

I 1,000% believed he was fighting with the devil with all humility,” says Linklater. “Where John thinks he’s at at the beginning of the show is he’s been in recovery for a serious addiction and he’s trying to take it one day at a time and working his steps and things like that, but also with higher aspirations than just to keep clean, as it were - also to make amends. From the jump this has him reverting to criminal ways, starting with breaking his parole by crossing state lines, but it’s soon a slippery slope into succumbing to his darker urges. She is so focused on this mission that she hires John, not for the office job he wants but to play private detective for her. While Emma is busy trying to keep her guard up, Mary is on a mission to find out what happened to her daughter, who she refuses to believe is dead. I think Karen is someone who would hold your hand and jump off a cliff into the ocean without asking how deep the water was - she just trusted people - and Emma trusts no one, including herself.” “All of her decisions are based on fear and mistrust. Unfortunately, her heart was broken by who the man she loved turned out to be and after that, she became “someone who moves through the world at a completely different frequency,” Rabe says. She was making active choices and they were choices that were led by her heart.” “It was very important to me in the playing of her in the flashbacks that we really got a sense of that - that this wasn’t a person who had been operating from a place of absolute naivete. I believe she made choices from a place of love, from a place of having an incredibly open heart and from believing in the inherent good of people,” Rabe says. “Something that was very important to me is that Karen is someone who I feel could be easily dismissed as someone who had made choices that were thoughtless, that were unintelligent, that were naive, that were blind. These memories come back to Karen-now-Emma in flashback fragments while she is also fighting to get to the bottom of a present-day missing girl case in her new hometown.

Karen didn’t know just how deep his depravity ran, though she did know he had start a relationship with Theresa when she was just a teenager.
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When she was younger, she fell in love with a man who happened to be a serial predator. In terms of storytelling I think it’s the best kind of bait and switch.”Įmma’s journey is primarily one of discovery as she - a woman formerly known as Karen - assumes a new life and identity in the bayou after being released from prison and struggles to recall what exactly happened with Theresa. “All of this comes from terrible pain and when trauma is not handled correctly. “Everybody’s a victim and a villain,” says Brenneman.
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Stephen King's 'The Stand' Series at CBS All Access Adds Three Lily Rabe to Produce Drama 'Big D' in Development at HBO Netflix Unveils 'Shadow and Bone' Premiere Date (TV News Roundup) But as the 10-episode season of Harriet Warner’s dramatic thriller unfolds no one is left without both their light and shadow sides exposed - including the missing woman at the center of it all. Emma ( Lily Rabe) is in prison for crimes not immediately known to the audience or fully understood to her, given the gaps in her memory Mary ( Amy Brenneman) sits down behind a plexiglass window to plead for answers about Emma’s part in her daughter Theresa’s (Stella Baker) disappearance and John ( Hamish Linklater) comes to Mary to ask her for a job in her foundation, which fights for missing and exploited young women, claiming that he is in recovery from being a predator himself. When first meeting the trio of characters at the center of Amazon Prime Video’s “Tell Me Your Secrets,” it may be easy for some audience members to make assumptions about who they are and how their stories will unfold. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “ Tell Me Your Secrets,” streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.
