‘Joe Pickett’: Keean Johnson Joins Season 2 Of Spectrum Series As Trio Upped To Regulars
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Joe Pickett is bulking up its cast for season two.Alita: Battle Angel star Keean Johnson has joined as a new series regular and a trio of actors – Vivienne Guynn, Chad Rook and Aadila Dosani – have been promoted from recurring to series regulars.This comes after Deadline revealed that the network had renewed the Michael Dorman-fronted drama series for a second season earlier this year.The series follows a dedicated game warden and his family as they navigate the shifting sociopolitical climate of a small rural town on the verge of economic collapse.Johnson, who just wrapped Paramount+’s American Tragedies: Waco – The Trials and also starred in the first season of Euphoria, plays Luke Brueggeman, Joe Pickett’s new Game and Fish trainee.
Luke is a wide-eyed, lovable screwup who often acts as Joe’s comedic sidekick. Luke has a motormouth, an aversion to horses – and an unconventional method for corralling drunk elk.Season two follows Pickett after he finds the body of a murdered hunter that’s been strung up and field-dressed like an elk and makes a shocking discovery: someone in Saddlestring has begun hunting hunters.
While Joe tracks down the killer, his wife, Marybeth, investigates the disappearance of a young Arapaho woman named Marissa Left Hand.Guynn plays April Keeley, a shy, sensitive, and thoughtful foster daughter whose mother abandoned her after her father was killed in Season one.
Rook, who also starred in Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, plays Deputy McLanahan, a blundering sheriff’s deputy with a huge ego who relishes razzing Joe.
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