Taylor Sheridan‘s The Madison portrays a family in mourning with all the messiness, questions, tears, and anger that come in the aftermath of losing someone you love. As Paige McIntosh neé Clyburn, newcomer Elle Chapman delivers a layered performance as a daughter who must learn to navigate life with her now-broken mother, Stacy Clyburn (Michelle Pfeiffer) and without her beloved father, Preston Clyburn (Kurt Russell). Paige leans on her husband, Russell McIntosh, brought to life by Suits star Patrick J. Adams, who abandons his Wall Street job to accompany the family to Montana in their time of need. Along for the ride is their niece, Bridgett (Amiah Miller).
While the series is heavy with the characters’ grief, Paige’s and Russell’s dynamic brings some much-needed lightness to the proceedings. Chapman and Adams worked to establish how these two very different people could have ended up together. “We decided that they
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