«Goliath» is an American legal drama streaming TV series by Amazon Studios. It was commissioned with a straight-to-series order of eight episodes.
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- Goliath is an American legal drama streaming TV series by Amazon Studios.
- The show was commissioned with a straight-to-series order of eight episodes on December 1, 2015.
- It premiered on October 13, 2016, on Amazon Prime Video.
- On February 15, 2017, Amazon announced the series had been renewed for a second season
- It confirmed that Clyde Phillips was joining the series as showrunner.
- The trailer for season 2 was released on May 1, 2018.
- Season 2, consisting of eight episodes, was released on June 15, 2018.
- On December 11, 2018, the series was renewed for a third season, which premiered on October 4, 2019.
- On November 14, 2019, Amazon announced the series was renewed for a fourth and final season, which premiered on September 24, 2021.
- Both the Ocean Lodge Hotel (where Billy lives) and the Chez Jay bar (where Billy drinks) are real places in Santa Monica, California. The interior of Chez Jay, however, was too small to accommodate a cast and camera crew, so an expanded version was replicated on a studio
- Season 1 showrunner David E. Kelley chose to feature the Santa Monica ‘Chez Jay’ bar because that’s where he first met his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer
- Billy Bob Thornton liked including the late John Ritter in his films (Sling Blade, Bad Santa) and now John Ritter’s son Jason appears in Goliath.
- The opening theme is “Bartholomew” by The Silent Comedy. The song has also been featured in S01E08 of “The Originals (2013)” and in a trailer for the video game ” Dark Souls (2011).”
- After the first episode of season 2 was shot and the whole season had been written, showrunner Clyde Phillips exited the show because Billy Bob Thornton was unhappy with the new creative direction. Amazon then had to stop production for a while to let the new creative team write another story and the episode count went down from 10 to 8
- The general “Big Pharma” theme of Season 4 is clearly inspired by Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family’s legal battles over the epidemic of opioid overdose deaths caused by their painkiller drug Oxycontin.
- According to news articles, an episode of Goliath can cost as much as $10 million.3
- The cast includes three Oscar winners: Billy Bob Thornton, William Hurt and JK Simmons
- In Season 3, Canadian actor Shamier Anderson plays the parts of twin brothers Anton and Dario, adopted sons of Amy Brenneman’s character Diana Blackwood.
- Both Harold Perrineau (Judge Keller) and Tania Raymonde (Brittany Gold) starred in the TV series Lost (2004).
- Billy Bob Thornton and Dwight Yoakam starred together in Sling Blade.
- The Ford Mustang convertible that Billy drives in season 2 is not the reclaimed and rehabilitated car he drove in season 1. Season 1’s car was a 1966 model. In Season 2, he drives the much rarer and much more expensive super classic 1964.5 Ford Mustang convertible, Rest assure, this beauty will receive much less abuse than did Season 1’s car
- William Hurt and Damon Gupton both attended Juilliard.
- William Hurt & Maria Bello previously co starred in A History of Violence (2005)
- Early in the pilot as Billy (Billy Bob Thornton) is trying to persuade daughter Denise (Diana Hopper) to attend Indiana University, he reels off random names of the university’s celebrity alumni
- In season 1, episode 4, when the trucks full of disclosure files arrive at Billy’s motel, the moving company is called “Penske” visible on the signage on the sides of the trucks. In Seinfeld, George works on the Penske file before a misunderstanding leads him to believe Arthur Penske has offered him a job, only to find that Penske and his company are under indictment by the federal government
- William Hurt and Molly Parker starred together in Rare Birds (2001)
- Los Angeles heavy metal/rock band “Killakiah” is featured in episode four with their own original music.
- Actress Tania Raymonde performed her first career nude scene in this series.
- Goliath is set and filmed in Santa Monica, California.
- The venue Chez Jay, which Billy McBride frequents and often works out of, is a real-life bar and restaurant. Production for the fourth season moved to San Francisco.
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