Red Widow
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| 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 |
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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