This week Prime Video premiered their hotly anticipated new detective series CROSS and we’re completely hooked.
GlobalGrind Sr. Content Director Janeé Bolden interviewed CROSS creator and showrunner Ben Watkins about building a more culturally rich landscape for the new series, finding inspiration in author James Patterson while crafting an entirely new storyline for Alex Cross and what he learned about serial killers while making the show.
“I had to learn alot — I’ve always been a crime junkie so some of this stuff just sort of like baked into me over time,” Watkins told GlobalGrind. “I’ve read hundreds and hundreds of books. My mother had me reading books and that was her favorite sort of genre, spies and crime and all that so I was reading that as a kid. I’d be reading all her old paperbacks and then you know I started watching movies and TV, so I had all of that.”
Watkins told GlobalGrind the show’s villain largely resulted from …