Graham Yost Talks Thick As Mud, Liam Cunninham Teases Davros Seaworth

Serial AM delivers breakfast-sized serialized TV news and tidbits. This morning, we have digestible spoonfuls of Justified, Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, True Blood, The Killing, Arrow and Locke & Key.

1. Justified

EP Graham Yost dissects “Thick As Mud” [EW]

Dewey is now headed back to prison. Dickie’s also there. Will we be seeing more of them together this season?
You will see Dickie again. Dewey, no, because Damon went back to Australia, where he lives, to do work there. We only get Damon every now and again, and we’ve just got to use our Dewey very judiciously. We don’t want to overuse Dewey. One big thing for Dewey each season. Last year, it was him pretending to be Raylan. This year, he’s running around without his kidneys.
Moving on to Limehouse and Mags’ money: How could people think that she would have amassed over $3 million?
You sell enough pot over 20 years, you would have that money.
Limehouse is lying about how much money is left. Why would he do that?
Follow the money. The money will play a key role in the later episodes in the season.
We saw that Limehouse was using the young woman Trixie (Valerie Brandy) as a spy to get information. What’s the idea there?
We might have done a trim in editing to get the episode to time, but the idea was that Trixie’s mother had taken refuge in Noble’s Holler back in the day, so she had a family connection.

2. Game Of Thrones

Liam Cunningham teases his character Davos Seaworth, who makes his debut in the upcoming second season [Access Hollywood]

He came from Flea Bottom – the poorest part of King’s Landing, and when Stannis was under severe threat and his family was dying and everybody in the castle was dying… Davos came in, smuggled in a boat full of onions and some ham and peas and various things, and he became known as ‘The Onion Knight,’ ‘cause he was knighted by Stannis, who appreciated this amazing gesture that he did. But, at the same time, Stannis, being a stickler for justice, spoke to him and said, ‘We’re going to have to punish you for smuggling’ and chopped off four of his fingers.
The bizarre relationship that they have is that Stannis still feels absolutely right for doing it and Davos still feels that Stannis was completely justified by doing it. So they have this level of loyalty. It’s almost reminiscent of Ned and Robert Baratheon. You just knew that Ned Stark was never going to do a bad thing or never do anything wrong against Robert Baratheon and Davos is exactly the same — he’s loyal without question, but at the same time he is a consigliore. He’s very much like Robert Duvall’s character in ‘The Godfather’. He’s a delight to play.

3. Breaking Bad

Bob Odenkirk claims not to know whether Saul Goodman returns in Season 5 [SF Weekly]:

Shooting starts in May, I believe. I usually go and visit the writers’ room — I have not done that yet, but I will soon. So I know nothing. I don’t even know if Saul Goodman returns. I’d like to believe he will. But we will see. I never know anything about that show in advance; in fact as the season goes, they black out the scripts, so I literally don’t know what is happening in the show, even while I’m doing it.

4. The Walking Dead

Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun and Melissa McBride on the contrast in styles between former showrunner Frank Darabont and his replacement Glen Mazarra [Assignment X]:

YEUN: You know, obviously, each one’s going to have their own style. I would say we’re lucky to have either one. We were very fortunate to have Frank, and it sucks what happened [in terms of his absence], but Glen really brought his own thing and he’s fantastic.
REEDUS: It brought the cast and the crew and the writers and everybody closer together, because [in Darabont’s firing] something bad happened, and we worked really hard to keep our good thing, and that’s what we’ve done. And Glen’s done a bang-up job. He’s been awesome.
McBRIDE: Yeah. It was a show that Frank worked really hard to bring to television and it was a great project and a lot of us were very happy to be there and we had a job to do. And it’s still a fantastic job, and I was happy to hear that Frank has just written a pilot [L.A. NOIR] that got green-lit for TNT. So that’s exciting.

5. True Blood

Spartacus’ Peter Mensah joins True Blood in a recurring role. He’ll play Kibwe, Chancellor for the Authority. [Deadline]

6. The Killing

Stephen Holder’s sister, Liz, will enter the fray in Season 2. [TV Line].

7. Arrow

Susanna Thompson will play Moira Queen, the mother of Green Arrow’s alter ego [TV Line].

8. Locke & Key

Ksenia Solo reflects on the Locke & Key pilot and where the show could have gone had FOX picked it up [Collider]:

Solo: You know, I was pretty heartbroken. I am a huge fan of the comic books. I think they are absolutely amazing. They’re so complex and so beautiful, and so unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Working with these amazing people, like Steven Spielberg and Josh Friedman and Mark Romanek, and the cast and whole team, it was a really spectacular experience. I don’t know exactly why it didn’t get picked up. I can make my speculations, just from what I know. But, I think it would have been an amazing series, and I think it could have been an amazing feature film. I was sad it wasn’t made as a film.
It just holds a very, very special place in my heart. With that role and the whole experience, I’m pretty upset about it. But, it’s amazing that a pilot got shown at the San Diego Comic-Con and the New York Comic-Con. I’ve never heard of that happening. All of us in the cast always have this glimmer of hope that maybe something will happen, one day. It was a really special project, and I’m just glad that everyone involved made the Comic-Con screenings happen. For the fans, it was just such a great thing to do, and I’m so glad that so many people saw it and got to enjoy it, and it wasn’t just locked away in whatever closet all the pilots that don’t get picked up are locked away in.
We were all really shocked. We thought it had a really great chance. Just from what I heard in the industry, it was truly one of the best pilots that people had ever seen, and that’s a big thanks to the writers and our amazing director. It’s very upsetting. I’ve seen the pilot about 80 times now because I enjoy watching it. The memories of making it are so great, and I love showing it to my friends. Everyone goes, “Oh, my god, we want do know what happens next! This is the only episode?! Oh, my god!” It really looks like a movie. That was the very cool thing about it.
I played Dodge, this girl who’s actually not a girl. She lives in a well because she’s been cursed and can’t get out of there. The Locke family, who moves back to the Key House, has this young boy and Dodge lures him into the well and manipulates him, and he brings her what she needs to get out of the well. And, it turns out that Dodge is responsible for all the sorrow and pain and tragedy and death that the Locke family had to go through. It’s interesting that this rather innocent-looking girl is the master puppeteering everything and manipulating everything to go her way. She’s very ghostly. The comic books are so complex. I wish I could better explain it, but there are so many elements that it would take me 17,000 to tell you. But, in a very brief nutshell, that’s what it is.

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