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MANHTTAN: “The Understudy” Synopsis and Photos

By Roz | September 25, 2014

How can Charlie and Frank work together with their shared project while so much else is going on? What can Liza do with what she learned last week at the clinic?

Synopsis

“The Understudy” – Old demons resurface for Frank when Annie Liao shows up to The Hill to uncover the truth about what happened to her husband. Abby is torn between her marriage and her undeniably intensifying affair with the beguiling Elodie. Meanwhile, Frank and Charlie encounter a critical flaw in Charlie’s previous work, and Liza slips back under the spell of old behaviors.

“Manhattan” stars Rachel Brosnahan as Abby Isaacs, Michael Chernus as Louis “Fritz” Fedowitz, Christopher Denham as Jim Meeks, Alexia Fast as Callie Winter, Katja Herbers as Helen Prins, John Benjamin Hickey as Frank Winter, Harry Lloyd as Paul Crosley, Eddie Shin as Sid Liao, Daniel Stern as Glen Babbit, Olivia Williams as Liza Winter and Ashley Zukerman as Charlie Isaacs.

Guest starring are Jefferson White as Cole ‘Iowa’ Dunlavey, Peter Stormare (“Prison Break,” “The Blacklist”) as Lazar, Lucia Micarelli (“Treme”) as Annie Liao, Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”) as Occam, Carole Weyers as Elodie, Adam Godley (“Suits,” “Breaking Bad”) as Dr. Adelman, Lora Martinez-Cunningham as Ida Frederickson and Mike Ostroski as Hank Frederickson.

Created and written by Sam Shaw (“Masters of Sex”) and directed by Emmy Award-winning director Thomas Schlamme (“The West Wing”), “Manhattan” is executive produced by Sam Shaw, Thomas Schlamme, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross and Dustin Thomason. Filmed on location in New Mexico, the series is produced by Lionsgate Television, Skydance Television and Tribune Studios.

“The Understudy” was written by Tom Spezialy and directed by Simon Cellan Jones.

Set against the backdrop of the greatest race against time in the history of science — the mission to build the world’s first atomic bomb — “Manhattan” follows the brilliant but flawed scientists and their families in Los Alamos as they attempt to coexist in a world where secrets and lies infiltrate every aspect of their lives.

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