Persons Unknown (TV series)

    This 42 min Drama/Thriller was created by Cristopher McQuarrie (dir.of The Ususal Suspects) starring Jason Wiles as Joe Tucker, Daisy Betts as Janet Cooper, Chadwick Boseman as Graham McNair, Lola Glaudini as Kat Damatto, Tina Holmes as Moira Doherty, Kate Lange Johnson as Tori Fairchild, Gerald Kyd as Mark Renbe, sean O’Bryan as Bill Blackham, Alan Ruck as Charlie Morse and Kandyse McClure as Erika Taylor.

Sources: IMDB

    Strangers wake up to find themselves locked in their individual hotel rooms and completely under electronic surveillance. They know nothing about how or why they were taken there or even who they are now trapped with together in a nameless deserted 1950’s style town.There is a Chinese restaurant, a Sheriff’s office, a bank, a clothing store among other buildings but phones that don’t work, there is no way to communicate from the outside.Beyond those buildings, there’s nothing but mountains and something is keeping them from reaching the perimeter of this strange and empty town.

    Security cameras are watching their every move, defeating their attempts to leave. Faced with physical, emotional and psychological challenges, the hostages must rely on each other to survive as their abductors sow mistrust and pit them against each other. Meanwhile, an investigative reporter begins to look into the disappearances of the missing people despite intimidation by those who apparently know their every move.

 

   Joe Tucker is the official leader of the group and is forceful and direct. He also knows military hand signals. He never reveals what his occupation is or why he might have been taken, he prefers to keep his personal life to himself other than telling the others that no one would care to kidnap him because, as he puts it, he’s not worth much to anyone but himself  and was in New York when he was abducted. He claims to be deathly allergic to bee stings.

    Fox TV studios, Televisa (mexican) and Rai (italian) tried a new formula, they went into business to fund all 13 episodes of a complete season for a TV series before selling the series to a network, so NBC was not involved in the process.When NBC purchased it, they promoted as a summer mini-series instead of a regular series, NBC changed airing days/times several times durong the season and left episode 11 unaired because of a sports event.After the 1st season, they did not renew, so there were some cliffhangers and the viewers did not get all the answers to this mystery as NBC promoted with the season finale. This series has a lot un unexpected plot twists that keep you wanting to know what’s going to happen next. Joe  Tucker is an interesting complex and troubled character.

    The DVD release date kept being pushed back and it hasn’t been released to date, but you can purchase and download  from Amazon Instant Video, by individual chapters or the complete season (unaired chapter 11 included).

     Randee Dawn from the Hollywood Reporter wrote that its "clever setup and moody atmosphere make this place worth checking into."

    Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune said the "...pilot efficiently lays out its premise and ratchets up the pressure on the characters, who are only types so far, but it doesn't matter because the plot's the thing here."

Related Links: NBC Official page, TV.com, Wikipedia, Beyond Hollywood review, EpGuide

Persons Unknown – Jason Wiles Interview (for Spoiler TV)

Jason Wiles Previews New NBC Series Persons Unknown (for AOL TV)

‘Persons Unknown’ Jason Wiles: ‘It’s literally my worst nightmare (from Inside the Box Zap It)

NBC scraps “Persons Unknown” episode (Seven Sacrifices)

Interview with Alan Ruck on Persons Unknown

Interview with Remi Aubuchon (executive producer) on Persons Unknown

Wiles Interview excerpts:

    As one of the seven strangers trapped in a teched-out ghost town, Jason Wiles is as clueless as we are about his Persons Unknown (Monday, 8/7c, NBC) character, Joe Tucker. "He's an enigma...we're starting to learn a little about him, but this guy is a mess." He's also a far cry from the undeniably likable Wiles' past roles, which have ranged from druggies to do-gooders (from TV Guide)

    First thing that attracted me was Chris McQuarrie; The Usual Suspects is amazing and the twists and turns of most of his scripts are fantastic. For me, getting out of a cop uniform and doing something new was exciting, a little bit different. I'd never really done a sci-fi show, although I still don't know if our show is really sci-fi. It was just a departure; Joe is multi-layered and flawed to the extreme, which I love. Great people were involved and the characters in the pilot were really intriguing. I had no idea where it was going but I trusted having Chris' name on so I was all about it. (Jason Wiles on what attracted him to the working in the show)

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Criminal Minds (TV series)

  This 42 min Drama created by Jeff Davis and starring Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, Thomas Gibson, Kristen Vagsness, AJ Cook, Joe Mantegna is based in Quantico, Virginia, the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) is a subsection of the FBI. Called in by local police departments to assist in solving crimes of a serial and/or extremely violent nature where the perpetrator is unknown (referred to by the Unit as the unknown subject or unsub for short), the BAU use the controversial scientific art of profiling to track and apprehend the unsub. Profiling entails coming up with basic characteristics of the unsub and the victims (referred to as the victimology), using evidence from the case and matching that information to historic precedents and psychological analyses as a means to solve the case. Because of the nature of the work conducted by the BAU - the work being time consuming and psychologically demanding - its members are fiercely loyal to the Unit and to its other members. Also because of the work's overall demanding nature, not many members of the BAU have been able to maintain a happy or stable family life.
Source: IMDB
Jason Wiles guests stars twice in this series, each with a different character and plot and years apart.
In the episode called Psychodrama (2006) he plays unsub Dale Sheppard, a dangerous man with mental problems that robs bank and intimidates and kills his victims and in 2010 in episode The Fight he plays Ben McBride a father that has been kidnapped with his teen daughter by a psychopath.

 
Additional information: Wikipedia, Official CBS page

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The Stepfather (2009)

This 101 min PG-13 Mystery/Thriller was directed by Nelson McCormick and written by JS Cardone, a remake of an earlier film with the same name.Starring Penn Badgley, Dylan Walsh and Sela Ward.In this movie Jason plays Dylan Bennet.
Michael returns home from military school to find his mother happily in love and living with her new boyfriend. As the two men get to know each other, he becomes more and more suspicious of the man who is always there with a helpful hand.
Source: IMDB
Additional Info: Wikipedia, Official Website

 

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In Plain Sight (TV series)

   This 60 min. Crime/Drama/Mystery serieswich started in 2008 was created by David Maples and stars Mary McComack, Frederick Weller and Paul Ben-Victor.U.S. Marshall Mary Shannon must hunt down witnesses for federal cases in the witness protection program while also raising a rather dysfunctional family and her own personal life.
   Mary Shannon is a U.S. Marshal in the witness protection program who spends her time relocating federal witnesses.. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mary works with her partner, Marshall Mann, to place criminals and innocent witnesses into new lives. When not putting her life on the line to protect federal witnesses, Mary attempts to manage her dysfunctional family, including overly dependent mother, Jinx, and younger sister, Brandi, both of whom live with her. Between work and family, Mary has little time for boyfriend Raphael Ramirez who plays minor league baseball.
Jason guest stars as Detective Robert Patrone / Robert Eps in the 2008 episode Good Cop, Dead Cop
Source: IMDB

Additional Information: Official In Plain Sight web, Wikipedia

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Living Hell (2008)

   
  This 92 min rated R Action/Horror/Sci-Fi movie was directed and written by Richard Jefferies, starring Johnathon Schaech, Erica Leerhsen and James McDaniel and Jason Wiles as Glenn Freeborn.This film is also known as Organizm when it was released in DVD.
A mild-mannered teacher and a hazmat specialist have to figure out how to stop an unstoppable creature who feeds on light and energy, and moves with exponential speed, before it destroys everything in its path.
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Army Wives (TV series)

     This 60 min drama was created by Katherine Fugate and stars Wendy Davis, Catherine Bell and Kim Dalaney and is about four women and one man share the common bond of loving someone enlisted in the U.S. Army. Jason guest stars as Sgt Peter Belgrad in two episodes: One of out Own and The art in Separation (2007)
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Other resources: Wikipedia, Official Show Site

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Zodiac (2007)

   This 157 min Rated R Crime/Drama was directed by David Finches and was written by James Vanderbilt, based ob the book by Robert Graysmith, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Anthony Edwards and Mark Ruffalo about a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.
   A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's book, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people.
In this movie Jason played a small part as lab tech Dagitz.
Source: IMDB
Other Links: Wikipedia, Official Zodiac Movie

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