“Rubicon,” AMC’s latest drama, is set to premiere August 1, 2010. AMC offered a sneak preview of the one-hour pilot on Sunday, June 6, after the season finale of “Breaking Bad.”
Scored by duotone’s Pete Nashel, the show received early praise from the NY Times, Rolling Stone, and others:
“AMC’s stellar track record of Mad Men and Breaking Bad speaks for itself – and Rubicon seems to be in the same elite class,” writes Peter Travers in Rolling Stone, calling the show a “superbly brainy thriller.” The NY Times says “‘Rubicon’ seems irresistible: a suspenseful series laced with conspiracy and espionage in the style of classic 1970s thrillers like ‘Three Days of the Condor’ and ‘The Parallax View.’”
The series follows Will Travers (James Badge Dale), an intelligence analyst for a think tank, as he uncovers a grand conspiracy and discovers that his employers may be part of a vast, powerful secret society. Rubicon follows in the footsteps of AMC’s hit original series Mad Men and Breaking Bad. Nashel’s score is a mixture of eerie electronics and string orchestra – simultaneously creating an homage to 70’s thriller scores all the while keeping a foot firmly planted in the present. Each week, Nashel records a small string based-chamber group for the show.
Created by Jason Horwitch and executive-produced by Henry Bromell, Rubicon is set in New York City. The pilot episode, directed by acclaimed director Allen Coulter (The Sopranos, Hollywoodland, Damages) aired Sunday, June 13th after Breaking Bad. iTunes quickly front-paged the episode, billed as a ‘Sneak Preview,’ and is currently offering it for free in their television section.
The hour-long, 13-episode weekly series is set to premiere Sunday August 1st at 8/7c.
