666 Park Avenue (2012) - Season 1

666 Park Avenue is an American supernatural drama series starring Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, Vanessa Williams and Terry O'Quinn. The series was created and produced by David Wilcox, and was loosely based upon the novel of the same name by Gabriella Pierce. The series follows a couple who learns that the Manhattan apartment building that they just moved into, including its upscale tenants, might be possessed by a mysterious demonic force.

ABC ordered the pilot on January 20, 2012, and it was picked up for a full first season of thirteen episodes on May 11, 2012. It currently airs on Sunday evenings at 10:00 pm, with the series Revenge serving as its lead in. The first season premiered on September 30, 2012.

The elaborate Beaux-Arts building located on the fashionable Upper East Side of Manhattan called "The Drake" in the series is an actual apartment building, The Ansonia in New York City.

Plot

The plot of 666 Park Avenue focuses on the new co-managers of the Drake residential hotel located at 999 Park Avenue. It also centers around the other tenants in the building and the married owners of the building.

Cast and characters

Rachael Taylor as Jane Van Veen, the new co-manager of the building

Dave Annable as Henry Martin, the new co-manager of the building[7]

Robert Buckley as Brian Leonard, Louise's husband, a playwright, who lives in the building.

Mercedes Masohn as Louise Leonard, Brian's wife, a photographer

Erik Palladino as Tony DeMeo, the doorman of the buildin

Helena Mattsson as Alexis Blume

Samantha Logan as Nona Clark, a resident with a unique gift

Vanessa Williams as Olivia Doran, the coldly beautiful and sophisticated wife of the building's owner

Terry O'Quinn as Gavin Doran, the building’s owner and the series' primary antagonist

Recurring

Misha Kuznetsov as Kandinsky

Aubrey Dollar as Annie Morgan

Mili Avital as TBA

Mike Doyle as Frank Alpern, a "powerful" adversary of Gavin Doran

Enrique Murciano as Dr. Todd Scott

Wendy Moniz as Ingrid

Tessa Thompson as Laurel Harris

Nick Chinlund as Victor Shaw

Whoopi Goldberg as Maris Elder

Episodes

1 "Pilot"

Jane Van Veen and Henry Martin, get hired as the new managers of 'The Drake'. When they first move into the hotel, they believe that everything is normal about it, until Jane starts to have weird dreams, and meets one of the tenants with blood all over him. Jane also finds a dragon mosaic in the basement. Henry and Jane both try to form a friendship with the owners of the hotel, Olivia and Gavin Doran; while one of the tenants Louise, gets into an accident when the elevator door almost kills her; and the tenant Nona, steals Jane's necklace. The neighbor that Jane met earlier, ends up striking a deal with Gavin to bring his wife back, but only if he killed certain people, after being asked to kill one more man, the tenant decides not to and is sucked into the wall, and his wife back to being dead. 

2 "Murmurations"

Jane tries to find out more about the Drake and uncovers the secrets behind the dragon mosaic that she found in the basement. Henry and Gavin go golfing, only to meet someone that Henry is working against in court, which makes Henry realize that he could get in serious trouble for talking to the man. Louise ends up in the hospital from the elevator accident that happened, while Brian is at home Alexis walks in on him after a shower, and they share a kiss. Jane continues to research about the Drake, and finds birds in the wall of one of the hotel rooms; After realizing that there are more birds than she could handle, she calls an exterminator, but the exterminator soon goes missing, and Jane eventually realizes that the birds are a part of the Drake. 

3 "The Dead Don't Stay Dead"

Jane starts seeing a little girl in the laundry room, while every time she tries to talk to her, she disappears. Gavin tries to talk Henry into a career change into politics, only for Henry to shoot him down; A young journalist, Annie Morgan, at the hotel starts writing articles to see if it could help boost her journalism career. She goes to Gavin, after she writes about a killer, and the killer ends up going after her; When she goes to him, he promises to deal with the problem, only for him to ask her to send the killer after someone else. Jane continues to search for her missing necklace, and finds out that people have been having stuff stolen from them for a long time, and sets off to find the thief. 

4 "Hero Complex"

Henry learns Gavin is under investigation and is threatened to help put Gavin away in prison or his career would not survive; Nona has a meeting with a social worker, and ends up stealing her sunglasses; When the worker asks Jane if she's seen them, Jane realizes that the thief if Nona, and says that she won't turn her in if she returns everything that she stole. That night before going to a party at the mayor's Nona has a vision of Henry getting murdered by the same man that Annie had created up the day before, she then tells Jane and warns her not to let Henry out of her sight. At the party, Jane witnesses the man Nona described grabbing a gun, yelling Henry's name, saving Henry's life, but the tenant, Annie Morgan, pays the price having the bullet strike her in the head. 

5 "A Crowd of Demons"

While Olivia finishes the Halloween ball, it reminds her of a rather memorable Halloween in 1929, when a man murdered his wife and his daughter survived. Jane then finds an article on the attack and finds that the girl is the girl Jane has been seeing. the daughter tells Jane that her father has escaped the suitcase, only for the man to chase Jane through the hotel attempting to murder her with an axe. Gavin works to save Olivia's life when he receives threatening texts; Later on Olivia is kidnapped that night, when Gavin finds her he also finds that a box of his had been stolen. Brian starts to think that Louise is cheating on him when he finds her in the room alone with Dr. Todd Evans; After continually asking Dr. Todd for pills, he finally confronts Louise about his suspicions on her drug addiction, stating that he won't tell anyone if she helps herself. 

6 "Diabolic"

Jane and Henry deal with the aftermath of Jane being attacked, with Jane having nightmares, and both of them talking to the police; After they talk to the police, they find that everything Jane experienced the night before isn't there anymore. Gavin continues to try to find the box that was stolen from him the night before, eventually finding the man responsible, and Olivia finds out that the reason she passed out was because of too much alcohol, or so Dr. Todd tells her; only for him to tell Gavin that he saw in the blood test that Olivia had been drugged. During lunch with Jane, a man comes by and tells Olivia that she needs to get away from Gavin before he tears him apart. Laurel continues to help Henry skyrocket his career, stating that he needs to stay being the most eligible bachelor; Jane tells one of the cops about what really happened the night before. 

7 "Downward Spiral"

8 "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"

9 "Hypnos"[28]

Genre

Supernatural Drama

Horror fiction

Drama

Format

Serial drama

Created by

Gabriella Pierce

Developed by

David Wilcox

Starring

Rachael Taylor

Dave Annable

Robert Buckley

Mercedes Masohn

Erik Palladino

Helena Mattsson

Samantha Logan

Vanessa Williams

Terry O'Quinn

Composer(s)

Trevor Morris

Country of origin

United States

Language(s)

English

No. of seasons

1

No. of episodes

7

Production

Executive producer(s)

Alex Graves

Leslie Morgenstein

Gina Girolamo

David Wilcox

Matt Miller

Producer(s)

Mary Rae Thewlis

Editor(s)

Russell Denove

Cinematography

Anette Haellmigk

Running time

43 minutes (approx.)

Verhaal

Jane Van Veen en haar vriend Henri gaan aan de slag als huisbewaarder van een building in New York. Als er vreemde en angstaanjagende gebeurtenissen plaatsvinden, merken ze al vlug dat het gebouw zijn geheimen heeft. 666 Park Avenue is een bovennatuurlijke serie in het genre van American Horror Story, maar niet zo kinky, verontrustend of verrassend. Wel met vele schrikmomenten die je doen opspringen vanuit je zetel. Maar omdat het zondagavond-entertainment is op de openbare zender, hebben we toch onze bedenkingen. Met Terry O'Quinn (Lost) en Desperate Housewives’ Vanessa Williams, die de eigenaars van het gebouw spelen, heeft 666 Park Avenue wel een koppel bekende acteurs met starpower. Jane wordt gespeeld door Rachael Taylor, die we kunnen zien in de Amerikaanse versie van Loft. De serie start in Amerika op 9 oktober.