NOS4A2 (TV Series)
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| NOS4A2 | ||
| Genre | Supernatural horror drama | |
| Created by | Jami O'Brien | |
| Based on | NOS4A2 by Joe Hill | |
| Starring | Ashleigh Cummings Zachary Quinto Jahkara J. Smith Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Virginia Kull Ebon Moss-Bachrach Ashley Romans | |
| Opening theme | "Carol of the Bells" | |
| Composer(s) | Mike Patton | |
| Country of origin | United State | |
| Original language(s) | English | |
| No. of seasons | 2 | |
| No. of episodes | 20 (list of episodes) | |
| Production | ||
| Executive producer(s) | Jami O'Brien Joe HillKari Skogland Lauren Corrao | |
| Producer(s) | Shana Fischer Huber | |
| Production location(s) | ||
| Cinematography | Martin Ahlgren | |
| Editor(s) | Todd Desrosiers | |
| Running time | 40–56 minutes | |
| Production company(s) | ||
| Release | ||
| Original network | AMC | |
| Original release | June 2, 2019 – August 23, 2020 | |
| External links | ||
NOS4A2 (pronounced Nosferatu) is an American supernatural horror drama television series, based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Joe Hill, that ran on AMC from June 2, 2019 to August 23, 2020. The series was created by Jami O'Brien and stars Ashleigh Cummings, Zachary Quinto, Jahkara Smith, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Virginia Kull, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach. The series deals with a working-class artist who uses supernatural abilities to track an immortal being who preys on children. In August 2020, the series was canceled after two seasons.
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[edit] Premise
[edit] Cast and characters
[edit] Main
- Ashleigh Cummings as Victoria "Vic" McQueen
- Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Bing Partridge
- Jahkara J. Smith as Margaret "Maggie" Leigh
- Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Christopher "Chris" McQueen
- Virginia Kull as Linda McQueen
- Zachary Quinto as Charlie Manx
- Ashley Romans as Tabitha Hutter (main season 2; recurring season 1)
- Jonathan Langdon as Lou Carmody (main season 2; guest star season 1)
- Mattea Conforti as Millie Manx (main season 2; recurring season 1)
[edit] Recurring
- Dalton Harrod as Craig
- Asher Miles Fallica as Daniel Moore
- Chris McKinney as Sheriff Bly
- Rarmian Newton as Drew Butler
- Karen Pittman as Angela Brewster
- Paulina Singer as Willa Brewster
- Darby Camp as Haley Smith
- Judith Roberts as Jolene
- Jason David as Bruce Wayne McQueen (season 2)
- Paul Schneider as Jonathan Beckett, the "Hourglass Man" (season 2)
[edit] Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 10 | June 2, 2019 | July 28, 2019 | |
| 2 | 10 | June 21, 2020 | August 23, 2020 | |
[edit] Season 1 (2019)
The complete season became available on June 2, 2019, via AMC's on-demand service, AMC Premiere.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "The Shorter Way" | Kari Skogland | Jami O'Brien | June 2, 2019 | 1.108 |
| he immortal 135-year-old Charlie Manx lures a child from his home in Here, Iowa into his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith bound for Christmasland, a magical place "where every day is Christmas and unhappiness is against the law". Meanwhile, Victoria "Vic" McQueen, a Haverhill, Massachusetts townie discovers her supernatural abilities when she is able to portal through an old covered bridge that was demolished long ago. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Graveyard of What Might Be" | Kari Skogland | Mark Richard | June 9, 2019 | 0.891 |
| After crossing the Shorter Way bridge into Here, Iowa, Vic meets Maggie, a medium who uses Scrabble tiles to seek answers to the strange happenings. She explains that like her, Vic is a Strong Creative, a chosen one to find lost children who were kidnapped by Charlie Manx. Meanwhile, Manx visits Haverhill to find Vic but instead recruits school custodian Bing Partridge, who is eager to work in Christmasland and help Manx "rescue and recover" kids from their bad parents. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Gas Mask Man" | John Shiban | Marcus Gardley | June 16, 2019 | 0.921 |
| Vic visits her dream art school RISD with her wealthy friends. Her dream seems out of reach without financial aid, so on Willa's advice, Vic forges her father's signature on a tax return. Back in Haverhill, Manx senses the presence of a Strong Creative, an old woman in the town's psychiatric ward, who used her roller skates as her "knife" to portal. With Bing Partridge's help, Manx tries to track down Vic by the Shorter Way bridge, but meets Vic's young neighbor, Haley, who is looking for her lost cat, Mittens. Later, Bing, while wearing a gas mask, gasses Haley's mother with sevoflurane and kidnaps Haley. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The House of Sleep" | John Shiban | Megan Mostyn-Brown | June 23, 2019 | 0.729 |
| Bing's childhood in Sugarcreek, Pennsylvania with his abusive father and his submissive mother comes into perspective about his adult life as a serial killer. As a teenager, when his father insults him for hanging the Christmas lights too slowly, Bing kills him with a nail gun. When his mother finds out, he mistakes her motherly behavior for romantic affection and ends up raping and killing her, as well. Bing, easily influenced by Manx, re-creates his crime by doing the same with Haley's mother, Sharon. The Shorter Way leads Vic to Bing's house where she discovers the evidence of her kidnapping in the basement. Later, Vic finds her corpse buried in dirt with a nail through her skull. Manx asks that he and Vic meet in person. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Wraith" | Tim Southam | Lucy Thurber | June 30, 2019 | 0.737 |
| Manx lays out his plan for Vic; come to Christmasland and serve as a mother to all the kidnapped children. However, Vic vows to find it and burn the whole place down. Maggie finds the Wraith and the vanity license plate, but when Maggie touches the car, Manx senses it. The Wraith's ignition starts up and slams into Maggie. Vic is questioned by Tabitha Hutter, the detective on the case and she tells her the truth about Manx and his Wraith. Hutter suggests that Vic should be committed to a psych ward. After a little prodding from her dad, Vic signs a voluntary commitment form. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Dark Tunnels" | Tim Southam | Thomas Brady | July 7, 2019 | 0.666 |
| In 1954, Saugus, Massachusetts, young Charlie Manx proposes to Strong Creative Jolene, a carhop at a drive-in. He wants to take her to Christmasland to be a family with all the children he's saved, but she refuses. In the mental ward, Vic is placed in the same room with an aged Jolene, who tells her about Manx. They're transported in Jolene's new knife, a wheelchair, to the Dark Tunnels, Jolene's Inscape where missing child posters dot the walls. Before she dies, Jolene uses her ability to destroy the Wraith's engine, which turns Manx into an old man. In order to leave the hospital, Vic tells the doctor that she made everything up. She asks Maggie, who was discharged earlier, to team up again, but Maggie is done due to her incident with the Wraith. She tosses her Scrabble bag into the trash and returns to Iowa. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Scissors for the Drifter" | Jeremy Webb | Jami O'Brien | July 14, 2019 | 0.660 |
| A vulnerable Manx finds himself dying and without the Wraith running. After Vic's mother sells her bike, Vic is without her knife and needs to access the Shorter Way to find Manx. She reaches Maggie but she's is no help and is abusing her pain pills. Vic heads to Bike Week with her father to look for another dirt bike, but cannot find one to connect with. Over the course of the episode, Vic continuously gets calls only she can hear from the kidnapped children from Christmasland, including one who calls herself "Millie Manx". Manx and Bing arrive at a scrap yard in Nebraska that has Wraith parts. The proprietress calls Sheriff Joe to report them and before the local police respond, Manx kills her, remembering taking her grandson many years ago. A sober Maggie wakes up in Joe's home to find his squad car's lights flashing outside. Manx kidnapped Joe to Christmasland to play a deadly game of Scissors for the Drifter. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Parnassus" | Jeremy Webb | Megan Mostyn-Brown | July 21, 2019 | 0.775 |
| In the aftermath of Joe's disappearance, Maggie initially turns to her mother for consolation, but can't bring herself to return due to the strict rules. Maggie's Scrabble bag strangely returns and confirm Joe's death at the hands of the Christmasland children. In response, Maggie proceeds to binge on drugs and alcohol. Meanwhile, Vic receives word that she's been accepted into RISD and is invited to a party hosted by Willa. Vic's mother and father briefly reunite at the party, with Linda showing concern about Vic being ready for a college education. After the party, Vic and her mother briefly have an argument which ends in Vic storming out of the house before being captured by Bing. Luckily, she manages to escape from Bing's clutches and, after a phone call from Maggie, recovers her bike and saves Maggie from an overdose. In a bar, Charlie Manx meets with another Strong Creative named Abe and proposes the idea of having Vic be a mother to his children. Abe, however, strongly disagrees, proposing that Manx kill Vic due to the extent of her abilities. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | Sleigh House" | Hanelle Culpepper | Thomas Brady | July 28, 2019 | 0.676 |
| Craig attacks Bing in his house to avenge Vic's abduction. Vic and Maggie arrive to find the house empty. Bing brings Craig to Manx, who questions him about Vic's purity. Vic travels The Shorter Way to Manx's house, where she finds the Wraith with Craig locked in the back, and one of Manx' children hunting her. Manx tosses Vic's bike into the bridge, destroying it, and burns the house down. Vic narrowly escapes. Maggie convinces Hutter that her powers are real and directs the police to find Bing in his old workplace, but they are too late. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "Gunbarrel" | Stefan Schwartz | Jami O'Brien | July 28, 2019 | 0.676 |
| Craig escapes his constraints in the trunk of the Wraith and sabotages it by punching a hole in the fuel tank with a crowbar. Vic flags down a biker named Lou Carmody and seeks help in a gas station in what she learns is Colorado. The Wraith pulls up outside the gas station in the same moment. Craig escapes from the trunk into the car, where the child attacks him. Lou holds up Manx at gunpoint, but Manx takes the gun from Lou. Vic sets fire to the Wraith, causing Manx to age horribly. The Wraith explodes, killing Craig. In the hospital, Vic learns that she is pregnant, and that Manx is in a coma. Hutter visits Maggie, and they ask the tiles where Bing is. At Craig's funeral, Vic tells her father that she's pregnant and leaves the town for good. Vic vows to Maggie to find Christmasland and rescue the children. Six months later, Bing is seen working at a dentist's with access to more of the gas. Vic is with Lou and hears Haley inviting her to Christmasland. An automechanic starts the Wraith, causing Manx to wake up from his coma. | ||||||
[edit] Season 2 (2020)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
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[edit] Production
[edit] Development
[edit] Casting
[edit] Release
[edit] Marketing
[edit] Premiere
[edit] Reception
[edit] Critical response
[edit] Ratings
[edit] Season 1
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Shorter Way" | June 2, 2019 | 0.3 | 1.11 | 0.3 | 1.01 | 0.6 | 2.12 |
| 2 | "The Graveyard of What Might Be" | June 9, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.89 | 0.3 | 1.02 | 0.5 | 1.91 |
| 3 | "The Gas Mask Man" | June 16, 2019 | 0.3 | 0.92 | 0.2 | 0.82 | 0.5 | .74 |
| 4 | "The House of Sleep" | June 23, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.73 | 0.2 | 0.73 | 0.4 | 1.46 |
| 5 | "The Wraith" | June 30, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.74 | 0.2 | 0.76 | 0.4 | 1.50 |
| 6 | The Dark Tunnels | July 7, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.67 | N/A | 0.74 | N/A | 1.41 |
| 7 | "Scissors for the Drifter" | July 14, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.66 | 0.2 | 0.83 | 0.4 | 1.49 |
| 8 | Parnassus | July 21, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.78 | N/A | 0.74 | N/A | 1.52 |
| 9 | Sleigh House | July 28, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.68 | N/A | 0.64 | N/A | 1.32 |
| 10 | Gunbarrel | July 28, 2019 | 0.2 | 0.68 | N/A | 0.64 | N/A | 1.32 |
[edit] Season 2
[edit] Accolades
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A |
