- Pushed, jump, or fell?
Shot in the back of the head, dragging yourself away.
My God, that's awful.
- Vehicle's registered to Maggie Moore.
- Did you say Maggie Moore?
- Two dead Maggie Moores one week apart.
Yeah that's weird.
- It's a very unique story,
based on a an actual circumstance
of two women in the same town
in the same week with the same name
who were found dead and no one ever figured it out.
We took that occurrence and created a story
in a world in a different place.
Micah Stock plays Jay
who's kind of in over his head in a situation
and he makes some bad choices
and he's kind of the motor for the movie.
Jon Hamm plays,
this guy is a police chief who's recently widowed.
Tina Fey plays someone who's just come out of a divorce
and is lonely and looking for connection,
lives next door to Micah Stocks, to Jay,
who's up to all this kinda weird stuff.
- Is Maggie One a mistake for Maggie Two
or is Maggie Two to cover for Maggie One?
- Somebody out there is really good at what they're doing.
- Deputy Reddy, I guess is, you know,
he's sort of second in command to Jon Hamm's Sanders
and so he's subordinate, which is, you know
a part that I find myself playing quite a lot
and I quite like playing that kind of supporting role.
But I think that the difference here
compared to something like "Ted Lasso"
or even "Intelligence"
is that he's quite front foot, is Reddy,
and in fact he possibly has even more emotional intelligence
despite his relative youth compared to Sanders
and I guess slightly less experienced
than Sanders as a result.
He's surprisingly emotionally intelligent
when it comes to sort of giving relationship advice
and sort of just sort of,
I guess he's very sort of confident in himself.
And he does, you know, he sometimes oversteps the mark
and makes slightly inappropriate jokes,
but, you know nothing too bad
and actually he's really got Sanders' back
and they're actually a really good duo.
They kind of really compliment each other in that regard.
- The script was pretty much the script we shot.
I mean we made some adjustments, cut out some stuff,
I guess, made it a little, you know,
we tailored it a little bit, but not that much.
He's just such a good writer.
You know, again, the tone was specific
but he writes very specific characters.
That's what appealed to me, the sophistication of it,
of the situation, the characters,
but also the vulnerability of everybody in it
just kind of added a human level to it
that I had never seen, like I'd never seen a,
I don't know, a murder mystery if you will,
with that kind of human feeling laid over the top of it.
- It's quite a specific tone.
It's, I guess, a kind of combination of genres.
I've been describing it
as sort of tonally a bit like "Fargo"
but sort of set in the desert.
So it's sort of got, obviously, you know,
there's a real kind of thriller/thrilling aspect to it
but I dunno, I think the characters,
a lot of the characters in it,
in this sort of small sort of desert town
are quite kooky, quite sort of wacky and weird
and so it's just such an odd kind of combination.
I remember chatting to John Slattery about it
and him just saying, "It's just such an odd-ball mix
of people and faces, you know,
they're a real kind of smorgasbord."
And so I sort of think
it's its own thing in lots of ways.
But, but yeah, I guess a sort of comedy thriller
in a sort of, yeah, but in sort of set in this
sort of dusty sort of desert town
where not much kind of goes on.
But yeah, there's this obviously
these horrible kind of killings
which are, you know, unique in a way,
in that obviously the victims have got the same name
and they're just trying to solve it
and trying to piece together sort of what has has happened.
And I guess through all that
we meet all these weird and wonderful characters.
(glass shatters) (Rita screams)
- Well that ties it all up in a nice little bow, doesn't it?
Give me some backup. Now.
Wash your car. - Wash your ass.
- How we doing?
- You seem really worked up over this.
- Hey. (grunts)
- But wait, there's more. - Maggie Moore.
- Maggie Moore. - Maggie Moore.
- Maggie Moore.