Reef Break
2019 French-American crime drama television series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reef Break is a French-American[1] crime drama television series. ABC Studios International is producing the television series for French broadcaster M6, as well as for ABC. The series premiered on June 20, 2019 on ABC in the United States.[2]
| Reef Break | |
|---|---|
| Genre | |
| Created by | Ken Sanzel |
| Starring |
|
| Composer | Michael Yezerski |
| Country of origin | |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 13 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers |
|
| Producers |
|
| Cinematography |
|
| Editors |
|
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 41–43 minutes |
| Production companies |
|
| Original release | |
| Network | |
| Release | June 20 – September 13, 2019 |
On December 13, 2019, ABC cancelled the series after one season.[3]
Cast
- Poppy Montgomery as Cat Chambers, a professional surfer and former associate of the Shorepound criminal syndicate, with whom she worked as a smuggler, money launderer, hustler, con artist, and burglar. Now retired, she returns to Reef Island to take up work as a fixer for the island's government.
- Ray Stevenson as Jake Elliot, an aging federal agent stationed on Reef Island, where his exploits are considered legend. Years earlier, he infiltrated Shorepound and met Cat, whom he wound up marrying; he then got her to turn on her partners and broke up the syndicate. Although he and his wife are now separated, he still helps her out from time to time.[4]
- Desmond Chiam as Det. Wyatt Cole, a newly-promoted detective in the Reef Island police department who pairs up with Cat after they share a one-night stand. He doesn't trust her at first, but gradually comes to realize that she genuinely wants to turn over a new leaf.[5][6]
- Melissa Bonne as Ana Dumont, Wyatt's half-sister and the deputy governor of Reef Island, who hires Cat to assist the police and occasionally handle problems that the governor's office wants to keep out of the spotlight.
- Tamala Shelton as Petra Torrance, a surfer and thief who hates Cat for her part in the death of her father Mike.
- Jacek Koman as General Kivani
- Joey Vieira as Detective Tolan
- Laura Gordon as Sergeant Kirsty Ellis
- Heather Mitchell as Maeve Devlin
- Dustin Clare as Richard Stuyler
Production
The series was announced on May 2, 2018.[7] ABC Studios International is producing the television series for French broadcaster M6.[8] On August 23, 2018, it was announced that ABC had picked up the series for its own 2019 summer schedule. The first season would consist of 13 episodes.[1] On April 10, 2019, it was announced that the series would premiere on ABC in the United States on June 20, 2019.[2]
Reef Break was filmed on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.[9]
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pilot" | Alex Zakrzewski | Ken Sanzel | June 20, 2019 | 2.84[10] | |
|
In Nimitz Bay, a community on the fictional U.S. territory of Reef Island, retired grifter Cat Chambers returns to testify against the man who tried to kill her five years earlier. Businessman Carter Eastland then hires her to help rescue his daughter Tori, who is being held for a ransom of $6 million, with a local cop, Det. Cole, as her backup. Cole sidelines her, so Cat goes to her estranged husband Jake, who offers to help but also serves her divorce papers. Cole arrests her for violating a crime scene, but releases her when the kidnappers demand that she deliver the ransom in person. However, Cat disobeys instructions and rescues Tori herself, having switched out the ransom money with weights. Cat correctly deduces that Tori faked her kidnapping and saves her from being murdered by her disgruntled accomplice, who she manages to kill when Jake distracts him. Carter gives her use of Tori's beach house in return for her silence, and Cat tries to reconnect with Petra, the daughter of a man she killed during her criminal career. Cat accepts an offer from the deputy governor, Ana, to work as a fixer for the governor's office. | ||||||
| 2 | "Lost and Found" | Shawn Seet | Robert Port | June 27, 2019 | 1.98[11] | |
|
Ana sends Cat after Dax Melvoy, a lawyer with an incriminating video of the governor who's been taken hostage; she's to destroy the video before it can be distributed. Melvoy is rescued, and identifies his abductors as a gang of pirates the police have hunted for seven years. Wyatt forces Doc Yulo, a local drug kingpin, to return a watch that Cat stole for him while they were married. Cat gets Petra's minibike out of impound and trades it to Otter, the local fence and Petra's adopted father, for a map that reveals a secret reef where the pirates are hiding, then steals a boat with Wyatt to find them alone. However, when Wyatt reveals he had police tailing them, Cat kicks him off the boat. Unbeknownst to her, Richard Stuyler, Carter's security chief, is also following, having forced Otter to reveal Cat's plan. The pirates' leader, Raven, lets Cat watch the video and helps her distract Stuyler while alerting Wyatt to their location, forcing him and his men to retreat. Cat sells the video for an inflated price to the governor. Jake tells Cat that she's inspired him to try to be a better man. Cat tells him to keep the watch so she'll always have a reason to see him. | ||||||
| 3 | "Buried Things" | Kieran Darcy-Smith | Mark Rosner | July 11, 2019 | 2.28[12] | |
|
Petra agrees to fence some stolen gold, but her contact is killed during the handoff. Doug O'Casey, the former head of Shorepound, asks for a transfer to Oregon so he can protect his nephew Jasper. Cat goes to her mentor Maeve Devlin for help, but she declines; Cat then plants a tracker on her car. That night, she barely survives an attempt on her life. Suspecting that the cops handling the case, Hines and Inoue, might be dirty, Cat turns to Jake for assistance. By tailing Maeve, they find Sonny Turner, who stole $30 million worth of gold a decade earlier and used part of it to turn his life around while hiding the rest in the jungle. Hines and Inoue grab Petra and her friends and take them to find the gold. Cat persuades Sonny to lead her to the stash with Wyatt and Jake in close pursuit. Hines and Inoue are shot, and Petra and the others are cleared of murder. Even though turning him in would revitalize his career, Jake cuts Sonny loose. Petra puts Cat in touch with Jasper, and she learns that Doug has been lying to her about needing the transfer. Doug smugly infers that he has something in the works, something that only she can figure out. | ||||||
| 4 | "Welcome to the Jungle" | Sian Davies | Ken Sanzel | July 18, 2019 | 1.85[13] | |
|
During a secret meeting with the Sawyer drug syndicate to discuss an incursion of Thai drug traffickers on the island, Cat and Ana are forced to flee when gunmen abduct Dylan Sawyer; they discover that Dylan's son Beau has betrayed him so he can take over and convert his marijuana operation into a massive drug processing facility. While investigating the same case, Wyatt and Jake learn that a drug cook known as the "Chemist" is heading the Thai gang and force the governor to reveal Ana's whereabouts. With no other choice, they go after them with assistance from Stuyler and Eastland's men. Cat and Ana separate and Ana is caught, while Cat is able to intercept the Chemist and take him hostage; as Ana speaks Thai, she is able to convince the traffickers to leave, while both Beau and the Chemist are arrested. Stuyler tells Wyatt he'll be expected to provide a favor if he wants any further assistance. Cat recognizes that Jake still has feelings for her, unaware that he and Ana are in a secret relationship. That evening, when Wyatt comes to stay over, Cat finds an incriminating message from Stuyler on his phone. | ||||||
| 5 | "The Green Tide" | Peter Andrikidis | Niceole R. Levy | July 25, 2019 | 1.91[14] | |
|
A refinery owned by Carter Eastland explodes due to sabotage and a bomb was left to finish it off. After Cat disabled the bomb, the gang suspect some environmental fanatics called Green Tide to be the culprits, two of which, Stuyler and Jakinda, happen to be there and Cat suspects Carter himself was behind the explosion the whole time. While Cole went to the Green Tide base of operations Cat interrogates Carter, however there seems to be more than meets the eye going on: Green Tide its seems was innocent. Cat and Jake try to uncover Carter's secrets, meanwhile Carter himself was on the receiving end of an assassination attempt that destroyed his car. Cat pays a visit to Jakinda's address and finds she has a passport and a second I.D., but is caught by Jakinda herself, sparking a fight between the two woman, though Jakinda escaped. The next day Cat delivered the second I.D. to Cole, and "Jakinda" is actually Elidi Carras who worked as a bomb-thrower for Carter, and that she has a grudge against Carter for getting her brother Nico killed. She personally waltzes into Carter's building wearing a vest with a bomb, threatening to blow up herself and take Carter with her, but is thwarted by Cat, Cole and Jake. | ||||||
| 6 | "The Two O'Clock Flight" | Peter Andrikidis | Robert Port | August 1, 2019 | 1.97[15] | |
|
Cat is haunted by what happened in the last episode, but it's far from over as Doug informs her that more assassins are coming via Stuyler by plane, so Cat and Jake head to the airport meet these killers. The first assassin off the plane though, immediately shoots at Jake and all three fortify themselves in the plane and hold the passengers and crew hostage, although their real intent was succeed where Elidi Carras failed. Jake play along with the assassins' demands by sending a disguised Cat onboard their plane, and she managed to get at least three hostages off before getting down to business. Meanwhile Cole goes looking for Stuyler, who seems to have flown the coup. He does however find out where Stuyler is headed to, but upon arrival finds Stuyler has been killed. Cat and the lead assassin Mr Pink raise the steaks in their little "negotiation", until one passenger exposes her, but Jake and a swat storm into the DC-3. Even so Pink takes Cat hostage, only to be sniped by Cole. Though Ana wasn't pleased at Cat's attempt at being substitute, she's satisfied with the outcome, but Cat believes Doug is up to something to have the event happen as it did. | ||||||
| 7 | "Despot" | Grant Brown | Mark Rosner | August 8, 2019 | 1.51[16] | |
|
A military general named Kivani and his wife are on holiday on the island, but it gets spoiled by an armed airplane attacking them, killing a guard. Cat though does save the general's wife, and said general has taken a liking to Cat because of it. As if one problem for Cat wasn't enough, now she's got to deal with Petra wanting to know why Cat killed Petra's father and that Jake was now having a thing with Ana. While Jake handles Petra, Cole finds the pilot who attacked the general has died after landing. General Kivani however has some shady secrets on him that Cat finds, while Cole and Jake arrive at the party in the believe his assistant Leon is the one trying to kill the general. To all surprise the general's own wife knocks wine onto her husband which contained a fast-acting poison, killing him. Leon though used it to flee with all of the general's treasures, but is caught in the act. He wasn't the only one though, his own wife intended to do the same, but Cat brought karma to her too. | ||||||
| 8 | "The Comeback" | Grant Brown | Laura Wolner | August 15, 2019 | 1.77[17] | |
|
During a surfing contest, Tori returns and brings a veteran named Marcy Brooks, who has history with Cat. The contest however is cut short when a jet ski-riding assassin suddenly shows up and kills some participants and despite Cat's effort to stop him escapes. The first suspect is Jimmy Kinsella, a spear fishermen which is illegal on the reef, only he is found dead. To protect Marcy, Cat has her lay low at her beach-house from someone Marcy's provoked, but Jake suspects Marcy is hiding something. Suddenly Marcy ups and disappears, so Cat goes searching, though found Marcy's sponsors were smuggling OxyContin around the Pacific, and that Marcy is a pawn in it. They recruit Cat into it and she complies, though not enthusiastically. They also try to eliminate her, but a friend of Doug saves the day while Cole takes care Marcy's doctor Benjamin who was also involved with the smuggling. | ||||||
| 9 | "The Hohenzollern Collection" | Kieran Darcy-Smith | Brandon K. Hines | August 22, 2019 | 1.95[18] | |
| 10 | "Blue Skies" | Kieran Darcy-Smith | Teleplay by : Haley Harris and Mark Rosner Story by : Haley Harris | August 29, 2019 | 2.14[19] | |
| 11 | "Dream Lover" | Fiona Banks | Robert Port | August 29, 2019 | 1.66[19] | |
| 12 | "Prison Break" | Fiona Banks | Norman Morrill | September 5, 2019 | 1.45[20] | |
| 13 | "Endgame" | Steve Pearlman | Michelle Lirtzman | September 13, 2019 | 2.14[21] | |
Reception
Summarize
Perspective
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the series has an approval rating of 33% based on 6 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10.[22]
Ratings
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pilot" | June 20, 2019 | 0.5/3 | 2.84[10] | 0.2 | 1.31 | 0.7 | 4.16[23] |
| 2 | "Lost and Found" | June 27, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 1.98[11] | 0.2 | 1.10 | 0.5 | 3.08[24] |
| 3 | "Buried Things" | July 11, 2019 | 0.4/2 | 2.28[12] | 0.1 | 1.24 | 0.5 | 3.52[25] |
| 4 | "Welcome to the Jungle" | July 18, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 1.85[13] | 0.1 | 1.17 | 0.4 | 3.02[26] |
| 5 | "The Green Tide" | July 25, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 1.91[14] | 0.1 | 1.13 | 0.4 | 3.04[27] |
| 6 | "The Two O'Clock Flight" | August 1, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 1.97[15] | 0.1 | 1.13 | 0.4 | 3.10[28] |
| 7 | "Despot" | August 8, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 1.51[16] | 0.1 | 1.00 | 0.4 | 2.69[29] |
| 8 | "The Comeback" | August 15, 2019 | 0.2/2 | 1.77[17] | 0.2 | 1.02 | 0.4 | 2.82[30] |
| 9 | "The Hohenzollern Collection" | August 22, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 1.95[18] | 0.2 | 1.14 | 0.5 | 3.15[31] |
| 10 | "Blue Skies" | August 29, 2019 | 0.4/2 | 2.14[19] | 0.1 | 0.90 | 0.5 | 3.17[32] |
| 11 | "Dream Lover" | August 29, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 1.66[19] | 0.1 | 1.01 | 0.4 | 2.79[32] |
| 12 | "Prison Break" | September 5, 2019 | 0.3/1 | 1.45[20] | 0.1 | 1.01 | 0.4 | 2.46[33] |
| 13 | "Endgame" | September 13, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 2.14[21] | 0.1 | 1.01 | 0.4 | 3.15[34] |
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.