There's something unsettling about watching Martin Short play the mysterious Leonard Winstone on Damages.
Maybe it's that we're used to him making us laugh. But Short doesn't buy that. "Actors are just actors," he tells TVGuide.com. "Whether they're making you laugh or making you frown, there's a talent to make a character three-dimensional and sympathetic. It's just different objectives. People have typecasting in their heads of how they think so-and-so can make them laugh but can't make them cry."
Damages adds Campbell Scott, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin and Keith Carradine
The alternative, then, is that Winstone — a hard-edged attorney and Godfather-like consigliere to the Ponzi-scheming Tobin family at the center of Season 3 — gives us the creeps because he isn't all that he seems...read more
SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from Damages Season 3 premiere as well as coming episodes.
For Damages' Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan), the Season 3 premiere was the best of times and the worst of times.
Damages: Ellen and Patty are on a (new) collision course
After making Tom a partner in Season 1, Patty (Glenn Close) finally puts Tom's name on the door. But just as the new Hewes & Shayes sign is being installed, one of the show's trademark flash-forwards reveals ...read more
Damages is trying something a little different for its third season: Patty without Ellen.
Check out photos of the Damages cast
When the gripping FX legal thriller returns (Monday, Jan. 25 at 10/9c), Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) won't have her protégé-nemesis, Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), at her side. After finally getting Patty to admit she tried to have Ellen killed, Ellen has made good on her promise and left Hewes and Associates in her rearview mirror.
Or so she thought...read more
