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@anniefunke1   RIP LFE. Could not have been more proud.

I'm really sad:-( I wanted to see Daniel and Andy in this. :’(

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Adorable ♥

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Do you know which is the full name of Daniel's character in LFE?

Nope, sorry! For now we only know that his name is Joe! 

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andymientus The boys of #LFE on wrap day!

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danielsharmanofficial The fam. The great Luke Slatterly and Reed Bernie.

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Andy Mientus about Daniel ♥

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Daniel Sharman on LFE’s set.

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“LFE” (CBS) pilot previews

Written & produced by Paul Downs Colaizzo. Co-produced by David Marshall Grant (Nashville, Brothers & Sisters, Smash) & Dan Jinks (Pushing Daisies, Big Fish, American Beauty). Directed by David Slade (Twilight, Hannibal, Powers, 30 Days of Night). For CBS, CBS Television Studios & Dan Jinks Co. Description: Joe, Ryan, Chelsi, Trevor Mae & Anj are New York City’s wildest, brilliant and most promising doctors. As they start their second year of residency in the city’s most prestigious hospital, they attempt to balance their god complexes with their humanity. Julie, their den mother, give them guidance in their lives and share with them the relationship she wishes she had with her own children…

With Melissa Leo (Fighter, Prisoners, Frozen River, Treme, Wayward Pines), Daniel Sharman (Teen Wolf, The Originals), Andy Mientus (Smash, The Flash), Luke Slattery, Ana Kayne (Another Earth), Reed Birney (House of Cards, The Blacklist),Annie Funk (A Most Violent Year).

LFE shares some DNA with Grey’s Anatomy but just the right amount. The resident characters are fresh and a lot of fun: they drink, they dance, they partyyy; they joke, they poke fun at each other; they seduce; they pee on the sidewalk at night and are sent to prison for that; and of course, they are very good job at their job. Most of them are cocky, something that can be upsetting sometimes, but they are flawed characters and we’re instantly and quite subtly exposed to their own personal demons. Joe has a family to take care of since his mom died: his father is seriously sick and his brother does a huge load of nothing. Honestly, he seems a little boring but he does something very disturbing at the end of the pilot that could change that.

Anj is a party girl, sexually open minded, who hides who she really is to her very traditional Indian parents who are looking for a husband for her to marry. Chelsi is the baby of the group, she’s kind of genius, she’s only 24, and she’s socially awkward, obsessed by her cases and probably still a virgin. Ryan is the hot bad boy and Mae, the Jennifer Lawrence kind of girl, fun and messy. Finally, Trevor is the nice guy that tries to look cool but almost always fail. All of them already know each other since it’s their second year of residency, and some of them even met at medical school a few years ago. We could have felt excluded from these guys that are already friends but we don’t. That’s where the writer does a brilliant job: we quicky feel like part of the team! What makes the show different from Code Black and closer to ER is the fact that we spend a lot of time outside of the hospital’s walls: especially in New York’s finest night clubs, in the streets -I already talked about the peeing scene- and in their apartments.

With the pilot being shot in Big Apple, and probably the rest of the series if it’s picked up, it really makes a difference in terms of settings and atmosphere. It’s cooler and lighter but, at the same time, there is a lot of darkness coming out of the characters -I’m also thinking about Melissa Leo’s Julie, who looks depressed- and from the situations. Drugs and alcohol are involved in the opening scene. Then there’s an arm roberry that ends up in a bloodbath. The surgery scenes are graphic. Take a look at how the writer describes the show at the beginning: “this is a stylized series. It’s badass. It’s heightened“

http://dan-sharman.com/lfe-cbs-pilot-previews/