SDCC 2014: 'Intruders'

Maya Zach ’17 / Emertainment Monthly Staff Writer
Glen Morgan (The X-Files) and Julie Gardner (Doctor Who, Torchwood) team up to create Intruders, an 8-part psychological horror based on the novel The Intruders by Michael Marshall Smith.
In Intruders, a secret society can bring people back from the dead, but they return in the bodies of the living. This begins a battle between the true owner of the body and the new soul placed within it. The show focuses on the life of Jack Whelan (John Simm), an ex-cop and his wife Amy (Mira Sorvino). Though Jack struggles at first to believe his friend’s conspiracy theories of an organization controlling reincarnation, when his wife vanishes and returns a completely different woman, he begins to accept its existence.
The Whelans move to the Pacific Northwest after an “incident” in Los Angeles, where Jack was a police officer. After leaving the force, he wrote a hit book about crimes he investigated, but can’t seem to write that second book. When his high school buddy brings the secret society to his attention, Jack goes undercover to investigate and try to understand it.
Since Amy has two souls within her, Mira Sorvino has a great range in her character; she plays a tragic, broken-winged bird, yet also a cunning, passion-driven, fierce woman. On the other side of the fence is Richard Shepherd (James Frain), who works for the ominous secret society. Shepherd is absolutely not what he seems, as you peel back the layers of his character, he appears to be completely different. Though Shepherd works for the secret society, Frain doesn’t view him as a villain; he just has different motivations than the protagonists.
Every character has darkness and evil inside of them and “nobody is who they seem.” It is up to the viewers and the characters to discern who the others really are. Each of the characters will have an opportunity, as they will all intersect in one way or another; many in shocking and troubling ways.
The Whelan home is a character in and of itself, the house goes on a journey, just as the characters do. As the story progresses and gets creepier, the house begins to disintegrate and fall apart. This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, as Intruders’ production designer, Mark Freeborn, has made incredibly memorable sets for shows such as Breaking Bad and Bates Motel.
The viewers see the world through Jack Whelan’s eyes; they expect nothing paranormal to be afoot and are pushed into this world and slowly start to comprehend what is happening. The mystery progresses throughout the series, but by the third episode, the viewers should have a decent understanding of what is happening and what is to come. Yet, the cast promises bombshells that the viewers will never see coming.
Check out Intruders on August 23rd at 10pm on BBC America.

Watch The Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQw0rwf8xkQ