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10 - 16, 2022
Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
BY JAY BOBBIN
‘Bridge and Tunnel’
paves new routes in Season 2
“Bridge and Tunnel” begins its second
season Sunday on EPIX.
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A year later, the friends who fuel “Bridge
and Tunnel” are still coming of age in the
‘80s.
The EPIX comedy-drama series written,
produced and directed by co-star Edward
Burns (“The Brothers McMullen,” “She’s
the One”) starts its second season Sunday,
July 10, with big developments for all of its
central characters. Former flames Jill and
Jimmy (played by Caitlin Stasey and Sam
Vartholomeos) have new romances despite
their continuing mutual attraction, Mikey
(Jan Luis Castellanos) reconsiders pursuing
a law career, Stacey (Isabella Farrell) aspires
to dance in a stage show, and Tammy (Gigi
Zumbado) becomes the drummer in an
all-female band that manager Pags (Brian
Muller) hopes to get signed to a major label.
Also familiar from such movies as “Saving
Private Ryan” and “The Holiday,” Burns
lends acting support as Jimmy’s devoted
father Artie while also fulfilling most of the
principal creative duties on the show. “I think
the older I’ve gotten, the less I feel the need
to play the lead myself,” Burns reasons. “And
with piece like this that’s such an ensemble,
I have an embarrassment of riches when it
comes to young and talented people.”
Co-star Stasey also had worked with Burns
on an earlier project, and she says she’s found
“Bridge and Tunnel” to be “straightforward.
The women here are all powerful and self-
assured, and they don’t always make the best
decisions or pick the right guys, but they
definitely do exactly what they want to do all
the time.”
Seen previously in the series “Reign,”
Australia native Stasey has a particular
“Bridge and Tunnel” challenge in
maintaining a Long Island accent. “I was
really stressed out about it during Season 1,”
she admits, “because if you do it wrong, it
can sound really cartoonish. But I had an
immediate and unconscious knack for it, and
I don’t know why. It just worked.”
Burns confirms that for Season 2, he
tailored the “Bridge and Tunnel” characters
more to their portrayers. “In talking to
them,” he reports, “I discovered that Gigi
turned out to be an incredible drummer, and
Isabella was a trained ballerina and dancer. I
also found out that Sam and Brian are very
good singers.”
A distinctive element of “Bridge and
Tunnel” remains its soundtrack, populated
this time by such hits as Heart’s “Straight
On,” Bonnie Tyler’s “It’s a Heartache” and
Kansas’ “Carry On, Wayward Son.” Burns
explains, “I’ve been working with the same
music supervisor, Tracy McKnight, since
1999 and my movie ‘Sidewalks of New
York.’ Not only does she have great taste,
she’s got long-standing relationships at all of
the music labels. And she’s great at figuring
out how to get what we want while keeping
it within our budget.”
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