Art Daniels is portrayed as a well-read, roguish philosopher who grows marijuana and mushrooms and often serves as a sounding board for friends. His character is shaped by an outlook focused on exploring the psyche and the mysteries of life. At home, Art’s marriage to Judy is strained by her secret affair with their next-door neighbor Jack, and that tension drives the season’s storyline. Art also faces unsettling experiences, including watching thousands of crows form a murmuration and then dying, adding to the season’s mystery and psychological atmosphere.
"When Clarke Peters talks about Art Daniels, the former radical, current drug enthusiast and spiritual seeker he plays on The Boroughs, he tends to slip into the third person. He'll talk about how Clarke relates to Art, or what Clarke and Art have in common, and it's a reveal of how personal this role became for the longtime actor. At first, Peters turned The Boroughs down: "Someone had likened it to Stranger Things, and having seen a little bit of Stranger Things, I thought, At my age, I don't want to be chasing monsters for the next five years," Peters says with a laugh."
""What attracted me to Art was his outlook and his exploration into the psyche, the mysteries of life. That resonates with Clarke," Peters says. "I knew I could at least bring some truth to his dialogue and to his experience. And when we started shooting and I was introduced to a crow, I thought, Oh man, I'm on my way now, and I don't mind chasing monsters until I'm 80.""
"Peters has been a fixture on the big and small screens for nearly 50 years and was a particular standout in his collaborations with David Simon ( The Wire and Treme) and Spike Lee ( Red Hook Summer and Da 5 Bloods). He's adept at playing characters who are proud, persistent, curious, and a little rascally, and Peters brings all that to Art, a roguish, well-read philosopher who grows his own strains of marijuana and mushrooms and is often the sounding board for his friends' problems."
"But at home, there's distance between Art and his wife, Judy (Alfre Woodard), who's secretly having an affair with their next-door neighbor Jack (Bill Pullman), and the tension between the pair drives their arc over the season's eight episodes. So, too, does the fact that Art keeps having odd experiences: He watches thousands of crows organize themselves into a murmuration, then kill themselv"
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