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 I hope you are having a relaxing Sunday.
If you’d like to put your feet up, close your eyes, and just listen (this doesn’t apply to you if you are driving!) and want to know a bit more about the TV show Reverie then I have something for you.
Summer Brooks at the Slice Of Sci-Fi website has done an interview with Reverie co-creator and executive producer Mickey Fisher. It has been released as part of a regular podcast the site does. You can listen to the episode HERE.
In the 40 minute long piece, Mickey discusses the inspiration behind the show, what they want the show to say to people, the reasons for the character types they made, and the actors they chose to fill those roles.
Having gone through the other major characters and actors it is about 18 minutes in before Kathryn is mentioned. Here is a rough transcript of what Mickey has to say about Kathryn:
…And then with Kathryn Morris we wanted someone who could be Charlie’s equal in this. Those two, at times we kind of talked about them as the adults in the room and the people who play chess instead of checkers. We wanted someone who was formidable and [had] a sort of air of mystery, but [is] also super smart, and Kathryn has all that stuff, and more. And they have such great chemistry together from their first scene together in the pilot. When we were filming it, people we like ‘these two are going to end up together’ because they just had this instant chemistry. Let’s see where that goes, let it flow and see what happens. We got so luckily with this whole cast. I’ve felt so grateful. We can turn to any one of them for a story or a scene and different emotional ranges, sense of humor, and I feel like they can do it all.
Mickey goes on to say that there has been no word on the future of Reverie beyond the current season but they hope to have news on that in the coming weeks.
A copy of the podcast has been added to the KM UK Gallery.
 Reverie season 1, episode 5: “Altum Somnum”
‘Altum Somnum’ translates from Latin as ‘deep sleep’.
As we get into the heart of the 10-part season we get an episode with some guaranteed Kathryn.
Official Press Release:
06/27/2018 (10:00PM – 11:00PM) (Wednesday) : Monica Shaw (Kathryn Morris) seeks help from the team after a bombing kills dozens of people. Mara (Sarah Shahi) must dive into the mind of a coma victim to try and identify the perpetrator. Dennis Haysbert, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Jessica Lu also star.
 Update (21st June): After the broadcast of episode 4 there was a ‘next week on…’ trailer for this episode. As suggested by the press release above Kathryn’s Monica Shaw features quite a lot in this. She is the first voice you hear as she asks the Onira-Tech team for help in preventing further terrorist attacks.
Any of the sleuths out there recognise anything else in the trailer? Something linked to Kathryn’s past? Post your answer in the comments below if you think you’ve spotted it.
Not long left to go until Reverie premières on the American NBC network.
We have just enough time to squeeze in another snippet from an article about the show.
There have been many mentions of other TV shows and movies that have similar themes and ideas as Reverie in the numerous articles about the new drama series. The films like Inception and The Lawnmower Man, the book Through The Looking-Glass, a mid-90s virtual reality-based TV show VR.5. That kind of thing.
Another is the recent hit movie Ready Player One. Other than sharing a production company, Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, virtual reality is the obvious point of comparison. However, Brittany Rivera (great name) at the Fandom website has dug a little deeper into the two to compare the characters.
Brittany makes the point that the major roles in RPO are male and they have direct parallels in female form in Reverie. What’s more the leading ladies (Sarah Shahi, Jessica Lu, and Kathryn) are of greater ethnic diversity than the predominantly white men of RPO.
Here’s how the Fandom article describes one of those women:
Monica Shaw (Kathryn Morris) is the wildcard of Reverie. She’s a mysterious venture capitalist with an interest in Onira-Tech. So far, it seems she is the most like Sorrento, Ready Player One‘s bad guy. She’s a businesswoman with her own agenda who cannot be trusted. Monica also has ties to the Department of Defense so her plans for Reverie are about how she can exploit the program for her own purposes.
Read Brittany Rivera’s full piece on the Wikia Fandom site HERE.
 As the lead of the show, and a significant reason for the show being broadcast, Sarah Shahi is understandably shouldering much of the burden of promoting Reverie.
One of the many interviews Sarah’s done in the past few weeks was with TVLine website’s Matt Webb Mitovich. This one is of note to us because further mention was made of Kathryn’s role as Department Of Defence official Monica Shaw and the military’s interest in the VR technology.
You can read the complete interview on the TVLine website HERE but is the relevant excerpt:
TVLine: Talk about the larger mythology that the show might explore regarding the tech, its uses and abuses, the recruitment of Mara….
Sarah: Absolutely, there are some conspiracies regarding the technology. The character that Kathryn Morris plays, she constantly straddles the line between using this technology for good and then abusing it for government purposes. We have an episode, actually, where the military gets involved. They are holding a kid hostage for information in the reverie, so I have to go in…. I mean, look, it’s [produced by Steven Spielberg’s] Amblin, right? Ready Player One made a big splash and similar to how that movie was just such a ride, that’s exactly what this show is. It’s a ride.
Just a few days to go now.
 Reacting to the news that the NBC network in America is considering reviving The Office (the US version of course), Mark Perigard of the Boston Herald newspaper has put forward his own thoughts on shows that should be brought back.
Mark, the TV critic for the Boston Herald, has his misgivings about The Office but can understand the wish to return to past glories after the success of the recent new Will & Grace season, and the soon returning, already resurrected, The X-Files.
Continuing his article, Mark puts forward five other shows he thinks are worth considering. Obviously based on the existence of this post and its title, Cold Case is one of them. We’ll come to that in moment, because visitors to this site may be interested to note two other choices Mark makes.
Cop drama The Shield is first up. Our connection to that show is Danny Pino (Scotty Valens in CC) had a guest starring role in four episodes just before joining Cold Case.
Secondly we have Xena: Warrior Princess. As Mark says, there have been talk of a revival of Xena in recent years but the plans came to nought. Kathryn, of course, had a major role in two episodes of Xena as Najara. It may only have been that double appearance but the character had a wider effect on the relationship between Xena and her side-kick Gabrielle.
Lastly Mark talks about Cold Case. This is what he wrote:
A series that was a cut above crime procedurals, “Cold Case” (2003-2010) featured a group of Philadelphia detectives investigating murders unsolved sometimes for decades and featured moving flashbacks and the original music of the day, including Ray Charles, the Doors and Bruce Springsteen. “Cold Case” is also one of the few TV series that has never been released to DVD, allegedly because of the onerous issue of music rights involved. I think we would all feel safer knowing Detective Lilly Rush — and star Kathryn Morris — was back on the job.
Here, here.
KM UK did its own pitch for a new Cold Case season back in July.
You can read Mark Perigard’s piece in full on the Boston Herald website HERE.
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