![]() ![]() Boston felt right for that, with its history of city-wide construction projects like the Big Dig. The family’s dog is named Pudge after Carlton Fisk.īeyond that, our family on the show has blue collar roots, but has rocketed into the one percent after securing a lucrative construction contract in the ’90s. We talk about Duck Tours, the Frog Pond, the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. The simple answer is because it’s a place I know and love. ![]() It’s been a fun, creative challenge to identify the right painting and find a way for our story to organically take us to that homage. We have a key character, played by Catalina Sandino Moreno, who we named Christina for Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World. Episode three is titled “Nighthawks,” after the Edward Hopper painting, and centers on our characters engaging in some clandestine nighttime adventures, which puts one of them at the counter of a late-night diner. But we also re-create the tableau of the painting (known colloquially as Whistler’s Mother) in the last shot of the episode.Įpisode two, “Jack-in-the-Pulpit,” finds young Jack speaking from the pulpit at a funeral, and we also see an extreme close-up of a flower at the memorial that resembles the jack-in-the-pulpit flower from the Georgia O’Keeffe painting. For example, the pilot episode is called “Arrangement in Grey and Black,” which ties in thematically with the moral gray areas and outright darkness on display in the episode. We’ve titled each episode after a famous American painting that thematically fits into that particular chapter of our story, and we also feature a shot within the episode that pays tribute to the famous image. We decided to run with fine art as a motif. That off-kilter, unsettling vibe is key to the show. I felt it was perfect because the iconic Grant Wood painting is thematically appropriate for our show: at first glance, a benign snapshot of domesticity, upon further inspection…something is awry. How did you come up with the show’s title? Watch the trailer for American Gothic in the video above. And the themes that emerged from this situation were intriguing: the limits of family loyalty, nature vs. I’m always interested in putting complicated characters in difficult situations. The previous show you wrote for, Jane the Virgin, is a romantic comedy and a drama. It developed into a character-driven murder mystery. I was less interested in the gruesome details of serial murder and more in the emotional and psychological fallout on the people close to the killer. They gave me the title and a paragraph premise, and it piqued my interest. Bostonia: Where did you get the idea for American Gothic?īrinkerhoff: The idea came from Full Fathom Five, American Gothic executive producer James Frey’s company. Brinkerhoff (COM’04), who lived in Boston when she attended BU, says some of the show’s producers are from the area, so they kept an ear out to make sure that the actors’ accents were authentic.īostonia spoke with Brinkerhoff about the show’s development and how it differs from other murder mysteries on TV. While the story is set in Boston, it was filmed in Toronto, where the University of Toronto campus stands in for MIT and the Boston Public Library and the Boston Police headquarters were re-created inside a massive soundstage. ![]() The show, described by the New York Times as “well cast,” stars Virginia Madsen ( Sideways), Jamey Sheridan ( Spotlight), and Justin Chatwin ( Shameless). The 13-part miniseries is the story of a wealthy Boston family that finds out their deceased patriarch may well have been a serial killer, and may have been assisted in his crimes by a family member who is still around. Now the College of Communication alum is heading up her own show as executive producer and creator of the CBS murder mystery American Gothic, which premiered June 22. Since graduating 12 years ago, Corinne Brinkerhoff has written and produced for several network TV shows, including Boston Legal, The Good Wife, and Jane the Virgin, which won a 2014 Peabody Award. ![]()
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