COMING SOON: "Redwood Falls: The Book of Job"

And you thought southern California was strange?

Welcome to Redwood Falls, the second offering from Read-TV which debuts Saturday, October 31st with a teaser introduction, followed by the pilot that drops on Friday, November 13th.  It was always the intention, upon starting Read-TV, that a second TV-for-Readers series would begin toward the end of 2015, and we're proud to announce our next production!

A big departure from "Candyland" (to say the least), "Redwood Falls: The Book of Job" is an idea that's been brewing in this writer's mind even longer than the story of Candace and company.  Think the CW's "The Originals", meshed with a modern-day "Penny Dreadful" (you gotta love Showtime) ... with maybe just a touch of "Hannibal" (curse you, NBC!) and a more mature Twilight (sans Bella, thank God), and you get the idea.

(Note: this series will run for only twenty episodes, with new installments every two weeks instead of every week as it's the first of a projected trilogy.)

A brief intro to the series is below (a separate blog/website for "Redwood Falls" will go up mid-October), along with the beginnings of the Dream Cast (the actors who inspired the characters), with more to be added soon.  So enjoy this sneak preview, remember episode 11 of "Candyland" drops here this Friday ... and please join us for "Redwood Falls: The Book of Job" in October!

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Synopsis:

It's been nearly a year since the Rios family buried their adopted son Angel, who took his own life.  Still reeling from the loss of her younger sibling, even pulling away from her parents (who've since split up) in her grief, twenty-one-year-old Darcy Rios works her crap retail job in Los Angeles with no plans for the future, instead spending her days turning over in her head, again and again, what she could possibly have done to save the brother she adored ...

When a voicemail left by Celie, her BFF since childhood, changes everything.  Celie, a "richie," has been on a road trip throughout northern California, prior to transferring college to San Francisco in the fall; a summer vacation Darcy was invited on, but had neither the money nor the inclination to do.  Initially ignoring the voicemail, figuring it'd be Celie's usual ramblings about her trip or her latest boyfriend, when Darcy finally does listen to the message a day later, what she hears is unbelievable:  Celie, while stopping for gas and supplies in a small town called Redwood Falls, swears she has seen Angel.

And while known to pull the occasional juvenile, bone-headed, even tasteless prank, the tone in Celie's voice on this message is ... different; too convincing for her limited acting skills, and too lucid for Celie to be either drunk or stoned - especially when she also mumbles, in a shaky voice, something indecipherable about "a creepy little blond kid."  Darcy immediately calls her back, gets voicemail, and for the next twelve hours continuously tries reaching her friend ... until the phone is answered by Celie's mother, who tearfully informs Darcy that her daughter has been killed in a tragic accident, driving her car into a tree after apparently falling asleep behind the wheel.

But Darcy doesn't believe it.  Celie had vision issues, hated driving at night - often blinded by other headlights coming at her - and had always been too vain to get her eyes checked, never even telling her parents for fear of being banned from night driving at all.  No way would she have been out there on her own, in unfamiliar territory and in the dark, with night blindness.

So before she can talk herself out of it, Darcy is packing a bag and hunting down her parents' atlas ... certain, in her heart, that all answers lie in Redwood Falls.

DREAM CAST

(actors/artists who simply inspired the characters; their depictions/names here are in no way meant to imply they endorse or are in any way part of bringing "Redwood Falls: The Book of Job" to television.  Yet!)

Olivia Cooke (Darcy), Austin Mahone (Angel), Douglas Smith (Sam), India Eisley (Kinny), Ki Hong Lee (Nugget), Dev Patel (Sai), Michiel Huisman (Ira), Elizabeth Banks (Elyse), Daniel Henney (Carl), Tom Williamson (Jax), Arden Cho (Mistress Anne), Saoirse Ronan (Lynx), Betty White (Miss Nora), Alexander Ludwig (Pug), Max & Charlie Carver (Derek & David Ohlson), Nico Mirallegro (Nigel) - with Drew Barrymore (Pixie) and Wilmer Valderrama (Diego) ...

... and

J.J. TOTAH

as Job