How Jane Seymour and ‘Harry Wild’ beat ‘Squid Game’ to the punch
30.03.2022 - 02:15
/ nypost.com
Squid Game.“But “Harry Wild” and series star Jane Seymour got there first. “We have some crazy episodes, like people gambling for their lives.
We’ve seen that in ‘Squid Game,’ but this was done before [that] and it’s different, obviously,” Seymour told The Post. “I’ve been asked not to give [any plotlines] away … but one of my favorites is Episode 4, where a young man is obsessed with Dostoyevsky.
I’ve never seen that in film or TV.”Seymour, 71, plays Harriet “Harry” Wild, a retired university literature professor who turns to amateur sleuthing in and around Dublin, much to the chagrin of her son, Charlie (Kevin Ryan), a senior detective with the Garda, Ireland’s national police service. Harry’s sidekick, Fergus (Rohan Nedd), is a goodhearted teenage student living with his alcoholic father and much-younger sister (he’s the prime caregiver for both).
The eight-episode series, created and written by David Logan, premieres April 4 on Acorn TV.“David came up with the idea and I really related to it,” said Seymour, who’s also an executive producer. “We spent four hours together to see if we wanted to work together and we couldn’t stop coming up with ideas and building the project.
[Author] Jo Spain came in and wrote some more episodes. I loved every minute of it … the two of them came up with some unbelievable crimes that really ramp up after the second episode.“Every time I read a new script I said, ‘Wow, how did you top the last one?'”Harry’s literature background often helps her solve weird cases; in the series premiere, she feels that a murder, and the disappearance of a young woman, — seemingly random — follows the arc of an obscure Elizabethan play called “Calabras.” (A correct assumption.)“There’s so much we can do
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