Set your phasers to stunned, as Deadline reported Wednesday evening that Simon Pegg would be co-writing the latest Star Trek sequel along with Doug Jung, creator of the TNT series Dark Blue. Pegg has co-written all of Edgar Wright’s films in the Cornetto Trilogy, as well as some of his own projects including Run, Fatboy, …
One of the small pockets of story that hadn’t been explored that much was how Emmett’s character fit in among everyone else. Both of Doug Jung’s scripts, though, seem to have anticipated that question and answered it with an exclamation point.
With so many different directions to go and so few episodes left in its second season, Banshee surprises in “Ways to Bury a Man” by sticking to a plot it could have easily moved on from and by bringing back an essential dynamic of the series to the forefront.