Yahoo Autos 'The Company You Keep': Is Milo Ventimiglia convincing as a charismatic criminal?
Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Polly Draper and Sarah Wayne Callies star alongside Milo Ventimiglia in the Robin Hood-type heist story
Milo Ventimiglia brought us to tears in This Is Us, made us fall in love in Gilmore Girls and took us on an adventure in Heroes, and now the famed TV star plays a suave but sensitive thief in ABC's The Company You Keep (premiering Sunday, Feb. 19 at 7:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app in Canada).
Ventimiglia is not only the star of this new show, alongside Catherine Haena Kim, William Fichtner, Polly Draper and Sarah Wayne Callies, but he's also an executive producer on the series.
Based on the Korean Broadcasting System series My Fellow Citizens, the new show combines family drama and forbidden love, with a Robin Hood-type heist story.
What is 'The Company You Keep' about?
In The Company You Keep, most people believe Charlie Nicoletti (Ventimiglia) and his family run a bar, but they're actually crooks stealing from wealthy criminals. In this family operation, Charlie's personal life seems to complicate matters.
The series begins with the Nicoletti family, Charlie, his sister Birdie (Callies) and their parents Leo (Fichtner) and Fran (Draper), working to pull off a big "job," but it ends in disaster and heartbreak.
At the same time, Emma (Kim) claims to be a data analyst for a logistics firm, but she's actually a CIA agent. Just as she is trying to zero in on a drug trafficking cartel, Emma gets her own dose of deceit in her love life.
