him back in touch with his sister Mary Ann (Taryn Manning), with whom he maintains poor relations.

Upon arrival, Governor Jameson (Jean Smart, Samantha's Who?) offers him the chance to create a task force with complete immunity and resources to wipe all the terrorism and organized crime of the island. Although reluctant at first, McGarret ends up accepting the position to be able to freely investigate the death of his father. Completing the Task Force is Danny "Danno" Williams (Scott Caan of Ocean's Eleven and a secret), a police veteran who has made a career in the Police Department of New Jersey. Recently divorced, he is transferred to Hawaii at his own request, to be closer to her daughter eight years, Grace. 

Also on the team are Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim of "Lost") and Kono Kalakaua (Grace Park of "Battlestar Galactica"). The first is a former Honolulu police detective and former pupil's father McGarret. Falsely accused of corruption, Kelly now works as a security. Kono is his cousin, newly formed by the Police Academy, which is eager to start her career.

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Lie to Me

Lie to Me is an American drama, crime, police procedural and comedy-drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network from January 21, 2009 to January 31, 2011. Created by Samuel Baum, in which, the character Dr. Cal Lightman is based on Paul Ekman, notable psychologist and expert on body language and facial expressions.

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Dr. Cal Lightman. Cal is a scientist fascinated by his profession and with his partner and friend Gillian Foster, unmasks cases and detect fraud by analyzing the body language and facial expressions micro. They are ahead of the Lightman Group, which still rely on the presence of Eli locker, a researcher extremely frank, Ria Torres, a woman with a natural talent for detecting lies and Ben Reynolds, an FBI agent who will assist in investigations.

The series brings the investigations of a team of experts at detecting lies. The minimum expressions and gestures are interpreted by those behavioral scientists who provide their services to various organizations such as the FBI, police, private companies or even individuals who are willing to discover the truth that someone might be hiding.

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Announcement

Dear readers, I come here just to say that initially i will post the synopses of the various series. But stay alert cause soon i will be posting criticism in order to you read and comment. I apologize for the delay but I'm still analyzing the best way to do this and I hope this blog is in line with your expectations and  serve you as a source of information for choice of series to see.
So stay tuned for future posts.

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Friday Night Lights

Friday Night Lights is an American sports drama television series adapted by Peter Berg, Brian Grazer and David Nevins from a book and film of the same name. Produced by NBCUniversal, Friday Night Lights premiered on October 3, 2006, airing for two seasons on NBC.

The series focuses on a small, quiet town of Dillon, Texas, where the rings, symbols of the State Football Champions, are held in high regard, where the football is not "just a game."

Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), a newly appointed coach, former star, who heads a team of promising school in the city: The Panthers. The residents greatly value the opportunity of home team winning the title and, despite the high stakes and the huge reward, the pressure is great! Eric has a big challenge, keep players on track and their morale intact.

Formed largely by novice actors, the main cast is made up of Jason Street (Scott Porter, "The Bedford Diaries"), the star of the Panther team, who is currently away after getting hurt, Brian "Smash" Williams (Gaius Charles, "Book of Daniel"), the main striker of the team, Tim Riggins (Taylor Kitsch, "Kyle XY"), who plays defense, Tami Taylor (Connie Britton, "24"), Taylor's wife and the new councilor school, Matt Saracen (Zach Gilford), the new captain of the team and rookie quarterback, and Lyla Garrity (Minka Kelly, "What I Like About You"), one of the cheerleaders of the Panther and Street's girlfriend.

Other characters include Julie Taylor (Aimee Teegarden, "The School Survival Guide Ned"), the daughter of Coach Taylor, Tyra Collette (Adrianne Palicki, "South Beach") and Landry Clarke (Jesse Plemons, "Grey's Anatomy")

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Entourage

Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons. Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson served as the show's executive producers, and its premise is loosely based on Wahlberg's experiences as an up-and-coming film star.

Comedy headed by Kevin Connolly. Stars and cameos from stars like Jessica Alba, Luke Wilson, Val Kilmer, Sarah Silverman, Gary Busey, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Foster and Scarlett Johansson, among others.

The series shows the life of an actor on the rise New Yorker who moves to Hollywood alongside his group of childhood friends. In the cast are young Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon and Jerry Ferrara and Jeremy Piven also (Cupid), who was nominated for Golden Globe for best supporting actor in a comedy for the series.

If your best friend becomes a Hollywood star, there's only one thing to do: join his entourage. Meet Eric, Turtle and Johnny Drama, three guys who came straight from the borough of Queens in New York to help his friend Vincent Chase to support an extremely busy day-to-day Hollywood, where sex, parties and business impose their own rules .

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Shameless

Shameless is an American television Dramedy series that airs on Showtime. It is a remake of the award-winning British series of the same name broadcast on Channel 4. The series is set in Chicago's South Side Canaryville neighborhood, although it is filmed in South Lawndale, Chicago and Burbank, California at Warner Bros. Studios. The series premiered on January 9, 2011.

Shameless (United States) tells the story of the Gallaghers, a working class family from Chicago who must deal with the economic crisis U.S..Frank Gallagher(William H. Macy) is an alcoholic, father of six children, married to a woman who left him for another woman. The union of all depends on her daughter Fiona(Emmy Rossum), 18 year old girl who is torn between taking care of five brothers and sisters, trying to keep his father sober and still find a way to follow your own path.

Besides the older sister we know Lip (Jeremy Allen White, a good beginner), the model student who gives private lessons to save money (and an occasional sexual favor). Between a class and another, he is dedicated to trying to convert his brother Ian (Cameron Monaghan), a teenager in the difficult phase of "choice of identity", while Debbie (Emma Kenney) and Carl (Ethan Cutkosky), young apprentice thieves, find their questionable methods to help. Liam, the bastard brother, is a lot of cute little kid.

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Dexter

Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006.
The series Dexter is based on the detective novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay, and tells the story of a strange man named Dexter Morgan.

The main character is Dexter,a blood spatter pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department, but also a serial killer trained by his adoptive father, a former policeman who once saw the kind of desire that his son had. Dexter was adopted still too young for a couple, Harry and Doris Morgan. Harry is already dead, but a policeman was honored, which ultimately influence the careers of both Dexter and Debra, the couple's biological daughter. Concerned about the fate of Dexter, Harry begins to teach him a code of conduct. What channel killers Dexter wishes for something less destructive. Teach him that he should not kill innocent people. And teach him tricks, not a trace.

Throughout the series we see Dexter trying to appear to be a normal person, pretends about social interactions, including having a girlfriend, Rita. He chose her because she was beaten by her husband, and therefore he can hide the void within him, which make him being unable to express feelings by anyone.

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Californication

Californication is an American dramedy television series that debuted on Showtime on August 13, 2007. The show was created by Tom Kapinos.

David Duchovny (Fox Mulder X-Files) leads the cast of the comedy about a writer addicted to sex and drugs and who struggles to raise her daughter whose custody he shares with his ex-wife Karen (Natascha McElhone mini-series Revelations) by whom still harbor a passion.

Californication gives us a unique, bold and fun on the undisciplined life of this writer who continues to live on one big hit, while trying to convince everyone of his progress with his new novel, has yet to take over its obligations father's custody, when in reality seems more intent on satisfying his vices.
Becca, in turn, seems to understand the adult world as well, much better than any 12 year old girl, and tries to help his father to straighten out his life while facing the challenges that adolescence presents you: men, parties and alcohol.

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Touch

The series created by Tim Kring (creator of Heroes) revolves around Martin Bohm (Sutherland), a former journalist who lost his wife in the attacks of September 11 and is tormented by his inability to communicate with his son moved Jake (David Mazouz). But everything changes when Martin discovers that his son has a gift as startling as the coolant, can predict events before they happen.

Touch is a great puzzle that begins to be mounted from the first episode, when a series of phone numbers will connect people in different parts of the world and close to the life of Jake and Martin . In seeking a logical explanation for the behavior of the child, who is writing the numbers, but does not let anyone touch, Martin knows the professor Arthur Dewitt, played by Danny Glover. Arthur says that Jake is a boy ahead of his time, who knows the universe without express themselves about it, but that, through mathematics, you know what can happen between now and the future.

In the first episode, Martin discovers that the numbers that the boy obsessively writes in a notebook has a meaning. Plus, he has the power to predict the future. Martin concludes that his mission is to "follow the road," pointing to the boy. That's because Jake provides potential tragedies that can be avoided by correct interpretation of the numbers.

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Game of Thrones

Game of Thrones is an American medieval fantasy television series created for HBO by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss."Game of Thrones," is an adaptation of a book series "The Chronicles of Ice and Fire" of the author George RR Martin, the epic saga of books is already revered worldwide as one of the best epic sagas of all time. 

The story revolves around a battle between the Seven Kingdoms, where two dominant families are fighting for control of the Iron Throne, the possession of which ensures survival during the winter of 40 years to come, but this is just the background for political plots, intrigues among families, which will form alliances and others that are broken, all in the name of the conquest of the throne of Westeros. The story is being told in parts balanced, showing us what happens within each family, are the main Stark, Lannister, and Baratheon, the conflict between these families will lead to a war that will seal the fate of many characters in the plot.

 The series is headed by Lena Headey, Sean Bean and Mark Addy. Bean plays Eddard "Ned" Stark, Lord of Winterfell, a man known for his sense of honor and justice becomes the chief advisor to King Robert, played by Addy. Lena plays the wife of Robert, Queen Cersei.

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Fringe

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. It premiered on the Fox Broadcasting network on September 9, 2008.

The FBI agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate a plane that landed at Boston airport with all its passengers and crew killed in a terrible way to resolve this case she will need help from people she has known: The brilliant Dr . Walter Bishop, but he was in a psychiatric institution for the past 20 years and the only way to question him is through his son, Peter Bishop, whom he had not seen for a long time.

What they do not realize is that while the mystery of the plane appeared to be an isolated case, it is just the tip of the iceberg of a much bigger and important.

In summary, we have an FBI agent, a scientist with a dark past and his son trying to unravel one of the best kept secrets in an old project as mysterious as they surely illegal. All this mixed with expensive special effects and accompanied by this great mix of intrigue and suspense in which JJ Abrams is an expert.

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Modern Family

Modern Family is an American television comedy series created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan that debuted on ABC on September 23, 2009. Lloyd and Levitan are showrunners and executive producers under their Levitan-Lloyd Productions label.

 Acclaimed series that chronicles the lives of Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) and his family, consisting of his wife (much younger) Gloria Delgado (Sofia Vergara) and his son Manny, and also shows the lives of other two related families. His daughter is an insecure housewife, mother of two children and a pre-teen, but whose husband (Phil, played by Ty Burrell), the crisis of middle age, is the real baby of the family. Mitchell is now a lawyer and gay face, who travels to Vietnam to adopt a baby next partner, the affected Cameron (the great Eric Stonestreet).

One good thing about "Modern family" is the format: the series is a fake documentary ("mockumentary"), like "The Office". A camera follows the actors, but not enough to interact with them.

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Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the 1920s and 1930s. Boardwalk Empire, the new series created by Terence Winter, produced by Martin Scorsese, Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson (Entourage, In Treatment)

 The cast is headed by Steve Buscemi ("Nucky Thompson") in which, in the first episode we see him mingling with several figures of the crime, gangsters like Lucky Luciano (Vincet Piazza), Armold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg) and a young driver Al Capone (Stephen Graham). He also did his part as a good guy, winning the ladies of the League Against Alcohol with their emotional stories. One of them, Mrs. Margaret Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald) has a troubled marriage and arouses a certain interest Nucky.

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Sons of Anarchy

"Sons of Anarchy", debuted in September 2008 on FX. The history of this great series will explore a group of outlaw bikers, the "Sons of Anarchy" that will be facing with constant threats from drug traffickers, businessmen who want to invest in the city and police too zealous. Because of this they will have to protect their way of life, which involves making a small and simple town, Charming, where they live, to continue to be exactly as it is. 

The main character is Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), son of the late John Teller, who was a founder of the group. Jax at the beginning of the series is at a turning point in his life, after all, his ex-wife (Drea de Matteo, the Sopranos and Joey) has entered into labor, which brings a premature baby with cardiac problems . Jax, discovers a book of his late father, who was also part of SAMCRO, but believed that the course they had taken at one time was killing the idealism initial group. And that's where Jax begins to question their leader, and stepfather, Clay (Ron Perlman).

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Hell on Wheels

Hell on Wheels is focused on a western ex-Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon (Anson Mount), whose quest for revenge by Union soldiers who killed his family leads him to the city itinerant Hell on Wheels, where residents work in the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad. Developed by Endemol USA and produced by Entertainment One and Nomadic Pictures, Hell on Wheels is created, written, and executive-produced by Joe and Tony Gayton.

The plot takes place shortly after the end of the Civil War in the United States, when peace was not the end of the animosity between the men of the north and south. With the death of Lincoln and the liberation of slaves, the United States plunged into a large project: the construction of the first transcontinental railroad.

The series has a great photo, with excellent images and soundtrack, but still lack some depth to the characters who end up looking a little shallow (perhaps with the time change thing).

Anson Mount (Conviction and the series Third Watch) is the protagonist, whose story is linked to the construction of the railroad, Dominique McElligott (Me Home?, Lunar) Lilly's Bell, a widow who fears that the railroad would bring ruin to the West, Eddie Spears (the miniseries Into the West) is Joseph, an Indian, whose goal is to ensure the safety of his people, the rapper Common plays Elam Ferguson, emancipated a mulatto slave who seeks to escape the prejudice to progress through the ranks of the railroad, Tom Noonan (of Damages) is the Reverend Nathaniel Cole, who wants to avoid a war between whites and Indians through Joseph, and Colm Meaney (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Stargate: Atlantis) is Thomas "Doc" Duncan, a character based on a historical figure real, an entrepreneur who is benefiting from the construction of the railroad.

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