When her Grace is in a room, the ions start shifting.īut Tierney is a lightning bug in the bleak black night that is “American Rust,” an eight-part miniseries based on the 2009 novel by Philipp Meyer. Tierney’s intensity is enterprising, playful, neurotic, sardonic, overtired, and always, always dynamic. She’s indefatigable when it comes to getting signatures, just as she is about launching her self-sabotaging twenty-something son and working to get her lover, Jeff Daniels’s police chief Del Harris, to open up.
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Non-subscribers may view the first episode of “American Rust” free on YouTube, at sho.com and on most on-demand platforms.Maura Tierney brings all kinds of Maura Tierney energy to Showtime’s “American Rust.” She plays Grace Poe, a seamstress in a Pennsylvania steel town who’s struggling to get her workmates’ support to unionize their shop. The great Canadian poet Neil Young once told us rust never sleeps, but “American Rust” takes too many naps.
Too often, though, we’re mired in wheel-spinning storylines.
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There are times when “American Rust” gets things just right, e.g., an extended wedding sequence that feels authentic in every detail (of course everyone would hit the dance floor to Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration”) and is like a miniaturized version of the greatest wedding reception sequence in movie history from “The Deer Hunter,” which of course was also set in western Pennsylvania. We now have our murder mystery, our troublesome romantic triangles and our complex family dynamics, all intertwining as the case expands and Del somehow becomes even more glum than when we first met him, and what’s the deal with Isaac hopping on a train to escape town like he’s in a 1930s Depression movie?
When Del discovers a body in an abandoned mill and it’s clear a murder has transpired, he has a pretty good idea of who did it - but he puts the investigation and his career into jeopardy when he has an impulsive reaction at the scene of the crime and hides a key piece of evidence before further law enforcement personnel arrive. Then it’s off to make his rounds in a Rust Belt town where the unemployment rate has skyrocketed and even if you’re lucky enough to have a job tending bar or sewing wedding dresses in a local shop, it’s a struggle to make ends meet. Del is trying to wean himself from the cocktail of prescription drugs he takes to cope with his PTSD, so each morning he meticulously grinds the pills into a fine powder in increasingly smaller increments, weighing the pile on a scale and then scooping it into his drink.
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(It’s never a good sign when a woman looks into the eyes of the conflicted antihero during a time of crisis and declares, “You’re a good man,” and then says his full name, as if we’re in a 1950s B-movie Western.)ĭaniels’ Police Chief Del Harris is a stone-faced loner, Iraq War veteran and former Pittsburgh police detective who has moved to the town of Buell in the rural southwest section of Pennsylvania. The always-watchable Daniels leads a wonderful ensemble cast in a story with occasional flashes of inspiration - but based on the first three episodes provided for review, “American Rust” too often gets bogged down in meandering subplots, and some truly clunky dialogue.
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