"If you back down like this, you will never win any of the cases that you believe in."
Going into the finale of what has been a tremendous season of Damages, it looks like Ellen and Patty are on the ropes with their case against private security contractor Howard Erickson (John Goodman) and his High Star company. The two may have made it farther than most in terms of pursuing the unpursuable, but thanks to the deal that Ellen made at the tail end of last week's episode, it all may be for naught.
This is all assuming, of course, that Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina) is still alive and not the beheaded man that Ellen walks in on during the show's flash forward this season, as Ellen will only be dropping the case against High Star if he's returned safely to the United States. When last we saw Sanchez, he was knocking on death's door,...
Going into the finale of what has been a tremendous season of Damages, it looks like Ellen and Patty are on the ropes with their case against private security contractor Howard Erickson (John Goodman) and his High Star company. The two may have made it farther than most in terms of pursuing the unpursuable, but thanks to the deal that Ellen made at the tail end of last week's episode, it all may be for naught.
This is all assuming, of course, that Chris Sanchez (Chris Messina) is still alive and not the beheaded man that Ellen walks in on during the show's flash forward this season, as Ellen will only be dropping the case against High Star if he's returned safely to the United States. When last we saw Sanchez, he was knocking on death's door,...
- 9/14/2011
- by Shilo Adams
- TVovermind.com
There's a good reason Damages' Chris Messina seems jittery most of the time he's on the screen — and it's only partly because his character is a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Patty goes to therapy? Things get flip-turned upside down on Season 4 of Damages
"I felt a huge responsibility to the soldiers to make it as honest as I could," Messina tells TVGuide.com. "I played a lot with sleep, and I think the most I didn't sleep was three days in a row. And I'm not a caffeine drinker, but I would play with drinking a bunch of Red Bull before the take. So, the sleep deprivation on top of the instant sugar-caffeine rush ended up making me very shaky."
Messina's Chris Sanchez has plenty of reasons to tremble. He's an employee for a Blackwater-esque private military company led by Howard Erickson (guest star John Goodman), and...
Patty goes to therapy? Things get flip-turned upside down on Season 4 of Damages
"I felt a huge responsibility to the soldiers to make it as honest as I could," Messina tells TVGuide.com. "I played a lot with sleep, and I think the most I didn't sleep was three days in a row. And I'm not a caffeine drinker, but I would play with drinking a bunch of Red Bull before the take. So, the sleep deprivation on top of the instant sugar-caffeine rush ended up making me very shaky."
Messina's Chris Sanchez has plenty of reasons to tremble. He's an employee for a Blackwater-esque private military company led by Howard Erickson (guest star John Goodman), and...
- 7/27/2011
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide.com - Features
There's a good reason Damages' Chris Messina seems jittery most of the time he's on the screen — and it's only partly because his character is a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Patty goes to therapy? Things get flip-turned upside down on Season 4 of Damages
"I felt a huge responsibility to the soldiers to make it as honest as I could," Messina tells TVGuide.com. "I played a lot with sleep, and I think the most I didn't sleep was three days in a row. And I'm not a caffeine drinker, but I would play with drinking a bunch of Red Bull before the take. So, the sleep deprivation on top of the instant sugar-caffeine rush ended up making me very shaky."
Messina's Chris Sanchez has plenty of reasons to tremble. He's an employee for a Blackwater-esque private military company led by Howard Erickson (guest star John Goodman), and...
Patty goes to therapy? Things get flip-turned upside down on Season 4 of Damages
"I felt a huge responsibility to the soldiers to make it as honest as I could," Messina tells TVGuide.com. "I played a lot with sleep, and I think the most I didn't sleep was three days in a row. And I'm not a caffeine drinker, but I would play with drinking a bunch of Red Bull before the take. So, the sleep deprivation on top of the instant sugar-caffeine rush ended up making me very shaky."
Messina's Chris Sanchez has plenty of reasons to tremble. He's an employee for a Blackwater-esque private military company led by Howard Erickson (guest star John Goodman), and...
- 7/27/2011
- by Adam Bryant
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Damages returns for its fourth season this Wednesday at 10/9c — exclusively on DirecTV — with the grey areas as gunmetal as ever, agendas amply murky, and the frenemyship between Patty and Ellen maintaining its delicious prickliness.
Three years have passed since the events of the Season 3 finale, and a big new bad ripe for legal squashing looms on the horizon: Howard Erickson (played by John Goodman), the CEO of a private military defense contractor that engaged in an unspeakable atrocity which, among other casualties, left Ellen’s high school pal Chris Sanchez (Six Feet Under‘s Chris Messina) suffering from Ptsd.
Three years have passed since the events of the Season 3 finale, and a big new bad ripe for legal squashing looms on the horizon: Howard Erickson (played by John Goodman), the CEO of a private military defense contractor that engaged in an unspeakable atrocity which, among other casualties, left Ellen’s high school pal Chris Sanchez (Six Feet Under‘s Chris Messina) suffering from Ptsd.
- 7/13/2011
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Damages actor Chris Messina has revealed that he avoided sleeping while filming the show's fourth season. Messina will play Chris Sanchez, a former soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, in the legal drama's new run. "I was exhausted while shooting, and I would drink Red Bulls to get shaky," he told AOL TV. "I was a complete mess. Either that's going to work [for my character] or it's going to be terrible... but that's what I did." The Greenberg star also admitted that he "crumbled with nerves" when (more)...
- 7/13/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
A promo for "Damages" season 4 has been unleashed to tide fans over its premiere this July. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne will return as Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons respectively, and this time they are embroiled in a wrongful-death suit against a private military contractor, Howard T. Erickson.
Erickson is supplying the U.S. Government with security forces in Afghanistan and is protected by his connections within the highest echelons of power in Washington, D.C. A soldier who now works for the security firm, Chris Sanchez, is drawn into the web of intrigue when Ellen and Patty set their sights on his corrupt employer.
Patty urges Ellen not to give up, but the case seemingly takes its toll on Ellen's emotion. Things will be more complicated with the presence of Jerry Boorman, a shadowy opportunist with ties to both Erickson and the Middle East, and is intimately involved in...
Erickson is supplying the U.S. Government with security forces in Afghanistan and is protected by his connections within the highest echelons of power in Washington, D.C. A soldier who now works for the security firm, Chris Sanchez, is drawn into the web of intrigue when Ellen and Patty set their sights on his corrupt employer.
Patty urges Ellen not to give up, but the case seemingly takes its toll on Ellen's emotion. Things will be more complicated with the presence of Jerry Boorman, a shadowy opportunist with ties to both Erickson and the Middle East, and is intimately involved in...
- 6/13/2011
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Damages has set a date for its debut on Directv July 13.
Speaking on the unusual arrangement that has the drama solely airing on that satellite provider, series creators Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler released a statement today that reads:
"The opportunity to be on Directv this season allows us to explore another chapter in the lives of Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons, and push the envelope in terms of storytelling and content."
What will that chapter focus on? Visit our Damages spoilers section for major intel, and consider the following, official synopsis:
The fourth season finds Patty and Ellen embroiled in a wrongful-death suit against a private military contractor, Howard T. Erickson (John Goodman). Erickson has made a fortune supplying the U.S. Government with security forces in Afghanistan and is protected by his connections within the highest echelons of power in Washington, D.C. Chris Sanchez...
Speaking on the unusual arrangement that has the drama solely airing on that satellite provider, series creators Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler released a statement today that reads:
"The opportunity to be on Directv this season allows us to explore another chapter in the lives of Patty Hewes and Ellen Parsons, and push the envelope in terms of storytelling and content."
What will that chapter focus on? Visit our Damages spoilers section for major intel, and consider the following, official synopsis:
The fourth season finds Patty and Ellen embroiled in a wrongful-death suit against a private military contractor, Howard T. Erickson (John Goodman). Erickson has made a fortune supplying the U.S. Government with security forces in Afghanistan and is protected by his connections within the highest echelons of power in Washington, D.C. Chris Sanchez...
- 5/25/2011
- by matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
- TVfanatic
As Trish mentioned earlier this week, Tlc's new season of their series, Police Women, will feature an out officer with the Memphis Police Department named Virginia Awkward. Yes, she knows her name is funny. She also knows how to take down a perp and wears a gun, so if you want to make a wisecrack, make it a good one.
Actually, Virginia can be as good-natured as she can be tough as nails. She even understands that suspects will do an occasional double take — when responding to a call, she says, "Before they even get into it, they see my name tag, it's like, 'Are you serious? Your name is Awkward?'"
I don't know. She seems more like the opposite of awkward, if you ask me.
Officer Awkward is one of four female officers that will be tailed over 12 episodes of Police Women of Memphis this summer. She took...
Actually, Virginia can be as good-natured as she can be tough as nails. She even understands that suspects will do an occasional double take — when responding to a call, she says, "Before they even get into it, they see my name tag, it's like, 'Are you serious? Your name is Awkward?'"
I don't know. She seems more like the opposite of awkward, if you ask me.
Officer Awkward is one of four female officers that will be tailed over 12 episodes of Police Women of Memphis this summer. She took...
- 5/27/2010
- by badmachine
- AfterEllen.com
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