![]() ![]() Was it hard to write it so that it was open-ended enough to allow for a second season? So to go out of our way to find people who had played espionage characters before would have been a step too far, I think.ĪX: You have a ten-episode first season. It’s the basic conceit of the show that these are just normal people. So we were just trying to find topnotch actors who could pull off the roles. In a way, although we make sort of a midseason shift into more thriller territory, it’s really more of an espionage drama. But we also got special permission, which a certain other show didn’t get, to shoot outside the embassy, which you had to go straight up to the State Department for that.ĪX: When you were casting this, were you looking at people who seemed like real CIA people? Richard Jenkins, Rhys Ifans and Richard Armitage have all played intelligence community people before … Marco Bittner Rosser, our, used that to create this whole station, which you saw, and it’s modeled after a lot of the design inside of the embassy. STEINHAUER: We got the State Department to allow us to get a tour of the embassy, we got a special tour of the embassy, so that we could figure out the design aesthetic. So they go way back.ĪX: What kind of research did you get to do? And they’ve been around for over a hundred years. STEINHAUER: Studio Babelsburg in Berlin is involved. Actually, I started it as a TV series, and then, seeing as that’s a ridiculous idea to think you can produce a TV series, I thought, “Okay, if nobody wants it, then I’ll write a novel based on it,” but luckily, I didn’t have to.ĪX: Is this a co-production between Epix and a German company? Richard Armitage, Rhys Ifans, Michelle Forbes, Leland Orser and Richard Jenkins star as some of the operatives circling one another while someone is leaking information.ĪSSIGNMENT X: Did you start BERLIN STATION as a novel and then decide to make it a TV series instead? The Epix series, now in its first season Sunday nights and renewed for a second, takes place at the title C.I.A. ![]() However, it is the top-notch performances by Jenkins as the insecure and scheming CIA station chief, Forbes as an ambitious administrator who disregards The Company’s hierarchy, and Ifans as a veteran agent who is equal parts hard-living, hard-edged and frustrated that really makes the drama in Epix’s first original scripted series so compelling.Olen Steinhauer is a successful novelist (the Milo Weaver series, YALTA BOULEVARD QUINTET) who decided to write a television series. With an Edward Snowden-Julian Assange mix in the form of infamous leaker Thomas Shaw revealing the CIA’s secrets to the world, Hannibal alum Armitage’s Daniel Miller is put in the agency’s German office to catch the whistleblower. On another side of the narrative spectrum, Paramount TV and Anonymous Content’s Berlin Station with a cast featuring Richard Armitage, Michelle Forbes, Richard Jenkins and Rhys Ifans is a pretty standard spy thriller that tackles some surprising new angles of modern espionage. Although the pilot moves along at a good pace, Falling Water has a bit of a slow lift-off that ends up, from what I’ve seen, pushing the boundaries and the science and weaves its way into occupying a lot more than the present moment. ![]()
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