Jake Johnson joins ABC’s Stumptown cast to possibly will-they/won’t-they with Cobie Smulders
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While Jake Johnson turned in an exemplary vocal performance in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (and will offer another one in the upcoming Netflix animated series Hoops), he hasn’t been seen on TV in a regular series since New Girl wrapped up about a year ago. But Johnson’s downtime appears to be over. Deadline announces that the Evanston native/Joe Swanberg favorite will replace Mark Webber as Grey in the upcoming ABC series Stumptown.
Based on a graphic novel series by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth, the series stars Cobie Smulders as Dex Parios, a private detective who focuses on aiding people with problems that the police can’t solve. Dex is a “a strong, assertive and sharp-witted Army veteran with a complicated love life, gambling debt and a brother to take care of in Portland,” Deadline describes. “While her military intelligence skills make her a great PI, but her unapologetic style puts her in the firing line of hardcore criminals and not quite in alliance with the police.”
We’re guessing that Jackson’s role will contribute to that complicated romantic life, as he’s playing Dex’s “best friend, though the two have unresolved feelings that run deeper,” says Deadline, and we all know how that’s going to play out. Coincidentally, Grey also owns and operates a bar, just like Johnson’s New Girl character Nick Miller. So Stumptown looks to be just like New Girl, if Jess was a renegade detective/gambling addict. We’ll find out for sure when the series debuts on ABC this fall.
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The real Stumptown was the unresolved sexual tension we had along the way.
Oh hey, this show looks promising. Can’t wait for the cancellation notice.
Immediately I thought of Stumptown Coffee and thought this would be some stupid brand tie in. Then I thought Portland is just called Stumptown don’t be an idiot. Then the first thing they mention in this is coffee…
“Stumptown” is a reference to Portland’s history as a logging town.
Alternately, it’s a reference to all the limbs people lost shooting heroin in the 80s and 90s.
I feel like I alluded to my knowledge of that.
I’ve been trying to make my posts shorter and pithier, but that last one came out looking terse. Anyway, this conversation is making me thirsty for some coffee and heroin (the real Pike’s Place Blend).
Dark!
I hope they include a female love interest for Dex as well. One of the interesting things about the comic was that Dex was bisexual and the reason she didn’t get along well with the police was because she slept with the police chief’s wife.
The only solution for that is a threesome with both of them. Throw in Jake Johnson in the orgy and you have an everlasting friendship with everybody involved from the whole thing.
Greg Rucka created a hard drinking woman who sleeps with women? You don’t say
Holy shit, I read the first two series (dunno if they made more?) and it was great. So excited it’s getting a show that’ll probably be cancelled!Also, maybe I’m misremembering, but I thought the lead character was queer. Maybe she’s bi. Whatever. I’m down.
There were two minis, and one ten-issue series. Four collections.
I only recall two – looks like I have more to read! The last one I read was her trying to solve some murder involving a punk band or something, which was really good.
She was bisexual, you are correct. I hope they include that in the show, too.
Lady Jack Reacher… sign me up.
This show literally used Jack Reachers’ “The law has limits. He has none” tagline, so it fits.
Dex Parios sounds like a Star Wars name.
“New Girl, if Jess was a renegade detective/gambling addict.” Stop reading my fan fiction!
“…and her best friend, Cece, a tough renegade model. And her roomate, ‘coach’, a tough renegade, er… coach.”
Who’s that girl? …. It’s … Robin Sherbatsky?
It’s what happened to Maria Hill post-snap. Not everyone came back the same way.
Sometimes Snapped is better.
Should’ve renamed his character Julius Pepperwood. From Chicago.
You’re too old for the Pepperwood Chronicles!
Mark Webber now even more humiliated.
…a private detective who focuses on aiding people with problems that the police can’t solve.
So, The Equalizer, then.