'American Rust' Trailer Finds Jeff Daniels Protecting Maura Tierney's Son After a Murder
The family drama hails from Oscar-nominated writer Dan Futterman, and co-stars veteran character actor Bill Camp.
Showtime has released the first trailer for its new drama series American Rust, which stars Emmy winner Jeff Daniels and two-time Emmy nominee Maura Tierney, neither of whom are strangers to the network, having respectively starred in The Comey Rule and The Affair.
Based on Philipp Meyer’s celebrated debut novel, American Rust is a family drama about something I know I can relate to at times — wanting a brighter future while being held prisoner by the past. It’s described as a story of survival and transcendence as told through the eyes of a complicated and compromised police chief in a small Pennsylvania town full of good people making bad choices. When news of a murder rips through the town, the chief must decide what lengths he is willing to go to in order to protect the son of the woman he loves, played by Tierney.
If you’re making a limited series these days, you’d be wise to cast Bill Camp, and sure enough, the veteran character actor co-stars in this series following The Queen’s Gambit, The Night Of, The Looming Tower and The Outsider. My only concern with American Rust is that it doesn’t start with the word “the.”
