Everett Collection
AMERICAN GOTHIC
(1995-96)
Set in the small town of Trinity, S.C., American Gothic is about a sheriff, a schoolteacher, and a young boy. Sounds innocent enough, except that Sheriff Lucas Buck (Gary Cole) is the devil; the schoolteacher, Selena (Brenda Bakke), is his evil partner in crime/part time lover; and the boy, Caleb (Lucas Black), is the sheriff's son, conceived when the cop raped his saintly mother. Yeah, ''nefarious'' doesn't adequately describe this town's seedy underbelly. It's hard to decide what's creepier, an almost too convincingly evil Gary Cole, or the perpetually arched eyebrows on Lucas Black.
