The Official Damages Season 4 Discussion Thread

[Groo The Perverted]

Note: thanks Wyldeman for reminding me.

Season 4 Premieres on July 13th 2011 exclusively on DirecTV.

Cast:

:

Glenn Close: Patty Hewes
Rose Byrne: Ellen Parsons

Guest Cast:

John Goodman:

CEO of a shadowy military contractor who is a defendant ina wrongful death suit over an incident in a warzone.

Dylan Baker:

Shadowy figure with ties to the Middle East.

Chris Messina:

Old High School Friend of Ellen's, who has a connection to Goodman's character.

Bailey Chase:

Ellen's Love Interest

Synopsis:

TThe fourth season of Damages 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 (Chris Messina), a decorated soldier who now works for the security firm, is drawn into the web of intrigue when Ellen and Patty set their sights on his corrupt employer. Complicating matters is Jerry Boorman (Dylan Baker), a shadowy opportunist with ties to both Erickson and the Middle East who is intimately involved in the season-long conspiracy at the heart of the lawsuit.

Damages to go "even further" than it did on FX.

Executive producer Glenn Kessler says DirecTV is "encouraging us to take things even further than we did on FX," and the military plotline gives ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) a reason to be more authentically potty-mouthed. The budget will be slightly reduced but is being spread across fewer, longer episodes (10 instead of 13 in previous seasons, and an ad-free hour, up from 43 minutes on FX). "We're not looking to have it picked up and then have it be a minor-league version of the series," says executive producer Todd Kessler.

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