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La Brea is an American science fiction drama television series that premiered on NBC on September 28, 2021.[1][2] The series, produced by Keshet Studios and Universal Television, is created and executive produced by David Appelbaum. The series received mixed reviews from critics. In November 2021, the series was renewed for a second season which premiered on September 27, 2022.[3][4]

La Brea
Genre	Science fiction Drama
Created by	David Appelbaum
Starring	Natalie Zea Eoin Macken Chiké Okonkwo Karina Logue Zyra Gorecki Jack Martin Veronica St. Clair Rohan Mirchandaney Lily Santiago Chloe De Los Santos Jon Seda Josh McKenzie Nicholas Gonzalez Tonantzin Carmelo Michelle Vergara Moore
Music by	James S. Levine
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Ken Woodruff Arika Lisanne Mittman Thor Freudenthal Adam Davidson Avi Nir Alon Shtruzman Peter Traugott Rachel Kaplan Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt David Appelbaum
Producers	Asher Landay Livia Hanich Naomi Cleaver Zakiyyah Alexander John Mabry Stu Wood Jessica Granger Andre Edmonds Jeff Rafner
Production locations	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Cinematography	Mark Wareham Damian Wyvill
Editors	Harry B. Miller III Angie Higgins Leland Sexton Julie-Anne De Ruvo Dave Redman Michael Melis Ben Joss
Running time	43 minutes
Production companies	Matchbox Pictures Keshet Studios Bad Apple Universal Television
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	NBC
Picture format	HDTV 1080i
Original release	September 28, 2021 (2021-09-28) – present (present)

Synopsis

When a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles at the site of the La Brea Tar Pits and Wilshire Boulevard, hundreds of people, vehicles and buildings (including the distinctive Petersen Automotive Museum) are pulled into its depths. The survivors find themselves trapped in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land where they must band together to survive. The show follows one family (father, mother, son, and daughter) who are separated by the events and attempting to reunite. The father has visions providing glimpses of when and where his wife and son are. The sinkhole and the sudden appearance of Teratornis has attracted the attention of the United States Department of Homeland Security who are studying a similar event in the Mojave Desert. As the series progresses, the investigators realize that the sinkholes provide a temporary portal to the same location in 10,000 B.C. Meanwhile, the survivors struggle to find a way back through the portal before it closes up.

Cast and characters

Main

• Natalie Zea as Eve Harris, a helicopter mom and office manager who falls into the sinkhole
• Eoin Macken as Gavin Harris, the estranged husband of Eve and former military pilot who has been having visions of a prehistoric land
  • Diesel La Torraca portrays Isaiah, a young boy in the past who grows up to become Gavin Harris upon being sent through time
• Chiké Okonkwo as Ty Coleman, a therapist who Eve befriends
• Karina Logue as Marybeth Hill (season 1), a police officer from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who was in Los Angeles while on the trail of her estranged son Lucas. She later dies from her wounds sustained from an altercation with Silas' followers.
• Zyra Gorecki as Izzy Harris, the teenage daughter of Eve and Gavin who lost her left leg in a car accident when being driven home by a neighbor
• Jack Martin as Josh Harris, the teenage son of Eve who falls into the sinkhole
• Veronica St. Clair as Riley Velez, Dr. Sam Velez's daughter whom Josh befriends
• Rohan Mirchandaney as Scott Israni, an anthropology graduate student from Australia who was working at the George C. Page Museum and is a recreational drug user who is always high
• Lily Santiago as Veronica Castillo, an apparently religious young woman and former runaway who was badly affected when her apparent father Aaron was killed by a dire wolf
• Chloe De Los Santos as Lilly Castillo (season 1), a girl who is pretending that she cannot speak and passed off as Veronica's sister when she was really kidnapped by Veronica and Aaron
  • Michelle Vergara Moore as Ella Jones (season 2;[5] recurring season 1), a grown up version of Lilly that followed Isaiah to the present and has grown up to become an artist
• Jon Seda as Dr. Sam Velez, Riley's father, physician, and former SEAL
• Josh McKenzie as Lucas Hayes, Marybeth's estranged son who is a heroin trafficker and has a poor relationship with his mom ever since she shot his dad due to him planning to betray him to the police
• Nicholas Gonzalez as Levi Delgado, a United States Air Force pilot and an old friend of the Harris family
• Tonantzin Carmelo as Paara (season 2;[5] recurring season 1), an ethnic Native American who speaks perfect modern English and who lives in and has high standing in the Fort. It is not clear yet in the narrative if she is originally from 10,000 BC or from a different time period.

Recurring

• Ione Skye as Jessica Harris, Gavin's adoptive sister and the aunt of Izzy and Josh
• Virginie Laverdure as Dr. Sophia Nathan, a United States Department of Defense operative who is investigating the sinkhole
• Toby Truslove as Senior Agent Adam Markman, a United States Department of Defense operative and Dr. Nathan's co-worker who is investigating the sinkhole
• Pacharo Mzembe as Tony Greene, a man who fell down a sink hole. While in 10,000 BC, he repairs a Jeep.
• Stephen Lopez as Billy Fisher, Tony's husband who fell down the sink hole and lost his glasses
• Damien Fotiou as Judah
• Ming-Zhu Hii as Dr. Rebecca Aldridge, a government scientist who knows more about time portals and sinkholes than she lets on and who appears to guide and/or influence the actions and decisions made by the other characters
• Mark Lee as Silas, an old man in the past and grandfather of Isaiah that resides in the fort. Silas is a scientific colleague of Aldridge from an unspecified point in the future who was keeping records of temporal portal openings into 10,000 BC from the future while living in the fort.
• Martin Sensmeier as Taamet (season 2), the leader of the Exiles who also speaks the Tongva language.[6]

Episodes

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
1	10		September 28, 2021 (2021-09-28)	November 30, 2021 (2021-11-30)
2	14[7]		September 27, 2022 (2022-09-27)	TBA

Season 1 (2021)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [8]	Directed by	Written by	Original air date [8]	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Pilot"	Thor Freudenthal	David Appelbaum	September 28, 2021 (2021-09-28)	6.37[9]
2	2	"Day Two"	Cherie Nowlan	David Appelbaum	October 5, 2021 (2021-10-05)	5.05[10]
3	3	"The Hunt"	Adam Davidson	Jose Molina	October 12, 2021 (2021-10-12)	5.06[11]
4	4	"The New Arrival"	Thor Freudenthal	Zakiyyah Alexander	October 19, 2021 (2021-10-19)	5.12[12]
5	5	"The Fort"	Greg McLean	Arika Lisanne Mittman	October 26, 2021 (2021-10-26)	5.20[13]
6	6	"The Way Home"	Adam Davidson	Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt	November 2, 2021 (2021-11-02)	4.03[14]
7	7	"The Storm"	Thor Freudenthal	Aiyana White	November 9, 2021 (2021-11-09)	4.70[15]
8	8	"Origins"	Cherie Nowlan	Jessica Granger & Andre Edmonds	November 16, 2021 (2021-11-16)	4.67[16]
9	9	"Father and Son"	Thor Freudenthal	Arika Lisanne Mittman	November 23, 2021 (2021-11-23)	4.33[17]
10	10	"Topanga"	Adam Davidson	David Appelbaum	November 30, 2021 (2021-11-30)	4.94[18]

Season 2 (2022)

No. overall	No. in season	Title [8]	Directed by	Written by	Original air date [8]	U.S. viewers (millions)
11	1	"The Next Day"	Adam Davidson	David Appelbaum & Steven Lilien & Bryan Wynbrandt	September 27, 2022 (2022-09-27)	4.02[19]
12	2	"The Cave"	Adam Davidson	Rob Wright	October 4, 2022 (2022-10-04)	3.90[20]
13	3	"The Great Escape"	David M. Barrett	Arika Lisanne Mittman	October 11, 2022 (2022-10-11)	3.54[21]
14	4	"The Fog"	TBA	TBA	October 18, 2022 (2022-10-18)	TBD
15	5	"The Heist"	TBA	TBA	October 25, 2022 (2022-10-25)	TBD
16	6	"Lazarus"	TBA	TBA	November 1, 2022 (2022-11-01)	TBD

Production

Development

On January 15, 2020, La Brea was given a pilot order by NBC. The pilot was directed by Thor Freudenthal and written by David Appelbaum who was expected to executive produce alongside Avi Nir, Alon Shtruzman, Peter Traugott, Ken Woodruff and Rachel Kaplan. The production companies involved with the series are Keshet Studios and Universal Television.[22][23] On January 12, 2021, NBC gave production a series order. The series is created by Appelbaum.[1] On November 12, 2021, NBC renewed the series for a 14-episode second season.[3][7]

Casting

In February 2020, Michael Raymond-James, Karina Logue, Zyra Gorecki, Caleb Ruminer, Angel Parker, Catherine Dent, Veronica St. Clair, Jag Bal, and Chiké Okonkwo were cast as series regulars while Natalie Zea was cast as the lead role.[22][24][25][26] In March 2020, Jon Seda and Rita Angel Taylor joined the main cast.[27][28] On March 4, 2021, Eoin Macken and Jack Martin were cast to replace Raymond-James and Ruminer, respectively and Lily Santiago joined the main cast. In addition, the surname of the family has been changed to Harris.[29] On March 22, 2021, Nicholas Gonzalez and Rohan Mirchandaney joined the cast as series regulars.[30] In April 2021, Josh McKenzie was cast as a series regular while Ione Skye was cast in a recurring role and Chloe De Los Santos was cast to replace Taylor.[31][32] On May 12, 2022, Tonantzin Carmelo and Michelle Vergara Moore were promoted to series regulars for the second season.[5] On July 15, 2022, Jonno Roberts joined the cast in a recurring role for the second season.[33] On September 22, 2022, Martin Sensmeier was cast in a recurring capacity for the second season.[6]

Filming

The series began filming in Melbourne, Australia on May 3, 2021, and wrapped up in September 2021.[34][35] The main photography of the series was shot in regional Victoria. The recordings for the first season were completed in September. The effects-heavy production spent $71 million in Australia, more than $60 million of it in Victoria. It is the most expensive TV production in Victoria since Steven Spielberg's HBO series The Pacific completed in 2009.[36] The second season was scheduled to film in Victoria, Australia in the spring of 2022.[7]

Release

In the USA, the series premiered on September 28, 2021 on NBC.[2] The second season premiered on September 27, 2022 on NBC.[4] In Canada, the series aired^[when?] on CTV.[37] In Australia, it will also air on 9Now^[when?].[38] In Germany, La Brea premiered on Sky One on April 24, 2022.[39] In Italy - La Brea premiered on Italia 1 on June 8, 2022.[40] In the UK, the first episode of La Brea aired on Channel 5 on August 1, 2022 to promote the series, with the entire first series being added to Paramount+ on the same day.[41] In Ireland, the first series was added in full to Paramount+ on August 1, 2022.[41]

Reception

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 29% approval rating with an average rating of 4.5/10, based on 21 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "There may be method to its madness, but La Brea simply doesn't commit to its insane premise hard enough to shake out a show worth watching—at least not yet."[42] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 49 out of 100 based on 7 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[43]

Ratings

Season 1

Viewership and ratings per episode of La Brea

No.	Title	Air date	Rating (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"Pilot"	September 28, 2021	0.8	6.37[9]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	"Day Two"	October 5, 2021	0.6	5.05[10]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
3	"The Hunt"	October 12, 2021	0.6	5.05[11]	0.3	2.58	1.0	7.64[11]
4	"The New Arrival"	October 19, 2021	0.6	5.12[12]	0.3	2.57	0.9	7.69[44]
5	"The Fort"	October 26, 2021	0.6	5.20[13]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
6	"The Way Home"	November 2, 2021	0.4	4.03[14]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
7	"The Storm"	November 9, 2021	0.6	4.70[15]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
8	"Origins"	November 16, 2021	0.6	4.67[16]	0.4	2.41	1.0	7.08[45]
9	"Father and Son"	November 23, 2021	0.5	4.33[17]	0.3	2.28	0.8	6.62[46]
10	"Topanga"	November 30, 2021	0.5	4.94[18]	0.3	2.18	0.9	7.12[47]

Season 2

Viewership and ratings per episode of La Brea

No.	Title	Air date	Rating (18–49)	Viewers (millions)	DVR (18–49)	DVR viewers (millions)	Total (18–49)	Total viewers (millions)
1	"The Next Day"	September 27, 2022	0.5	4.02[19]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
2	"The Cave"	October 4, 2022	0.4	3.90[20]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
3	"The Great Escape"	October 11, 2022	0.4	3.54[21]	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD

See also

• Terra Nova, a Steven Spielberg-produced TV series about a 22nd-century family migrating from a dystopian America via a time portal to a colony set in the wilderness of the Cretaceous period.
• Time Spike, an Eric Flint novel about a 21st maximum security prison transported back in time to a Cretaceous period Earth via an exchange of an equivalent mass of Cretaceous land. This novel includes a subplot in which the U.S. government was using FEMA to hide the incident from the American public by claiming that Middle Eastern terrorists blew up the prison in such a way to make the area unsafe for entry by ordinary citizens.
• Land of the Lost, the 1970s children's show of a family in a pocket universe trying to find a way back to their own.
• A Sound of Thunder, a film based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Ray Bradbury, about "time tourists" who accidentally interfere too much with the past, completely altering the present. Time travel has become a practical reality, and the company Time Safari, Inc. offers wealthy adventurers the chance to travel back in time to hunt extinct species such as dinosaurs.

References

External links

• La Brea at IMDb 

На других языках

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[ru] Ла-Брея (телесериал)

«Ла-Брея» (англ. La Brea) — американский драматический телесериал, премьера состоялась на американском телеканале NBC 28 сентября 2021 года. Создатель шоу Дэвид Аппельбаум.

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