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Red Widow

Red Widow
Red Widow logo.jpg
Genre Drama
Thriller
Created by Melissa Rosenberg
Starring Radha Mitchell
Goran Visnjic
Clifton Collins Jr.
Luke Goss
Jaime Ray Newman
Rade Šerbedžija
Lee Tergesen
Erin Moriarty
Sterling Beaumon
Jakob Salvati
Suleka Mathew
Wil Traval
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 8 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) Melissa Rosenberg
Alon Aranya
Howard Klein
Producer(s) Tim Iacofano
Location(s) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Production company(s) ABC Studios
Endemol
Tall Girls Productions
Distributor Disney–ABC Domestic Television
Release
Original network ABC
Original release March 3 – May 5, 2013 (2013-05-05)

Red Widow is an American drama television series created by Melissa Rosenberg, starring Radha Mitchell and Goran Visnjic. On May 11, 2012, ABC picked up Red Widow as a series. The series ran from March 3 to May 5, 2013 and aired on Sundays. The series is based on a 2010 Dutch drama series titled created by Pieter Bart Korthuis and Diederik van Rooijen.

On May 10, 2013, Red Widow was canceled by ABC after one season.

The series stars Radha Mitchell as Marta Walraven, a housewife from Northern California whose husband, a marijuana smuggler, was killed. She has to continue his work to protect her family.

Mary McNamara, the Los Angeles Times television critic, called the show's two-hour pilot "high-aspiring but poorly executed"; according to McNamara:

Working from the original Dutch series Penoza, Red Widow is plagued by sanctimony. It wants to have it all: a sympathetic soccer mom heroine suddenly willing and able to do business with murderous thugs....It's easy to see the sort of show [creator Melissa] Rosenberg envisioned, one in which a "normal" woman finds herself juggling the mundane tasks of motherhood with the high-octane exploits required to keep one step in front of a drug lord. But the show is too busy hedging its bets—hey, he was just running pot, not the hard stuff, and she feels sort of guilty about dragging him into it—that it undercuts its own potential power.

Red Widow - The Complete 1st Season was released onto DVD on May 28, 2013 in Region 1.


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