[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Revival Season 1 Episode 3 “Reality Check.”]
It does appear to be Sheriff Wayne Cypress (David James Elliott) and Blaine Abel (Steven Ogg), who sees Revival Day as his divine calling and makes use of the worry and chaos that has resulted to rally collectively “true believers” in opposition to the Revivers, won’t ever see eye-to-eye on Revival. And Elliott very a lot agrees.
Within the newest episode, Blaine tells Wayne they need the identical factor, however the sheriff doesn’t suppose that can ever be the case. Blaine suggests he take into consideration that. Wayne can’t think about that ever altering, Elliott tells TV Insider.
“I don’t suppose initially he can [imagine ever seeing eye-to-eye with him] in any respect. I don’t suppose he can. I feel that possibly down the highway he may even see a bit little bit of it, however these are two characters that simply conflict instantly and all the time,” he explains. “Wayne thinks he’s a whack job — and David thinks he’s a whack job — and Steven performs him so properly. Steven’s terrific as Blaine Abel.” The 2 beforehand labored collectively on Heels, “so it was enjoyable to work with him.”
It’s not simply the 2 who’ve a historical past. Wayne additionally has a previous with Blaine’s father, “so the historical past goes deep,” Elliott says. “It’s a small city. Now, I come from a small city, too, so this was very relatable for me. All people is aware of all people in a small city. All people is aware of grime about all people in a small city, and there’s usually a number of historical past with one another. And in order that’s current in that relationship. The one time I’ve ever handled him being the sheriff has been in knowledgeable method. And it’s normally not all the time good. I simply write him off as a fringe, wacky character that I hope I don’t should cope with a lot. But when I do, it’s going to be fairly simple. And I’m not taking part in video games with Blaine. Blaine is on the market.”
Elsewhere within the episode, Wayne’s daughter Dana (Melanie Scrofano), in monitoring down her sister, Em (Romy Weltman), whose Reviver standing they’re conserving secret, crosses paths with the Verify brothers (native drug sellers). Em acquired on their unhealthy aspect when she was nonetheless alive, and the brothers discover her at a live performance the place a fellow Reviver, on stage, cuts himself open (those that have come again from the lifeless throughout that two-week interval heal from any wound they subsequently obtain). Dana finds them, and he or she finally ends up tasing one of many brothers then, because of his rap sheet, arrests him and makes use of that to get him to name his different brother, Anthony (CM Punk), who insists he didn’t know who Em was till tonight. He didn’t kill her. And so Dana makes a cope with him that they’ll keep out of one another’s enterprise.
“I don’t suppose she has any alternative,” says govt producer Aaron B. Koontz of that deal. “Familial hazard. Her son has been threatened. Melanie and Cooper, performed by Hudson Wurster, are simply so delicate when she’s within the mattress on the finish of that and he or she’s holding him as a result of she’s additionally speaking to Jordan’s mother and father earlier about what it’s like to like a baby, after which this comes full circle on this episode. So she has to make the deal as a result of her son’s being threatened: ‘That’s it, no matter. I don’t care what else goes to come back with this. All I do know is true now they’re threatening my son and I can’t have that occur.’”
Moreover, the risk to Em stays. “It simply provides these familial stakes. And I feel one of many issues about Dana is she’s instinctual,” Koontz continues. “We all the time speak about how Dana’s flawed. She’s going to have that intestine response and possibly that intestine response shouldn’t have been to tase him in that place proper then. However on the identical time, that call was what felt proper to her as a result of her household was in peril. So she snaps into motion, typically for good, typically for unhealthy. We’ll see what these ramifications are sooner or later although.”
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