Bloodline (TV series)

Bloodline
Genre Thriller
Drama
Created by
Starring
Opening theme "The Water Lets You In" by Book of Fears
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 13 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Todd A. Kessler
  • Glenn Kessler
  • Daniel Zelman
Location(s) Florida Keys
Running time 49–65 minutes
Production company(s)
Distributor Netflix
Release
Original network Netflix
Picture format
Original release March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20) – present
External links
Website

Bloodline is an American Netflix original thriller–drama television series[1][2] created by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman, and produced by Sony Pictures Television.[3] The series premiered on February 9, 2015, in the Berlinale Special Galas section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival,[1] and the 13-episode first season premiered in its entirety, on Netflix, on March 20, 2015.[3] On March 31, 2015, Bloodline was renewed for a 10-episode second season to debut on May 27, 2016.[4][5]

The first season received positive reviews from many critics, with some naming Bloodline the best Netflix original series when it debuted and praising its performances (particularly for Ben Mendelsohn) and cinematography.

Premise

The series focuses on the lives of the Rayburn family, which owns and runs an oceanfront hotel in the Florida Keys. When the oldest son and black sheep of the family, Danny, returns home for his parents' celebration of their 45th year running Rayburn House and the scheduled dedication of a pier in their name,[6][7] he quickly causes turmoil amongst the clan, who have a dark past. When Danny gets caught up in the criminal world, he threatens to bring down his entire family and their legacy.

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

Production

Conception

Bloodline was announced in October 2014 as part of a partnership between Netflix and Sony Pictures Television, after Netflix struck its first major deal with a major film studio for a television series.[16] The series was created and executive produced by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman, who previously created the FX series Damages. According to its official synopsis released by Netflix, Bloodline "centers on a close-knit family of four adult siblings whose secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep brother returns home."

The writing trio settled on the theme of family as they tried to determine what their next project would look like. According to Zelman, "Over the years we've found ourselves talking a lot about family and how family dynamics have changed — or not changed — as we've gotten older." Glenn Kessler added, "As we've hit our 40s, our understanding of our family dynamics has begun to change. And because we all come from families with three sons, we recognize the roles we play. It's something we'd been talking about. So the thought was, why not try to mine some of that in our creative life?" They settled on a Florida Keys-set family-thriller genre experiment, exploring the ghost of the past in family role formation. The pitch was attractive to a number of outlets before Netflix landed the drama as a 13-hour season to launch all at once — a structural advantage very important to the show's creators.[17]

Casting

The creators were intrigued by the idea of casting Kyle Chandler, whose on-screen persona in Friday Night Lights was warm and inviting, to play the ostensibly noble but deeply damaged John Rayburn. They met with Chandler in his hometown, Austin, Texas, and pitched him the part. "They said, 'This is like an experiment. We're not quite sure if this is going to work the way we're doing it, but we want to try to create this family dynamic we're aware of and create this family around it'", he recalled. "And their hesitancy of whether it would work or not ... made me, thinking back on it, realize they were into it 110% because they were trying to create something new. I didn’t know what would happen with it or where it could go … But I was like, I’m in."[18]

Ben Mendelsohn was the only actor the producers met with for the role of Danny Rayburn; they found his combination of intellectual and acting ability perfectly-suited to the part. Glenn Kessler was grateful for Netflix's hands-off approach to the decision, explaining, "They very much supported us finding the best actor that we thought could play the role." In addition, seeing as much of the show's dramatic tension comes out of the relationship between John and Danny, a certain chemistry between the two actors was vital. According to Chandler, "[Mendelsohn]'s so easy to work with. And yet, he's tricky — when you're working with him, [psychologically] there's so much going on."[17]

Linda Cardellini and Norbert Leo Butz subsequently secured their parts as siblings Meg and Kevin Rayburn, respectively, through meetings with the creators. According to Kessler, Sissy Spacek and Sam Shepard were actually described prior to casting as the "dream" actors they'd want to play the Rayburn parents. A Damages fan, Spacek signed on after the cast started coming together, explaining, "There's so much good work coming out of television. I wanted to be a part of it."[17]

The second season features the additions of John Leguizamo and Andrea Riseborough as series regulars, both playing characters from Danny's past.[11][12] Ben Mendelsohn returns as a series regular for the second season, despite his character's having been killed off in season one. Glenn Kessler said, "The DNA of the show is such that the past is always with us", and, "We're going to learn more about Danny's effect on the family and more about his past, and also what his effects are in the present day." He added that Mendelsohn's return "was always part of the plan. When we first hired him, it was for more than the first season."[19]

Filming

Todd A. Kessler described the reason for shooting the show on location in the Keys: "We looked at several places and realized there is no place quite like the Keys and the color of the water and being outside and it really feeling like paradise and then having this kind of underbelly of what's going on underneath it."[20] The creators acknowledged Crime and Punishment as a major narrative influence for what they described as a 13-hour movie. As Todd Kessler explained, "in that story the murder takes place at about page 60 and there’s another 400 pages of the book to go. The tagline that we use for promotion — 'We’re not bad people, but we did a bad thing' — is very much the fabric of the series. The first season just gets us to the starting line."[21]

The show favors a mix of classic noir and hyper-realism in its look. Cinematographer Jaime Reynoso said, "he never saw [Bloodline] as a TV show", finding the all-at-once Netflix model useful in lensing the series as if it were film. He explained, "The concept the writers had was they wanted it hyper-realistic, almost documentary style." Consequentially, he found first takes were often the best, with actors not rehearsing to maintain spontaneity.[22] Bloodline editor Naomi Geraghty echoed the importance of realism to the show in her approach: "Nobody is ever saying what they’re saying, so part of how you build on that is by staying with those moments and you save sharp or jarring cuts for flashbacks."[23]

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)
No. Title Directed by Written by Original release date
1"Part 1"Johan RenckTodd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel ZelmanMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
The series begins with an eerie narration by John Rayburn: "Sometimes you know something’s coming. You can feel it. In the air. In your gut. And you don’t sleep at night. The voice in your head is telling you that something is going to go terribly wrong and there’s nothing you can do to stop it. That’s how I felt when my brother came home." The oldest son of the Rayburn family, Danny, buses home from Miami for his parents' celebration of their 45th anniversary running Rayburn House, a beachside inn in the Florida Keys, and the scheduled dedication of a pier in their names,[6][7] honoring their contributions to their community. He disembarks at an earlier stop to avoid his brother John, a detective and deputy sheriff in the Monroe County Sheriff's Department, who is waiting at the next bus stop to pick him up. Instead of going to Rayburn House to participate in the celebration, Danny hangs out at a bar. He listens to John's voicemail message asking where he is and hangs up before it is finished. He then sees an old friend, Eric O'Bannon. Eric, like Danny, has a troubled past and is currently on parole. Eric is pleasantly surprised to see Danny in town and offers him an opportunity to make money. Before the details are explained John calls Eric looking for Danny. Eric pretends he was unaware Danny was home. Back at the house, John is left with the task of telling Sally that Danny didn’t show up at the bus stop. Sally is saddened that her son has let her down, but seconds later Danny shows up to join in the festivities. Danny later approaches his younger sister Meg to ask that she seat his date at the family table. Kevin, the youngest brother, objects due to his parents' dislike for non-family members sitting at the family table. Kevin and Danny get into a heated argument, which John tries to pacify. At the celebration Robert toasts his wife and children. Danny had intended to read the toast he had written on the bus but instead tells a quick joke. After the party Danny asks John to talk to Robert about Danny's staying home for good and working in the family business. Robert initially does not want Danny to return home but leaves it up to the three siblings to decide. Though John, Kevin, and Meg fear Danny may ultimately break Sally's heart in the long run, they decide Danny should stay. However, John lies to Danny, telling him that Robert did not want him to stay. Danny becomes upset and decides to cut his visit short. John asks him to stay until after the pier dedication and when Danny declines drives him back to the Islamorada bus stop. At the bus stop John is called by his partner, Meg's boyfriend Marco, to investigate a possible crime scene reported by a local fisherman, who has found an unidentified woman floating in the channel.
2"Part 2"Johan RenckTeleplay by: Jeff Shakoor
Story by: Todd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman		March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
Danny does not take the bus home and instead climbs into Eric's van. Danny tells Eric that he is the only family that he has. Eric and Danny paint gas canisters black and steal gasoline from a local dock, for an opportunity that Eric let Danny in on. Eric lets Danny know they are dealing with dangerous people, but the money is really easy. Eric lets Danny stay at his sister, Chelsea's, house. John and Marco meet with the coroner to examine the unidentified body they'd found in the water. The coroner determines the woman died from drowning, despite the burns on her body. Danny is standing on an empty beach when Robert paddles up in his kayak. Robert tells Danny he thought he'd left, but Danny tells him he wanted to tell him goodbye and no hard feelings, before Robert dies. Robert laughs it off, gets back in his kayak, and paddles off. Soon after paddling away Robert falls over in his kayak. Danny saves his life and in the process hurts his shoulder. At the hospital the family, especially Kevin, are skeptical of what actually happened to Robert. Kevin outright accuses Danny of physically harming Robert. Sally questions Danny about why he didn't say goodbye prior to leaving, to which Danny replies: Robert wanted him to leave. Sally retorts: "You didn't want to face me." A doctor tells Danny that an improperly healed shoulder fracture is causing his chronic pain and asks how it happened. Danny claims it's from a car accident in his youth. Danny had only seen the doctor to refill his prescription for pain medication, and the conversation that delays this outcome causes Danny to become agitated and to desperately, aggressively press for a refill. Afterward, Danny quickly leaves the hospital to finish the job with Eric. When John tries to check in on Danny, the doctor alerts John that Danny has left, and she believes he has a prescription pill problem stemming from the car accident. John immediately becomes suspicious of Danny and asks his colleague Chuck to investigate Eric. Chuck reports Eric had called in sick at work. John shows up at Chelsea's house and discovers that Eric is not there, either. Danny and Eric have used the Rayburn family boat to move the gasoline they'd stolen to the mangroves. Kevin, still accusing Danny, pays the fishermen who'd witnessed what happened with Robert to tell him what happened. The fishermen take Kevin's money but offer no new revelations. As Danny returns to the Rayburn house he is confronted by both John and Kevin. Kevin physically attacks Danny, and John belatedly protects Danny after having a flashback of Robert beating Danny when they were children.
3"Part 3"Adam BernsteinTeleplay by: Jonathan Glatzer
Story by: Todd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel Zelman		March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
Meg is shown again cheating on Marco with her client, Alec. Alec and his attorneys have hired Meg as a consultant to a luxury real estate project that his company is considering developing in Monroe County. While they are lying together in bed, Meg explains to Alec that after law school Robert put her in charge of his estate planning, and she did not do the one thing Robert wanted: take Danny out of the will. Later, in a meeting, Meg tells Alec and his team that the project will be very difficult, if not impossible, to complete due to local politics. At Sally's prompting, John asks Danny to stay home for good, despite what he'd told him days before. However, John imposes one condition: Danny cannot hang out with Eric O'Bannon. Danny is later given an envelope of cash from Eric, who offers him another job, which Danny declines, as Danny wants to make a go of working with his family. Danny mails the cash to an unknown address. Due to Robert's condition the siblings discuss who will fulfill his duties at the Inn. Sally, despite the concerns of John, Kevin, and Meg, determines that Danny will start work at the inn, and he is given several of Robert's duties, such as boat charters. Kevin tells Meg over drinks that he and his wife, Belle, have separated, in part due to a miscarriage earlier in the year and Belle's belief that Kevin unsuited to be a father. Before visiting the hospital, Meg revisits her father's will. She takes Danny out of it and brings Robert a new copy to sign. At the hospital Robert wakes up. The doctors determine that he had mini strokes but they cannot locate the main clot. The doctor warns that some disorientation is common, and because Robert exhibits disorientation, e.g., calling Meg "Sarah", Meg determines he should not sign the will. John's son Ben is making a video compilation for the pier dedication, and the father and son visit a storage unit to collect old films and photos for the project. Ben later shows John an old video that is mis-dated. Ben asks John if the other girl in the film is Sarah, which John confirms. Sarah is the late sister of Danny, John, Kevin, and Meg's. Danny arrives back at the hospital to find Meg and Sally, who leave Danny in the waiting room to bid goodbye to Robert. While they are gone Danny looks through Meg's purse and finds a key card to the Sunset Palms hotel, which he takes. He later confronts Meg about the card and tries to use it to blackmail her.
4"Part 4"Todd A. KesslerTodd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel ZelmanMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
John and Marco find the charred hull of a boat and believe it's related to the dead girl's case. Further investigation leads them to suspect that the girl may be the victim of an illegal immigration ring. In the hospital, Robert is about to be discharged and has an argument with Meg about the filing of his will and testament. Meg asks him again if he has changed his mind about keeping Danny out of his will. After a moment of frustration, Robert tells her that he'll think about it. Danny continues working at the inn diligently and begins winning his mother's trust. Meg continues to cheat on Marco with her client Alec, but in a more secluded manner after Danny's blackmail. Kevin watches a few investors talking to his boss at the marina and thinks that the marina might soon be sold to an outside party. Danny bonds with his brothers and father at John's son's baseball game and Belle continues the pretense of being happily married to Kevin in front of Sally at the inn. Meg gets an offer to work in a New York firm which she declines, citing a personal commitment to her family's business. Marco discovers the place where Danny and Eric stole the gas from and find a working security camera. Kevin confront his boss' son Nicholas Widmark and finds out that the marina is on the market for sale, and Nicholas was bringing in a few buyers. Desperate not to lose a livelihood, Kevin asks Nicholas if he can make an offer to buy the marina himself. John and Marco get the footage from the security camera which shows the theft of the gasoline but it's too dark and grainy to make any positive identification of the thieves. Danny and Kevin work through the night to get Robert's old pick up truck working. Meanwhile, another girl's body is discovered in the water with similar burns as the first, confirming John's suspicion that they both were the victims of an immigration run gone bad. Eric lines up another illegal gas run. Robert observes Danny around the inn and begins giving serious thought about Danny's future with the family. Meg confronts Alec about the offer she got and asks if he arranged it for her. Alec convinces Meg that she impressed the people from New York with her work and got the offer on her own merits. Robert and his sons go for a little trip in his old pick-up truck which Danny and Kevin fixed. Robert later calls Danny for a private conversation and tells him that he wants Danny to leave and never come back. Robert offers him a cheque as a way of giving him something to start afresh. Danny refuses and tells him that he will go for "the right price".
5"Part 5"Jean de SegonzacJonathan GlatzerMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
Danny wakes up the day after his conversation with Robert. He begins packing and plans on leaving. Robert returns from his morning kayak trip and collapses on the beach and dies. The Rayburn family starts making arrangements for a small funeral service, John is asked by his mother to speak a few words on everyone's behalf. Danny spots an old friend of his father's back in town. John and Sally have a late night drink and talk about Robert's childhood. Sally tells John that Robert never spoke about his childhood because he didn't want anyone feeling sorry for him. When John presses her, she reveals that Robert had a very abusive childhood and clarifies that he never finished high-school because he left home after stabbing his father with a grilling fork in a fight. Robert doesn't kill his father but he was sure he would if he continued to stay in the house. Tensions run high between Kevin and Belle at the funeral service and Robert's friend makes an appearance. John delivers the eulogy to great praise. Kevin and Belle have an argument and Belle leaves soon after. Robert's friend is revealed to be Detective Potts, a man who served with Robert in the navy. Det. Potts was with the local Sheriff's department during John's childhood but had since then moved on. Things come to a head between Meg and Alec on the phone and Meg tells him never to call her again. Kevin, Meg and Marco go to a bar and spot Danny, Eric and Chelsea. John sits down with Detective Potts to discuss the case of the two dead girls. Potts points him towards an old case he worked on which had similar elements. John asks Potts about why he and his father fell out over the years. Kevin makes his way to Belle's house from the bar to apologize. The two share an understanding embrace. John visits the archives and digs up the findings of the old case Potts spoke of. In the process, he decides to review the files from the case when Danny got injured during their childhood. Detective Potts meets up with Danny at the inn and apologizes to him for not doing his job when Danny got injured as a child. He tells Danny that he knew Robert had assaulted him, but he couldn't prove it. He also reveals to Danny that he interviewed his family in an effort to find the truth about his 'accident'. John discovers manuscripts of the interviews Potts took of them as children in Danny's case. But the audio cassettes of the interviews are not in their cases. Potts hands over the interview tapes to Danny before leaving.
6"Part 6"Alex GravesJeff ShakoorMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
John wrestles with the prospect of talking to Danny about the interviews everyone gave to Detective Potts. Danny's mental condition begins to gradually deteriorate and his anger for his siblings mounts. Sally receives Robert's will and testament in the mail and is disappointed to see that Danny has been left out. Danny asks for a few days off from the inn to go down to the Keys and picks up a substantial amount of drugs from Eric along the way. Kevin discovers that Belle has begun seeing men off of dating websites and tries to cope with it. Sally and Meg have a confrontation about Danny's exclusion from the will and Sally makes it clear that she wants Meg to make things right. Manny the inn's valet asks if Meg can help out his cousin with some legal problems. Kevin talks to his boss Susie (Nicholas' mom) and pitches her the idea of buying the Marina from her at a lower rate than what his son's customers were offering. In order to get the advantage, Kevin agrees to come up with the money in a month, in cash. John meets up with Potts to discuss what happened during the investigation into Danny's injuries. Potts reveals that he did a poor job of interrogating Robert and Danny (he interrogated them together and let Robert feed Danny the false story) and when he pushed Danny for details, Danny said he couldn't remember any and that is when Potts decided to interview the other siblings. He then said that while interviewing John, Meg and Kevin he never pressed them about who fed them the same lie and did not pursue the matter further out of his friendship with Robert and to let the family grieve the loss of a child. When Potts confronted Robert about this later, Robert continued to deny it and that disagreement led to their friendship falling out. John begins to understand some of the reasons why Danny resented the family. Meanwhile, Manny introduces Meg to his cousin Carlos who is currently embroiled in an assault and battery case. Danny bar hops and ends up at an upscale party where he gets picked up by a girl. John tries tracking down Danny's whereabouts and is handed a lead by Marco. Meg talks to her friend in the prosecutor's office and tries to convince the attorney to reduce Carlos' sentence. She bumps into Alec and decides to make amends for her behavior. Danny begins doing drugs with the girl and the girl's friend at the party. John, Meg and Kevin decide if they should cut Danny back into the will. John stands up for Danny and declares that if Danny is out of the will, then so is he. After his drugs run out, Danny is abandoned by the girl and her friend. Danny makes it back to town and gets into a bar fight. Chelsea tries to get Danny back home, but he verbally abuses her and walks away. John finds Danny's truck and finds the interview tapes inside. Danny is picked up by a stranger on the highway and taken to a drug den where he smokes more drugs and has a hallucination. Meg tells Marco that she wants to marry him, but Marco questions the sudden change in attitude and says he doesn't think she's ready. Chelsea and Kevin are shown sharing some conversation and a drink together at a bar. When Danny makes it back home, John approaches him and tells him he found his truck. When Danny refuses to say anything John apologizes for his father beating him, and also for lying to Det. Potts in the interview because he "just wanted to get things over with". Danny suggests that John and he take a previously scrapped fishing trip and on the surface, things appear to be getting better.
7"Part 7"Tate DonovanAddison McQuiggMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
8"Part 8"Dan AttiasArthur PhillipsMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
9"Part 9"Simon Cellan JonesJonathan GlatzerMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
10"Part 10"Michael MorrisCarter HarrisMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
11"Part 11"Ed BianchiArthur PhillipsMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
12"Part 12"Carl FranklinTodd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel ZelmanMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)
13"Part 13"Ed BianchiTodd A. Kessler & Glenn Kessler & Daniel ZelmanMarch 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)

Reception

Critical

Critics received the first three episodes of Bloodline for initial review, and reception was positive; the show received a score of 75 out of 100 based on 31 reviews on Metacritic.[24]

Especially positive reviews came from several sources. Ken Tucker of Yahoo! TV called it a "twisty mood piece ... well worth your time".[25] Dorothy Rabinowitz, writing for The Wall Street Journal, said the series possesses a "magnetic pull".[26] David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter raved, "Chalk up another forceful punch [for Netflix] with Bloodline, a riveting, superbly cast slow-burn family drama set between the oceanfront paradise and the murky mangrove swamps of the Florida Keys."[27] Other strong reviews came from The A.V. Club,[28] the Los Angeles Times,[29] the New York Times,[30] the Philadelphia Inquirer,[31] Variety,[32] Entertainment Weekly,[33] and the San Francisco Chronicle.[34] Cinema Blend, Decider, Badass Digest, and Forbes have hailed Bloodline as the best Netflix original to date.[35][36][37][38]

Debate ensued among some critics who felt the three episodes Netflix provided for review were insufficient. As Hank Stuever wrote in his review for The Washington Post, "I’ve enjoyed Bloodline so far, but it’s impossible to say if it’s consistently this good, because Netflix would share only three episodes (out of 13) with critics."[39] For HitFix, Alan Sepinwall (who awarded the three episodes a B-) echoed the sentiment, saying, "We'll see if they play those [time-shifting] games to this extent with Bloodline — Todd Kessler has suggested to at least one reporter that the flash-forwards won't be a series-long (or even season-long) device — but for now, the new show seems more style over substance."[40] He later revised his opinion on the matter, writing that Bloodline ultimately "played fair" with its narrative. He summed up his thoughts on the season in its entirety thusly: "In the end, Mendelsohn was so great that I'm glad I made it to the end, but this one feels better-suited to the anthology miniseries model than as an ongoing."[41]

Other mixed reviews came from James Poniewozik of TIME,[42] Robert Bianco of USA Today[43] and Margaret Lyons of Vulture.[44] However, Sean Fitz-Gerald, who reviewed the season as a whole for Vulture, wrote in sum: "Bloodline was a gripping, slow burn of a journey, so stressful, engaging, and uncomfortable ... KZK did a fantastic job crafting something real enough to find introspective truth in."[45]

Critics reacted more enthusiastically to Bloodline in its entirety, with end-of-season reviews from several publications, including Vox.com,[46] IGN,[47] and Uncle Barky,[48] ending up very favorable, with consistent mentioning of the momentum gained midway through the season.

The Playlist named Bloodline the normative successor to Breaking Bad because of its complex and tragic anti-hero narrative. The piece's author, critic Nikola Grozdavonic, explicated the assertion by determining the show's value:

As TV shows continue to soar during this golden age of television, the bar keeps rising higher and higher ... Right now [Bloodline is] the greatest example of how profoundly effective the 13-episode format can be in modern storytelling. Of course, shows have to be technically sound in order to represent their story in the greatest possible light, and the team behind Bloodline does an outstanding job in every technical department. Breathtaking cinematography, an immersive soundtrack, and a coyly observant camera all enhancing the viewing experience by a noticeable degree. The picturesque location of the Florida Keys, divided between gorgeous coral reefs and dark mangroves, is captured with an eye for the sensual and the symbolic. And yet, all of this would turn to dust if the story didn't reach as deep as it does, and the writing and performances weren't as spectacular as they are.[49]

Indiewire asserted that Bloodline's mix of noir and family drama allows it to successfully confront complex familial dynamics. According to author David Canfield, "The opening minutes of Bloodline rather perfectly ascertain a new trend happening in dramatic television right now: the family noir ... The conceit of these new series is to realize what's common to family-centric fiction within a construct that is both unsettling and pessimistic ... Bloodline identifies the origins of familial roles, each shaped by a cataclysmic event in the Rayburn siblings' childhood. The time-shifting is intrinsic to the show's ideas, exploring the formation of identity through flashbacks and, via glimpses of the future, affirming their inflexibility."[50]

Entertainment Weekly critic Chris Nashawaty cited the show as TV's best, praising its cinematic structure in particular: "There are some great shows on TV right now. I watch a bunch of them. But I also look around and I don’t see a lot of Breaking Bads or Mad Men or Sopranos. To me, the closest thing is Netflix’s Bloodline. And what makes that show so compelling and addictive (aside from Ben Mendelsohn) is how cinematic it is in both its look and in its storytelling."[51]

The first season was named among the best of 2015 by Rolling Stone,[52] The Star-Ledger,[53] Vanity Fair,[54] The Guardian,[55] IGN,[56] The A.V. Club,[57] The Week,[58] Maxim[59] and The Hollywood Reporter.[60]

Accolades

Year Award Category Recipients Result
2015 Critics' Choice Television Award[61] Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ben Mendelsohn Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award[62] Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series Kyle Chandler Nominated
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Ben Mendelsohn Nominated
EWwy Award[63] Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Sissy Spacek Nominated
Artios Award[64] Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Series Drama Debra Zane, Lori Wyman and Shayna Markowitz Nominated
Writers Guild of America Award[65] New Series Bloodline Nominated
2016 Golden Globe Awards[66] Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television Ben Mendelsohn Nominated

Commercial

The official trailer was released in mid-February, containing the Lissie cover of Metallica's song "Nothing Else Matters". After the trailer's release, Bloodline ranked eighth among all cable/streaming programs in Digital Audience Ratings and was the top trending program, despite being a month out of its premiere. According to Variety, "The first full trailer release for [Netflix's] upcoming drama “Bloodline” ... already has nearly 1 million more views in just a week’s time, landing the show on the Cable/Streaming and Trending leaderboards this week."[67]

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