Under the show’s many distinct voices come delicious blips and chirps, glissandos and buzzes, as Ven adjusts Lucan or heeds incoming warnings. The cast inhabits their characters with engaging specificity, including young Saadya (Amin El Gamal), who leads Lucan around sweetly sassy and amused ebullient, wild-woman grandmother Homesteader Elishiva (Melique Berger), who suggests he stay with them and hard-ass Hester (Zehra Fazal), who makes tapestries out of nanoparticles and whose voice softens once she shares her morning glory cigar with Lucan. This sense of authenticity extends through the entire ensemble, which is excellent. Jacinto’s Lucan meets these idiosyncrasies with knowing affection, and together, Jacinto and Jamil animate this sci-fi trope of partnership with convincing wit and warmth. “Well,” she responds lightly, upbeat and happy, “you needed the rest.” “You commandeered my body for sightseeing?” Lucan asks, after he wakes to find that Ven has taken him to watch a lightning storm. But Jamil also leans with agility into Ven’s moments of humor and tenderness, and into the pleasure Ven finds in storms and streams and flora. Lucan has a genial, rough-and-ready everyman style, while Ven speaks with focused, technical precision, as her sensual voice recites a stream of Lucan’s vitals or identifies an oncoming threat. The two actors again portray contrasting characters. Manny Jacinto is the voice of Lucan in “Marigold Breach.” (Courtesy Realm) Her voice briefs, guides, and instructs him, sometimes calling him “Adjunct,” sometimes “Darling,” and his own internal voice responds and argues, comforts and banters, even as he’s often also talking with the people he encounters. Now, the actors’ offbeat rapport gleams again as they partner up in the intriguingly intimate premise of “Marigold:” Ven is inside Lucan, brain and body.
#BREACH CAST UPGRADE#
(Audiences can listen for free, through the ad-supported Realm app, or upgrade for ad-free listening.)įans of the TV hit “The Good Place” may have already felt a flutter in their hearts to read the names of this series’ stars: In Michael Schur’s hijinks afterlife comedy, Jamil and Jacinto shone in their pairing as supremely ill-matched “soulmates” Tahani – a wealthy, gorgeous socialite – and slow-thinking video-gaming goof Jason. The first episode of this smart, richly imagined, and deftly executed show dropped on March 28, and the remaining seven will drop weekly. Written by Joel Dane and starring a much-beloved Hollywood duo, “Marigold” was directed by Maine’s own Fred Greenhalgh for the podcast studio Realm. “Marigold Breach” is written by Joel Dane and directed by Maine’s Fred Greenhalgh for Realm. Such is their mutual trust, humor, and affection between solider and AI in “Marigold Breach.” In this new audio series, Lucan and Ven explore strange landscapes, meet the terraforming Homesteaders of the planet Elam, and search out their past. “Should we consider the possibility that despite our emotional attachment, I’m manipulating you for my own ends?” Ven asks.
Still, as they navigate the planet and its occupants, Ven is keeping something from him. Neither Lucan nor Ven can remember much of anything, including why their feelings for each other seem to transcend the typical human-AI dynamic.
He doesn’t know how a sentient – and very mellifluous – AI presence named Ven (Jameela Jamil) has come to be implanted in his brain. He doesn’t know why he’s crash-landed here. Lucan (Manny Jacinto) wakes up on a strange planet, deeply confused.
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