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February 18 – February 24, 2023
Love gets complicated for a grifter and a Fed in ABC’s ‘The Company You Keep’ BY JAY BOBBIN
It’s love at first sight for a con artist and a CIA agent
the Korean series “My Fellow Citizens” and also
“It’s kind of the basics of a con,” he continues. “You
– but neither knows what the other does for a living in
stars William Fichtner (“Mom”), Sarah Wayne Callies
know, if your mark, your target is sad, you’re sad; if
a stylish heist thriller coming to ABC.
(“Prison Break”), Polly Draper (“thirtysomething”),
they’re angry, you’re angry; if they’re happy, you’re
Freda Foh Shen (“Star Trek”) and Tim Chiou (“SEAL
happy.”
In “The Company You Keep,” premiering Sunday, Feb. 19, Milo Ventimiglia (“This Is Us”) executive produces and stars as Charlie, who would just as soon exit the family business of grifting for good. One night at a bar, he encounters Emma (Catherine Haena Kim, “FBI”) and the attraction is immediate. She’s an undercover CIA agent who happens to be in pursuit of the vengeful criminal who holds Charlie’s family debts. This puts them on a collision course and forces them to reckon with the lies they’ve told to save themselves and their families from disaster.
Team”).
As for Kim as Emma, she inhabits a character that
For Ventimiglia, “Company” comes on the heels
comes from a family of Asian American aristocrats who
of his six-season run as family patriarch Jack Pearson
can’t understand their daughter’s life choices. She’s a
on “This Is Us,” a character completely unlike Charlie,
strong woman but not without her flaws, which was a
which he found enticing.
big draw for the actress.
“There was something dynamic about that; there
“It’s really fun,” she says, “because she comes from
was something to discover,” he explains. “I mean,
this high-powered political family known as the Asian
playing Jack I discovered all I could as an actor with
American Kennedys and she wants nothing to do with
that character and I thought he was fully realized.
it. ... She’s the black sheep of the family and nobody
With Charlie, he’s someone who kind of needs to be
knows that she’s secretly CIA.”
forgettable so that he’s not targeted by the people
“She’s a real character,” Kim continues. “You know,
From showrunners Julia Cohen (“A Million Little
that he’s conning but at the same time he’s got to be
she’s not meant to be perfect and she’s just trying to
Things”) and Phil Klemmer (“DC’s Legends of To-
so charming and persuasive and he has to reflect the
navigate love after a recent heartbreak and family and
morrow”), “The Company You Keep” is based on
people that he’s conning.
career just like we all are.”
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