{"id":40308,"date":"2025-10-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40308"},"modified":"2025-10-20T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:00:20","slug":"duster-2025-created-by-j-j-abrams-latoya-morgan-starring-josh-holloway-rachel-hilson-and-keith-david-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40308","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Duster&#8221; (2025) created by J.J. Abrams &amp; LaToya Morgan; starring Josh Holloway, Rachel Hilson and Keith David \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102125zview_duster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Duster&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Created by: <strong>J. J. Abrams, LaToya Morgan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Teleplay by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 1; 3) <strong>J. J. Abrams <\/strong>&amp;<strong> LaToya Morgan<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 2) <strong>LaToya Morgan <\/strong>&amp; <strong>J. J. Abrams<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 4) <strong>Sue Chung<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(ep. 5)<strong> Lucas Brown Eyes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 6) <strong>Matt Lambert<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>(ep. 7) <strong>Michael Horowitz<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">(ep. 8) <strong>LaToya Morgan<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Directed by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steph Green <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">(eps. 1-2; 5-6)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: justify;\">Darren Grant <\/strong><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0(eps. 3-4; 7-8)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Josh Holloway, Rachel Hilson, Asivak Koostachin, Sydney Elisabeth Smith, Benjamin Charles Watson, Camille Guaty, Adriana Aluna Martinez, Greg Grunberg, Evan Jones, Sofia Vassilieva, Jonathan Dixon, Corbin Bernsen, Kevin Chamberlin, Matt Lauria, Gail O&#8217;Grady <\/strong>and <strong>Keith David.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:<em> Everyone needs an inside man.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1972.\u00a0 Nina Hayes, the F.B.I.&#8217;s first Black female agent is assigned to the Phoenix, Arizona office.\u00a0 There she is expected to keep a low profile and not rock the boat as she works on the Ezra Saxton case.\u00a0 Saxton is a Black crime kingpin for the area.\u00a0 Nina thinks she may have an &#8220;in&#8221; by turning Jim Ellis, Saxton&#8217;s getaway driver.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim is a trusted family friend of Saxon&#8217;s.\u00a0 In fact Jim&#8217;s older brother worked for Saxon as well.\u00a0 Saxon loved his brother like a son.\u00a0 When Jim&#8217;s brother was murdered, Jim took his spot in the organization.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no way Jim would betray Saxton.<\/p>\n<p>When Nina shares evidence with Jim that Saxton may have been behind his brother&#8217;s murder, all bets are off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Duster<\/em> is a fun ride.\u00a0 Josh Holloway is perfect as Jim Ellis. I&#8217;m surprised we don&#8217;t see Holloway more often in big productions.\u00a0<em> Duster<\/em> was a great, uh, vehicle for his talents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;d never seen Rachel Hilson before.\u00a0 She&#8217;s wonderful as the young, outsider set to solve a case.\u00a0 Hilson and Holloway had great on-screen chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Keith David is always good.\u00a0 He&#8217;s perfectly cast as Saxon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Duster<\/em> features one of the coolest openings before each episode.\u00a0 Watch for slight changes as the season progresses.\u00a0 Very clever.\u00a0 Very fun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s unfortuante that <em>Duster<\/em> wasn&#8217;t renewed for Season 2.\u00a0 It currently has a 7.2 rating on IMDb.\u00a0 At Rotten Tomatoes it currently sits with 93% from reviewers and 85% from users of the site.\u00a0 So people did enjoy<em> Duster.<\/em>\u00a0 Sadly, not enough tuned in when it premiered for the greenlight for a second season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you haven&#8217;t seen <em>Duster<\/em>, you should give it a try.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>&#8220;Duster&#8221; <\/strong><\/em>(2025) earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z102125zview_duster2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Duster&#8221; (2025) Created by: J. 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