{"id":18616,"date":"2023-05-02T09:55:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-greenlights-gay-marine-dramedy-norman-lear\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T13:01:37","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:01:37","slug":"netflix-greenlights-gay-marine-dramedy-from-norman-lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/netflix-greenlights-gay-marine-dramedy-from-norman-lear\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Greenlights Gay Marine Dramedy from Norman Lear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has picked up <em>The Corps<\/em> (w.t.), a new comedic drama from executive producers Andy Parker, Norman Lear, Brent Miller, Rachel Davidson, Scott Hornbacher and Sony Pictures Television.<\/p>\n<p>Set in 1990, the series is about Cameron, a bullied, gay high school student who joins the Marine Corps with his straight best friend, Ray\u2014a dangerous move when being gay in the military meant jail time or worse. They join a platoon of young men on a harrowing journey of transformation.<\/p>\n<p>The ten-episode series is inspired by the memoir <em>The Pink Marine<\/em>, written by Greg Cope White.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Heizer (<em>13 Reasons Why<\/em>, <em>Parenthood<\/em>) stars as Cameron Cope. Vera Farmiga (<em>Bates Motel<\/em>, <em>The Conjuring<\/em>, <em>When They See Us<\/em>) stars as his mother, Barbara Cope. Max Parker (<em>Vampire Academy<\/em>, <em>Blood, Sex &amp; Royalty<\/em>) will play Sgt. Sullivan, and Liam Oh (<em>The Notebook<\/em> for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, <em>Next To Normal<\/em> for Writers Theatre) co-stars as Ray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix has picked up The Corps (w.t.), a new comedic drama from executive producers Andy Parker, Norman Lear, Brent Miller, Rachel Davidson, Scott Hornbacher and Sony Pictures Television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":18617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[424,6606,6607,6608,6609,88,6610,6611,6612,174,2610],"class_list":["post-18616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-andy-parker","tag-brent-miller","tag-liam-oh","tag-max-parker","tag-miles-heizer","tag-netflix","tag-norman-lear","tag-rachel-davidson","tag-scott-hornbacher","tag-sony-pictures-television","tag-vera-farmiga","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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