Tonight on ABC, THE RIVER season 1 comes to an end, but not without scaring the daylights out of everyone watching the show first! To celebrate the end of the creepiest season of TV I’ve seen in along time, I had a chat with Leslie Hope (Tess) and Joe Anderson (Lincoln), to discuss what happens tonight, what might happen next, and what they hope fans and viewers got out of this adventurous series. What a fun ride this season has
What’s wrong with THE RIVER? Nothing. Nothing at all. Then why aren’t the ratings skyrocketing?? (though according to tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com, last week they saw their viewership grow the best since their premiere night numbers) Why aren’t there more covers of weekly mags featuring the Cole family and their jungley adventures?? Are viewers gun-shy? Is the studio backing it at all? What’s going on over there??? Let’s examine the show, shall we? Amrie’s talked about it before; we know the premise, family
A lot of you will recognize Joe Anderson from his roles in Across the Universe, The Grey, oh and that small film called Twilight: Breaking Dawn Pt2, but starting tonight, he’s taking on a different one – that of a series regular on a prime time TV show. Joe plays Lincoln Cole, son of the missing Emmett Cole (Bruce Greenwood) on ABC’s THE RIVER. Lincoln is reluctant to believe his mother’s insistence that Emmett is alive, but he tags along
Historically, I’ve not been a fan of scary things – I haven’t seen a single Halloween or Friday the 13th. I don’t see movies like Paranormal Activity because I have a mind susceptible to convincing that ghost and things are haunting my house. I couldn’t make it through AMERICAN HORROR STORY’s pilot because something in me was just creeped out beyond belief. That all started to slowly change, however, as I sat down to watch the first two episodes of