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 :nl:Penoza|Penoza created by Pieter Bart Korthuis and Diederik van Rooijen.
On May 10, 2013, Red Widow was canceled by ABC 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

Reception

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 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.

DVD releases

Red Widow - The Complete 1st Season was released onto DVD on May 28, 2013 in Region 1.