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Red Widow

Red Widow is an American drama television series created by Melissa Rosenberg, starring Radha Mitchell and Goran Visnjic. On May 11, 2012, ABC picked up Red Widow as a series. The series ran from March 3 to May 5, 2013 and aired on Sundays. The series is based on a 2010 Dutch drama series titled Penoza created by Pieter Bart Korthuis and Diederik van Rooijen.

On May 10, 2013, ABC canceled the series after one season.

Overview

The series stars Radha Mitchell as Marta Walraven, a housewife from Northern California whose husband, a marijuana smuggler, was killed. She has to continue his work to protect her family.

Cast and characters

Radha Mitchell as Marta Walraven (née Petrova), housewife and widow of Evan Walraven, a marijuana smuggler
Goran Visnjic as Nicholae Schiller, San Francisco's premier crime boss and the man to whom Marta owes money
Clifton Collins Jr. as James Ramos, the FBI agent assigned to Marta's case
Rade Šerbedžija as Andrei Petrov, Marta's father, an organized crime boss in the Richmond and a rival of Schiller
Luke Goss as Luther, one of Andrei's trusted men
Jaime Ray Newman as Katrina "Kat" Petrova, Marta's and Irwin's sister
Wil Traval as Irwin Petrov, Marta and Kat's brother, and business partner to Mike and Evan, and now Marta
Lee Tergesen as Mike Tomlin, business partner to Irwin and Evan, and now Marta
Sterling Beaumon as Gabriel Walraven, Marta's older son
Jakob Salvati as Boris "Bobo" Walraven, Marta's younger son
Erin Moriarty as Natalie Walraven, Marta's daughter and middle child
Suleka Mathew as Dina Tomlin, Mike's wife and Marta's long-time best friend
Pedro Pascal as Jay Castillo, Katrina's husband, a tattoo artist

Episodes

Reception

The show received mixed to negative reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 24% approval rating, based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website's consensus reads, "Red Widow boasts a strong cast, but its outlandish premise and lackluster execution keep it from being anything but middle-of-the-road." Metacritic assigned the show a score of 48 out of 100 based on 24 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Mary McNamara, the Los Angeles Times television critic, called the show's two-hour pilot "high-aspiring but poorly executed"; according to McNamara:

Working from the original Dutch series Penoza, Red Widow is plagued by sanctimony. It wants to have it all: a sympathetic soccer mom heroine suddenly willing and able to do business with murderous thugs....It's easy to see the sort of show [creator Melissa] Rosenberg envisioned, one in which a "normal" woman finds herself juggling the mundane tasks of motherhood with the high-octane exploits required to keep one step in front of a drug lord. But the show is too busy hedging its bets—hey, he was just running pot, not the hard stuff, and she feels sort of guilty about dragging him into it—that it undercuts its own potential power.