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The NBC drama series “Found” returns for its second season Thursday, Oct. 3, with a major change in the premise.
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Shanola Hampton in “Found”
Cover Story Back with big changes: A new direction is ‘Found’ for NBC series By Jay Bobbin To say that “Found” is changing its game in its second season is to risk understatement, and even that is putting it mildly. The drama series returns Thursday, Oct, 3, to NBC, with an enormous shift in its premise. Sir (played by Mark-Paul Gosselaar, “NYPD Blue”), the kidnapping victim of recovery specialist Gabi Mosely (Shanola Hampton, “Shameless) — who was abducted and held captive by him years earlier — has escaped from the basement prison she held him in, prompting her to reveal her formerly secret actions to her crisis-management team. They’re still processing the information as the new episodes begin, with Sir still missing, though circumstances suggest he’s not done invading Gabi’s life. Her colleague Lacey (Gabrielle Walsh, “9-1-1”), also
a former victim of Sir, is a particular target as well. Also starring Kelli Williams (“The Practice”), Brett Dalton (“Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”), Arlen Escarpeta (“The Oath”) and Karan Oberoi (“Roswell,” New Mexico”), “Found” is adding Michael Cassidy (“Resident Alien”), Danielle Savre (“Station 19”) and Dionne Gipson (“NCIS”) to its cast for Season 2. The prolific Greg Berlanti (mentor of The CW’s former “Arrowverse” collection of DC Comics-inspired adventure series) is among the executive producers of “Found,” as is its creator, Nkechi Okoro Carroll (“All American”). “It is what I like to call a ‘character-cedural,’” Carroll says of the show, “so we’re still going to have a case of the week. We’re still going to have that engine of reaching a point of completion with our cases every week, but it’s got a significant seri-
alized portion. Sir’s out on the loose wreaking havoc. Mark-Paul [Gosselaar] is having way too much fun doing that, so that will definitely maintain as part of the show, but we will still have that satisfying puzzle that we want the audience to join us in solving every week.” A veteran of many series, from “Saved by the Bell” to “NYPD Blue,” Gosselaar reasons that especially with the second-year changes, “Found” is “this dance that you have to trust [Carroll] and her team to provide us the floor to be creative on but also to feel that it’s not forced. With every script that we got, I remember I kept calling [her and] saying, ‘How can we continue this trajectory?’ I’m very, very, very pleased and very excited for our fans and our audience to watch the second season because, for everything that we built up
in the first season, there is going to be a payoff if you’ve put the time into our show.” “Found” star Hampton earned a Gracie Award for Season 1, and she notes, “We don’t wrap things up with a little bow in one or two episodes. The healing process, as in life, takes time … so Gabi Mosely is in this dark place, having to deal with the dynamics shifting with the entire team. That’s the beautiful journey of this season, which I’m really excited for the audience to see and to experience going through the process with these characters. “It’s been a different journey for me as an actor to play because Gabi is always in control and people are looking up to her. In this season, for the majority of the first chapter, everyone’s really [mad] at her and disappointed and sad. It weighs on you.”
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