Constantine continues to be the underrated gem of the current crop of DC Comics shows, a Friday night NBC series that really deserves some additional eyes watching. Tonight’s installment is called “The Saint of Last Resorts” and it’s Part 1 of a two-parter that series star Matt Ryan is especially excited about.
“In episodes eight and nine, we’re introduced to Anne Marie, who’s from the Newcastle group,” Ryan told us during our recent visit to the Constantine set. “We get another kind of side of John’s relationship through that. That’s a two-parter, 8 and 9. They’re my favorite episodes so far, because they got the right balance of it being really dark and humorous at the same time, and I think that for the show, it’s kind of imperative that you have that. It is rooted in that really dark, twisted world, but at the same time, John can kind of say something completely and utterly irrelevant in the middle of it,” he enthused.
“We have all of these different characters that come in, and we see different sides of John. With Gary Lester, with Papa Midnite, with Jim Corrigan, and Anne Marie… what’s great is there’s all these different parts of John within these characters. So each time there’s a new character, there’s another part of John to explore. It’s more than just him taking on another case and going. That’s the stuff that really interests me about this show, and where we go… we really do get into the relationship stuff where there are possible longer arcs of things, rather than the kind of ‘demon of the week’ thing, which you kind of have to do to set the world and all that sort of stuff, but then we get into some more interesting relationship stuff, which I think is the best stuff, to be honest,” he said.
If Constantine should continue beyond its 13-episode first season, we could see more characters from John’s past.
“I think what we’ll do is, we’ll be seeing Judith and possibly Frank, and then I think what we will do is then do a flashback episode about what happened to Astrid. Possibly. That’s what I’ve heard,” he said. We also don’t need to rule out seeing “punk band” Constantine from John’s past. “I don’t know. I’d love to do it, man. I’ve talked to them about it, and I have said ‘look, why not?’ That would be really good fun,” he said. During the pilot, several cast and crew members played music together, which inspired director Neil Marshall to name them “The Constantones.”
KSiteTV Editor-In-Chief Craig Byrne has been writing about TV on the internet since 1995. He is also the author of several published books, including Smallville: The Visual Guide and the show's Official Companions for Seasons 4-7.
