Q: What appealed to you about Rubicon when you signed on for the role?

A: Everything has such an interesting way of revealing itself. You think you know what’s going on, and then you don’t know what’s going on, and all of a sudden you’re surprised by something else that’s going on. Also, it seemed like I was going to be a guy who had really mixed feelings, and that was fun to play somebody who’s torn… I guess the thing I like about it the most is I had told my son I’m going to be on this new show Rubicon. He’s like, “Yeah, great dad.” And then he started watching it and he sent me this angry email, because when he didn’t know anything about the show it was all chummy. Then he started getting hooked on the show and then he was extremely irate and forceful: Do not tell me anything more about what’s happening! So he’s really hooked.

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“Rubicon” refers to the river in ancient Italy whose southward crossing by an army signified an act of war. It has come to mean a boundary beyond which one cannot turn back. The blurring of the line between military and civil society, perhaps between a democracy and a police-state, is the subject of the new cable series.

That’s fine. However, when one considers the scope of the criminal enterprises engaged in by the US military and its intelligence agencies today, one may be excused for paying close attention and being quite critical of a series which ostensibly offers insight into those operations.

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‘Rubicon,’ a gripping combination of character drama and espionage thriller, has emerged as one of 2010′s best shows.

I’ve seen the next two episodes of ‘Rubicon,’ and I wouldn’t dream of revealing any of the classified contents of those hours. But they’re terrific.

The bottom line is, I’ll be tremendously disappointed if this show doesn’t get a second season. Here are six (non-spoilery) reasons to watch and save ‘Rubicon’:

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Much of that has to do with the casting, particularly Arliss Howard as a shadowy higher-up in the murky American Policy Institute, a government-backed research organization where nobody is to be trusted. Menacing, cool and casually gay, it’s hard to read whether Arliss’ character, Kale, is friend or foe, but he’s one of the most compulsively watchable figures on TV right now

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Another 0.2 for Rubicon. It’s not catching on. The Glades was relatively steady vs. last week, down a few viewers but maintaining its 0.7 adults 18-49 rating.

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These guys don’t fool around. And I’m now convinced that Ingram is helping Will. But by now, Will has been spun in so many directions and found discrepancies in every partial explanation he has gotten that he doesn’t believe Ingram anymore. He doesn’t trust Spangler. He’s shut out Maggie, and none of the team members seem to know anything about this. Where can he go for help?.

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“Rubicon” isn’t about characters with big muscles and big guns and cool gadgets. The stars of this show are troubled, emotionally flawed intelligence analysts working in a Manhattan think tank. They’re quirky, brilliant, neurotic, intrigued by codes.

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Q: Is working with Michael Cristofer as intimidating as working with his character, Truxton Spangler?

A: Cristofer is intimidating at first because he won the Pulitzer and he directed Streep and De Niro. When I met him, I kind of geeked and acted odd, because I do that. But he’s actually the warmest, easygoing, nicest human being. When I think of Cristofer, I think of fuzzy teddy bear. And he’s very fun to work with because he usually has at least one curveball in his pocket. You’re not going to get just what’s on the page.

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This was just one strand of Sunday’s episode, in which we followed Will inside an office of Atlas McDowell, the shadowy “leviathan” that Will keeps bumping up against in his rogue investigation of a colleague and friend’s death. Inside the company’s lavish yet anonymous office on Gansevoort Street on Manhattan’s West Side, he stole a telephone list and later reported to Ingram that there was an extension not only for their boss, Truxton Spangler, but also numbers of former generals, U.S. senators and the one-time head of the NSA.

Kale Ingram was everywhere – except at the black ops site. He met Maggie under one of the major Manhattan bridges (couldn’t tell which one — can anyone ID it?) to learn what she might have found going through Will’s office trash and coat pockets. He met Ed Bancroft on a park bench to give him some leads to research in Will’s attempts to find out who killed David Hadas. He met Will several times on the roof of API, once to rat out Maggie and another time to tell an increasingly frustrated Will that he was aware of how Will perceived him — but “ruthless is not cruel; ruthless is whatever it takes.”

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As always, though, Kale Ingram was the star of the show. Arliss Howard definitely deserves a Best Supporting Actor nod at next year’s Emmys, because he is absolutely fantastic. The level of manipulation that he inflicts on Will reminds me of Benjamin Linus from LOST, and possibly even more omniscient. When Ingram told Maggie that he told Will to keep her from turning around on him, it was almost a wink to the audience. I know I had expected such a turnaround to take place in the story, and that statement from Kale was almost a message from the show’s writers. If you’re making predictions, we’re going to defy them.

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