![]() ![]() “Usually, trans women are side characters. And because both Lindley and Simone are trans, she’s making history by default. Though her character, Simone, is not the series’ protagonist (that honor goes to Peter, played by Segel, who created the show and wrote and directed several episodes), she is his primary love interest. Her role as the romantic female lead of a miniseries about four people drawn into a mysterious, surreal game playing out on the streets of Philadelphia could have felt undercooked, but she brings the character to vibrant life.Īnd Lindley’s presence on Dispatches From Elsewhere is hugely significant. That she’s playing a romantic lead is impressive in and of itself that she brings so much presence and spark to the show is even more striking. I’m the hot girl.’ I was not prepared for that.”ĭispatches From Elsewhere is just the 12th role Lindley has ever played on camera. “It took me a second, and then I was, like, ‘Oh my God. How are men going to watch this? No one is going to watch this! Who is the hot girl?’” she recalls. There is no young, hot girl on this show. This is going to be the best!’ And then I’m looking around, and I’m, like, ‘This is peculiar. “I was looking around at the cast, really feeling myself. She walked in, ready for her first lead role in anything ever, and found herself sitting with Jason Segel, with André Benjamin, with Sally Field.įirst, she freaked out inside. The real breakthrough here though is Lindley, who steals pretty much every scene she’s in with the most complex and interesting character to start the series.The very first time Eve Lindley was in a room with all of her costars on the AMC series Dispatches From Elsewhere was for a sexual harassment training seminar. Grant is having a blast Benjamin should work more often Field is always great. Presuming “Dispatches from Elsewhere” finds more of a footing in subsequent episodes, it will remain worth watching because of its cast. Believe it or not, there are some shows that are better spread out than consumed in a row, especially programs this purposefully left-of-center. It may simply be a show that works better in weekly doses-this critic had to watch it consecutively in order to file-than it does binged. There are moments of grace and beauty through all four episodes of “Dispatches from Elsewhere,” but its overall tone of forced eccentricity and lessons about life started to wear on me over time. Each gets a major episode, with the other three playing supporting roles, of course. Fredwyn is a wealthy genius who becomes obsessed with the game-its purpose, its puppeteers, its endgame. Janice has been a dutiful wife and mother for years and tragedy is now pushing her back into the real world she always thought she’d be more a part of when she was young. Simone is externally confident but internally anxious, and wishes she could feel as comfortable in the world as she does when she’s alone. Grant), but there are other figures pulling strings from “Elsewhere,” setting Peter and his new friends on a wild goose chase that somehow seems to open them up to a new world and new ideas.Ībout those friends-Peter is partnered up with three people who are the focus of the other three episodes: Simone ( Eve Lindley), Janice ( Sally Field), and Fredwyn ( Andre Benjamin). It seems to be run by a mysterious leader named Octavio Coleman ( Richard E. Making a call from a random flyer, Peter finds himself a part of some massive game-clues hidden throughout the city that lead to new discoveries and more clues, many of them about finding someone named Clara. He can’t remember the last time anything interesting happened to him, or the last time he had a real human emotion. Peter is an average guy living an average life. The premiere introduces us to Peter, played by Jason Segel in a purposefully flat performance that nonetheless threatens to become so minor that he literally disappears. Technically, AMC only sent what could be called the introductions as the first four episodes of “Dispatches from Elsewhere” all center on a different member of a quartet of protagonists.
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