Here and Now (2018 TV series)
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Here and Now (2018 TV series)
| Here and Now | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Dark comedy[15]Drama |
| Created by | Alan Ball |
| Starring | Holly Hunter Tim Robbins Daniel Zovatto Jerrika Hinton Raymond Lee Sosie Bacon Joe Williamson Andy Bean Peter Macdissi |
| Composer(s) | Michael Penn |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Originallanguage(s) | English |
| No.of seasons | 1 |
| No.of episodes | 3(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executiveproducer(s) | Alan Ball Peter Macdissi David Knoller |
| Producer(s) | Steve Oster |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Productioncompany(s) | Your Face Goes Here Entertainment HBO Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | HBO |
| Picture format | 16:9 HDTV |
| Original release | February 11, 2018 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Here and Now | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Dark comedy[15]Drama |
| Created by | Alan Ball |
| Starring | Holly Hunter Tim Robbins Daniel Zovatto Jerrika Hinton Raymond Lee Sosie Bacon Joe Williamson Andy Bean Peter Macdissi |
| Composer(s) | Michael Penn |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Originallanguage(s) | English |
| No.of seasons | 1 |
| No.of episodes | 3(list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executiveproducer(s) | Alan Ball Peter Macdissi David Knoller |
| Producer(s) | Steve Oster |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Productioncompany(s) | Your Face Goes Here Entertainment HBO Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | HBO |
| Picture format | 16:9 HDTV |
| Original release | February 11, 2018 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Cast
Main
Holly Hunter as Audrey Bayer, a therapist [18]
Tim Robbins as Greg Boatwright, Audrey's husband and a philosophy professor [18]
Jerrika Hinton as Ashley Collins, adopted by the Bayer-Boatwrights from Liberia, now creator and owner of a retail fashion website [19]
Raymond Lee as Duc Bayer-Boatwright, adopted from Vietnam when he was five, now a successful life coach [19]
Daniel Zovatto as Ramon Bayer-Boatwright, adopted from an orphanage in Colombia at 18 months, now a college senior studying video game design [19]
Sosie Bacon as Kristen Bayer-Boatwright, a junior in high school and the only biological child of her parents [19]
Joe Williamson as Malcolm Collins, Ashley's husband and Duc's best friend, an assistant personal trainer for the Portland women’s soccer team [20]
Andy Bean as Henry, a free spirit who falls in love with Ramon [20]
Marwan Salama as Navid Shokrani [16]
Guest starring
Trent Garrett as Randy
Kevin Bigley as Michael
Cynthia Ettinger as Lydia
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date[21] | U.S. viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Eleven Eleven" | Alan Ball | Alan Ball | February 11, 2018 | 0.541[22] |
| The Bayer-Boatwrights are a multicultural family consisting of the patriarch Greg, (Tim Robbins) a professor - having an affair with a regular prostitute - who is having his 60th birthday, organized by his wife Audrey (Holly Hunter) and only biological child, Kristen (Sosie Bacon) a high school student and introvert. They also have 3 adopted children, fashion designer adopted from Liberia, Ashley (Jerrika Hinton) now married with a biological daughter, life coach Duc (Raymond Lee) adopted from Vietnam and Ramon (Daniel Zovatto) adopted from Colombia and in a relationship with free-spirited Henry (Andy Bean). The party goes awry when Ramon starts hallucinating and seeing the figures 11:11 constantly and starts to see a therapist and Audrey suspects its schizophrenia. | |||||
| 2 | "It's Coming" | Uta Briesewitz | Alan Ball | February 18, 2018 | 0.368[23] |
| Ramon notices during his therapist session conducted by Farid (Fred) Shrokani, (Peter Macdissi) and that woman in Ramon's dream is the therapist's mother, and that 11:11 is his therapists birthday. The therapist also has a gender-fluid son that likes to cross dress and wear a hijab. Kristen has sex for the first time with a model that Ashley brought to their father's birthday and contracts an STD. They visit a Planned Parenthood clinic and Kristen kicks a protester in the groin and she and Ashley are arrested. Duc gets his book published and has various amount of one night stands. Greg tells his students in a lecture to leave and enjoy life and one of his students ask if he is okay. Audrey decides to host a family meeting to discuss the state of Ramon's health without Ramon, Kristen tells him and Ramon barges in and tells his its his decision. Greg drives down and hits a fork in the road, sees 11 11 on a road sign then heads in the wrong direction. | |||||
| 3 | "If a Deer Shits in the Woods" | Uta Briesewitz | Mohamad El Masri | February 25, 2018 | 0.385[15] |
| 4 | "Hide and Seek"[15] | Jeremy Podeswa | Nancy Oliver | March 4, 2018 | TBD |
| 5 | "From Sun Up To Sun Down"[15] | Jeremy Podeswa | J.R.Edwards | March 11, 2018 | TBD |
| 6 | "Fight, Death"[15] | Lisa Cholodenko | Wes Taylor | March 18, 2018 | TBD |
| 7 | "Wake"[15] | Lisa Cholodenko | Tanya Barfield | March 25, 2018 | TBD |
| 8 | "Yes"[15] | TBA | TBA | April 1, 2018 | TBD |
| 9 | "Dream Logic"[15] | TBA | TBA | April 8, 2018 | TBD |
| 10 | "It's Here"[15] | TBA | TBA | April 15, 2018 | TBD |
Production
HBO ordered the series in July 2016.
Casting
On January 31, 2018, it was announced that Stephanie Arcila and Erin Carufel signed onto the series in the recurring roles of Mami and Wendy, respectively.
Filming
The series is partially filmed in Portland, Oregon. [9]
Marketing
The teaser trailer of the first season was released in December 2017.
Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has a 30% approval rating based 30 reviews, with an average rating of 4.82/10. [11] On Metacritic, it has a score of 46 out of 100 based 28 reviews. [12]