The second season of American Crime premiered last week, with many of the same acclaimed actors from Season 1 playing new roles. The show airs Wednesdays at 10PM, and it’s possible that the second season is even better than the first.
Cast members from the show appeared at the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday, and one of the most interesting comments came from Timothy Hutton about what it’s like to play a new role with some familiar faces.
“It’s incredible to come back and work with the same people. You feel like you’re in a rep company. It’s a dream job working on American Crime and working with all these amazing actors and John and Michael and just everybody involved. To have gone through the experience we had last year, which was such a rich experience, and be invited back and be able to do it again with a new story, new character, it just doesn’t get any better than that. It’s really amazing,” Hutton said.
Executive Producer John Ridley promises that these new characters that the actors will be playing will face the same kinds of twists and turns we that we had seen in Season 1.
“The show, as you know, at this point, it’s not a procedural,” he said. “It’s not about necessarily trying to trick the audience or string the audience along in terms of what evidence may or may not be there. A lot of it is really about what people see when things are put in front of them. Sometimes all the evidence in the world can be put in front of people and as a line that was delivered in the piece that you saw, how many people have to say that it’s rape before we consider it to be rape? Unfortunately, these things are happening right now. This is not a show that’s not about investigating or about people going back and saying with the picture in particular did this happen or did it not happen. It really is about the singular truths. Everybody here, their characters absolutely believe the stories that they’re telling. But that doesn’t mean that it is the truth.”
American Crime airs Wednesday nights on ABC.
